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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1968
Page
3
In Moscow central market shoppers stock up for New Year as prices surge. A peasant woman sells sauerkraut at 70 kopeks per kilo and Uzbek trader offers poppyseed at 40 kopeks per glassful. The scene highlights free peasant markets alongside state stores amid winter shortages and high prices.
A fragment notes mustachioed Georgian in a fit hat examining market stalls. It mentions dairy and meat departments but claims government stores drew more customers to fruit and vegetable counters, implying competition and consumer interest focused on produce.
The IMF and World Bank rejected Berlin as the site for the 1970 annual meeting and will meet in Copenhagen instead. The vote by executive directors aims to avoid Cold War politics with up to 5 000 delegates. An official Bonn spokesman confirmed Copenhagen for better facilities.
Cunard chairman Sir Basil Smallpiece and designer Anthony Hopper flew to the QE II off the Canary Islands to inspect turbine problems slowing the 71 million liner. With speed down to one knot, engineers assess whether delays will push back the ship's handover and New York voyage, after earlier oil-in-boiler faults canceled a charity cruise.
An American suspect, Gary Ralph Bouldin of San Jose California, killed at least three people in a four hour gun battle in central Istanbul before police killed him with machine guns. He shot a detective and two civilians and wounded four others, one of whom died later. Spectators watched from a safe distance as authorities fought from and atop the Maritime terminal building by Istanbul harbor.
Communist sources say the Soviet Union will deliver 200 MIG 21 jets and many SU7s to Egypt as a response to the U.S. sale of 50 Phantoms to Israel. The deal, reportedly signed, aims to bolster Arab air capability and follows U.S. Phantoms.
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