All 1,113 To Be Back On U.S. Soil For Yale
Miami reports an Operation Ransom airlift of 1,113 Cuban prisoners to U.S. soil. By noon 643 survivors from Bay of Pigs, held 20 months in Fidel Castro jails, were returned to Florida. Six planes planned to finish by sundown with Pan Am DC6s landing at Homestead.
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
U. S
Fidel Castro
Rocay
Pan American World Airways
Homestead Air Force Base
Florida
San Antonio de Los Banos
Havana
British Pact Could Affect Minuteman Budget Fight
Washington officials report Air Force leaders expect the Kennedy Macmillan Polaris agreement to impact the Minuteman ICBM program and next year’s budget. They note possible budget shifts, with discussions of expanding to five or more Minuteman wings while some fear cuts to the planned addition. Some see money reallocated from bomber Skybolt or Polaris to strengthen Minuteman lay plans.
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Washington
Air Force
Britain
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Congress
Minuteman
Freed Man Declares Prisoners Marked To Die If U.S. Invaded Cuba
Immprisoned survivors of the 1961 Cuban invasion disclosed on liberation day that prisoners were told by the Communists they would be killed if the United States set foot on Cuba. Luis Entriarago, 39, described attempts to break their spirit, while doctors noted health variances and vitamin deficiencies during confinement.
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Miami
Pla
Luis Entriargo
Cuba
Entriargo
Entinalgo
Jose Juan F. Sordo
Castro
Exiled Cubans See War’s End as 426 Arrive in Miami
The article recounts the first glimpses of relief for Cuban exiles amid Operation Ransom shuttles. Pan American World Airways ferried DCI personnel between Miami and Havana to free 426 prisoners exchanged for $53 million in food and medicines. By 8:55 the fourth planeload had arrived, families waited in the Dinner Key auditorium in Miami, and processing followed at Homestead Air Force Base. Emotions ran high as reunions unfolded and veterans wept while wives embraced husbands long absent since the Bay of Pigs Brigade 2506 departure.
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DCI
Pan American World Airways
Miami
Havana
Freedom
Fidel Castro
Cuba
San Antonio de Los Banos Military Air Base
Homestead Air Force Base
Bay of Dire
Wrong Woman Picked Up By Robinsons In Bowling Green Case
A Peoria Heights man and his wife spent 24 hours with the wrong woman after finding Miss Lillian Poe at a nursing home near Bowling Green Kentucky and assuming she was his mother Mildred Robinson. Police and authorities traced them to Yorkville Tennessee where they were found unaware of the mix up.
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Bowling Green
Peoria Heights
Ill
Robinson
Mildred
Ginshic Mather
Cephas Robinson
Bowling Green i
Lillian Poe
Aula
Robinsons
Miss Poe
Memphis
Hubert Hardaway
Kentucky
Tennessee
Yorkville
Tenn
Snowy Outlook for Southern Illinois and Paris Tenn
Fragmentary weather note describes light snow potential for Southern Illinois and Paris Tennessee. Mentions two women exchange confusion and dates shifting from Sunday to Tuesday with temperatures near 18 to 25 overnight and low 30s highs.
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Paris
Tenn
Fourth Try To Convict Hoffa Fails
Nashville reports the fourth failed bid to convict Teamsters president James R. Hoffa on a $1 million conspiracy charge. The December trial ended in a hung jury after 17 hours of deliberation and a mistrial order by U.S. District Judge William E. Miller. Jurors indicated a 7 to 5 vote for acquittal amid claims of FBI influence and juror tampering.
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Nashville
Tenn
Justice Department
James R.hoffa
Teamsters
Hoffa
Michigan
U.S. Dist
William E. Miller
FBI
Miller
Kennedy
Alty
James F. Neal
Atty
Robert E. Kenedy
Helicopter Down as Katanga and U.N. Clash in Elisabethville
Katangans and U.N. Congo command clash on Elisabethville outskirts with a downed U.N. helicopter and 11 crew members captured. Katanga claims Ethiopians fired first. U.N. forces under Brig. Noronha press for surrender amid heavy small arms and artillery fire. City suffers shutdowns as civilians flee native townships and shops close.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
U.N. Congo
U. N
United Nations
Reginald Nornha
Elisahatheila
U.N
Nornha
Noraha
Farmer and Nine Children Die in Blaze
A farmer Robert Bateman and nine of his children perished when their one story wooden home burned. Bateman re entered the flames to try to save the children after helping his wife escape. Mrs Bateman, in deep cold and heavy snow, trudged to neighbors to seek help and was hospitalized with shock.
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Dee
Robert Bateman
Fire in Prince Frederick farm home kills five children
Five children died when a fire swept a frame tenant house near a large tobacco farm at Prince Frederick Maryland after two babysitters left Sunday. State police said the blaze began around 10 a.m. in an overheated wood stove. The house was almost completely destroyed.
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PoIsoa
White Christmas forecast for Southern Illinois
The U S Weather Bureau at Cairo predicts a white Christmas for the area with light snow starting this afternoon and possibly up to two inches. Temperatures may fall to the mid twenties tonight with highs in the thirties tomorrow, creating hazardous driving conditions.
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Illinois
U.S. Weather Bureau
Cairo
Shriver hints at Illinois governor bid
Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver says he might consider running for Illinois governor if the opportune time and suitable opportunity arose. He says he is not seeking the job but would consider it if offered and fitting his situation. He denies leaving the Peace Corps for a welfare post and notes plans to grow volunteer numbers to the 10,000 legal limit within a year.
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Washington
Peace Corps
Sargent
Shriver
Illinois
Meet the Press
Kennedy
Euhice
Ilinois
Tunity
Dock Strike Grips East and Gulf Coast Ports
An 81,000 strong longshoremen walkout began spreading paralysis from Maine to Texas. In New York alone 72 vessels were immobilized as picketing started in multiple Atlantic and Gulf ports after a Sunday 5 p.m. kickoff. The union rejected a last minute presidential appeal to delay. The dispute centers on crew size and alleged feather-bedding as ship owners seek to reduce gangs from 20 to 17.
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New York
Maine
Texas
International Longshoremen’s Association
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Kenedy
Kennedy
ILA
Newark
N.J
Houston
Tex
Lake Charles
Soviets Report Two Nuclear Tests Near Novaya Zemlya
Stockholm AP reports two strong nuclear blasts detected today by Uppsala University Seismological Institute in the Novaya Zemlya Arctic region. A third test may have occurred. First blast rated at 8 megatons, second at 19 megatons, with follow up pressure and a 10 megaton signal noted by Stockholm Geodetic Institute.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Seismological Institute
Uppsala University
Novaya Zemlya
Arctic
Uppsala Institute
Technological High School
Fruitless Voyage Returns to Gravesend After Bomb Campaign
Everyman III, the ban the bomb vessel, sailed to the Soviet Union to press the campaign but concluded an unsuccessful voyage. The ship and crew returned to Gravesend on Sunday night, ending the mission without achieving its stated aims.
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Gravesend
England
Everyman III
Soviet Union
No Publication Notice From The Southern Clindisan
The Southern Clindisan will not publish Tuesday Christmas day. This brief notice informs readers of the festive closure and no issue release on that date.
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Southern Clindisan
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