Princess Muna gains custody of Jordan king's children
A spokesman says Princess Muna, former British officer’s daughter, receives custody of Abdullah 10 Feiyal 9 Zein and Aisha 5 while living at Humar Palace near Amman during holidays. King Hussein, 37, divorced her after 11 years of marriage on Christmas Eve. Alla Toukau, 24, a Palestinian from Nablus, is identified as a former Jordanian airline PR official.
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Medal of Honor winner dies in Texas crash
Macoria Garcia, 52, of Alief and Myrtle Koonce, 48, of Houston were killed Christmas Eve when their car crashed near Sugar Land Texas. Garcia, a Medal of Honor recipient for heroism in Germany on Nov 17 1944, later served with the Veterans Administration in Houston. The report also notes other obituaries and public notices from the period.
Second crane collapses at Long Beach harbor
A 35 ton crane collapsed while loading read concentrate aboard the Sei kou Maru at Berth 31 Pier D Long Beach Harbor causing no injuries. Officials ordered immediate investigation and testing of a third crane as a stand by. Bulk loading halted pending findings of the two previous collapses and earlier inquiry.
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Poll Operations
Calif Christmas holiday traffic deaths hit 10-year low
California highway deaths during the Christmas holiday totaled 42, the lowest in about a decade, according to CHP information officer Don Dooley. He attributed the drop to stricter patrols and fewer drunk driving incidents amid favorable weather, noting last year’s toll was 70. Across the nation the toll was estimated at 550 to 650, with a UPI count at 575.
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Ex-governor of Puerto Rico dies at 86
Former Puerto Rico governor and newspaper executive Franklin Delano Roosevelt era rival Gore died at age 86 in Fort Lauderdale. Born poor in Kentucky, he became a millionaire by 33 and led Evansville Press and Terre Haute Post before moving to Florida to run and sell newspapers including Fort Lauderdale News and Pompano Beach Sun Sentinel.
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Fire tears through homes near UCLA in Christmas blaze
A predawn fire driven by 45 mph winds gutted a $75,000 home and damaged multiple buildings near the UCLA campus, spreading to 11 residences and leaving dozens homeless. No injuries were reported as 20 fire companies battled the blaze for two hours, with embers lofted by gusts and residents evacuated door to door.
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Leon Elster
Navy chief tours Viet Nam naval patrols over holidays
U S Navy Secretary John Warner visited multiple ships in the Gulf of Tonkin during Christmas, witnessing gunfire off North Vietnam while aboard the destroyer Lawrence. He awarded Purple Hearts to two Goldsborough crewmen wounded when their ship was hit by shore fire on December 19.
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Classifieds and notices blend with garbled print in paper
A damaged newspaper page fragment shows scattered classified lines and public notices. Names, addresses, and contact numbers are partly legible amid unreadable OCR text, indicating a periodical broadcast of ads and notices without coherent story.
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