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i Brief Moratorium On Hatred Declared World Celebrates Birth esMS 7 Ji If rtOf' I'ffi of 200,000 listened in St. Peter's Square below. He prayed for peace and urged mankind to shun the easy life and seek peace in true Christian values. In her annual Christmas message to the British Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth II struck a somber note. Her annual broadcast said Britain was "faced with formidable problems but let there also be no doubt she will overcome them." Despite drenching rain, Frenchmen celebrated Christmas by spending large amounts of francs for caviar, below the 20,000 expected.

Few Christian Arabs from Israel were on hand. Many Arabs used the occasion to visit friends and relatives in what was then West Jordan. But since the June war between Israel and the three Arab states Jordan, Egypt and Syria the barbed-wire barriers have been cleared away, and Arabs are free to go anywhere in occupied Jordan. Pope Paul VI bestowed his annual Christmas blessing to the world and the city of Rome from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica as a crowd Msgr.

Alberto Gori, led a procession and placed an effigy of the infant Jesus in a grotto which Christians believe marks the spot where the Christ child lay in a manger. As dawn broke on a cold and gloomy day over Bethlehem, bells pealed from the Greek Orthodox Basilica of the Nativity to begin Orthodox services. Then low Masses were celebrated at the Franciscan Chapel of the Manger in the grotto beneath the Orthodox Basilica. About 9,000 pilgrims, including Americans and other foreigners, were in town, far protected Bethlehem Sunday, withdrew despite an act of sabotage that the army blamed on Arabs. The Arab guerilla organization, El Fatah, had threatened to strike at the holy shrines ai Christmas.

Live radio broadcasts of a midnight Mass by the patriarch of Jerusalem were interrupted about 1 a.m. Monday when telephone cables connecting! Bethlehem with Jerusalem were cut. Service was restored shortly thereafter. After midnight Mass, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, it 11 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Christians of the world forgot war, crises and worry Monday to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Except in Vietnam, where U.S.

troops had hot turkey dinners, then went back to war after a 24-hour Christmas truce expired. For the first few hours, at least, they were spared the ordeal of battle. During the 24-hour truce, the U.S. Command in Saigon reported one American soldier and 28 Communists killed in shooting incidents it said the enemy had provoked. On another front, U.S.

soldiers manning the western sector of the 151-mile Korean demilitarized zone spent a quiet Christmas day in their foxholes. Like oilier Amrican soldiers elsewhere among the 50-000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, they had hot turkey dinner. Their comrades behind the front line gave Christmas dinners and parties for orphans, school children and the poor. In Bethlehem, about 9,000 pilgrims celebrated Christmas with religious ceremonies in the town where Christ was born.

lobster, foie gras and champagne. President Charles de Gaulle spent the holidays at his estate in Colombey les deux Egliscs in eastern France. Soldiers from the U.S. carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt and other ships of the 6th Fleet spent Christmas in Cannes, winter resort on the French Riviera.

In nearby Monte Carlo, Prince Rainer and Princess Grace of Monaco entertained officers of the U.S. destroyer Putnam. Stafan Cardinal Wyszynski, the Roman Catholic primate of Communist Poland, declared in a Christmas sermon in Warsaw that there could be no internal peace unless the government "stops limitations in the building of churches." Without mentioning the government by name, the cardinal criticized those who "disregard the right of a free nation to religous freedom and public worship." He spoke in packed St. John's Cathedral. The Christmas spirit invaded largely Moslem Egypt.

Cairo's large Christian minority enlivened the capital with Christmas decorations and merriment. In Buenos Aires the temperature stood at 91 degrees, but this is not unusual. It is the beginning of summer there. Johnson Family Spends Yule In White House A ilk. fLILl WASHINGTON (AP) It was President Johnson's first family Christmas at the White House, and for his 6-month-old grandson it was the first Christmas anywhere.

The baby, Patrick Lyndon Nugent, was the center of attention as the early-rising Johnsons gathered around a S-foot Norway spruce tree for the traditional exchange of gilts. stockings that hung from a mantel in the family living quarters. The President and his wife, Lady Bird, went to 10 a.m. Holy Communion service at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, near Dupont Circle.

