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Torrey Canyon owners agree to pay $7.2-million in damages; Brit and French Govts accept amts to settle lawsuits asking twice as much; details on litigation, incident and settlement
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Educ Bd asks NYS for permittion to use $10-million from its there of Fed funds provided under Title I of Elementary and Secondary Educ Act to give $15 clothing ctfs to 400,00 needy pupils, including welfare children; hopes to persuade city merchants to sell clothing at special discount to parents who redeem ctfs for their children; bd pres Monserrat holds recent state clothing allowance cuts have imposed hardships upon welfare children and hampered their learning; NYS Acting Comr Nyquist comments; proposal detailed
police rept similarity between explosions in skyscrapers and 4 earlier explosions; latest blasts were predicted in unsigned lr recd by news orgns just after 3 explosions; lr, postmarked Nov 10, said phone warnings would be made and such warnings were made by male caller shortly before explosions; lr protested war in Vietnam and scored 'giant corps'; denounced D Rockefeller, J M Roche (Gen Motors) and M L Haider, ex-bd chmn of Standard Oil; copy of lr was recd by NY Times; bomb squad detectives dismantle small incendiary device discovered in Save-A-Thon Shoe Store, Bronx; Mayor Lindsay, on vacation, sends message scoring bombings; damage at Chase Manhattan, Gen Motors and RCA Bldgs illus
strong support of Nixon policy evident in NYC Veterans Day parade, in which 2,000-5,000 people march, and in traditional tribute to war dead; NY County Amer Legion comdr S H Nason calls for support of Nixon, s; details on parade and other activities; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 12, 1969, covering November 12, 1969.
The Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Johnny Cash
Santana
Janis Joplin
1969Ian Bremmer, American political scientist and author[†]
Ian Arthur Bremmer is an American political scientist, author, and entrepreneur focused on global political risk. He is the founder and president of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm. He is also founder of GZERO Media, a digital media firm.
1969Jason Cundy, English footballer and sportscaster[†]
Jason Victor Cundy is an English former professional footballer and radio broadcaster for talkSPORT.
1969Rob Schrab, American writer and artist[†]
Robby Christopher Schrab is an American comic book creator, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is the creator of the comic book Scud: The Disposable Assassin, co-writer of the feature film Monster House, co-creator of the competitive film festival Channel 101, and the co-creator of Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program. He has directed three seasons of The Sarah Silverman Program and episodes of Childrens Hospital, Blue Mountain State, Community, Parks and Recreation, The Mindy Project, Workaholics, Creepshow, and the second revival season of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
1969Liu Shaoqi, Chinese politician, 2nd Chairman of the People's Republic of China (born 1898)[†]
Liu Shaoqi was a Chinese revolutionary and politician. He was the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1954 to 1959, first-ranking vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from 1956 to 1966, and the chairman of the People's Republic of China from 1959 to 1968. He was considered to be a possible successor to Chairman Mao Zedong, but was purged during the Cultural Revolution.
1969Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.[†]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]