Kidnap Suspect Held in Missing 10 Year Old Pamela Powers
Anthony Erthell Williams, self described minister with prior sex charges, turned himself in after abducting Pamela Powers at a Des Moines area YMCA event. Police found bloodstained clothing near Grinnell as a wide search continues. Pamela remains missing despite tips and extensive inquiries.
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Davenport, Town
Anthony Erthell Williams
Pamela Powers
Ernest Lester
John Ackerman
Williams
Pamela
Merlin Powers
Des Moines
Grinnell
Iowa
Dan Maher
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Newton
State Bureau of Criminal
Ewport
John Knapp
YMCA
Robert Anthony
Knapp
Davenport
Anthony E. Williams
Apollo 8 astronauts set for perilous reentry Friday
Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders race toward Earth after completing 10 lunar orbits as they descend from 138000 miles out at 3600 miles per hour. They anticipate splashdown in the Pacific Friday morning and report good rest and steady navigation as they near home.
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Space Center
Houston
Moon
Earth
Pacific Ocean
Frank Borman
Venus
Gerald Carr
Air Force
Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
William A. Anders
Carr
Interstellar Times
Anders
Lovell
Heavy Fighting Resumes After 24 Hour Christmas Truce
U S forces resumed offensive operations near Saigon after a 24 hour Christmas cease fire. More than 200 enemy troops were encountered and 53 were killed. U S planes artillery and helicopters attacked near the Cambodian border with no American fatalities reported. A large number of enemy casualties and American wounded were reported during the cease fire period.
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Saigon
U.S
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Cambodia
da Nang
Mekong
Demilitarized Zone
Car fumes blamed in Brazil couple deaths
Brazil Indiana sheriff deputies say carbon monoxide poisoning caused the deaths of Walter Burgess 21 and his wife Vicki Sue 19 found on a county road near Brazil after their car apparently had a flat tire on Christmas Eve return from a party.
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Brazil
Ind
Sheriff's
Walter Burgess
Vicki Sue
Weather and a fatal car incident near Terre Haute
The report blends a Weather Bureau forecast for Terre Haute and vicinity with a fatal car accident nearby. Clouds and warmth expected through Friday with mixed precipitation, then rain. A couple died from carbon monoxide after a tire change in subfreezing conditions one mile north and three quarters west of Brazil. Burgess, 29, and Mrs. Clark, ... continued on page 5, col. 1.
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Terre Haute
Burgess
Brazil
Terre Haute Malleable and Manufacturing, Inc
Joseph Burgess
White
North Viet Nam and Viet Cong press immediate Paris talks
In a joint declaration Hanoi and the National Liberation Front demand the Paris talks open at once and accuse Washington and Saigon of delaying. They warn the Saigon regime will sabotage the conference and call for its overthrow and replacement by a peace cabinet. Tran BuuKiem met with the French foreign minister.
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Paris
UPI
North Vietnam
Viet Cong
Washington
South Vietnam
Hanoi
National Liberation Front
NLF
United States
Saigon
Tran Buu Kiem
Now You Know By United Press International
Until the debut in 1681 of Me Lafontaine the first woman professional ballet dancer the parts of females in ballets had been performed by young men.
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Me. Lafontaine
Navy Delays Pueblo Crew Debriefing and Exams
Navy officials postponed the start of intensive questioning for the 82 surviving USS Pueblo crewmen until Friday, allowing a day for medical examinations. The men, confined to two buildings at the U.S. Naval Hospital, face a ten day debriefing and medical review while relatives report high spirits but significant physical losses. Cmdr. Bucher gave Mrs Hodges a death account of her son Duane Hodges, killed during the capture.
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San Diego
Calif
Navy
Uss Pueblo
U.S. Naval Hospital
Duane Hodges
Pueblo
Lloyd M. Bucher
Attack on El Al Jet at Athens Kills One
Two Arab attackers opened fire with machine guns and grenades on an El Al Boeing 707 at Athens airport. A passenger died and another was wounded as the plane prepared to depart for Paris with 37 passengers and 10 crew aboard. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility. Police captured the attackers as they fled, and pamphlets were scattered around the stalled aircraft. Page 5 continues.
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Athens
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Palestine
Beirut
Paris
New York
Tel Aviv
Palestine Commando Organization
el al
Rome
Israel
Algiers
Survivor recounts Allegheny crash near Bradford
Harold E. Smith of Warren Michigan describes the Christmas Eve Allegheny Airlines crash. He says the jet struck hard and flipped after lift off, 47 aboard with 20 perished. Snow and cold hampered rescue while survivors freed others and fought to start a fire.
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Bradford
API
Allegheny Airlines
Harold E. Smith
Warren
Mich
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Mark
Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace Winter
Pacific
Hawaii
Yorktown
U. S. Weather Bureau
Tiagonee
Indiana
Illinois
Paije 5
N. Viet
By George Libera
United Press International
Clyde Lovellette
Lovellette
Bobby Lawson
Spitler
Kee
Fischer
Strausburg
Allegheny
Smith
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