They were accompanied by their new son-in-law, Marine Capt. Charles Robb, who was married at a Dec. 9 White House ceremony to Lynda Johnson. them himself at a military post exchange for $1.58. There also was a gold cross for the baby from Pope Paul VI, whom Johnson visited on his return flight from Australia.

For Mrs. Johnson, the sent a 15th Century Madonna and Child. AH in all the President pronounced it a "wonderful, wonderful" Christmas, with more gifts "than you can count" stuffed in the seven red velvet has gone to the Johnson ranch in Texas for Christmas. But this year the chief executive barely made it back to Washington in time after his flight to Australia. He brought back with him some Christmas gifts to add to the pile under the tree in the Yellow Oval Room.

Not the least of these were a little jersey and some red and blue pants for his grandson. Johnson announced he bought Nativity Mass Pope Paul VI, leader of the world's Roman Catholics, extends his right hand and holds crozier the symbol of his office in his left as he sits on papal throne during Christmas Day Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City Monday. It was the second Mass celebrated by Paul on the holiday commemorating the birth of Christ. (AP Wirephoto) Israeli soldiers, who had Heretofore the First Family Sir Aft smut.

WEATHER Forecast for Tucson: Fair, little change. Temperatures Yesterday: HIGH 65 LOW 35 Year Ago: HIGH 65 LOW 42 U.S. Weather Bureau VOL. 126 NO. 359 FINAL TEN CENTS SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES An Independent NEWSpaper Printing The News Impartially TUCSON, ARIZONA, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1967 622-5855 Entrrert second elais matttr Post Ofticp Tucson.

Arizona ft-hf 'i rfe'" InlBQilWeif Madima Pair After Cease-Fire Allied Forces Resume Fight Planes Go After Enemy Truck Convoys; Shooting Lull Broken By 79 Incidents By EDWIN Q. WHITE SAIGON (AP) Allied ground forces went back to war In South Vietnam and U.S. fighter-bombers returned to targets in the North late Monday after a 24-hour Christmas cease-fire that the U.S. Command said was broken by 79 enemy shooting in cidents. said they would observe a three-day cease-fire ending at midnight Tuesday but this was ignored by the allied side.

92 Killed In Crashes In City, Pima County By JOHN L. MAHER Pima County auto fatalities continued to soar toward an all-time record yesterday when a 48-year-old Tucson man died after his car struck a parked pick-up track. With six days yet to go in 1967 his death brings the county toll to 92, compared with 80 for all of 1966 a figure which was already the highest since the i N. Viets Reject LB Plan 'Worn Out Tricks' Assailed By North TOKYO (AP) North Viet Parents Honor Slain Son Of the 79 incidents reported by U.S. headquarters, 20 were termed serious meaning they involved casualties.

Two American soldiers were reported killed and 25 wounded. Enemy losses were put at 24 dead. Military officers said Tuesday most of the air strikes were against numerous truck convoys that had been taking advantage of the holiday bombing pause and were still heading southward with supplies for enemy ground units. Hours after the allied ceasefire ended at 6 p.m. Monday in South Vietnam the U.S.

Command had no reports of major ground fighting. In the past it has taken several hours after cease-fires for heavy combat to ceremony guard who participated in the Christmas Day Mr. and place flowers Mrs. Marvin Franklin of Bartlesville, at the Tomb of the Unknown in Arlington in Vietnam last year. The 22-year-old sergeant was killed in August.

(AP Wirephoto) National Cemetery near Washington Monday. They honored their son, Marvin a former member of the honor Star began keeping records in Soon after the allied ceasefire ended, Navy Skyhawk jets caught a seven-mile-long truck convoy about midnight between Hanoi and the demilitarized zone, headquarters said. Pilots resume. The Vict Long nave 1937. Strangely enough, the state toll of 561 is 63 below the 624 of a year ago.

