Ex POW Dwight Sullivan finds best Christmas homecoming
Air Force Col. Dwight Sullivan, freed from a 62 year Hanoi Hilton imprisonment, spends his first home Christmas with his parents in Des Moines with his three teenage sons. He recalls POW Christmases in captivity, where improvised carols, torn tinfoil stars, and bread dough gifts filled sparse celebrations. He misses his wife and daughters but says many underestimate ordinary blessings.
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Gordon Hanson
Associated Press
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Dwight Sullivan
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Light Snow Darts Texas Panhandle and Spurts Tornado Watch
Light snow and sleet dusted parts of the Texas Panhandle as a storm from Northern Oklahoma and Southern Kansas brushes through Texas. A broad tornado watch was extended to Christmas Eve but no twisters were reported. Snow fell briskly around Dalhart with at least a half inch in places. lighter flakes were seen toward Plainview and Childress.
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New Lieutenant Randal Wilson Commissioned at NMSU
Roswell resident Randal L. Wilson, son of Mr and Mrs Leroy Wilson, was among 15 ROTC cadets commissioned at a joint Air Force and Army ceremony December 21 at New Mexico State University Las Cruces. Official forecasts warned of up to three inches of snow in parts of Texas as a storm moved northeast.
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Randal L. Wilson
Roswell
Leroy Wilson
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New Mexico State University
Las Cruces
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San Antonio
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Louisiana
National Weather Service
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Bomb kills four in Newry bar bombing
In Newry Northern Ireland two men set off a bomb in a Catholic owned bar killing four and injuring 15 many seriously. Police said the toll in Northern Ireland rises to 926 from four years of violence with Newry described as near the border and authorities suspect Protestant extremists.
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