Israel to Resume Mid East Peace Talks at U N
Prime Minister Golda Meir announced Israel will return to indirect negotiations with Egypt and Jordan at the United Nations after cabinet and coalition approval. She noted Egypt’s alleged cease fire violations and said outcomes depend on the other side’s willingness to pursue a peace agreement.
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U.N
Meir
Jerusalem
United Nations
Egypt
Jorian
Golda Meir
Suez Canal
Middle East
Labor Party
Labor
Knesset
National Religious Party
Suez Canal Zone
Religious Party Committee
Jordan
Mrs. Meir
United States
New York Times
Viet Reds Attack Cambodian Garrison Near Phnom Penh
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops attacked a Phnom Penh garrison with river assaults and air strikes. Allied forces reported heavy fighting and unclear casualties as Saigon claimed Vietnamese losses and mortar attacks caused light Allied hits.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Mekong
Rokakong
Saigon
South Vietnam
Gio Linh
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Seventeen Rescued From Sinking Panamanian Ship Off Bermuda
The Coast Guard reported seventeen crewmen rescued from the sinking Panamanian vessel Chryssie near Bermuda. A search plane overheard a radio message from the Norwegian ship Ross Mt confirming the lifeboat pickup including the Chryssie’s master.
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Elizabeth City
N.C
Bermuda
Coast Guard
Ross Mt
Scotland Yard hunts Scots Guardsman in Red Riding Hood murder
London police seek a Scots Guardsman in the Little Red Riding Hood case of 15 year old Janet Stevens. She was strangled on Christmas Day while en route to her grandmother's home with gifts. Reports say the guardsman was seen with Janet in days before her holiday death.
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London
Scotland Yard
Janet
Red Riding Hood
Thwarts Robber by Valued Jewelry Incident
Mrs Johnny Weismuller wife of the famous Tarzan actor startled a weekend burglar in Fort Lauderdale police said. The couple returned to their apartment to find the place ransacked and missing two Olympic gold medals a Bahamian coin collection and a $50 000 bracelet later found abandoned by the thief used as a hairpin holder.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fila
Johnny Weismuller
Weismuller
Child Dies After Christmas Eve Crash in Rochester Suburb
Elisa Geraci two years old of Rochester died at General Hospital from injuries in a three car crash in Greece suburbs. Her mother Mrs Gregory Geraci twenty one escaped injury and delivered a premature son at the same hospital. The mother was listed in fair condition and the infant in critical condition.
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Rochester
N. Y
Elisa Geraci
General Hospital
Greece
Gregory Geraci
Geraci
Israelis Raid Lebanon Base Blasts Four Houses
An Israeli army unit crossed into southern Lebanon at night and blew up four houses in a village used by Arab guerrillas as a base. In clashes one Israeli was killed and five wounded. several guerrillas were killed. Israelis penetrated about four miles to hit Yaa tar, ten miles from the coast.
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Tel Aviv
Lebanon
Yaatar
Mediterranean
Laporte Kidnap Murder Suspects Seized in Montreal
Three prime suspects in the Laporte kidnap murder were arrested in Montreal. Paul Rose 27 Jacques Rose 23 and Francis Simard 23 identified by Premier Bourassa. Laporte seized Oct 10 and found dead a week later.
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Montreal
Pierre Laporte
Quebec
Robert Bourassa
Paul Rose
Jacques Rose
Francis Simard
Laporte
James R. Cross
Simard
Marc Carbonneau
Cuba
Quebec Liberation Front
Soviet to Try Nine More Jews in Hijack Case
Soviet sources say nine more Jews will be tried in connection with the Leningrad hijacking case. A previous Christmas Eve trial in Leningrad convicted nine Jews and two Gentiles. two Jews were executed and others given labor camp sentences. Additional trials were noted for Riga and Kishinev with charges unclear. The next Leningrad trial may begin January 6, with defendants charged under Articles 70 and 72 of the Soviet Criminal Code.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Soviet Union
Riga
Kishinev
Rescue of 31 from Ragny stern as Finnish tanker splits
Coast Guard cutter Escanaba plucked 31 crewmen from the stern of the 540 foot Finnish tanker Ragny after the vessel split in heavy seas 600 miles southeast of New York. Six others, including the master and chief engineer, were stranded on the bow sections. one man from another tanker was lost in an abortive rescue. Weather improves but seas remain rough.
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Hunt
New York
U.S. Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Escanaba
New York City
Marie Leonardo
Freeport
Bahamas
Noray
National Weather Service
Gandhi calls early elections to defend socialist program
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi dissolved the 5 year Parliament and ordered general elections 13 months early to rally support against conservatives. Chief Election Commissioner Varma said voting for 520 lower house seats could begin February 28 or March 1 following a Supreme Court ruling on the princely class.
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New Delhi
Indira Gandhi
India
S. P. Sen Varma
Gandhi
Supreme Court
Retiring Senator McCarthy to push political reforms
Senator Eugene McCarthy states he will leave the Senate after his term ends Jan. 3 and plans to stay in Washington to press for government reforms from outside. In a Meet the Press interview he argues reform work is best done from outside Congress.
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Washington
Eugene McCarthy
Senate
House
Minnesota Democrat
NBC
Meet the Press
Rivers Dies. Powerful A S C Head Remembered
Rep. L Mendel Rivers age 65 died early today at University Hospital Birmingham Alabama after open heart surgery and a series of heart stoppages. He chaired the House Armed Services Committee and was a leading voice for military superiority. Hebert will become top Democrat in the next Congress under the seniority system.
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Birmingham
Ala
L. Mendel Rivers
House
Armed Services Committee
University Hospital
South Carolina
Rivers
House Armed Services Committee
Congress
U.S
Philip J. Philbin
D-Mass
Edward Hebert
D-La
Hebert
A-bear
My Lai
State Department
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Postal and Draft Reform Top Nixon Early Achievements
Four Nixon aides summarize two years in office citing postal and draft reform as domestic gains, desegregation progress from 6.1 to 90 percent in the South, reduced urban disturbances, and improved minority employment amid foreign policy strides including Vietnam shift, the Nixon Doctrine, nonproliferation pact ratification, and START talks, with Middle East setbacks noted in September.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
Vietnam
Russia
Middle East
Senate Ends Christmas Recess Faces SST Funding Deadlock
The Senate ended its Christmas recess as leaders press for a way out of the SST funding stalemate to allow adjournment by year end. A compromise would extend SST spending to March 30 while lawmakers decide a permanent settlement, with House support and Senate filibuster opposition shaping the next moves.
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Senate
Washington
House
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Nixon
U. S
Southeast Asia
South Vietnam
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Congress
Henry M. Jackson
Warren G. Magnuson
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Mansfield
Scott
Fulbright
U.S
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Censored POW interview calls for end to war
New York AP says two U S Navy pilots in North Vietnam gave a Christmas Day telecast interview under supervision. They urged ending the war now while defending their treatment as well as daily routines and mail privileges. The program was labeled enemy propaganda by a Defense Department spokesman.
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North Vietnam
U.S. Defense Department
U.S. Navy
Walter E. Wil
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