Protests in Santiago Turn Violent Over Food Shortages
In Santiago Chile police used tear gas and water cannons as leftists attacked 5 000 women marching against food shortages. At least 88 injured, five shot. The demonstrations against Marxist President Allende drew women from all ages, while right wing youths clashed with police.
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Reader gifts woes from Hal Boyle at Christmas
Hal Boyle in New York laments awkward gifts readers send for Christmas and jokes about unwanted items. He recalls adenoids alcohol birds and odd keepsakes, then suggests a kind word is the best present. He notes he enjoys Christmas but prefers useful or kind gifts over odd keepsakes.
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Airman's Ground Rescue Ends Saga Near Kompong Thom
Capt. Alvin W. Moore II parachuted from a burning light bomber after it was shot down during a mission near Kompong Thom, Cambodia. Cambodian and American forces aided his recovery as Jolly Green Giant helicopters finally evacuated him to Bien Hoa, with air cover and local field support. Moore, 25, from Livingston, California, credited luck and rescue teams for his survival.
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Alvin W. Moore II
Rice Field
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Bien Hoa
Moore
South Vietnam
Stephen Tyler
Los Angeles
Retaliation Threat Over North Vietnamese Airbases
Pentagon officials warned that American warplanes may strike North Vietnamese airfields if Communist MiG fighters attack U S aircraft over Laos and the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Spokesman Jerry Friedheim noted several MiG incursions and the option to bomb airfields if U S planes are attacked.
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South Vietnam
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Creighton Abrams
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Lyndon B. Johnson
North Vietnam
Dong Hoi
Congress Battles Over Campaign Financing
Washington AP report on House and Senate conferees tackling a tax bill debate over financing presidential campaigns by earmarking $1 of income tax. Mills says Democrats will stand firm. Nixon warns of a veto but may refrain. Conference trimmed tax relief and approved export tax breaks and welfare hiring credits.
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POW Mail Topic Stirs Paris Peace Talks
In Paris at the 137th session of Vietnam peace talks, U S Ambassador Porter urged North Vietnamese authorities to restore prisoner of war mail to normal levels and improve treatment of POWs under the Geneva Conventions. He noted mail had fallen over 85 percent since last year and that no mail had been received from 200 Americans missing in South Vietnam. Xuan Thuy and Dinh Ba Thi offered no commitment, signaling continued U S-Viet Cong criticism of the war.
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Alcoholic Drug Center To Open In Liberal Kansas
The first Kansas alcoholic and drug treatment center will open December 5 in Liberal. The Southwest Kansas Holism and Drug Addiction Foundation runs the facility in a house bought by the foundation. The opening features Dr. Howard V. Williams Jr. of Topeka as speaker, with Gov. Docking's representatives and Lyle Wheeler among participants. The residence has six bedrooms for 14 residents and 14 outpatients, staffed by two full-time workers and volunteer counselors.
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Kansas Mental Health Services
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Lyle Wheeler
Dodge City
Manhattan Press Backs McCain For Kansas Governor
The Manhattan Mercury editorial urges Dr. James A. McCain president of Kansas State University, as the only leader to pull Kansas from fiscal and moral decline. It argues he can energize Kansans toward restoration, noting incumbent Gov. Robert Docking may seek a fourth term in 1972 and that other contenders lack needed leadership. McCain, near retirement age, has not run for office before.
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Milton Eisenhower
Mansfield Amendment Stalls Indochina Aid Conference
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield seeks a six month withdrawal of all U S troops from Indochina as part of the foreign aid bill. House and Senate conferees met to narrow differences but the Mansfield amendment and tightening measures on Southeast Asia block a deal. House chair Rep Thomas Morgan rejects a separate vote on withdrawal. Money totals shift: House near 3 billion, Senate around 2.6 billion, with AID funding set to December payday.
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Southeast Asia
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