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WASHINGTON, March 17 -- President Nixon has been presented with recommendations calling for new Federal spending of at least $1-billion over the next four years to attack hunger.
Burns, G: R Berkley, 16, charged with slaying Burns, Penn Central brakeman, while playing with gun on Harlem rooftop
illus of command ship photographed from lunar module by Schweickart and McDivitt as it moved toward module in docking maneuver
major banks, in move to cool econ, raise prime rate to record 7 1/2%, up 03%; economists see dampening of demand for goods and services but possible upward pressure on prices; factors in move include business plans to increase capital outlays this yr by almost 14%
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 12, 1969, covering March 18, 1969.
Glen Campbell
Cream
The Beatles
The Association
Iron Butterfly
1969Michael Bergin, American actor[†]
Michael John Bergin is an American real estate agent and former model and actor.
1969Andy Cutting, English accordion player and composer[†]
Andy Cutting is an English folk musician and composer. He plays melodeon and is best known for writing and performing traditional English folk and his own original compositions which combine English and French traditions with wider influences. He is three times winner of the Folk Musician of the Year award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and has appeared on around 50 albums, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians. He was born in Harrow, London and is married with three children.
1969Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player[†]
Vasyl Mykhailovych Ivanchuk is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1988. A leading chess player since 1988, Ivanchuk has been ranked at No. 2 on the FIDE world rankings three times.
1969Shaun Udal, English cricketer[†]
Shaun David Udal is an English cricketer. An off spin bowler and lower-middle order batsman, he was a member of England's Test team for their tours to Pakistan and India in 2005/06.
1969The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.[†]
Operation Menu was a covert United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) tactical bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 to 26 May 1970 as part of the Vietnam War. The targets of these attacks were sanctuaries and base areas of the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong (VC), which used them for resupply, training, and resting between campaigns across the border in the Republic of Vietnam. The impact of the bombing campaign on the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, the PAVN, and Cambodian civilians in the bombed areas is disputed by historians.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]