U S Calls Truce For Christmas
Vice President Humphrey and congressional leaders hailed the 30 hour Christmas cease fire in Viet Nam as a stepping stone to peace. Mansfield urged extending the halt to Tet while Ford called it a test of Communist goodwill. Westmoreland announced the order. Viet Cong had offered 12 hours.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Congressional
Viet Nam
Senate
Democratic
Mike Mansfield
Montana
U.S
William C. Westmoreland
U. S
Saigon
Mansfield
Humphrey
Waverly
Minn
Hanoi
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Dorchester
Mass
Plane Raids Continue As Time Nears Christmas Truce
AP reports ongoing raids as 30 hour cease fire nears. 50 planes hit North Viet Nam’s Long Bi power plant near Haiphong. 90 Viet Cong deaths claimed in ground clashes. U S and South Vietnamese forces prepare for a brief rest, while three U S planes are shot down. Cease-fire set from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Christmas night. A third air attack on Yong Bi plant results in two A4 Skyhawks and a Vigilante lost. President Westmoreland and Gen Vien implement reduced operations and extend truce to allied troops.
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Saigon
North Viet Nam
Long Bi
U. S
Haiphong
William C. West- Moreland
Viet Nam
Cao van Vien
Pope Paul VI
New Zealand
Westmoreland
U.S
Yong Bi
Route 9
Demonstrator Sentenced for Violation at El Paso Protest
Lt. Henry Howe Jr. was sentenced by a five officer court martial panel at Fort Bliss to dismissal from the Army and two years hard labor in federal prison for contempt toward the President and conduct unbecoming an officer. The 23 year old from Boulder Colorado remained silent during sentencing for his part in the November 6 anti Viet Nam demonstration in El Paso. The panel deliberated less than an hour and ordered loss of pay and forfeiture of allowances.
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el Paso
Tex
Henry Howe Jr
Howe
Boulder
Colo
Ft. Bliss
Pope Paul VI Calls for Viet Nam Peace Efforts
In his prerecorded Christmas message, Pope Paul VI urged just and sincere negotiations to end the Viet Nam conflict, backing peace efforts and a Christmas cease-fire. He warned that the arms race risks a precarious peace and decried violence while appealing for world leaders to pursue negotiations.
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Vatican City
Viet Nam
Paul VI
Chvch
Rome
Paul
Commission Disagreement Over Automation Study
Members of the Nations Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress clash over a draft report to Congress. The draft argues automation poses no major job threat if growth programs support workers, while labor members prepare a dissent.
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Washington
Congress
Garth Mangum
Commission
New York Times
Rainy and Thunder Showers Ahead This Week
General showers and thunder showers are expected tonight and Friday. A turn to cooler air Friday. Tonight’s low about mid sixties. Friday's high near the mid seventies. Weather details on page 13.
Senate Ethics Group Appeals Ruling Over tapes
An attorney for three Chicago Currency Exchange members argues the Illinois Senate Ethics Commission is unconstitutional and vague and should be abolished alleging improper eavesdropping. Circuit Judge Covelli weighs a petition to block the commission from further action as hearings touch on taped conversations tied to a 1963 currency exchange lobbying probe.
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Wincage
Currency Exchange Association
Linois Senate Ethics Commission
Albert’e. Jenner
Circuit Court
Daniel A. Covelli
Chicago Currency Exchange Commission
Chicago
American
Haineis House Ethics Commission
Creel Douglass
Springfield
Douglass
Illinois Supreme Court
House Commission
Bernard Geis
Senate Commission
Currency Exchange
Geis
US Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Tudge Covelli
Peruvians severely harmed by Reds in Andamarca assault
Police said extremists trapped a farm family forty miles north of Andamarca in the Peruvian Andes injuring a couple and four children for reporting communist activity. Five men labeled communists by authorities were arrested in connection with the attack.
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Andamarca
Peru
Peruvian Andes
Not Guilty: Hinkle Denies Slaying SIU Student
An 85 year old Carbondale man Donald Lee Hinkle told Judge Peyton Kunce in Jackson County Circuit Court that he is not guilty of murdering SIU student Charles M. Douthit Jr. Hinkle was ordered held without bond and his public defender Elmer Medlin was appointed. The body was found Dec 15 in a drainage ditch near Old Route 13. Autopsy placed death around 1:30 a.m. The case centers on a vodka night, a quart bottle found near the scene and witness accounts of Hinkle and Douthit together. Police continue to test a bottle as a possible weapon and investigate the anonymous tip that led to Hinkle’s capture.
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Carbondale
Southern Alinnis University
Donald Lee Hinkle
N. Caire St
Jackson County
Murphysboro
Peyton Kunce
Hinkle
Kunce
Elmer Medlin
Public Defender
Charles M. Douthit Jr
Chicago
Douthit
Old Rt. 13
Richard Richman
Lewis J. Rossiter
SIU
Thomas Leffler
Leffler
State Laboratory
Long Branch
Hinkle Faces Murder Charge In Jackson County Court
Carbondale police and SIU security leaders escorted Donald Hinkle into the Jackson County Circuit Court today on a murder charge linked to the slaying of SIU student Charles M. Douthit Jr. The case involved dramatic logistics as authorities used decoys and basement routes to move Hinkle, who traveled from Carbondale and was later connected to a statewide flight plan. Local officials noted prior sightings in Pinckneyville and East St. Louis, with a federal flight indictment issued earlier.
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Circuit Court
Hinkle
Carbondale
SIU
Charles M. Douthit Jr
Chicago
St. Louis
East St. Louis
Deratur
Hinkla
Hazel
Murphysboro
Atty. Richman
Manneyers
Policy Not Backed by Enthusiasm in Viet Nam Debate
Sen Wayne Morse of Oregon returning from a five week Asia tour said there is a disturbing lack of enthusiastic support for the present course of policy in Viet Nam. He warned lip service to intervention but not true agreement with warmaking, and noted his long-standing criticism of Administration Viet Nam policy.
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Washington (Ap
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Asia
Viet Nam
Morse
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Southern Illinois University Security Police
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Bloomington
Missouri
Illinois
Perry County
John Barber
Illinois Central Railroad
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Barber
Minkle
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