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January 1, 1962

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Headlines from January 1, 1962

Soviet-Chinese Rift On Ideology Widens; Soviet-Red Chinese Rift Widens In Exchange of Bitter Charges Albanians Denounced Debate Flared at Meeting Party Talks Expected Chinese Assail Talks

By Special to The New York Times

USSR and Communist Chinese ideological rift widens; USSR pubs assail Chinese-held view that war is inevitable; 1 attributes similar view to V M Molotov

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T.W.U. BUS STRIKE HALTS TWO LINES AS PACT EXPIRES; Owners of Fifth Avenue and Surface Companies Fail in Plea for More Aid 6,000 EMPLOYES GO OUT They Leave Jobs on Routes in Bronx and Manhattan That Serve 1,300,000 Delay in Impact T.W.U. BUS STRIKE HALTS TWO LINES

By Stanley Levey

bus co and TWU reach pact

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Wagner Gives Jobs to 7 Who Helped to Elect Him; Joint Ceremony MAYOR REWARDS 7 FOR POLITICAL AID Two Major Appointments

By Paul Crowellthe New York Times

Sworn in

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BUDGET TO SEEK FUNDS TO EXPAND MISSILE PROJECTS; 4.1 Billion to Be Asked for the Minuteman and Polaris --Defense Total 51 Billion No 'Missile Gap' Nuclear Deterrent BUDGET ASKS RISE IN ATOMIC FORCES Polaris Program Deterrent 'Primary Concern'

By Jack Raymond Special To the New York Times

Adm expected to ask $2 billion, fiscal '63

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Lebanon Puts Down Coup by Rightists; LEBANON CRUSHES COUP BY RIGHTISTS Rebels Taken in Hills Cairo Accuses Britain

By Dana Adams Schmidt Special To the New York Times

Rightist coup with apparent backing of Popular Syrian party suppressed; party leader A Saadeh held; Cairo sources blame GB; map

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Notable Births

1962Anton Muscatelli, Italian-Scottish economist and academic^[†]

Sir Vito Antonio Muscatelli is the Principal of the University of Glasgow.

Historical Events

1962Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.^[†]

The Territory of Western Samoa was the civil administration of Western Samoa by New Zealand between 1920 and Samoan independence in 1962. In 1914, German Samoa was captured by the Samoa Expeditionary Force shortly after the outbreak of World War I, and was formally annexed as a League of Nations mandate in 1920 in the Treaty of Versailles. It was later transformed into a United Nations Trust Territory following the dissolution of the League of Nations in 1946.

Historical Context for January 1, 1962

In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people^[†]