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group of 58 Amer women and 94 of their children spend Xmas morning in Paris seeking information about POWs; N Vietnamese promise names submitted will be forwarded to Hanoi and that information will be released 'gradually'; actions of group discussed; group returns to US; illus

U.S. Wives Get Vague Hanoi Pledge; U.S. Wives Get Vague Promise From Hanoi Envoy

new version of Swan Lake danced by co, Moscow, creates stir in intellectual circles; illus

Controversial New 'Swan Lake' Given by Bolshoi Ballet in Soviet; Controversial New 'Swan Lake' Given by Bolshoi

JERUSALEM, Dec. 25 -- Israel intensified her aerial offensive against the United Arab Republic today with a record assault of eight and a half hours on positions along the Suez Canal.  

ISRAELI JETS RAID SUEZ CANAL AREA FOR OVER 8 HOURS; Pilots Strike Primarily at Missile Positions Being Rebuilt by Egyptians

Pope warns humanism without Christianity is futile and self-defeating, Christmas message

Pontiff Terms Humanism Without Christianity Futile; Pope Calls for a Christian Humanism

final but unpub Govt analysis shows that 91st Cong 1st session's actions and inactions have added almost $3-billion to Nixon's revised budget, and that 'uncontrollable' items in budget have risen more than $2-billion since Aug; projected budget surplus therefore has been wiped out; Nixon delays planned vacation trip to Calif to meet with Mayo and other econ advisers on budget; list of some actions and inactions and some 'uncontrollable' items

$3-Billion Added by Congress To President's Revised Budget; $3-Billion Added by Congress To President's Revised Budget

allied forces resume offensive operations, ending their 24-hr cease-fire; enemy cease-fire continues

Allies Resume Offensive, Ignoring Enemy's Truce; They Charge Foe With 111 Violations of Saigon's 24-Hour Cease-Fire -- B-52 Bombing Raids Renewed

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 25 -- According to Arab political sources, the leaders of the United Arab Republic, Syria, Jordan and Iraq decided at the full Arab meeting in Rabat, Morocco, this week to hold a conference of their own in Cairo next month.  

4 ARAB LEADERS MAY MEET IN CAIRO; Plans for a New Parley of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq Are Reported

Article on city's urban ills and efforts to combat them; illus

Sao Paulo Battles Urban Tangle; Sao Paulo Battles Urban Tangle With Road-Building Program

Major Storm Hits City; 1,800 Working on Snow; Storm Hits City and Snowplows Go to Work

14 persons sentenced to death, Bijapur, in murder of 17 men and women in Mysore Village in '68 in dispute over plot of land

14 Given Death in India In Killing of 17 Villagers

Premier Palme of Sweden Will Come to U.S. in May

Nguyen Van Thieu says he doubts Communists would begin serious talks if Amer troops were withdrawn, int in W Ger pub

Thieu Says Withdrawal Wouldn't Impel Talks

Perots plane lands in Laos; Perot waits to hear from N Vietnam

Perot Plane in Laos

Xmas activities of some US soldiers reptd

G.I.'s Vietnam Christmas: A Hot Meal

offers to negotiate with 'reprs of relevant nonofficial orgns' on return of hijacked plane; says pilots will never be returned; rules out Korean Mil Armistice Comm or mediators from other countries as negotiators; says pilots have been hon by N Korean Govt and rewarded

Talks on Hijacking Proposed by North To South Koreans

KINSHASA, the Congo, Dec. 25 (Agence Frence-Presse) -- Twenty seven persons were killed and 107 others, many of them children, were injured today when a crowd stampeded outside a football stadium in Bukavu in this former Belgian colony, the Kinshasa radio reported tonight.  

27 DIE IN STAMPEDE AT STADIUM IN CONGO

Socialist party fearful of losses in election; links Sato popularity in recent mos; observers link protracted and bitter divisions within party itself; party chmn T Narita's campaign described

Japan's Socialists Fear Election Losses

Radio broadcasts indicate leftists' agitation for larger share of power impedes prov authorities efforts to create stable pol situation throughout nation; agitation has led to outbreak of new fighting in some regions between rival factions and between leftists and supporters of officials in power; Peking's failure to make pub any clearcut guidelines to settle dissension seen forcing prov authorities to act in increasingly ind manner; unrest in several areas detailed

Radicals in China Impeding Efforts for Stability

Marasco says he and 7 other Green Berets still wonder why they were arrested; discusses his reasons for leaving Army; makes other comments; illus

Ex-Green Beret Still Puzzled by Case

TOKYO, Dec. 25 -- "I am -- oh, lady up on the second floor, there, thank you for your support -- Narita of the Socialist party. Thank you, thank you. Now -- oh, thank you, lady."

The Last Hope of Japan's Socialists; Tomomi Narita

Qaddafi Wed in Tripoli

Nasser Arrives in Libya

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The Israeli Embassy here denounced the latest United States proposals for an Israeli-Jordanian peace settlement as a formula that the Arabs would view as "a gesture of appeasement."  

ISRAELIS ATTACK U.S. PEACE OUTLINE; Embassy Says Arabs Would See It as Appeasement

Blow to Nasser Seen

Isaac Viciosa is a former middle distance runner from Spain.

December 26, 1969

Headlines from December 26, 1969

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U.S. Wives Get Vague Hanoi Pledge; U.S. Wives Get Vague Promise From Hanoi Envoy

Controversial New 'Swan Lake' Given by Bolshoi Ballet in Soviet; Controversial New 'Swan Lake' Given by Bolshoi

ISRAELI JETS RAID SUEZ CANAL AREA FOR OVER 8 HOURS; Pilots Strike Primarily at Missile Positions Being Rebuilt by Egyptians

Pontiff Terms Humanism Without Christianity Futile; Pope Calls for a Christian Humanism

Billboard 200

Led Zeppelin II

Abbey Road

Let It Bleed

Tom Jones Live In Las Vegas

Willy And The Poor Boys

Notable Births

Historical Context for December 26, 1969