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Mayor Lindsay signed into law yesterday the first of his bills providing for a sweeping reorganization of the executive branch of the municipal government.
James V Forrestal (US aircraft carrier): off N Vietnam; fire sweeps flight deck, spreads to other areas; USN repts deck fire out but others still burning; 29 planes reptd destroyed; no casualty estimates; other US ships in area sailing to aid; ship illus before fire
Kerner pledges thorough study with recommendations by Jan, news conf; says comm will meet with Pres, who will set guidelines; has recd Pres pledge of full resources of Fed Govt for comm study; comm member Sen Harris hopes for preliminary rept in 1 mo or less; says comm will draw its staff in large part from other Govt agencies
Guard and Army troops and state police begin withdrawal from city; Vance, noting sniping still continues, says amt is exaggerated; deaths from riots now total 39; police charged with entering homes illegally to look for loot; city officials deny violation of rights; illus; city provides emergency housing; plans to turn some burned-out areas into small pks; is criticized by 3 black nationalist leaders for using whites to rebuild Negro area
Law enforcement agencies pool 3,496 men to combat racial disorders and looting
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 26, 1967, covering July 29, 1967.
The Beatles
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Jefferson Airplane
Bill Cosby
1967Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.[†]
North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia from 1945 to 1976, with sovereignty fully recognized in 1954. A member of the communist Eastern Bloc, it opposed the French-supported State of Vietnam and later the Western-allied Republic of Vietnam. The DRV invaded Saigon in 1975 and ceased to exist the following year when it merged with the south to become the current Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1967During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.[†]
Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas. Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range. The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the coast by a steep 2,200-meter-high (7,200-foot) mountain range, Cerro El Ávila; to the south there are more hills and mountains. The Metropolitan Region of Caracas has an estimated population of almost 5 million inhabitants.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]