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People on move during holidays
By United Press International
Parisians deserted the “City
of Light” to spend the
Christmas weekend in the Alps
or on the coast, and Americans
jammed airports and highways
in their rush to spend the
holidays with loved ones as
people around the world pre
pared to celebrate Christmas.
Students and young couples
balancing skis on their shoul
ders flooded Paris’ Gare de
Lyon railway station, perhaps
to take one of the 360 extra
trains assigned to weekend duty
to speed vacationers to the Alps
or the coast.
Parisians use any holiday for
an excuse to beat it out of the
city and, by rush hour Friday,
traffic on the outskirts of the
city snarled almost hopelessly.
In the Philippines, Asia’s only
Christian country, Christmas
will be celebrated under
martial law. A midnight to 4
am. curfew imposed by author
ities has forced the traditional
midnight mass on Christmas
Eve throughout Roman Catholic
churches in the country to be
moved up two hours so
churchgoers can be home
before the curfew time.
A Bright Note
Martial law, however, also
added a bright note for
Filipinos. Officials lifted a 2-
SALES RISE
COALVILLE, England (UPI)
—Sales of contraceptives have
risen 300 per cent since the
Family Planning Association, a
birth control advice agency,
displayed in its front window a
Christmas tree decorated with
contraceptives.
ACL to fight
for newsmen
SAN FRANCISCO (UPB) -
The American Civil Liberties
Union announced plans Friday
for a legislative campaign on
behalf of reporters’ rights and
to protect the news media
against “government intimida
tion.”
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importation of such goodies as
apples, pears and grapes—
traditional items on most
Filipino tables at Christmas.
In the United States, trave
lers jammed highways and
airports to spend Christmas
with their families.
Terminals at Chicago’s
O’Hare International Airport
were jammed because of the
holiday rush, as were most
major metropolitan airports
across the country.
Highways in many cities were
jammed with motorists who
decided to provide their own
holiday transportation.
Cash registers were ringing
the merchants’ favorite song as
last-minute shoppers hurried to
purchase Christmas gifts.
In Jackson, Tenn., needy
families were allowed to shop
at a special toy store set up by
the Salvation Army. Every
needy family in the area which
applies to the Salvation Army
to shop in the store gets a
certificate for each child in the
family. The children may then
drop by the store before
Christmas and pick a toy they
want—for free.
Thoughts Turn to Peace
The nearness of Christmas
also turned antiwar activists’
thoughts to peace. The Chicago
Peace Action Coalition and the
Chicago Peace Council picketed
on street corners in Chicago’s
Loop Friday night and more
picketing was scheduled for
tonight.
“In this season of peace, we
dedicate ourselves to bringing
about the total, unconditional
withdrawal of all United States
the incredible situation where
we must now lobby for the Ist
Amendment,” said Jay A.
Miller, executive director of the
ACLU’s Northern California
chapter.
“This series of attacks on the
news media represent an
unprecedented assault on free
dom of the press.”
He said the ACLU would
press legislators to oppose any
national moves to curb the
rights of reporters and would
urge support for a state
measure guaranteeing the
rights of news media.
Miller cited a recent speech
by Clay T. Whitehead, White
House telecommunications
director, in which he suggested
local television stations exer
cise more control over network
originated newscasts. Miller
said Whitehead “brought to
fantastic proportions the on
slaught of government intimida
tion of the news media.”
The ACLU attorney told a
news conference that if threats
to unhampered news gathering
and distribution go unchallen
ged, “every citizen will be
deprived of his right to
information, and when that is
gone, all other rights are in
jeopardy.”
“Certainly everybody has the
right to criticize the media,” he
said. “But it’s quite different to
bring government power down
on the media. You’re talking
about the biggest power in the
country.”
forces from Southeast Asia,”
CPAC said in a statement.
In Los Angeles, more than
three dozen Vietnam Veterans
Against the War launched a
three-day, 34-mile treck to
protest continued U.S. military
involvement in Vietnam.
Theadministration announced
today that President Nixon
would order a temporary halt
in the bombing of North
Vietnam during a Christmas
cease-fire.
The fourth Christmas ship
ment of mail from American
prisoners of war will arrive in
New York. A delegation of
peace activists, including Joan
Baez, was to bring the mail
back Christmas Day in conjunc
tion with the committee of
liason with families of service
men detained in North Viet
nam.
Leaders Ask Bombing Halt
Leaders of 10 religious
organizations asked evangelist
Billy Graham to implore
President Nixon to halt the
bombing in North Vietnam “in
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celebrated much the same as in
America, but while tempera
tures border the 120 degree
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mark. While local radio stations
broadcast Christmas music,
including “White Christmas,”
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Australians seek relief from the
heat at beaches and swimming
pools.
His Holiness Demetrios I,
ecumenical patriarch of Con
stantinople, has sent Christmas
greetings and blessings in an
encyclical to the Greek Ortho
dox Archdiocese of North and
South America.
“Let us bear to Him, instead
of gold, incense and myrrh, the
confession of our perfect faith,
a blameless moral disposition
and life, love and peace to one
another and to all.”
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GORILLAS REMEMBERED
SEATTLE, Wash. (UPI) —
Santa Claus won’t forget four
young gorillas at Woodland
Park.
They’ll have a special party
Christmas afternoon at which
they will be given wrapped
packages containing their fa
vorite foods.
The packages will be at
tached to a fir tree in the zoo’s
great ape house.
FEE BOOSTED
VIRGINIA CITY, Nev. (UPI)
—lt will cost $7,000 more next
year to get a license for a
house of prostitution in Storey
County.
County Commissioners Fri
day boosted the license fee to
$25,000.