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Informed sources, commenting on E Ger press agency rept that major spy has been sentenced to life imprisonment, say case involves nuclear physicist Prof Frucht who allegedly passed secrets to West
Negroes: Survey on racial situation in NY-NJ-Conn area finds little has been done to eliminate cause of last summer's disorders
N Vietnamese Army newspaper ed Big Victories, Firm Step Forward says recent enemy offensive was new step in controlling battlefield and start of 'new situation' both pol and mil; says, as result, US mil effort is at turning point; other details
USCG fails in efforts to tow ship out to sea; USN to make fresh attempt; nearly 1/2 oil cargo has seeped out befouling beaches; Pres Johnson orders USCG to render all possible aid; 8 hotels close beaches; plans to deal with oil threat noted; illus
enemy attacks US troops N of Saigon; US planes aid troops in 8-hr battle; 3 Amers killed, 8 wounded; recent enemy ambush of US troops near Tansonnhut Airfield noted; action reptd near Saigon, Conthien, Khesanh and Hue; 14 civilians killed when mine explodes under bus near Xuanloc; Vietcong attacks US air base at Camranh Bay; shells 5 prov capitals in Mekong Delta
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 28, 1968, covering March 5, 1968.
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Aretha Franklin
1968Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian businessman and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Hungary[†]
György Gordon Bajnai is a Hungarian entrepreneur and economist, who served as the Prime Minister of Hungary from 2009 to 2010. Prior to that, he functioned as Minister of Local Government and Regional Development from 2007 to 2008, then as Minister of National Development and Economy from 2008 to 2009. In March 2009, following Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány's announced resignation, Bajnai was nominated by the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) to become Hungary's next head of government. Bajnai became prime minister when the parliament passed a constructive motion of no-confidence against Ferenc Gyurcsány on 14 April 2009. He held the office until the formation of the Second Orbán Government following the 2010 parliamentary election.
1968Theresa Villiers, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland[†]
Dame Theresa Anne Villiers is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chipping Barnet from 2005 to 2024, having previously served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2005. A member of the Conservative Party, Villiers was Minister of State for Rail and Aviation from 2010 to 2012, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2012 to 2016 and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2019 to 2020.
1968Air France Flight 212 crashes into La Grande Soufrière, killing all 63 aboard.[†]
Air France Flight 212 was a scheduled passenger flight from Santiago, Chile to Paris with scheduled stops at Lima, Quito, Bogotá, Caracas, Pointe-à-Pitre, Vila do Porto, and Lisbon. On March 6, 1968, the Boeing 707 operating the flight, named "Chateau de Lavoute Polignac", crashed while approaching Le Raizet Airport in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, killing all 63 occupants of the plane.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]