Vietnam denies Giap killed amid Haiphong air blitz
North Vietnam rejects a South Vietnamese claim that Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap was killed near Haiphong as U.S. bombing intensifies. The report prompted Hanoi to call it propaganda while Saigon announced a unilateral 24 hour Christmas cease fire, and U.S. officials noted rising air losses. The Nixon administration hinted at a possible Christmas pause in the North air war.
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Saigon
Vo Nguyen Giap
Haiphong
U.S
Hanoi
Paris
Giap
Tran Hung Dao
Viet Minh
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Foreign Ministry
Florida White House
Nixon
Christmas Joy and Weather Darken Bethlehem Visit
The world prepares for Christmas with gratitude and happiness in America and beyond while Bethlehem faces a despondent season due to bad weather reducing pilgrim travel. A Navy pilot Nakagawa reported safe with a fractured arm and one Christmas in an internment camp recalls past internment. An Arctic village staged a toy drop from Elmendorf with paratroopers and a "Santa Claus" sign on a C130, producing festive cheers amid extreme cold and a frostbitten ear risks.
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Associated Press
Bethlehem
Christ
Elias Freij
California
Arctic
U.S. Navy
Gordon Ross Nakagawa
North Vietnam
Haiphong
Harriet Nakagawa
Auburn
Cal
Hanoi
Nakagawa
United States
Japan
U.S. Air Force
Santa Claus
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Anchorage
Arctic Circle
Cost of living rises in November pressure on inflation goals
Washington AP reports a 0.3 percent rise in the cost of living for November, complicating President Nixon's aim to keep inflation under three percent for 1972. Real spendable weekly earnings dropped 0.5 percent from October to November.
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Washington
Labor Department
Nixon
Indicted Iowa Scheme Targets Million Dollar Fraud
Clayton Blue of Russell, 43, indicted in a securities fraud and bank embezzlement case. Six defendants formed three shell corporations Caravel Productions, Romar Productions, and the Paint Corporation of America to raise about $1 million from Iowa investors who each contributed $10,000 and have received no returns.
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DES Moines
Clayton Blue
Russell
Polk County Grand Jury
Iowa
Caravel Productions
Romar Productions
The
Paint Corporation of America
Miller fires 20 UMW board members and seizes control
Arnold Miller, new United Mine Workers president, ousted 20 board members citing illegal trusteeships by Tony Boyle and placed his supporters in 20 of the union's 23 districts. Edward Carey and Suzanne Richards were also removed as Miller acts to reshape leadership.
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Washington
United Mine Workers Union
Arnold Miller
W.A
Tony” Boyle
Labor Department
Boyle
UMW
Edward L. Carey
Suzanne Richards
Miller
Survivors reach 70th day in Andes wreckage
Eight survivors endure the 70th day in a high Andean crash site at 12,000 feet. Three survival experts join as two Chilean air force helicopters rescue six others previously stranded since the Uruguayan plane crash on October 13 at the Argentina Chile border.
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San Fernando
Chile
Andes
OEP urges refineries to boost heating oil output
The U S Office of Emergency Preparedness asks petroleum refineries to run at maximum capacity to ease the Midwest fuel shortage. ORP director George A Lincoln says the goal is to keep homes warm and meet industry and farm fuel needs as reports of heating oil shortages emerge amid late harvest and wet weather. Governors in Iowa Ohio Nebraska and Minnesota have formed emergency task forces to monitor and coordinate supplies.
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Washington
U.S. Office of Emergency Preparedness
ORP
George A. Lincoln
Lincoln
OEP
Midwest
Iowa
Ohio
Nebraska
Minnesota
Truman Lapses Back to Critical Condition
Former president Harry S. Truman was readmitted to critical condition at 7:45 a.m. EST today, with family notified. Doctors described a return to heartrelated danger similar to conditions observed Friday morning, amid a sweeping weather forecast of near zero to single-digit lows and light snow overnight.
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Truman
Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Research Hospital and Medical Center
Wayne Conery
Quake Devastates Managua Center. Guatemalan Relief Delayed
An early morning strong earthquake centered just south of Managua caused extensive damage in the city center. Reports from amateur radio said much of Managua lacked water and electricity, with hospitals leveled and the embassy destroyed. Relief planes were being prepared in Guatemala El Salvador and Venezuela as authorities assessed casualties.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Guatemala City
Salvador
Venezuela
Washington
U.S. State Department
State Department
Nicaraguan Central Bank
Boulder
Colo
National Earthquake Information Center
University of California
Berkeley
Cal
Scarlet fever quarantine placed on Manchester jail
Delaware County Sheriff Mike Barr orders a 10 day quarantine in the Manchester county jail after prisoner James Mangold 22 contracted scarlet fever. He warned Linn and Jones counties authorities due to Mangold's recent jail time there. Mangold serves six months for breaking and entering.
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Delaware
Mike Barr
Barr
Linn
Jones
James Mangold
Mangold
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