Meanwhile, the national holiday death toll reached 633 Mon Afexf Viet Battleground To Be In United Stat Ship's Fire Kills Three Norwegians 196' New York Times News Servlc reported destroying 23 of about 150 vehicles and damaging eight others. Farther south, Navy and Air Force pilots staged separate attacks on truck convoys. They day night and mounted steadily as homeward-bound uxistmas celeb ants clogged the nation's reported destroying at least NEW YORK Hours after roads. But the deaths were run Bullock was reported in fair condition at Tucson Medical Center last night and Elizabeth Brown McMullen, 41 a passenger, who was pinned in the car for 45 minutes, according to Franks, was admitted for observation. In other Arizona deaths, James R.

Ohlmiler, 23, of Win-slow, was found dead early Monday in the wreckage of his car on a county road near Cornfields. Yavapai County deputies said Ohlmiler's car had slammed into two horses on the road. The death of Homer Hopper, 63, of Tempe, of injuries suffered in an auto-pedestrian accident Dec. 3, raised Arizona's 1967 traffic fatality toll to 561. (Continued on IB, Col.

9) Russians Decry Red China Aid MOSCOW (AP) A spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry told a Red Chinese correspondent Monday that North Vietnam considers Peking's war aid "clearly insufficient." Press chief Leonid Zamyatin added, "The real means of aid for the Vietnamese is coming from the Soviet Union and other ning behind the record pace in 1965, when 720 persons were This campaign is being strengthened by perhaps as much as two divisions filtering south from North Vietnam and by the stockpiling of weapons and equipment in Laos and Cambodia. killed during the three-day made an impression on the Vietnamese in Saigon and in the Mekong Delta and perhaps on American public opinion, but most intelligence experts b2-lieve that the enemy is weaker than he appears to be and that four trucks and damaging eight others, while touching off numerous secondary explosions. Air Force B52 bombers also were back in the air. One strike Monday night hit at suspected The latest Tucson victim, Syl vester Banks of 409 E. Lester was northbound off the Palo Norwegian seamen held a rollicking Christmas Eve party aboard their freighter, in the Hudson River, fire roared through their quarters killing three crew members and injuring 19 others.

Crews of three fireboats which sped through choppy waters in the freezing, pre-dawn darkness pulled 24 men from enemy gathering areas south of Da Nang in South Vietnam's Conflict Entering Decisive Phase By HANSON W. BALDWIN 1967 New York Times News Service SAIGON (undated) The war in Vietnam is entering another and perhaps decisive phase. Nearly all U.S. officials here, from Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and Gen. William C.

Westmoreland down, believe that the main battleground in 1968 will be in the United States. Intelligence appreciations are Verde overpass when he drifted off the road and struck the parked truck, according to Dep bte. manpower and war-making potential are under great and increasing strain. Progress in Vietnam since the low point of 19fi5 the first commitment nf U.S. ground uty Sgt.

Peter I ranks. socialist countries. A correspondent for Peking's New China News Agency asked a long question at a news conference and was told by Zamyatin to save his speeches for party meetings. Quang Nam Province. Before daybreaks Tuesday, another flight mauled suspected bivouac areas, weapons positions and infiltration routes in the DMZ four miles northwest of the Con Thien Marine outpost.

But the primary objective is believed to be a show of strength to prove to Saigon, to the American public, and to the world that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese are still strong and can strike at will. Hanoi has made no secret of its belief that its military operations are keyed to this psychological objective. The show of st-ength has nam has rejected as "nothing but worn-out tricks" the five-point plan President Johnson laid down Dec. 19 for peace in Vietnam. The rejection came in a commentary in Hanoi's official Communist party newspaper Nhan Dan.

The only solution, the paper said, is for the United States to halt unconditionally the bombing of North Vietnam and to withdraw U.S. and other allied forces from South Vietnam. These are the key points of a peace plan the Communists have held forth for several years and have not been acceptable to the United Stales or South Vietnam. Johnson fstcd these proposals for peace: Both sides must respect the demilitarized zone separating the two Vietnams. The unity of Vietnam must be a matter of negotiation and peaceful adjustments.

