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Peru signs 1st trade agreement with USSR, further chilling US relations; Govt sees end to traditional econ dependence on US
Por
Sec Finch orders HEW Dept agencies to spur malnutrition studies
about 200 Guard troops leave campus despite new student disorders over setting up of black studies dept; Guard comdr Brig Gen Stehling holds situation is quiet enough to release some troops; Negro student leader claims student protests have been too pacifist and that univ is playing down Negro demands; Chancellor Young says he sees 'merit and justice' in facets of demands but makes no firm offer to meet them
Bigart article on hunger in Mississippi Delta notes all of state's 82 counties participate in Fed food programs; inability of programs to reach most desperately poor discussed
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 12, 1969, covering February 18, 1969.
The Beatles
Glen Campbell
Diana Ross & The Supremes With The Temptations
The Association
Diana Ross & The Supremes
1969Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player[†]
Alexander Gennadevich Mogilny is a Russian former professional ice hockey player and the current president of Amur Khabarovsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was the first National Hockey League (NHL) draftee to defect from the Soviet Union in order to play in North America.
1969Dragiša Cvetković, Serbian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1893)[†]
Dragiša Cvetković was a Yugoslav politician active in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He served as the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1939 to 1941. He developed the federalization of Yugoslavia through the creation of the Banovina of Croatia via the Cvetković–Maček Agreement with Croat leader Vladko Maček. He signed the Yugoslav accession to the Tripartite Pact on 25 March 1941. Two days later, on 27 March, a group of officers carried out a military coup, and arrested Dragiša Cvetković and other ministers. German authorities arrested him on two occasions and took him to Banjica concentration camp. He fled on 4 September 1944 for Bulgaria. He spent the rest of his life in Paris.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]