GOP Showdown for Casey as Nuttall Mulls Chair
Rensselaer County Republicans set an 8 p.m. meeting at the Troy Labor Temple to elect a new chairman amid a looming legal clash. George F. Nuttall challenges incumbent Joseph F. Casey, arguing no valid rules govern tenure and Casey remains chair only until a court or filing resolves the dispute.
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Cardinal Cooke Holds Christmas Mass for U S Marines in Vietnam
Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York told Marines at Freedom Hill 1st Marine Division that freedom must be defended and urged hope for peace in the new year. He celebrated mass for about 700 men cited at Cam Ranh Bay and Da Nang before visiting wounded and soldiers aboard Yankee Station.
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Yankee Station
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Israeli Jets Blitz Arab Positions In Jordan
Israeli jets and artillery bombed Jordanian territory near the Sea of Galilee in a four hour reply to Arab attacks. Jordanian officials reported six soldiers killed seven wounded and four civilians injured including a child. several houses were destroyed. Jordan sought UN Security Council action to stop raids.
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Yardena
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Iraq
Arab Leaders Hear Arafat at Rabat Summit
At the Rabat summit the Palestine guerrilla leader Yasser Arafat sits beside Arab kings and presidents as calls go out for intensified military political and financial support for the Palestine Liberation Movement. King Hassan II urges exile government for Palestine modeled on Algeria while Arafat nods in the crowd.
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U S Jets Bomb Infiltration Routes
U S Air Force B52s bombed jungled mountains along infiltration routes from Laos as intelligence notes rising North Vietnamese troop and supply movement into South Vietnam. The raids near the Laotian border targeted base camps and gun positions, amid Nixon’s April troop withdrawal order and ongoing holiday combat activity. Two Marines were killed and 15 injured when their 2 1 ton truck hit a mine on Route 4 between Hoi An and Thuong Duc.
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Jets Take Yule Gifts To War Prisoners
Dallas billionaire H Ross Perot leads a two plane shipment dubbed Peace on Earth and Goodwill Toward Men to deliver Christmas gifts to American prisoners of war in North Vietnam. Hanoi discouraged the mission favoring normal post office channels.
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United We Stand
Congress May Work Over Holidays Sweeping Tax Reform Passes
The 91st Congress is expected to wind up its first session Monday or Tuesday after passing a sweeping tax reform bill. President Nixon hinted indirectly at a possible special session Sunday while voicing disapproval of a pending congressional measure.
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Farm Price Plan Clears Path for Britain Entry Talks
European Community ministers approve a 1970 75 farm price financing plan to back membership talks with Britain and other candidates. The package shifts from direct national contributions to a common fund funded by farm levies and tariffs, with a long term move to VAT shares. The deal boosts Britain prospects amid a 513 million trade surplus and signals easing access to the Common Market under France’s prior resistance.
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Anti Stalinists Arrested On Stalin's 90th Birthday
In Moscow on Stalin's 90th birthday two anti Stalinists were arrested by secret police near Red Square while a portrait lay discarded at Stalin's grave. Anatoly Yakobson, poet translator, was seized amid claims he did not throw the portrait though others were detained, as Viktor Krasin, economist, was taken from a friend's home. An article in Pravda framed Stalin in historical perspective to ease passions.
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Yakobson
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Krasin
Israeli Ministers Hint Strained U S Relations
In Jerusalem Abba Eban and Yitzhak Rabin signaled growing U S Israel tensions after sharp talks with State Department officials. Rabin indicated no ultimatums while Eban returned from Washington and London to a Cabinet session to review relations with Washington amid Big Four talks.
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Nixon
Golda Meir
East German draft seeks separate sovereignty in Germany
East Germany proposes a treaty to recognize it as a separate sovereign state and to treat Bonn and Berlin as foreign capitals. West German officials, led by Willy Brandt, dismiss the plan as maximalist and unlikely to be accepted, even as talks potential looms.
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Europe
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