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Aerocondor DC-4 with 78 aboard hijacked by 4 Colombians and 1 Ecuadorian and forced to land in Havana; map; hijackers seek asylum; all passengers safe; Colombian officials see hijacking effort to draw attention to Latin-Amer Solidarity Conf, Havana; Cuba to release plane
1 US plane downed
NYS Comr Ingraham says Medicaid schedules might be revised to pay NYC drs more than upstate drs for treating needy; most NYC drs hold fees are now too low
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EL QUNEITRA, Syria, Aug. 6--The forbidding heights that menaced Israel's northern Jordan Valley for nearly two decades lie vacant and disarmed now, abandoned even by most of their civilian population.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 2, 1967, covering August 7, 1967.
The Beatles
The Monkees
Jefferson Airplane
The Rolling Stones
The Doors
1967Jason Grimsley, American baseball player[†]
Jason Alan Grimsley is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for seven teams during a 15-year career. He was a member of both the 1999 and 2000 World Series champion New York Yankees.
In 1967, the world population was approximately 3,473,412,880 people[†]