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All Christian churches in Germany have taken such a beating from the Nazi regime in 1937 that good Nazi adherents had begun to wonder whether it would be politically safe this year for them to celebrate Christmas. Taking up this vital question, Das Schwarze Korps, organ of Adolf Hitler's black-uniformed Special Guard, which consistently baits Jews, Catholics, Protestants, last week assured Germans that they might observe Christmas without being guilty of "unGerman practices," It asserted: "Christmas is no intellectual property of the Christian confessions. They simply borrowed it without asking permission. ....

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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