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HR Appropriations Com cuts funds for HUD Dept's low-income housing programs by $384.3-million to $1.6-billion
visit to Brazil revd; Rockefeller comments on nation's 'extraordinary achievement', news conf, Sao Paulo; arrives, Asuncion, Paraguay; illus; gets peaceful welcome; will meet with Pres Stroessner and remain extra day because of change in plans for Uruguayan visit; will meet with Uruguayan leaders in Punta del Este instead of Montevideo after repts of incendiary bombings and street disorders
Nixon says US might suspend MIRV testing if USSR reciprocates, but bars 'unilateral' suspension, news conf; says he is considering possibility of moratorium on tests as part of an arms control agreement; vows to press fight in Cong for Safeguard, which is predicated in part on possibility that there will be no suspension in development of offensive weapons such as MIRVs; predicts narrow victory; holds recent intelligence data show Safeguard is 'more important than ever'; says data show rapid Soviet progress in developing MIRVs which are targeted 'to fall in somewhat precise area of Minuteman silos'; says 80% of Minuteman facilities would be in danger by '73; indicates MIRVs and ABM of both US and USSR would be high on agenda in talks with USSR; calls Brooke resolution 'constructive', but docs not promise to make it his first priority in talks; Laird agrees to testify before Sen Foreign Relations Com on USSR threat and its relationship to Safeguard, but only on condition that he is accompanied by CIA Dir Helms
Lindsay s to police-clergy conf on rebellious youth, notes impatience of many for change; illus
Air travel throughout much of the nation was turned into near chaos yesterday when about 240 Federal air traffic controllers -- most of them in the New York area -- reported they were sick and refused to work.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 18, 1969, covering June 20, 1969.
Original Cast Recording
Blood| Sweat & Tears
The 5th Dimension
Soundtrack
Bob Dylan
1969Paulo Bento, Portuguese footballer and manager[†]
Paulo Jorge Gomes Bento is a Portuguese football manager and former player.
1969Misha Verbitsky, Russian mathematician and academic[†]
Misha Verbitsky is a Russian mathematician. He works at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Rio de Janeiro. He is primarily known to the general public as a controversial critic, political activist and independent music publisher.
1969MaliVai Washington, American tennis player and sportscaster[†]
MaliVai "Mal" Washington is an American former professional tennis player. He reached the men's singles final at Wimbledon in 1996, won four ATP titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 in October 1992.
1969Bishnu Prasad Rabha, Indian artist, painter, actor, dancer, writer, music composer and politician (born 1909)[†]
Bishnu Prasad Rabha (1909–1969) was an Indian cultural figure from Assam, known for his contributions in the fields of music, dance, painting, literature as well as political activism. As an advocate of people's cultural movement, he drew heavily from different genres of classical and folk cultural traditions. Considered a doyen of the Culture of Assam, the People of Assam affectionately call him Kalaguru. He is also called by Marxists as Sainik Silpi for his active participation in the armed struggle, led by the Revolutionary Communist Party of India (RCPI).
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]