Russia Fires 122 Missiles And 36 Drones In What Ukraine Calls Biggest Aerial Barrage Of War Dmz Clashes Cost Hanoi Forces 153 Dead
   
Illia Novikov, Hanna Arhirova for the Associated Press News Wire Article published in the Anderson Herald
December 29, 2023 June 28, 1968
    KYIV Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched 122 missiles and dozens of drones against Ukrainian targets officials said Friday killing at least 30 civilians across the country in what an air force official called the biggest aerial barrage of the war. At least 144 people were wounded and an unknown number were buried under rubble during the roughly 18-hour onslaught Ukrainian officials said. A maternity hospital apartment blocks and schools were among the buildings reported damaged across Ukraine. …

Read the full article here.		     Allied forces killed 153 North Vietnamese troops in two clashes on the eastern anchor of the demilitar- ized zone 35 to 45 miles east of the almost-abandoned U.S. Ma- rine base at Khe Sanh military spokesmen said Friday. In the largest action South Vietnamese infantrymen report- ed killing 143 North Vietnamese and capturing ten more in heavy fighting Thursday near the coast six miles east of Quant Tri City and 19 miles south of the DMZ. A government mili- tary spokesman said South Viet- namese losses were 26 killed and 72 wounded. In the other engagement heli- copter-borne units of the US. First Airmobile Cavalry Divi- sion clashed with an estimated 200 North Vietnamese 11 miles east of the U.S. marine base at Dong Ha and seven miles south of the DMZ. Initial reports of the Thursday action listed five North Vietnamese killed and two Americans killed and 22 wounded While the ground fighting picked up on the northern front U.S B52 bombers mounted six new raids close to Saigon in the continuing saturation campaign to wipe out enemy forces and base camps menacing the South Vietnamese capital. Four of the raids hit Thursday night and Friday morning 14 and 15 miles southeast of Saigon at Viet Cong troop concentra- tions and base camps. This was the same area that was bombed on the previous day in some of the closest raids of the war to the capital. U.S. headquarters reported seven secondary explosions aft- er one of the strikes indicating successful bomb hits on enemy munitions or fuel. Farther from Saigon two B52 raids struck at enemy troop concentrations and — staging areas 47 miles northwest of the capital and near the border of Cambodia in Tag Ninh province. One of these raids headquar. ters said produced eight sec- ondary explosions B52 bombers were active in two other parts of the country. The eight-jet bombers struck Friday at North Vietnamese
In A Scorching Year Scientists Wonder If Climate Change Is Speeding Up Latest Earthshaking Events Hardly Unnerve Scientists
   
Chris Mooney, Shannon Osaka for The Washington Post By Kenneth J. Braddick. Upi published in the Lincoln Evening Journal
December 26, 2023 August 23, 1976
    For the past several years a small group of scientists has warned that sometime early this century the rate of global warming — which has remained largely steady for decades — might accelerate. Temperatures could rise higher faster. The drumbeat of weather disasters may become more insistent. And now after what is poised to be the hottest year in recorded history the same experts believe that it is already happening. In a paper published last month climate scientist James E. Hansen and a …

