Holiday Christmas Brings Joy Sorrow Across Nations
The holiday saw over 100 deaths in auto accidents worldwide. In New Jersey two killed in a house fire, and three children died in a Maryland blaze. Samuel Goldwyn studios suffered a $3 million loss from a Christmas Day fire in Los Angeles. Amid the tragedy, joyous events included quadruplets born in London and a Korean orphan's Christmas in America. The Ford family celebrated in Washington with a traditional meal and a Vail ski trip. Storms and a rare Texas White Christmas marked regional impacts. Back on the East Coast, Concord prison inmates sparked a five hour riot over Christmas meals, while Patricia Hearst joined a jail party, receiving gifts from the San Mateo effort.
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N. J
Cheltenham
Samuel Goldwyn
Los Angeles
Marietta van Dorp
London
Jenny Jones
Jenny
Christmas gunman in Santa mask seen in Beirut clashes
Gunman wearing a Santa Claus mask positions behind sandbags with others as gunfire rocks Beirut. The shooter targets a car carrying the Soviet ambassador, who escapes unharmed amid continued machine gun fire in the Lebanese capital.
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Santa Claus
Beirut
Hunt says CIA had assassination unit in mid 1950s
Former CIA officer Howard Hunt says in a Florida prison interview that in 1954 or 1955 CIA superiors told him Boris Pash led an assassination unit for suspected double agents. He recalls discussing neutralizing a hostile organization with Pash, and a CIA spokesman offered no comment. The Senate panel investigates CIA assassination plots and a possible murder link involving a lower ranking official.
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Washington
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Florida
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Senate
Army
Balkans
Colonel Pash
Boris
Senate Committee
New Orleans
Peres Urges Talks With Palestinians Beyond PLO Links
Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres says Israel should state readiness to negotiate with Palestinians beyond the PLO. He notes not all Palestinians are represented by the PLO and supports developing West Bank leadership, signaling possible shifts in talks stance.
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Shimon Peres
Palestine Liberation Organization
Israel
PLO
Yitzhak Rabin
Peres
West Bank
Jehovahs Witnesses report persecution in Africa
The Jehovahs Witnesses say members face beating rape torture and detention in Malawi for refusing to join the Malawi Congress party and say they are persecuted in Zambia Mozambique Rhodesia and South Africa for not serving in armies Western reporters cannot verify these claims though Awake reports violent attacks began in Malawi in 1964.
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Jehovah’s Witnesses
Malawi
Kamal Banda
Malawi Congress Party
Zambia
Mozambique
Witnesses
Rhodesia
South Africa
Missing New York Mother Sparks Christmas Eve Search
Deborah Mackall took her 4 year old daughter Candy and 2 year old Rodell to a Queens department store for last minute shopping on Christmas Eve. She said they waited on the third floor while she made purchases. Police say the children have not been seen since. Bloodhounds tracked a scent on a pillow at the store but the trail went cold as efforts continued.
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New York
Deborah Mackall
Queens
Officials suspect hoax in coast guard distress signals
The Coast Guard questioned radio calls claiming a cabin cruiser with 10 people in Lake Erie danger may be a hoax. A search continued despite gale winds, snow, and ice as new signals arrived. FCC traced garbled signals inland near Zanesville, Ohio.
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Coast Guard
Lake Erie
Federal Communications Commission
Zanesville
Ohio
New Hampshire Primary Ballot Contenders Narrowfield
Two Republican presidential hopefuls and six Democratic contenders filed for spots on the New Hampshire primary ballot set for February 24. The field includes the leading Republican contenders and the major Democratic candidates vying for the nomination.
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Ford
California
Ronald Reagan
Indiana
Birch Bayh
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Oklahoma
Fred Harris
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
R. Sargent Shriver
Arizona
Morris K. Udall
Rick Loewenherz
Tulsa
Okla
Billie Joe Clegg
Springfield
Robert L. Kelleher
Billings
Mont
Arthur O. Blessit
Miami
Fila
Stanley N. Arnold
New York
Bernard B. Schechter
Oceanside
Calif
Arthur Lee Packwood
Ray Rollinson
Columbia
N. J
Austin Burton
Louisville
Wallace Johnson
Berkeley
U S Warned Soviets Back in September
A Ford administration official says the United States raised concerns about the Angolan civil war with the Soviet Union in September but did not lodge a formal protest over Soviet arms until October end. Cuban troops joined the fighting as three factions contended for Angola’s independence on November 11.
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Ford Administration
Popular Movement For the Liberation of
Angola
Henry A. Kissinger
Detroit
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
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