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Nixon says he will not know whether surcharge can be reduced as result of savings of up to $1-billion in appropriations from modification of antimissile program until he sees entire budget, news conf; says he will weigh cut at a later time
Dies, 70; por; paintings illus
Castro concedes major pal, econ and sac problems, s, Havana U; scores 'phenomenon of ignorance,' seen in persistent illiteracy; concedes Govt has neglected anti-crime measures while dealing with pol opponents; indicates use of criteria of loyalty rather than educ training for selecting Communist party members, policy reptdly criticized by USSR bloc allies, has created ineffectual admrs; admits pub resistance to principle of 'moral incentives' to spur production
Pres Nixon announces decision to deploy modified Sentinel system, statement and news conf; illus; says he hopes system, which will consist initially of 2 sites to protect ICBM launching sites at Malstrom Air Force Base, Mont, and Grand Forks Air Force Bate, ND, will protect country's nuclear deterrent without escalating arms race or impeding talks with USSR; calls system a 'Safeguard system, a defensive system only'; says its purposes are three-fold; to safeguard against 'any attack by Communist China that we can foresee for next 10 yrs', to safeguard against 'any irrational or accidental attack' from USSR and to safeguard US deterrent system; stresses main difference between system and that proposed by Johnson Adm is that new system does not provide for defense of cities, and for that reason, sites have been shifted from urban areas; says he will ask Cong for an appropriation of about $900-million to continue research into antimissile program generally, to acquire land for other sites and to begin work on 1st 2 sites which would become operational in '73; says system eventually would encompass 12 sites, all near and designed to protect ICBMs; map; each site would be equipped with long-range Spartan and shorter-range Sprint missiles and radar to control system; diagram; stresses system flexibility; says it can be reduced or enlarged as needs dictate
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 12, 1969, covering March 15, 1969.
Glen Campbell
Cream
The Beatles
The Association
Iron Butterfly
1969Gianluca Festa, Italian footballer[†]
Gianluca Festa is an Italian professional football manager and former player. Festa played as a defender for clubs such as Internazionale and Roma, and is best known playing for Middlesbrough and Cagliari.
1969Kim Raver, American actress[†]
Kimberly Jayne Raver is an American actress. She is known for television roles such as Dr. Teddy Altman on ABC's medical drama Grey's Anatomy, Kim Zambrano on Third Watch, and Audrey Raines on 24.
1969Yutaka Take, Japanese jockey[†]
Yutaka Take is a Japanese jockey. Take made his riding debut in 1987 and currently holds seven all-time records in Japan. He has won at least one Grade 1 race for 23 straight years until 2010, and a graded stakes race for 39 consecutive years. Take has 114 wins to his credit in eight countries, including Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and the United States. His international victories include Group 1 wins in the Prix d'Ispahan (France) and Hong Kong Cup, the July Cup (England) and Dubai Duty Free Stakes (UAE).
1969Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (born 1888)[†]
William Miles Malleson was an English actor and dramatist, particularly remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s. Towards the end of his career, he also appeared in cameo roles in several Hammer horror films, with a fairly large role in The Brides of Dracula as the hypochondriac and fee-hungry local doctor. Malleson was also a writer on many films, including some of those in which he had small parts, such as Nell Gwyn (1934) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). He also translated and adapted several of Molière's plays.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]