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Govt denies it hires mercenaries; authoritative sources say mercenary farce assembling at Kamina, Katanga, will begin operations against rebels soon; Belgium and US reptdly participated in planning force
A special counsel hired yes‐; terday by Mobilization for Youth to investigate charges! of Communist infiltration announced that the organization must purge itself of any employes guilty of “the promotion of civil disorder or illegal activity.”
Ala delegation enters Conv Hall and takes seats even though only 13 of them have signed loyalty oath; no effort made to remove them; group led by E Connor; Credentials Com chmn Lawrence and Natl Com atty H Leventhal had said earlier that signing of oath would be necessary for accreditation and for entrance to hall; Ala signers claim that nonsigners no longer represent state party; loyalty oath text; oath signing illus
USSR reptdly offers $30 million in econ credits if Makarios insists on self-determination, ousting NATO; Kyprianou confs with Papandreou and Costopoulos, Athens, amid repts of growing split; says goals remain united
ONE OF THE GREAT PLAYS OF ALLI TIME! “THE TROJAN WOMEN—Advt.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 19, 1964, covering August 25, 1964.
The Beatles
The Beatles
Stan Getz And Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim
The Beach Boys
Louis Armstrong
1964Azmin Ali, Malaysian mathematician and politician[†]
Mohamed Azmin bin Ali is a Malaysian politician who has served as the State Leader of the Opposition of Selangor and Member of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Hulu Kelang since August 2023. Formerly a member of the Malaysian Parliament for Gombak from 2008 to 2022, Azmin served in the cabinets of Muhyiddin Yassin and Ismail Sabri Yaakob as Senior Minister of the Economic Cluster and Minister of International Trade and Industry from 2020 to 2022. A member of Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), which is a component party of Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition. He also served as MLA for Bukit Antarabangsa from 2008 to 2023 and for Hulu Kelang from 1999 to 2004. He has also served as the 2nd Secretary-General of PN since December 2024 and 4th Secretary-General of BERSATU since November 2024. He served as the Information Chief of PN and Member of the Supreme Council of BERSATU. He is also widely regarded as a key figure in the 2020–2022 Malaysian political crisis, playing an important role in the fall of the PH federal government in February 2020.
1964Maxim Kontsevich, Russian-American mathematician and academic[†]
Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich is a Russian and French mathematician and mathematical physicist. He is a professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and a distinguished professor at the University of Miami. He received the Henri Poincaré Prize in 1997, the Fields Medal in 1998, the Crafoord Prize in 2008, the Shaw Prize and Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2012, and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2015.
1964Blair Underwood, American actor[†]
Blair Erwin Underwood is an American actor. He made his debut in the 1985 musical film Krush Groove and from 1987 to 1994 starred as attorney Jonathan Rollins in the NBC legal drama series L.A. Law.
In 1964, the world population was approximately 3,264,487,339 people[†]