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field investigations indicate intensity and results of offensive were understated in communiques and by official allied spokesmen; examples
WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Secretary of State William P. Rogers tried today to temper Israel's fears of four-power efforts toward an eventual Middle East settlement. He conferred for more than an hour with the visiting Israeli Foreign Minister, Abba Eban.
WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The Justice Department is expected to ask the Supreme Court tomorrow to change a far-reaching decision on eavesdropping.
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observers believe USSR has decided to exploit clash for maximum effect in its relations with China, world Communist movement and possibly the West; see it trying to depict China as its principal enemy and a constant threat; Soviet photos of Mar 2 clash and incident in same area in Jan
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 12, 1969, covering March 13, 1969.
Glen Campbell
Cream
The Beatles
The Association
Iron Butterfly
1969Darren Fritz, Australian rugby league player[†]
Darren Fritz is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played at representative level for Queensland, and at club level for Canberra Raiders, Wakefield Trinity, Illawarra Steelers, North Sydney and Western Suburbs, as a prop, or second-row.
1969Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.[†]
Apollo 9 was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program, which successfully tested systems and procedures critical to landing on the Moon. The three-man crew consisted of Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart. Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second crewed Apollo mission that the United States launched via a Saturn V rocket, and was the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft: the command and service module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM).
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]