Happiest Christmas for Apollo 8 families in Texas
Space Center Houston families celebrate a joyful Christmas as Apollo 8 crew Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders circle the moon and prepare for splashdown. Relatives send prayers gifts and messages from League City La Porte and Ellington while spacecraft communications promise a Christmas reunion and a gold Apollo 8 pin gift.
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St. Christopher Episcopal Church
League City
Tex
Edwin Borman
Phoenix
Ariz
Borman
Lovell
Marilyn
St. John Episcopal Church
la Porte
Carr
Interstellar Times
Anders
Apollo 8 readies for Pacific splashdown after historic lunar orbit
Apollo 8 nears Earth 138000 miles away traveling 3500 mph and expected to land in the Pacific Friday morning. The crew reports good rest and stable navigation as NASA officials assess the mission's impact and plans for recovery aboard USS Yorktown and a Christmas reunion in Houston.
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Anders
Mission Control
Earth
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States
NASA
Moon
Pacific
Yorktown
Houston
Apollo 8 tops AP editors list of 1968 news
The Apollo 8 moon flight was voted the top story of 1968 in a Christmas Eve AP editors poll. The assassination stories by Kennedy and King fell to second and third, with Pueblo crew release rising in ranking after the initial poll.
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Associated Press
Robert F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr
Pueblo
Johnson
Tion
Czechoslovakia
Russia
North Korea
Jacqueline Kennedy
Aristotle Onassis
Fire on El Al jet in Athens injures Israeli passenger
Two Arab extremists aboard an El Al Boeing 707 bound for Paris and New York opened fire as the plane began to taxi at Athens Airport. A 50 year old Israeli maritime engineer Leon Shirdan was killed by bullets. the aircraft caught fire and police detained the assailants.
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Israel
Athens
Paris
New York
el al
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Tel Aviv
Levi Eshkol
Leon Shirdan
Buenos Aires
The
Maritime and Civil Engineering Co
Haifa
Communists Demand Immediate Talks for Four-Way Vietnam Peace
Paris broadcast reports North Vietnamese and NLF delegations call on United States and Saigon to sit at the Communist proposed round table now to accelerate basic bargaining. They blame allied obduracy for delays and vow responsibility if talks fail, amid procedural deadlock and no immediate word on freeing three US prisoners.
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Vietnam
United States
Saigon
North Vietnamese
National Liberation Front
NLF
Viet Cong Front
No Rain Likely Weather Update for Friday
Wet pattern expected to ease tonight with no rain. Warmer by night with lows in the 40s. Friday looks mild with daytime highs in the 50s. Map on page 13 for details.
Udall enters race for House speaker in 1969
Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona announces candidacy for speaker of the House in the 91st Congress. He states no organized backing yet and will seek Democratic caucus nomination on Jan. 2 with formal confirmation the next day. Udall is a member of the liberal Democratic Study Group and is 46 years old. The piece notes his relation to Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. In Alaska, a Pan American jet crashes at Ebendorf Air Force Base during takeoff.
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Morris K. Udall
D-Ariz
House
John W. McCormack
Dmass
Udall
Interior
Stewart L. Udall
Democratic
Soviets Launch Cosmos 262 Spacecraft
The Soviet Union launched Cosmos 262 in a continuing space research program. Tass reported an initial orbital period of 95.2 minutes with an apogee of 508 miles and perigee of 163 miles, inclination 48.5 degrees.
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Soviet Union
Tass
Offensives Resume After Christmas Truce in Vietnam
U S forces resumed operations northwest of Saigon after a 24 hour Christmas cease fire, killing at least 53 enemy troops and reporting 2 118 enemy dead with 838 wounded in five weeks. Two Americans and 49 South Vietnamese died during the cease fire period.
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U.S
Saigon
da Nang
Mekong Delta
Demilitarized Zone
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
South Vietnam
LPAF
Viet Cong
Navy delays Pueblo crew debriefing and exams in San Diego
Navy officials postponed the start of intensive questioning for the 82 surviving USS Pueblo crewmen to Friday, allowing a day of medical exams. The men, confined to two buildings for about ten days, will be debriefed on all aspects of the January 23 capture and subsequent release, with strict patient-family confidentiality.
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San Diego
Calif
Navy
Uss Pueblo
Duane Hodges
Pueblo
Lloyd M. Bucher
Jesse D. Hodges
Creswell
Ore
Bucher
Naval Amphibious Base
Coronado
Harold G. Bowen
Iaia
Vincent Thomas
Pacific Fleet
Prep tourneys underway at Carbondale and Centralia
Decatur Eisenhower and Peoria Manual won first-round games at Carbondale. Decatur defeated Herrin 75 49 while Peoria Manual beat Pinckneyville 77 62. At Centralia Jacksonville defeated Homewood Flossmoor 70 66 and Champaign beat Nashville 82 57.
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Decatur Eisenhower
Peoria Manual
Jacksonville
Champaign
Carbondale
Centralia
Decatur
Herrin
Peoria
Pinckneyville
Homewood-Flossmoor
Nashville
Carbondale Publishes Bond Ordinance for Sewage Plant
Carbondale residents have 21 days to seek a referendum on a 2.3 million revenue bond plan for a new sewage treatment plant. City Manager C William Norman proposed the issue to fund city share and intercepter sewer. rates rise Feb 1 1969. Petitions need 15 percent of last mayoral vote. Consultant reports available at Carbondale Public Library.
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Carbondale
Southern Illinoisan
C. William Norman
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