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In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]
1969Sam Trammell, American actor[†]
Sam Trammell is an American actor, best known for his role as Sam Merlotte on the HBO fantasy drama series True Blood. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Miller in Ah, Wilderness!
1969Allen Dulles, American banker, lawyer, and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence (born 1893)[†]
Allen Welsh Dulles was an American lawyer who was the first civilian director of central intelligence (DCI), and its longest serving director. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, he oversaw numerous activities, such as the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Project MKUltra mind control program, and the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. As a result of the failed invasion of Cuba, Dulles was forced to resign by President John F. Kennedy as well as Richard Bissll and Charles Cabell being replaced with John McCone who’d serve the remainder of the Kennedy administration
1969Max Weinreich, Russian-American-Jewish linguist and cofounder of YIVO (born 1894)[†]
Max Weinreich was a Russian-American-Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who, a sociolinguistic innovator, edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary.
US repts urging Israel not to retaliate against Iraq for hangings; says it sought to intervene to stop executions, but that there was not enough time; Amer officials are privately sympathetic to strong feelings in Israel over executions; say US has no information that 9 Jews were guilty of espionage or engaged in plot against Govt
Govt repr says more spy trials will be held soon, newt conf; stresses Govt it determined to crush spy networks and hang convicted prisoners publicly; charges Israel launches propaganda drive in connection with hangings as forerunner of large-scale agression against Arab nations, particularly Iraq; Iraqi forces in Jordan reptdly have been put on alert; repr stresses executed spies included Moslems and Christians, holds convictions were not based on religion; denies Jews in Iraq are being persecuted; says data recd by Thant that executed Jews were arrested after '67 war is false; invites foreign correspondents to study situation at 1st hand; denies France intervened on behalf of men at time of trial; holds Israel started rept to undermine French-Iraqi ties; denies Pakistan protested to Iraq because 1 of executed men was Pakistani; Baghdad radio broadcasts announcement offering amnesty to spies who turn selves in within 1 mo; Cabinet meets under Pres al-Bakr; is believed to discuss reaction abroad to hangings; Baghdad radio repts Chief Rabbi Khdouri denies his son was executed; Brit Sec Stewart expresses horror at hangings, voices sympathy for those awaiting trial; Brit Lord Chalfont says GB urged clemency, s, House of Lords; says GB acted informally on humanitarian grounds; World Jewish Cong pres Goldmann urges Thant to seek freedom of emigration for Jews in Iraq, Syria and UAR; Internatl Comm of Jurists Sec Gen MacBride says comm is 'very perturbed' over hangings; deplores pub hangings in form of pub demonstration; 1,000 demonstrators protest hangings, Neuilly, France; police bar them from marching on Iraqi Embassy; Pope and Hal Min Nenni appealed for clemency; Nenni reptdly made known 'distress of Ital natl conscience' after hangings; 300 Ital Jews stage protest outside Iraqi Embassy, Rome; Jewish Nazi Victims Orgn of Amer pickets Iraqi mission to UN, NYC; Mayor Lindsay's aide S Davidoff s to marchers, decries hangings; Amer Jewish Cong holds memorial service, UN Plaza; illus
Natl Liberation Front reprs at Paris peace talks, in statement, reject US proposal for POWs exch and other proposals as basis on which progress could be made in talks
Consol Edison sues 13 contracting cos and 9 individuals for triple damages, charging rigging of bids submitted to co over past decade; also seeks to enjoin defendants from repeating alleged acts; says all defendants were named in '68 indictment charging rigging of bids on utilities contracts totaling $49.8-million
Educ Bd's revised decentralization plan retains prevision for 30 autonomous community school dists with locally elected bds having substantial operating authority aver grade and jr hss in their areas; also retains 3 demonstration projects; major change from earlier plan limits community school dists to setting up 1 new demonstration project within their areas subject to approval of Educ Bd; plan also calls for elimination of Examiners Bd, with teachers now qualifying for apptmt on basis of state teaching ctf and requirements set by central or local bds; funds for operation of community dists to be allocated by central authorities in consultation with local officials; Lotz holds creation of fewer than 30 dists would harm decentralization concept; plan must now be submitted to State Regents Bd and Mayor and to Legis by Mar 1
Sen Dirksen notes that Adm's increase in ceiling on Govt-insured mortgages to 7 1/2% violates usury laws in 7 states
The way was cleared yesterday for the creation of a City Transportation Administration when the City Council's Codification Committee introduced legislation to set up the unit, one of the last superagencies proposed by Mayor Lindsay.
The City Council approved yesterday the spending of $28,962,000 to build a new Police Headquarters and make related improvements in the downtown Civic Center.
UN Sec Gen Thant satisfied with course of events, news conf