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installation workers and co ease demands; Fed action seen likely; minor disorders reptd; waterfront pickets illus
Kidnaped; dismembered body found; maniac sought; por
Leaves by plane for United Nations Assembly, London
Apptd Cabinet Min as Peasant party repr
J F Dulles and Vandenberg absence from Jan 7 press conf, London, ascribed to their reluctance to talk until agreement with Byrnes on US security policy is reached
1946Robby Krieger, American guitarist and songwriter[â ]
Robert Alan Krieger is an American guitarist and founding member of the rock band the Doors. Krieger wrote or co-wrote many of the Doors' songs, including the hits "Light My Fire", "Love Me Two Times", "Touch Me", and "Love Her Madly". When the Doors disbanded shortly after the death of lead singer Jim Morrison, Krieger continued to perform and record with other musicians including former Doors bandmates John Densmore and Ray Manzarek. In the 2023 edition of Rolling Stone's 250 greatest guitarists of all time, he was positioned at number 248.
1946Miguel Ăngel FĂ©lix Gallardo, Mexican drug lord[â ]
Miguel Ăngel FĂ©lix Gallardo, commonly referred to by his aliases El Jefe de Jefes and El Padrino, is a Mexican convicted drug kingpin who was one of the founders of the Guadalajara Cartel, which controlled much of the drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along the MexicoâUnited States border in the 1980s.
1946Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the Finnish Allied Commission, submitted to the Finnish War Criminal Court an interrogation report by General Erich Buschenhagen, a German prisoner of war, on the contacts between Finnish and German military personnel before the Continuation War and a copy of Hitler's Barbarossa plan.[â ]
Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov was a Soviet politician. He was the Soviet Union's "propagandist-in-chief" after the Second World War, and was responsible for developing the Soviet cultural policy, the Zhdanov Doctrine, which remained in effect until the death of Joseph Stalin. Zhdanov was considered Stalin's most likely successor but died before him.