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Pope repts he will visit World Council of Chs hq, Geneva, early in June, s, gen audience; proposed visit on own initiative; World Council head Rev Dr Blake hails plan
Dist 65 withdraws from RWDSU parent and from AFL-CIO, will press own drive to organize low-paid workers in NY area, South and elsewhere, with UAW aid
US officials indicate diplomatic action, not mil retaliation, will be Nixon Adm's essential response to incident; Pentagon insists aircraft was 'at all times' far outside 12-mi territorial limit and air space claimed by N Korea, statement; armed forces order variety of alerts and preparations for actions in and around Korea as preparatory measure; mil sources note lost plane had not called for help or indicated approach of hostile planes; Nixon holds several high-level talks on situation; Rogers calls for restraint, s, ASNE meeting; Sen Mansfield lauds Nixon's cool and deliberate approach to crisis; backed by Fulbright in questioning why such missions into high-risk areas are necessary; illus of motor launch moving away from Soviet destroyer to pick up debris believed to be from missing plane
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 16, 1969, covering April 17, 1969.
Blood| Sweat & Tears
Original Cast Recording
Glen Campbell
Donovan
Tom Jones
1969Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.[â ]
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a younger brother of American president John F. Kennedy and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election, on June 5, 1968. Kennedy died the next day at the Good Samaritan Hospital of Los Angeles. On April 17, 1969, Sirhan was convicted of first-degree murder, among other charges, and subsequently sentenced to death by gas chamber. In 1972, this was commuted to a life sentence in the aftermath of Furman v. Georgia. The circumstances surrounding the attack, which took place five years after President Kennedy's assassination, have led to numerous conspiracy theories.
1969Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander DubÄek is deposed.[â ]
The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was a communist and MarxistâLeninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992. It was a member of the Comintern. Between 1929 and 1953, it was led by Klement Gottwald. The KSÄ was the sole governing party in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic though it was a leading party along with the Slovak branch and four other legally permitted non-communist parties. After its election victory in 1946, it seized power in the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'Ă©tat and established a one-party state allied with the Soviet Union. Nationalization of virtually all private enterprises followed, and a command economy was implemented.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[â ]