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Appeals Ct extends deadline for reapportionment legis to Feb 15; Repubs argued that cts lack power to direct specific action by Legis; Dems back deadline; fear Legis will procrastinate unless prodded by cts
subways and buses back to normal schedules
Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz asserted last night that Mayor Lindsay had ignored his recommendation that the cost of the transit strike settlement be kept within the guidepost set by the Federal Government.
Lindsay, in aftermath of transit strike, says he and staff plan 'sound and sensible' procedures to avert crises, press conf; backs employes right to organize and bargain collectively; says plan will provide for impartial, ind machinery for handling problems with ind panel able to make firm and final recommendations; stresses he is not proposing compulsory arbitration but does not exclude it; panel of city, labor and pub members is making long-range study of policies; Lindsay directs city reprs to seek impartial grievance arbitration procedures ind of city
alleged Klansmen C M Edwards and J F Seale refuse to testify about deaths of 2 Negroes, Miss, '64; and about White Knights
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 12, 1966, covering January 15, 1966.
The Beatles
Soundtrack
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1966The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.[†]
The First Republic was the republican government of Nigeria between 1963 and 1966 governed by the first republican constitution. The country's government was based on a federal form of the Westminster system. The period between 1 October 1960, when the country gained its independence and 15 January 1966, when the first military coup d’état took place, is also generally referred to as the First Republic. The first Republic of Nigeria was ruled by different leaders representing their regions as premiers in a federation during this period.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]