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Sec Clifford says US accelerates delivery of modern weapons to S Vietnamese Army, s, NYC
Comr Fraiman links stricter policy on apptmts to higher-paying jobs to case
ICC examiner J S Messer urges comm require rrs to follow minimum standards to improve quality of service; upholds Calif, Ariz, other states complaint charging that Southern Pacific deliberately downgraded Sunset Ltd service; holds rr violated Interstate Commerce Act by failing to provide sleeping-car facilities and dining and lounge car accommodations for 1st-class passengers; holds rrs are quasi-pub corps, having been chartered to serve pub convenience and necessity; recommended service standards listed
Vice Pres Humphrey urges concentrating on 'arts of peace,' s, Overseas Press Club, discussing foreign policy in gen; does not pull away from Johnson Adm record but appears to be starting to rebuild own identity in foreign affairs following Johnson announcement he will not seek re-election; says he thinks he will seek Dem nomination for Pres; replies to Fulbright charge of abuse of natl power
Hughes proposes graduated income tax of 1 to 5% or 1¢ sales tax rise coupled with 5¢-a-pack cigarette tax rise to finance urban aid program, meetings with Dem legislators and Repub legis leaders; sees income tax raising $134-million for 1st half of '69-70 fiscal yr if enacted by Jan '69 and $268-million for 1st full yr; sees sales and cigarette tax measure yielding $120-million
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 17, 1968, covering April 23, 1968.
Soundtrack
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
Aretha Franklin
Otis Redding
Simon & Garfunkel
1968Bas Haring, Dutch philosopher, writer, television presenter and professor.[†]
Sebastiaan (Bas) Haring is a Dutch writer of popular science and children's literature, television presenter and professor. He is a full professor at Leiden University, where he has held a chair in "public understanding of science" since 2007. He also hosted his own philosophical TV program for Dutch public broadcasting.
1968Ken McRae, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]
Kenneth Duncan McRae is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. McRae is the former head coach of the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey League. McRae is also a former right wing who played 137 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Quebec Nordiques and Toronto Maple Leafs. He was drafted by the Nordiques in the first round, 18th overall, in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft.
1968Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist, Oklahoma City bombing co-perpetrator (died 2001)[†]
Timothy James McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who masterminded and perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The bombing itself killed 167 people, injured 684 people, and destroyed one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. A rescue worker was killed after the bombing when debris struck her head, bringing the total to 168 killed. It remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
1968Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.[†]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]