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Deliverers and ITU threaten strike, NYC, unless contract is reached by Fri night deadline; H Van Arsdale and other AFL-CIO Central Labor Council leaders conf with Mayor Wagner; warn that strike may be long and costly; talks detailed; Powers comments
Kennedy Adm may drop Skybolt as superfluous in view of progress on Minuteman and Polaris; USAF opposed; Skybolt is nuclear-tipped missile with 1,000-mi range designed to be launched from bombers against ground targets; $1/2 billion appropriated for it so far, total development cost put at $1 billion; development begun in May '59; Douglas is prime contractor; major controversy seen both within US and between US and GB, since RAF was planning on Skybolt as major air-to-ground missile; other details; comment
anti-Castro agents rept that USSR still has many troops and advisers in Cuba, that troops are bldg airfields and underground fortifications in move to bolster Cuba's defenses; troops put at 5,000 to 15,000; other details; map; US Defense Dept repts 42 USSR jet bombers have been removed from Cuba, are now aboard 3 USSR ships returning to USSR; USN photo of 1 illus
Tito confs with Khrushchev and other USSR leaders, reptdly on ways to heal USSR-Yugoslav rift; illus; speculation
remarks on Brit role in world affairs stir dispute
1962Alain Blondel, French decathlete[†]
Alain Blondel is a retired French decathlete. During his career he won the European title once.
1962Jeffrey Donaldson, Northern Irish politician[†]
Sir Jeffrey Mark Donaldson is a Northern Irish former politician, who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 2021 to 2024 and leader of the DUP in the UK House of Commons from 2019 to 2024. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lagan Valley from 1997 to 2024.
1962Imad Mughniyah, Lebanese activist (died 2008)[†]
Imad Fayez Mughniyeh, also known by his nom de guerre al-Hajj Radwan, was a Lebanese militant leader who was the founding member of Lebanon's Islamic Jihad Organization and number two in Hezbollah's leadership. He is believed to have been Hezbollah's chief of staff and overseer of its military, intelligence, and security apparatus. He has been described as a skilled military tactician and a highly elusive figure. He was often referred to as an ‘untraceable ghost’.
1962Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer (born 1895)[†]
Kirsten Malfrid Flagstad was a Norwegian opera singer, who was the outstanding Wagnerian soprano of her era. Her triumphant debut in New York on 2 February 1935 is one of the legends of opera. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the longstanding General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera said, "I have given America two great gifts — Caruso and Flagstad."
1962Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.[†]
Rainier III was Prince of Monaco from 1949 to his death in 2005. Rainier ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]