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J D Hemphill steals light plane from Lakewood, NJ, Airport, forces closing of Kennedy Airport to commercial flights for nearly an hr while he attempts unsuccessfully to land; rescued by USCG after ditching 100 mi off Va coast; illus
Israel again uses jets to silence Arab guns and end another major arty exch along Jordan Valley; says battle began with coordinated barrage from Jordanian and Iraqi arty along 25-mi front N of Jordan west bank area; holds nature and range of barrage indicate orders had come from higher than brigade or regimental level; notes increasing role being played by Iraqi troops; refuses to confirm use of jets; repts shelling area around Irbid and positions at Taiyiba, Yuba and Asad; Amman radio repts 30 dead in air raid on Asad; Jordan charges Israel began shooting with simultaneous barrage from west bank positions all along front and from Golan Hts; map; Israel and Jordan circulate notes at UN denouncing each other for new acts of aggression across Jordan River
Short-circuiting at Con Ed plant in Bronx, attributed by co to strike sabotage, causes momentary dip in power at 4 AM in Manhattan area
Pres-elect Nixon appts Dr L A DuBridge at his science adviser; says he will help begin 'major scientific research effort, particularly in field of peaceful research'; DuBridge urges greater Fed spending for basic research, news conf; Nixon also appts study group on science headed by Dr H G Stever to work with DuBridge in developing new programs
Dept to assign additional men, on 8 AM to 4 PM shift, in school trouble areas, cancels days off for all superior officers
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 4, 1968, covering December 4, 1968.
Big Brother And The Holding Company
Jose Feliciano
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Steppenwolf
The Rascals
1968Tahir Dawar, Pakistani police officer and Pashto poet (died 2018)[†]
Mohammad Tahir Khan Dawar was a Pakistani police officer who was abducted from Islamabad on 26 October 2018 and then tortured and killed. His body was found on 13 November 2018 by the locals in the Dur Baba District of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, close to the Torkham border crossing. His postmortem report revealed he had no marks of bullet injury, but was rather killed by excessive torture during captivity. He was kept hungry and thirsty for several days, and his legs and arms were broken. He had died a few days before his body was found.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]