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Czech renegotiates ties with USSR while seeking W Eur loans to make indus more competitive for trade in diversity of mkts
US informs N Vietnamese negotiators that it plans to release 14 captured N Vietnamese seamen soon and hopes that this would lead to expanded prisoner exchs, 16th session; N Vietnamese spokesman directs pub attention to current battlefield situation, causing new speculation that N Vietnam wants lull interpreted as unpublicized act of restraint, Harriman's formal statement says N Vietnamese answers to US restraint thus far give Johnson no basis to stop bombing; Ha Van Lau accuses US of setting new conditions for bombing cessation; makes other comments
Nominates Gov Reagan for Pres, Repub Conv
defeated for Repub Pres nomination, conv
Reston on Nixon's comeback, on strategy of uniting party and exploiting Dem splits
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 7, 1968, covering August 8, 1968.
Cream
Soundtrack
The Rascals
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Aretha Franklin
1968Yvie Burnett, Scottish soprano[†]
Yvie Burnett, is a Scottish mezzo-soprano and vocal coach, best known for her work with Simon Cowell on television shows The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent, The Big Reunion The Voice UK and BBC's Let It Shine.
1968Aldo Calderón van Dyke, Honduran journalist (died 2013)[†]
Aldo Calderón van Dyke was a Honduran journalist that worked for Canal 11, La Prensa, and El Tiempo. He committed suicide and died on 14 August 2013 at around ten at night in a Honduran Social Security Institute hospital. He was buried in San Pedro Sula.
1968Abey Kuruvilla, Indian cricketer and coach[†]
Abey Kuruvilla is an Indian former cricketer and general manager of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). He played as a bowler in mid-1990s for Indian cricket team. He was a selector of BCCI.
1968Huey Morgan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Hugh Thomas Diaz Morgan is an American musician best known as the former frontman of rock/hip hop band Fun Lovin' Criminals. Morgan performs both vocals and guitar and combines rock, hip hop, jazz, reggae, and funk influences in his music. He is also a presenter for BBC Radio and has made film and TV appearances.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]