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Clearing, Colder Tonight; Mostly Fair Saturday Christmas Pause in Viet Conflict Pope Thinks of Viet Nam Allies Begin In Call for World Peace 30-Hour Truce VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Several considerations induced tries to avoid axy impression of Paul VI did not mention any him to speak in general terms. favoring or opposing one side on country or belligerents in call- It is felt at the Vatican that by political grounds. UnlessAttacked ing for "just and sincere nego- using specific references spar- The Vatican does not want to SAIGON , Viet Nam (AP ) -A tiation to restore order and ingly, the pontiff can exert far give any side in a dispute any Christmas Eve truce declared friendship" in his annual Christ- greater impact on occasions propaganda opportunities to by both the allied armed forces mas message Thursday night , when he feels that a precise and claim Vatican support, whether and the insurgent Communist but he left no doubt he had Viet blunt reference is needed. moral or political, by seizing on Nam in mind. He referred to Viet Nam by names the Pope might -voice. Viet Cong appeared tonight to The spiritual leader of the name when he called for _ If there should be any doubts have stilled the guns, the terror world's half - billion Roman Christmas truce last Sunday. about what or whom the Pope and the slaughter that has tor- Catholics often does not u_le The papacy strives for neu- means in some of his speeches, tured South Viet Nam for years. Euch specifics in his statements. trality in political disputes. It Vatican sources can usually be The American-South Vietnam- counted on to spell it out pri- ese decision to stop all offensive vately. action for 30 hours went into ef- These considerations are re- fect at 6 p.m. (4 a.m. Winona flected in the Pope's Christmas Time) and the Viet Cong seem- message. ed to have been faithful to- their "Peace is, in fact, the first announced promise of a 12-hour and chief good of any sodety," truce as of 7 p.m. he said. "It is based on justice, SANTA ARRIVES ON TRACTOR . U.S. Marines drive down the nearby Han River to deliver Christmas goodies to freedom and order ; it opens the this amphibious tractor dubbed the "Jingle Bell Special" Vietnamese that thronged about in their sampans. (AP Photo- The cease-fire in the embat- way to every other value in hu- down street in Da Nang, South Viet Nam. Tractor was floated fax via radio from Saigon) tled country turned at least man life. some of it back to the little peo- "And so now , at this very mo- ple. Most noticeable was the re- ment, we are making a new War Mars O bservance action in Saigon, the capital plea lor peace — and this not The streets were a mass of hu- , manity. simply because peace is a good , , 12 Killed 20 4 Dead 3 People who have not been on thing in itself , but also because the_-F streets perhaps for it is 21 good wWch is ih danger months were out in force with today. Inj Christian World their children. "Fresh schemes, which the ured in Injured Near The three million population tragic experiences of the last of Saigon strode out in confi- war had given rise to. are now dence as though all of them had jouted by old and deep-rooted Bus Accident Hails Christmas Stewartville heard directly about the truce. nationalistic tendencies, along By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and U.S. officials expected the The thousands of Americans in with newer ideologies of subver- MEDFORD. Ore. (AP) - A As the Christian world pre- war to resume in full violence ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) - Saigon were, on the other hand, sion and domination. Greybound bits overturned on an pared today to observe Christ- after midnight Christmas. An Iowa mother remained fa- confined to their billets until "Arms, ever more powerful icy highway, killing 12 holiday- mas, war and tension once more critical condition today as offic- dawn Christmas Day under a marred the celebration of the India and Pakistan stood en- and dreadful, become, as it bound passengers and injuring trenched in hostile positions ers pieced together the story of curfew imposed Dec. 18. Th- birth of the Prince of Peace. ai-few will be lifted at 6 a.m. were?; the only guarantee of a 20 other persons late Thursday along their border, deadlocked an accident that injured the wo- treacherous and