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French Prof Wellers testifies on mass transport of 4,000 Jewish children from France to Oswiecim gas chambers, '42; asst prosecutor Bach offers documents on Eichmann role in persecution and deportation of stateless Jews from France
Nixon s, Detroit rally; 13,000 attend, $300,000 gross reptd
plot against Gursel Govt by Menderes backers reptd crushed; 80 held; revolt reptdly sought aid from 'power with a foreign ideology'; Syrian frontier closed after anti-Govt riots in 3 southern dists near border; 100 reptd dead or injured
Re-elected
departure of USSR comdr Gen Zakharov stirs speculation that USSR may be turning control of E Berlin to E Ger, step linked with converting W Berlin into demilitarized free city
1961Air France Flight 406 is destroyed by a bomb over the Sahara, killing 78.[†]
Air France Flight 406 was a Lockheed L-1649 Starliner that crashed in French Algeria on May 10, 1961, after a bomb exploded on board. All 78 passengers and crew on board were killed. It was the deadliest aviation disaster involving a Lockheed Starliner.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]