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4,000 Maoists imprisoned in Chengtu reptd fasting; 200 Maoists reptdly drown in Yangtze River when their boat is rammed by boat carrying anti-Maoists
Brit poet S Spender resigns as contributing ed of Encounter because CIA helped finance it; says he hears rumors of support for yrs but could not confirm them until recent Cultural Freedom Cong meeting when it was revealed that CIA used cong as conduit to finance Encounter; cong supported it from '53, when founded by Spender and I Kristol, until '64, when it ended ties with cong and financing was taken over by C H King, head of Daily Mirror newspapers; F Kermode, present co-editor with M J Lasky, also resigns; Kristol denies knowing of CIA links; scores Braden's article; NY Times, in Apr '66 series on CIA, reptd that Encounter was once indirect recipient of CIA funds; Spender, Kristol and Lasky in lr to Times at time denied knowing of funds and lauded independence of cultural cong; Encounter's future seen in doubt
Saudi Arabia warns it will press resumption of civil war if GB fails to give defense guarantee to neighboring S Arabia
W P Reuther concedes UAW was used to funnel money into Eur labor movement, statement; holds CIA tried to recruit bro Victor as agent; says UAW served as conduit only once, in '52, when Eur labor movement was weak, short of funds and vulnerable to 'Communist subversion'; says then CIO pres Murray revd and approved UAW decision to reject request that Victor become agent and decision not to transmit funds again; Braden denies trying to recruit Victor
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 3, 1967, covering May 8, 1967.
The Monkees
The Mamas & The Papas
The Lovin' Spoonful
Ed Ames
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1967Viviana Durante, Italian ballerina and actress[†]
Viviana Durante is an Italian ballet dancer, considered one of the great dramatic ballerinas of recent times. She was a principal dancer of The Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Teatro alla Scala and K-Ballet. She is the artistic director of English National Ballet School and of the Viviana Durante Company.
1967The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.[†]
Davao, officially the Province of Davao, was a province in the Philippines on the island of Mindanao. The old province is coterminous with the present-day Davao Region or Region XI. It was divided into three provinces of Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental, and Davao del Sur with the passage of Philippine Republic Act No. 4867 on May 8, 1967. Two more provinces, Compostela Valley and Davao Occidental, were carved out of the territories of Davao del Norte and Davao del Sur respectively. The descendant provinces were reorganized into the current region in 2001.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]