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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1970
Page
1
Rep. L Mendel Rivers D S C remains seriously ill but alert as doctors report his heart and kidneys improving after a prior collapse. The 65 year old congressman had been in declining condition since Sunday and is receiving nourishment while continuing recovery in Birmingham Alabama.
The Liberation radio in Saigon said North Vietnam would accept a group of disabled prisoners of war slated for release by Saigon this month. If a quick reply to South Vietnam’s announcement comes before the Lunar New Year, the broadcast urged the release of all prisoners held by U.S. and government forces. The interior minister quoted said the move aims to reveal crimes by Americans and allow prisoners to choose to stay in South Vietnam or go North, with no coercion.
The Coast Guard reports a large air and sea search covering thousands of square miles in the Pacific for yachtsman Lee Quinn and a crew member reported missing near the Pacific route between Prigot Sound and the U S Canada border. The operation involves multiple aircraft and ships operating along the normal sailing path.
Two men, one dressed as a postman, assaulted a courier in Chaméry Alps city and seized a satchel containing 390,088 dollars. They fled in a banked wagon toward a waiting car, vanish into the French town as police hunt them.
Viet Cong Christmas cease-fire took effect in South Vietnam at 2 am as allied truce starts at 6 pm local time. Reports say South Vietnamese paratroopers pressed into Cambodia, while North Vietnamese forces attacked along Route 4 near Phnom Penh. Government estimates admit heavy combat casualties, with fuel and supplies flowing by river to Phnom Penh due to the blockade.
Paris reports North Vietnam scaled back peace demands. It dropped calls to oust the Saloon regime and offered a cease-fire if the United States would halt reconnaissance flights over the North and withdraw trooops by a date. US delegates call the proposals a repetition, pressing for a timetable for complete withdrawal as part of a broader settlement.
A federal grand jury in Southern California indicted 10 individuals and 4 firms on charges of distributing unsolicited pornography via mail, including St. count indictments against Ruth Linetsky and Linnet Perry from Los Angeles and firms Linetsky Productions Inc. and Photo News Monthly. The case follows a November round of identical charges and an intensive postal inspectors investigation noting substantial material mailed to juveniles. The defendants include Edward Everett Paramore TH, 42, Murray Pernstein, 44, John Harvey Burrows, 46, Kenneth Alan Green, 34, Bernard Bloom, 54, and others, with counts ranging up to eight per person.
HOLLYWOOD- Veteran actor Charles Ruggles died at 84 at St. John's Hospital Santa Monica after cancer treatment since September His career spanned stage film radio and television including The Ruggles and The World of Mr Sweeney He was known as a warm wise grandfatherly character actor with comic mischief longevity in entertainment and service entertaining troops in WWI and at the Berlin Airlift.
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