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Dewey says fiscal '51 budget will be balanced; dept appropriations to be cut $2 million to counteract other rises; Dewey to recommend lower appropriations for capital outlays; mandatory rises listed
Is matron of hon at Mayor O'Dwyer wedding; illus
USSR announces new yrly 100,000-ruble Stalin peace prizes
sentenced to 6 to 20 yrs in Fed penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa
1949Thomas Sankara, Burkinabé captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (died 1987)[†]
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabè military officer, Marxist and Pan-Africanist revolutionary who served as the President of Burkina Faso from 1983, following his takeover in a coup, until his assassination in 1987.
1949Nikolaos Sifounakis, Greek lawyer and politician[†]
Nikolaos Sifounakis is a Greek politician, former Minister for the Aegean and ex-member of the European Parliament (MEP). He was elected on the Panhellenic Socialist Movement ticket and sat with the Party of European Socialists group. On 23 July 2004 he was elected Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education.