The North Vietnamese must pull their men out of neighboring Laos and stop infiltrating Laos. There must be a one-man, one-vote constitutional government South Vietnam, with the 20 per cent of the population now under Red control living under it. The South Vietnamese government Is prepared for informal talks with the Vict Cong's National Liberation Front. the blazing ship and prevented the fire from reaching the 8.020-ton cargo of South American combat units was in March of that year is obvious, even dramatic. Rut progress in some fields, particularly in pacifica- (Continued on 3A, Col.

1) unanimous on one point: that the current winter-spring offensive of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese is keyed primarily to strengthening opposition to he war in the United States and influencing American and world opinion during a presi sugar. Firemen later described a series of dramatic rescues from the ship, the 381-foot Norwegian freighter Dianet. One crew member was hauled through a porthold below decks which a fireman said "couldn't have been much more than 12 inches wide." Another man was picked up as he hung to the railing. Others swung hand over hand along lifelines to the fireboats' decks. In all 18 persons were taken Franks said the impact of the crash drove the parked vehicle more than 200 feet across the median and into oncoming traffic, and welded the rear bumper of the tuck to the engine of Bank's car.

Franks said he was at the scene minutes after the crash and Banks never regained consciousness. In another accident earlier in the evening two persons escaped serious injury in a spectacular crash at Craycroft and Ft. Lowell Rds. According to Franks, Ira H. Bullock, 43, of T13 N.

Treat was northbound on Craycroft Rd. when camt to the dead end at Ft. Lowell. He mowed down a highway sign, two posts, a stretch of fence, numerous bushes and trees and then demolished a sla'i1" parked 200 feet from Ft. Lowell Rd.

Missing Person Located To His Chagrin City police cleared up a missing person report yesterday when they found a Texas man who was last seen by his family about Nov. 1. Harvey Louis Hoffman, 28, might be a while getting back to EI Paso, though. Police said they found him in Steve's Bar, 3808 N. 1st St.

yesterday afternoon. The bar was closed for Christmas. Hoffman is being held at the Pima County Jail in lieu of $1,000 ball after being booked on charge of second-degree burglary. He will he arraigned in Justice Court tomorrow. Mao Tse-Tung Turns 74 Years Old Today TOKYO (AP) Mao Tse-tung, Red China's apostle of revo-.

lutionary violence and people's war, becomes 74 years old today. If precedent is followed there will be no official cclcbra-tions of the Chinese Communist party chairman's birthday. In the past thanks to the silence on the subject there was some doubt as to which year and month he was born. Oflicliil and unofficial reports from the mainland say thai Mao is in good health; reports in 1906 that he was suffering front cuncer or heart disease do not appear to have been borne out. Photographs show him clutching a small cigar or cigarette, a sign Hint he hits not given tip smoking.

This yciir Mao has been nearly as active as he was in 19G6 hen he npprnrrd nine times in Peking's Tien An Men Gate of Heavenly Pracp square (o rrvlpw an estimated 11 million prrnoni. Today's News Index Johnny can't read? Proper teaching in the first year will help, IB Despite its vaunted "progress," Rhodesia's economy is shaky, 6R The two major powers are turning space into an arena fur warfare, 9B The Spanish woman emerges hut is still careful about her luncheon partners, 13C Inventor of napalm says he feels no regrets, UA dential election year. The new phase opened in late October, with the frontier battles at Loc Ninh, Dak To and elsewhere, and with intensified guerrilla and terrorist incidents. The military objectives of the winter-spring campaign have been to inflict as many casualties as possible on U.S. and South Vietnamese uni, to chop up or destroy U.S.

units and to capture district or provincial capitals. from the ship to Roosevelt Hospital. Sixteen of them were treated for superficial infuries and released. They were later taken to the Norwegian Seamen's House in Brooklyn. Ask Andy 14C Bridge 8D Comics 8-9D Crossword 13A Editorial MD Horoscope 10C Mostly Hers 1-6C Moviei 13C Pub.

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