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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 19 -- The General Assembly's Budget Committee approved a $200,000,000 bond issue tonight to prevent a financial collapse of the United Nations.
Chancellor Lloyd announces decimal system will be adopted unless pending study shows it not feasible, Commons; names com; bill providing for change described
Sec Udall repts Interior Dept campaign for 1,000-mi transmission system to feed Pacific NW power to San Francisco and S Calif, news conf; 5-member com suggests 3 alternate bldg plans; map
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Dec. 19 -- A suggestion was made in the Belgian Senate today that the United Nations should be held legally accountable for Belgian casualties and damage to Belgian property in Katanga Province in the Congo.
US mil men reptdly operate in battle area, though not engaged in actual combat; about 2,000 Amers are in S Vietnam; helicopter units, equipment, mobile training teams described; Viet Cong renews offensive at Bentre, Phu Yen and Quang Non; map; rept on Nov casualties
1961Mohammad Fouad, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actor[†]
Mohamed Fouad Abd El Hamid Hassan is an Egyptian singer, actor and songwriter.
1961Moss Hart, American director and playwright (born 1904)[†]
Moss Hart was an American playwright, librettist, and theater director.
1961Earle Page, Australian soldier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1880)[†]
Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page was an Australian politician and surgeon who served as the 11th prime minister of Australia from 7 to 26 April 1939, in a caretaker capacity following the death of Joseph Lyons. He was the leader of the Country Party from 1921 to 1939, and was the most influential figure in its later years.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]