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Valley Shopping Mall, a mile-
square complex one mile from
the airport.
Two of the dead, the pilot and a
passenger, were found inside the
Administration sources said
Monday Reagan has sent a letter
to Soviet leader Mikhail Gor-
bachev indicating U.S. interest
in discussing on-site inspection
of nuclear tests in both countries,
The Washington Post said today.
The letter followed earlier,
public U.S. rejection of a Dec. 5
Soviet offer for on-site inspection
in return for a ban on all nuclear
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The twin-engine plane was at-
tempting to make an instrument
landing in dense fog at nearby
Buchanan Field Monday night
when it hit the roof of the Sun
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Plane Crash In Shopping
Mall Kills 3, Injures 59
CONCORD, Calif. (UPD _ A six-passenger Beechcraft
light plane crashed into a huge
shopping mall during the
Christmas rush, killing three
people and injuring 59, and sent a
fireball hurtling into a pro-
menade where children were
waiting for Santa.
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|   Virginia, your little friends are wrong.
They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical
I *5Li ®y donot believe except they see. They think that
I nothing can be which is not comprehensive by their little
i minds.
All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or
I children sare little. In this great universe ofours, man is a
I mereinsect, an ant in his intellect, as compared with the
I boundless world about him, as measured by the intelli-
gence capable of grasping the whole truth and knowledge.
|   Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
I He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devo-
tion exist, and you know that they abound and give to
I your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary
I would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would
asdreary asifthere were no Virginias. There would be
I n0 childlike faith then, no Poetry, no romance to make
tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment,
I ex.ePt in, sense and sight. The eternal light with which
I childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not
I believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to
Watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa
Claus, but even if they do not see Santa Claus coming
down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus,
' butthat 18 nosign that there is no Santa Claus. The most
real things in the world are those that neither children nor
men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn?
, Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there.
Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are
unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the
noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world I
which not the strongest man, not even the united strength
of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.
Only faith, fancy, poetry, live, romance, can push aside
bbyomutslinaanreaisw and picture the beauty and giory
anahsVirsinia, in all this world there is nothing else real I
No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives, and he lives
forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten
times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to
make glad the heart of childhood.”
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I editor of The Sun.
1 I Tothisday, it expressesa warmth about the celebration
I or Christmas:
‘ I “We take pleasure in answering at once and thus
• I prominently the communication below, expressing at the
I same time our great gratification that its faithful author is
h l numbered among the friends of The Sun.
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‘Dear Editor:
I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says ‘Ifyou see it in The Sun, it’s so. ’
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
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Speakes gave a glowing over- from a broken six-inch pipe
view of White House achieve- poured into the carpeted walk-
mentsiduring 1985, citing:         way where patrons were fin
—The "historic consensus” ishing a night of Christmas
that led to congressional passage shopping.
of the Gramm-Rudman bal- ‘‘There was a huge ball of
anced.budget legislation to cut fire," said witness Tom Graham
the deficit.                       of nearby Martinez, who was in
—The new five-year farm law, ___
which he said has "set into mo- KKIA Ga-A
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to farm problems.”
—’’The high-water mark in
foreign policy” established by
last month’s Geneva summit be-
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six-passengerBeechcraft the mall. "Then everything went
Barony,and a third body was black. The electricity went out
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hospitals reported. dren’sinoakland. »
Chanin Field ht,manager of Bu- Ryan said the fire and police
chananFj d’ saidthe plane was departments took command of
making its second attempt to the mall, and the fires were put
land in dense fog, using an in out within an hour.
strument approach.               Weeping people wandered
around the mall, trying to find
family members and friends.
Security officers and police, at-
tempting to clear the scene, said
there had been some looting.
No White Christmas
But Cold Weather
Is In State Forecast
By United Press International
There is little chance for a
white Christmas in Oklahoma,
but the National Weather Ser-
vice says there is no doubt the
holiday will be a cold one.
A fast moving cold front swept
packing gusty north winds into
the state this morning, sending
temperatures plummenting and
bringing cloudy skies to most
sections.
Forecasters say there is a
slight chance for snow in the
Panhandle later today, but the
rest of the state will remain dry
and cold. Temperatures were
expected to drop into the 20s this
afternoon after morning lows
mostly in the upper 30s.
Skies will be clearing tonight,
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talking about a photograph...    The extended forecast calls for
Max Thomas, p laying:Santa and a gradual warming trend
deuivertng. . gifts Irene through Saturday, with lows
Clements, in a telephone con- from the teens to the mid 20s
versatio n..Char les Phelps, Thursday, then from the upper
counting the hours until noon on 20s to the mid 30s by Saturday     ,
Christmaseve...Clarice Nicola, Highs will be from th low 4s to 1
m a telephone conversation.      the low 50s Thursday, then in the I
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Debbe Seymour and Desi Sites.
making Christmas candy until
the wee hours of the morning...
Okla Brewer, in a telephone con-
versation. ..Peggy Castleberry,
stopping by the Daily Express...
Alice Stephenson, forgetting
about calories until after the
holidays...Mary Sherwin, get-
ting some good news.
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“Apparently the pilot did not
see the runway and elected to
make a go-round, and during the
go-round the crash occurred,”
he said, adding that other planes
had landed safely.
Local authorities had not pin
N,           „ pointed the exact cause of the
: zhe Naples Missionary Bap- crash and said Federal Aviation
tist Church, north of Alex, will Administration investigators
have a special Sunday morning were expected on the scene
singing service Dec. 29.           today
sAlexresident and gospel The plane hit the shopping
singer Okla Brewer will be fea- center, one of the largest in CoS
tured during the 11 a.m. service, tra Costa County, 30 Miles east of
according to pastor Roger Har san Francisco, at 8:45 p.m. PST
ney. Sunday School begins at 10 Seconds later, a huge fireball
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Reagan Winds Down Duties SSB
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marked a year of accomplish-
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2 the domestic and foreign policy
fronts, says his chief spokesman
who spelled out the successes in
three succinct words — “nothing
went wrong.”
The President and his wife,
Nancy, were stepping out tonight
to celebrate Christmas Eve at
. the home of USIA Director Char
k les Wick, in a tradition going
> backtotheirHollywooddlays. weapons tests, and its tone was
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