Show - "A t '”T ' Si nj'ihidH rr? F Si 'iwfrhw S - - '4 ' - ' f Sis S&SSSSSSS - 77v u :o- t f J? ' Hj t r December Local Utah II 1971 Brezhnev reigns supreme at age 70 By Cbarles u “ “ many statesmen 'rettoTto reflect on their put glories Soviet leader Leonid I Brezhnev enjoys greater power and prestige than ever before Brezhnev celebrates his 70th birthday Dec 19 and hu defied pundits who predicted his decline through waning political strength or physical infirmity Although he has escaped maladies which afflict the Brezhnev hu displayed remarkable vitality f collective Kremlin leadership Brezhnev's position hu generated a rising pitch of official adulation Mailing some! Western observers to speak of a “personality cult” a phrase once reserved for— dictator Josef Stalin 1 Ll Few ooeerveri wun suit Dituinwi 7001 DiruKUty will be used the takeoff point far even more em phatic praise Rumors abound that leading poets have been commissioned to draft paean for the occasion There wu even talk of a theater producing a play about Brezhnev’s life dans apparently were scrapped tt the very least it seems likely Brezhnev will be given his third Kero of Socialist Labor gold star which would make It legally possible for a statue or him to be built In Moscow while he la still alive Brezhnev'a name hu been glued to Soviet front pages for months helped recently by trips to Yugoslavia and Romania During the parade marking the Nov 7 anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution thia year every third person appeared to be carrying a portrait of Brezhnev While speculation wu rampant that be wu on the verge of stepping down Brezhnev party general secretary dominated the party's 25th congreu in February with a speech ablishhigt on foreign policy domestic affairs and Three months later following the death of Minister Andrei Grechko Brezhnev wu named a marshal of the Soviet Union The official preu dladoaed at the time that Bredmev heads a national defenu council which appears to make him de facto commander in chief On the day of hb military promotion (Brezhnev had ' WASHINGTON ' V A I ' t : ¥ - Soviet aatt minen in the Ttana-caocae- u have stumbled acrou archaeological evidence of the mine having been worked 4000 yews MOSCOW ( UPI) viler The official Tus newxv agency said that whUe working a salt eeam at depth of 190 meters the miners discovered a huge cave'Archaedlngiets found atone tmptomsnto ceramic ware and other utensQs that dated the cava to 4000 - : 5: years ago The acbntbto were amazed at the scab of the ancient working which indicated that nearly UJXI0 mined In that earlier time - i-- i (UPI)- -U provides the start buying i the country Con WASHINGTON (UPI) — A hundred years ago Alexander Graham Bdl said “Mr Watson come here! want to see you" Thomas Watson went Zarb aaid the storage (dan would carry the nation halfway toward the goal of becoming “embargo i the lowed bidder— including the very o which called the embargo in he first place The plan is subject to congressional approval and wu drawn up at the direction of Congreu after it wUcr this year of filling and maintaining the reserve through IMS would be $75 to $8 billion mostly far buying the oil 7Amtri th-r- oit oil into caverns in salt domes or abandoned nit mines by midsummer at eight possible storage sites near refineries in Louisiana ana Texas and possibly in Ohio and Kentucky xBrezhnev who broke the news and received much of the praise One of tiie clearest indications of Brezhnev’s preeminent stature appeared two months ago during a 70th birthday ceremony for Andrei Kirilenko a Politburo'member and close friend of Brezhnev Kirilenko called Brezhnev “vozhd” (chief) a term which wu applied to Lenin and Stalin but never wu used for Khrushchev “You more than anyone” Kirilenko told Brezhnev detente and consolidation of atrmg peace so that you WU the deep love of mill Brezhnev nui led hb country longer than Lenin or Khrushchev While no one outside the Kremlin inner circle can be sure Bredmev seems to be in good shape for a man of hb age In additionto hb trips to he visited Berlin in June and foreign visitors b recent months Hb last aerioua health problem b usually traced to £wq years ago when he vanished from public life for a nearly two mdiths Kremlin offidab told diplomats illness” ' he had suffered a “cold-typ-e i Whatever tiie real problem Bredmev returned to work looking termed and rested Following hb mysterious illness the chain- smoking Bredmev gave up cigarettes on doctor’s orders He b increasingly bothered by a tendency to shir rf Today's almanac') By United u Preu what history records “The Boston Tea Party” 1635 one of history’s worst fires swept over whole dty blocks in New York City razing 600 International b Today Thursday Dec 16 the 351st day of 1976 with 15 to follow b between buildings and caused morningtars are more than $20 million In 1944 The moon lb last quarter and new damage estimated at The Mars and Saturncy The evening stars are Mercury Venus and Jupiter lhou born on thb date are under die sign of JEnglleh- Ardennes Forut of Belgium in wlmt wu called “Hie Battle of the ' r Bulgfe” ' y In 1960 131 persons were killed when two airplanes collided ' over foggy New York harbor 'actor u Indians 342 chests of tea duinped into Boston harbor in great in the ve i playwright and composer Hoel Coward vwu born Dec 16’ 1000 On thb day in history: In 1773 protesting tiie Britidi tax on tea aome 50 Amarican patriots dbguiaed a launched counter-offensi- crashed 4 ‘ A thought for the day: English playwright Noel Coward said: “Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in 111 lU B(AT$ of what Bell has wro BONN West Germany (UPl) — At 1 pjn several months ago four agenta of the East German State the bdl at a flat on the third floor of anapailmhouseat26Sdiweiiner Straaie of Riesa and arrested