Read the full article here.		     The wave of earthquakes volcanic eruptions and other natural calamities around earth this year is the highest since 1970 but scientists don\t think it is a signal the end of the world is near. Seismologists among them experts at renowned institutes in Sweden the United States Japan Italy and the Philippines disagree as to whether the activity is unusual or if one cataclysm triggers another. Mixed Weather Patterns Mix in some strange weather patterns and one could be forgiven for thinking all is not well. Japan is having cool spells in mid-summer normally damp Britain is in a severe drought which has hit Western Europe to a lesser degree and in Eastern Europe temperatures are lower and rain higher than normal. The London Meteorological Office says there\s no cause for alarm because projections show no significant change in weather conditions. And the Japan Meteorological Agency says the possibility that it may be colder than usual in Europe for the next 10 to 20 years shouldn\t worry anyone too much. What most scientists agree on is that more people have felt the shifting and bursting of the Earth\s crust in recent weeks than is usually the case thus causing more attention. As many as 30000 lives have been lost in quakes this year three times higher than the average. The agency lists 67000 deaths from quakes in Peru and Turkey in 1970. Earthquake Deaths According to the US. Geological Survey the toll this year includes 23000 killed in Guatemala Feb 4 G00 deaths in northeastern Italy May 6 600 deaths in Bali Indonesia July 14 and more than 3750 in the Philippines last week. Not included are victims of China\s July 27-28 and the Soviet Union\s April 8 and May 1 major quakes. There also has been no confirmation of accounts of 9000 killed in western New Guinea after a June 25 quake in the so-called ‘‘ring of fire’ which has the highest level of volcanic and quake activity. The survey said there have been 37 ‘significant’ earthquakes registering 6.5 or stronger on the open-ended Richter scale in 1976. Of that number 10 were labeled “major” quakes measuring 7.0 to 7.9 and three were ‘great’ earthquakes of 8 to 8.9 The long-term is about 16 to 18 major earthquakes one great quake a year. A survey official said the number of major and great quakes reported this year has doubled since June but not enough is known to determine whether the changing pace in worldwide earthquake activity is significant. Prof. Markus Baath head of Sweden\s Uppsala Seismological Institute said ‘the quakes so far this year are not above the long-term average. What has happened is that the tremors have struck highly populated areas and the death tolls are higher than usual.” Baath said the movement is one of what scientists call ‘tectonic plates’’ — there are about a half-dozen of them covering the Earth\s surface — may create a release of tension an earthquake in another distant area. Prof. Romolo Romano of the International Institute of Volcanology in Catania Sicily at the foot of Mt. Etna. goes further “It… seems certain’’ he said “that the earthquake in the Philippines and the volcanic eruption in Guadeloupe (in the Caribbean) are phenomena connected with the recent earthquakes in China.’. Shigeji Suyehiro chief of Japan\s Meteorological Agency earthquake section. and Wellington Minosa chief of the Philippines’ Geophysical and Astronomical Service disagreed. They said they do not think there is any relation between the quakes in China and the Philippines.
Carolyn Hax: She Spread Lies About Her Ex And Surprise! They’Re Reconnecting. Couple Back From Hippyland: Life Better In Straight World
   
Carolyn Hax for The Washington Post News Wire Article published in the Keokuk Daily Gate City
December 26, 2023 October 14, 1969
    Carolyn Hax is away. The following first appeared Nov. 1 2009. Dear Carolyn: I have recently reconnected with one of my high school boyfriends. Our breakup was extremely difficult and occurred during my junior year of high school when I was 17. Being furious and young and believing I’d never see him or speak to him again I told a number of lies concerning him including telling one of my brothers that the boyfriend was gay. It’s now fi …

Read the full article here.		     Jim and Nia Lockway once full-fledged hippies say they have kicked the drugs and other trappings and made it back to the straight world. “We\ve found something better’ Nia said meaning religion. “The hippie” her husband declared “is just as hypocritical as the people he criticizes. Materialism is as bad in the hippie movement as it is elsewhere. “The hippie talks about love but he doesn’t mean it or practice it in the Biblical sense. It is mostly sex—in fact sex worship.” The Lockways said Jim were hippies ‘‘the full route.” He had long hair and a beard. They used the hippie drugs wore the hippie love beads and dressed in hippie attire. Last year they decided to drop out of the hippie world. Kicking drugs was toughest. Lockway 25 says he used LSD and methedrine which hippies call “‘speed.’”’ Nia 20 says she smoked marijuana. Both quit. They cut their hair Nia stopped wearing yellow-tinted glasses with gold rims. Lockway traded his jersey with barber-pole stripes for a white shirt and tie. He quit drawing advertisements for an underground newspaper “and put his talents to work for an architect. And he started a window washing business on the side. Lockway told Hubbard Keavy of the Laguna Beach News-Post in an interview that he was a hippie after graduating high school in 1962 “because there was so much lack of concern by others for young people.”
Carolyn Hax: Son’S Pushy New Wife ‘Overreacted’ To Bedbugs In Guest Room Right? Bedbug Onslaught Is Just Claim For Breaking Of Lease
   
Carolyn Hax for The Washington Post News Wire Article published in the Paris Morning News
December 29, 2023 November 13, 1926
    Carolyn Hax is away. The following first appeared Jan. 15 2010 and Sept. 2 2009. Dear Carolyn: Both of our sons came home for Thanksgiving with their families. We put up our older son and his family in a hotel and had our younger son his new (second) wife and their 5-month-old baby stay in our basement guest room. How I wish I had switched! On Friday morning the new wife said she had bug bites. I said that twice in the past I had bites also and thought they were from bedbugs. We had done s …

