Anti religion campaign renews in the Soviet Union
Pravda urges accelerated atheism to stop church influence on youth. A pensioner in Novosibirsk reports youths visiting churches with relatives and missing work. The article criticizes church holidays for promoting drunkenness and idling, noting Christmas is a working day while New Year’s is celebrated with Father Frost festivities.
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Moscow
UPI
Communist Party
Siberian
Novosibirsk
Pravda
Soviet Union
Father Frost
Christmas services marked in Baltic nations amid regime stance
In Russia and Baltic states, Roman Catholics and Lutherans attend Christmas Eve and Day services on December 25, while Orthodox Christians observe Christmas on January 7 amid government opposition to religion. The differing calendars reflect religious practice under an official stance limiting church activities.
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Baltic Republics
Mexican president vows spending cuts to fix crisis
Mexico City AP Jose Lopez Portillo begins six year term calling for austerity and reduced government spending to combat inflation recession unemployment and peso devaluation. He urges business to join efforts while noting lost confidence threatens national resolve. The PRI leaders divided from outgoing Echeverria who backed agrarian reforms and expansive spending. Portillo, former finance minister, takes sash as Echeverria’s term ends.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Jose Lopez Portillo
Jose Represas
Nestle Company
Lopez Portillo
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Louis Echeverria
Echeverria
Institutional Revolutionary Party
PRI
Woman challenges prostitution laws in Ohio suit
Transexual Tracy St Clair opens class action in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, alleging city and state prostitution laws violate equal protection due process and privacy. She says she has worked as both male and female prostitute after a sex change and notes she was arrested for suspicion while with a friend, not with a man. Police vice squad head testifies that laws target the prostitute who makes the first contact.
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Cleveland
UPI
Tracy St. Clair
Cuyahoga County
Common Pleas
Miss St. Clair
Carll Delan
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