Dr Karl ' in the Saxony city ' $ Heinz Nitschke A ngfrdod tr jEwa s 'awBM'WMSsrf Mine worked centuries ago " funds the United Statu is read enough oil from Arab producers thnwfih any future Arab embargo Energy Administrator Frank Zarb said Wednesday the administration plan lnvolves spending MbUUon to buy 500 million barrels of foreign oil and store It in underground vault caverns until it’s : s - stockpile oil u u CHRISTMAS US wants to u he helped do to will attempt to cut him down late Premier Nikita 8 Khrushchev in 1964 When the Soviet drought last muter Dmitrv punra 'crop and it wu DAYS TO u way I By Joseph B Although none of his predecessors voluntarily stepped aside the feeling persists that Brezhnev will elert to hand over power without upheaval If he does it soon analysts believe Kirilenko could serve interim leader while the transition is under the aging leadership notably Premier Alexei N Kosygin appear to be curtailing their work because of disability Brezhnev'a health shows no visible signs of aerioua impairment Politically he is the supreme figure in the socalled h East Germans demand right to leave nation ' his Some analysts took this a sign of serious ailment —possibly cancer of the Jaw Others felt It could be due to poorly fitting false teeth A minor stir wu caused when Brezhnev wu wearing a bearing aid in Yugoslavia He hu been wearing it above nb ear for two years but thou outside his immediate reach rarely have seen it Speculation about Brezhnev’a health invariably leads to talk about his eventual departure from the P Wallace - ! s i Germans who have braved by applying for permission to leave the German Democratic Republic for the west The flood of applications b saM to be worrying East German leaders R is causing concern in west Germany too where fears exist that growing unrest in the East could lead to an explosive situation The fact that large numbers of persona are daring to stand up and demand the right to move to Wen a sign that East Germans are Germany U seen their fear of the government The national West German newspaper Welt am Sanntag commented ‘‘This la the worst thing that can happen to a dictatonhip — when subjects tarn into citizens and '?' ft lose their fear" Nitschke wu arrested because ha la one bfthe leaders of the movement to leave according to the Society for Humu Rights in the West German dly of u ing upstairs and the world fTrinkfiirt-Nitschke demanded the right to leave for himself had changed wife Dagmar his Ms daughter Marion The centennial of what and 64 other residents of the steelprMucliig city of filled out formal applications asking an Riesa All had to leave in celebrated for permission exhibition which open denied Nitschke sent an When pgrotoeton copies to the KtiwInstitutto’a aweal to East -- KSKnMSid United Nations rightoI groups in “ Western natiottf including the Frankfort society He to-Technology wu arrested as a result and the others could tiie Frankfurt reported The telephone aoclety terrogated The society which keeps close track ot East have been Invented 30 years earlier with German happenings also reportedtroubte in the dty the province of Thueringla technology already in of Rudolfstadt 15 said It persons mostly young people who had says Smithsonian Curator applied In vain to leave had asked for permission to hold a demonstration to publicize their demand on Bernard Finn Oct 17 the East German election day But tawnton were too All 15 were picked up by the secret police but 13 stobbandy dgnlemind- were released the society said Vv West German offidab uy reports from) East wanted -GWhat a “floodl’of indicate there bfitwa and iriut Bdl a backers ermany mi1 to luve being ppUctioni “har-wanted hive no exact figure Some estimates range monte telegraph” which M 100000 and 200000 There to no con-I- n high codd cany aevual tones finnattonofauch figures butofflebb say that tens at the seme time Then :i: ' b a Ukdy number v Western reports on the 200000 figure pronmd a of dots and damea could dedal by tiie Eut German news agency ADN The mgye agency said the Western reports are barefaced lies : i designed to defame East Germany The AON denial applied only to the 200000 figure It mbml wny notan enure itself gave no figure Western newsmen whoaaked YS£eT German foreign ministry how many had tiie East M applied were told tiie appiteatbn are a domeatte ' matter and no concern of oubidera Tl applkmnb are their demand to leave nao peen ueiri usisranr on the united Nal f il existence" j 1 - u d baig and later became a Shakespearean actor aspects of the declaration of bat yew’s Helsinki describing that first European Security Conference phone call said Bell had acid OH himself ((I Ji4jjiyN ft hjnirry ?fe J) and said “Mr Watson rjv ft SWJ coma here I need you’’ But curator Finn accepts the account Bell i 4 wrote in hb notebook He thinks Watson invented acid spill to dramatise the moment the HERE’S WHY WE RECOMMEND - FOR CHRISTMAS First value Dollar for dolled’ we j believe Bulova gives you more' Come in and let us help you : r select the perfect Bulova foryour £ gift occasion I 1 Second quality Since we also service and repair watches we " know how well Bulova watches are made r e ''i b Third styling As a jeweler we are very much aware of fashion trends and Bulova is always there first (And with the latest features) Gourmet Cheese Packs Make A Thoughtful Gift Wisconsin's finest cheese crate European gourmet sampler 1 1 9 or 5 Vi oz Guittard Dipping Chocolate 10 ib 1390 Delicious dipping chocolate great for food storage Create your own special holiday treats - Utah Farms Candy Favorites 595 24 oz round carton with 8 oz cup of creamy honey JL Riopla tntund bncalit watch with tflMieM at 12 o'clock 17 lawata S Aejatiie la tin Motena cast whit tmioii dial 17 iawati S! 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