Read the full article here.		     MANCHESTER f4.. Nov. 4%. (Mf a bedbug nibbles at your toes or tickles your left ear se you can\t sleep you have 2 per- tes tight te break Your lease and op landlerd ean’t reeever. This. in substance was the finding of a Jury in district eourt here yester- dav after ten heurs’ deliberation It returned a verdict for the Cefendant in the sult of Jake Bill- ‘meyer against Raymond Hoefer to reeoy er eleven months’ reni. Hoe- fer testified that soon after his family moved into the FEilimeyer house apparently an army of bed- hugs descended on them and mace ecpdesees sleepless for a menth. He meved out and Billmeyer sued to recover his rent. He lost the case ‘in justice court and he appenied to the higher court. New Bil- meyer threatens to. take the case even higher. Expert testimeny on the. habits of hedbugs was introduced One of the witnesses a woman sald they were docile in the day 1 ¢ but when they became active at night Col. Cootié of French fame lhad nothing on them.
It’S Not Just For Cops Anymore — How This Tiny Body Cam Lets Anyone Record Everything It’S Getting So Thugs Cant Get Any Privacy Police Say
   
Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report for the Fox News News Wire Article published in the Ogden Standard Examiner
December 30, 2023 December 12, 1939
    Body cameras are usually associated with law enforcement but what if you could have one for yourself? Imagine being able to capture everything that happens around you and send a distress signal to your family or friends if you need help. That’s what PhoneCam a tiny affordable and smart AI-powered device can do for you. …

Read the full article here.		     Soon perhaps crooks wont have any privacy and but few secrets from the law. The cops have a couple of new gadgets they say hear all and tell all—to the cops. The devices have a few citizens worried. Burglars detest being disturbed at work. Both inventions have sort of put suburban Highland Park police and robbers on an old-fashioned telephone party line with the crooks doing most of the talking. Highland Park police claim the devices are good for detecting crimes being committed behind closed doors and thick walls. All detectives need to do with one of the machines is press it against the wall and listen. It picks up all noises inside like a physician’s stethoscope. The other is a miniature radio broadcasting set worn by undercover agents who drop in on poker games or horserace bookmakers. A microphone concealed in the agent’s lapel radios all conversations to officers listening to an automobile receiving set. The inside operative flips a button when he is ready for the pinch and presto! the raiding cops descend. The raiding officers thus may testify in court as witnesses to words spoken before they arrived explained Police Chief Millard Gardner. Ray Hollifield Highland Park police radio engineer formerly a technician in the Edison laboratories perfected the tricky listening machine after coming here. It was being worked on at the time he was in the laboratories. It has been used to capture five whisky stills concealed in buildings. It found concealed water pipes in the police station walls and located an outboard motor on the bottom of a lake. The thing is practically all ears. Because some people might use it for other purposes Hollifield said he hoped to limit its use to policemen. He is keeping its mechanism secret. From now on he said crooks will have about as much privacy as a pet canary.
Cody Brundage Aims To Derail Bo Nickals Championship-Level Clout At Ufc 300 Shrugs Off Lopsided Odds Sharkey Ready For Battle On Thursday
   
Mike Bohn for the Usa Today (Rw Aesociated Press). published in the Bryan Weekly Eagle
December 28, 2023 July 21, 1927
    Cody Brundage had a gut feeling his next fight would be against Bo Nickal at UFC 300 so when the offer officially came through he was all about it. Nickal (5-0 MMA 2-0 UFC) is arguably the most highly touted prospect in all of MMA. The former three-time NCAA Division I national wrestling champion has had high expectations placed on him since his professional debut less than three years ago and so far he’s delivered by finishing every opponent including four in 62 seconds or less. Brundage …

Read the full article here.		     With a last resounding swipe at the punching bag after three final rounds in the ring Jack Sharkey today wound up his training for the battle of his life against Jack Dempsey Thursday night. Only a long walk in Central Park and a rubdown are on the card for tomorrow the fighter having reached the peak of condition and his fighting weight of 192 pounds. Trained down to a fine edge Sharkey found it harder than ever to pull his punches today and he uncorked some rights and lefts in sparring which drew words of caution from his corner. Sharkey continued as a favorite in the betting. Wagers were reported at odds ranging from six to five to 13 to 10 on Sharkey to win. The bulk of Dempsey money was placed at longer odds about 1 to 3 on the chance of a knockout victory for the former champion.