KENNEDY ASSAILS VIETNAM TACTICS; Calls Fight for Apbia Peak 'Senseless' -- Asks Nixon to Curb Such Actions
Sen Kennedy challenges Nixon Adm mil tactics, s, Sen; s draws rebuttal from Sen Scott
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Sen Kennedy challenges Nixon Adm mil tactics, s, Sen; s draws rebuttal from Sen Scott
Natl Guard helicopter breaks up demonstration on campus by dropping CS, a dry form of tear gas; action comes 30 mins after troops guarding Heyns's home fired tear gas to disperse crowd of 500; violence grows out of 'funeral march' in memory of bystander who died as result of buckshot wounds received in pk rioting; some faculty members say they plan Vigil; Berkeley City Council votes to ask grand jury probe of situation; US Army training manual says CS is Army's most powerful tear gas
craft enters lunar gravity 38,900 mi from moon and increases speed; will cross in front of moon and then swing around moon's far side where astronauts will be out of radio contact with ground controllers; onboard computer will command firing of main rocket to slow down craft and drop it into lunar orbit; craft will orbit moon 31 times in 2 1/2 days; flight controllers say no further midcourse corrections of flight path will be necessary; earlier, astronauts revd lunar-orbit plans, sighted stars with sextant, identified earth landmarks and took photos of earth; transmitted unscheduled telecast showing pictures of earth and inside of cabin; Cernan twirled plastic water bag in unsuccessful effort to separate air bubbles, caused by excess hydrogen gas, from water-producing unit; Stafford lauded ground controllers for changing onboard computer's instructions so that craft's thruster rockets did not fire during night and disturb crew's sleep; schematic diagram shows mission's highlights
SRAM: Sen Proxmire charges USAF estimates of development costs have risen from $143-million to $359-million; says USAF has refused to disclose increases on grounds it would 'prejudice Govt's position' in negotiations with Boeing, prime contractor; questions whether USAF has 'something to hide'
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 21, 1969, covering May 21, 1969.
Original Cast Recording
Blood| Sweat & Tears
Bob Dylan
Glen Campbell
Donovan
1969Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer[†]
Pierluigi Brivio is an Italian professional football coach and a former goalkeeper. He is a goalkeeping coach with Russian club Spartak Moscow.

1969Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (died 2000)[†]
Georgiy Ruslanovych Gongadze was a Ukrainian journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000 near Kyiv. He founded the online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda along with Olena Prytula in 2000. He was born in Tbilisi to a Ukrainian mother and a Georgian father.
1969Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress and singer[†]
Masayo Kurata is a Japanese voice actress. Some of her major roles are Koyomi from Girls Bravo, Shinobu Maehara in Love Hina, Tomoe Kashiwaba in Rozen Maiden, Karinka from Steel Angel Kurumi, and Subaru Mikage in Comic Party. In video games she voices Kurara in Purikura Daisakusen, Ai Senou in Hourglass of Summer, Chizuru Sakaki in the Rumbling Hearts / Muv-Luv visual novels, and Souffle Rossetti in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time.
1969George LeMieux, American lawyer and politician[†]
George Stephen LeMieux is an American former politician who was a United States Senator from Florida from 2009 to 2011. He is chairman of the Florida-based law firm of Gunster Yoakley & Stewart and was chief of staff to Governor Charlie Crist. He was the Deputy Florida Attorney General and is credited with spearheading Crist's successful campaign for governor. In 2009, Crist appointed LeMieux as U.S. Senator to replace Mel Martínez, who resigned.
1969Brian Statham, Rhodesian born English footballer and manager[†]
Brian Statham is an English retired professional footballer who made over 160 appearances in the Football League for Brentford as a right back. He also played League football for Tottenham Hotspur, Gillingham, Reading, Bournemouth and was capped by England at U21 level. Statham later managed Heybridge Swifts, Billericay Town and Welling United in non-League football. He currently serves as director of football at Welling United.
1969Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.[†]
Rosario is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe. The city, located 300 km (186 mi) northwest of Buenos Aires on the west bank of the Paraná River, is the third-most populous city in the country after Buenos Aires and Cordoba. With a growing and important metropolitan area, Greater Rosario has an estimated population of 1,750,000 as of 2020. One of its main attractions includes the neoclassical, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco architecture that has been preserved in hundreds of residences, houses and public buildings. The city is also famous for being the birthplace of the Argentine footballer Lionel Messi.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]