precarious In Viet Nam, both the United Saturday. night. States and its allies on one side in the Kashmir dispute. India man and two other persons peac«, to the detriment of a State police said the bus, and the Communists on the oth- also confronted the menace of while taking four lives. The atmosphere was electric, sense of justice and human er announced the start of a Communist China, whose border but loaded with a sense of re- brotherhood among peoples. bound from Spokane, Wash., to Mrs. Mary Sexton, 45, of Sum- San Francisco, plunged from In- Christmas truce—30 hours on troops have been involved in lief. "Mo one ought to set about the American side and 12 on the recent shooting incidents with ner, Iowa, was taken to a Roch- From the jungles and the out- terstate 5 between the southern Indian patrols. disturbing the peace of others Oregon cities of Grants Pass and Communist. But the 24 hours ester hospital in critical condi- post, reports filtering into Sai- Unrest and fear still stalked tion. gon indicated that the ceasefire THIS CHEISTMAS IS DIFFERENT ... Ronnie Baker of by means of underhanded Medford. before were as bloody as ever, schemes and contrived disorder. Nine persons were dead at the the streets of Santo Domingo Killed were Paul Komnick, 64, was just that. From An Khe, Van Nuys, Calif., faced a bleak Christmas a year ago. Doc- in the wake of last April's re- where the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry No one ought to force his neigh- scene, state police said. One was and his wife, 49, of Bloomington, tors, wanted to amputate his cancerous left leg, and rather neigh- volt in the Dominican Repub- Division (Air Mobile) is deploy- bor, and today we are all dead on arrival at a hospital 111. and Mrs. Komnlck's brother, than let them do it, he ran away to Arizona. A year later, bors, to resort to armed de- and two others died later. lic. ed, Associated Press Corre- Ronnie (above) wears a wooden leg as he decorates family's fense. And no one ought to shirk Stormy, Wet In Africa, black-ruled nations Harry H., 66, and Roy Eisen- spondent Bob Poos reported Christmas tree and is looking toward starting college. (AP just and sincere negotiation to Ambulances and emergency kept up demands that Britain berg, 55, both of Hudson, IU. "all's quiet." Photofax) restore order and friendship." vehicles from surrounding com- invade Rhodesia and crush the From Da Nang on the north- i ._ . _ _ munities took the injured to white minority regime. The The Mower County sheriff's em coast where the Marines three hospitals in the two cities. Weather Over British, who limited their reac- office said this is low the crash are based in strength, the word Erving C-arew, Greyhound tion to economic sanctions, are occurred Thursday on rain- was of holiday feasting—turkey superintendent at Medford, said worried that the tensions may slicked U.S. 63 about 20 miles or baked Virginia ham after Boy Who Lost there were 3$ persons on the bus burst into a race war. shrimp cocktails and winding up Christmas Sp irit when it left Portland, 250 miles Western U.S. south of Rochester, near Stew- with mince or pumpkin pie. to the north. Bat, as always, there were artville: The truce orders went to in- Sacred Heart Hospital in Med- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS prayers and hopes for peace. A car driven by Carl Schroed- fantrymen In the jungles , to Air Leg to Save ford reported the driver of the Stormy, wet weather, with Pope Paul VI in his annual er, Stewartville, was stopped to Force units that had been strik- Reaches Pentagon bus, Joseph Bailey of Battle snow, rain and gusty winds, Christmas broadcast appealed make a left turn and an auto ing in both North and South Ground, Wash., was in good whipped across broad areas in for peace negotiations in Viet driven by Mrs. Ann Chaffee, Viet Nam and to 7th Fleet car- WASHINGTON (AP) - The S. McNamara *s office. condition. the Western half of the nation Nam. Rochester, was waiting behind riers plying the South China sign Life Happier signs of Christmas softened the A silver and^ed pro- Bailey told state police he was today. In Viet Nam, Francis Cardi- ¦it. Sea in support of the balloon- VAN NUYS, Calif. (AP) - austere war mood in the Penta- claiming "Seasons Greetings" traveling about 45 miles per The pre-Christmas storm left nal Spellman flew by helicopter A feed truck driven by Lo- ing war effort.