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USSR continues to fly mil transports in air corridors; plans for further flights; Brit authorities display some aluminum foil dropped by USSR to interfere with radar; W Berlin customs official held for 3 hrs by E Gers at French sector border
Secret Army Orgn (SAO) terrorism continues; 3 Eurs, 3 Moslem educators 'executed' at Algiers soc service center; other violence detailed; French seize 9 SAO chiefs and many documents, Algiers
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J J McCloy com surveys grants-in-aid policies and operation, 1st such rev since trustees approved '50 plan; governing study aimed at re-evaluating programs; dir Slater comments; Dr Heald on com
US and GB modify their draft treaty for nuclear tests ban but USSR rejects it 'out of hand' because it does not provide for natl inspection only, Geneva conf of Dean, Godber and Tsarapkin; changes sought swifter establishment of control machinery, some inspection against secret preparations for testing, listing of testing and possible testing sites, and concession that ban should cover even small underground tests; Rusk and Gromyko present US and USSR gen disarmament plans to 17-nation conf; new items in US plan include cuts in delivery capability of nuclear arms, allocation of fissionable material for peaceful uses, and ways to guard against wars by accident or surprise attack
1962Franck Fréon, French race car driver[†]
Franck Fréon is a French race car driver.
1962Liliane Gaschet, French athlete[†]
Liliane Gaschet is a French athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters. Gaschet competed in the women's 100 and 200 meters and also the 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
1962Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 disappears in the western Pacific Ocean with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.[†]
Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 (FT739/FTL739) was a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation propliner that disappeared on March 16, 1962, over the western Pacific Ocean. The aircraft, which had been chartered by the United States Army, was transporting ninety-six military passengers from Travis Air Force Base in California to Tan Son Nhut International Airport in Saigon, South Vietnam. After refueling at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the Super Constellation disappeared while en route to Clark Air Base in the Philippines. All 107 aboard were declared missing and presumed dead.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]