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Sen Lucas to ask Truman for compromise by current Act extension until early in '50 session in effort to end session
USSR note denies charge Stalin promised Chancellor Renner to guarantee '33 frontiers; maintains USSR supported Austrian independence in face of Brit plan to unify Austria, Hungary and part of Ger; says Yugoslavia gave up territorial claims in '47; cites Min Kardelj lr to Min Vishinsky and '49 note allegedly acknowledging relinquishing claims
Pres Truman appeal to India and Pakistan to end dispute revealed; stresses threat to SE Asia peace; Sec Acheson declines comment on Pakistani Amb Ispahani and Indian Amb Pandit visit
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 30 -- It was learned tonight that the British Government had officially asked the Yugoslav Government what its attitude would be if the current Balkan crisis were to be openly presented to the United Nations Security Council. There has not been any official reply on behalf of the Belgrade regime.
US reveals Lt A P Barsov was flown to Austria for return to USSR after USSR Embassy asks whereabouts; Embassy says he asked to return; I D Levine charges USSR pressure; Lt P Pirogov reptdly wants to remain in US; case revd; pors
1949Richard Gere, American actor and producer[†]
Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began appearing in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and a starring role in Days of Heaven (1978). Gere came to prominence with his role in the film American Gigolo (1980), which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. Gere's other films include An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), The Cotton Club (1984), Internal Affairs (1990), Pretty Woman (1990), Sommersby (1993), First Knight (1995), Primal Fear (1996), Runaway Bride (1999), Unfaithful (2002), Shall We Dance? (2004), I'm Not There (2007), Arbitrage (2012) and Norman (2016). For portraying Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago (2002), he won a Golden Globe Award.
1949Stephen McKinley Henderson, American actor[†]
Stephen McKinley Henderson is an American actor. Henderson trained at Juilliard School for acting and later became a resident member of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis from 1976 to 1981. He came to prominence as a character actor often performing the plays of August Wilson. He has received nominations for two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2021, Vulture named Henderson as one of "The 32 Greatest Character Actors Working Today".
1949Hugh David Politzer, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Hugh David Politzer is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics.
1949Rick Roberts, American country-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Richard James Roberts is an American country rock and soft rock singer-songwriter who recorded with many influential artists over several genres. He is best known as a founding member and lead singer of Firefall from 1974 to 1981, as well as for his work with the Flying Burrito Brothers on their 1971 self-titled album. He also recorded two solo albums, Windmills in 1972 and She Is a Song in 1973.
1949The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece into Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.[†]
The Democratic Army of Greece was the army founded by the Communist Party of Greece during the Greek Civil War (1946–1949). At its height, it had a strength of around 50,000 men and women. The DSE was backed up by the Popular Civil Guard, the Communist Party's security police force.