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James L. Marcus testified yesterday that as the city's Water Commissioner he had taken orders from Carmine G. De Sapio, former leader of Tammany Hall.
Chmn Burch calls Agnew s 'thoughtful, provocative' and deserving of 'careful consideration' by pub and indus, int; sees call for indus to re-examine itself; sees no hint of intimidation in s or his own request for transcripts; says Agnew did not call for censorship; defends his method of contacting networks directly; says he has no plans for further investigation; Agnew s and Burch endorsement seen significant departures from traditional relations between Govt and news broadcasters; Burch, who had been deemed pro-business conservative, is now being reassessed as aggressive anti-establishment force, embracing partly policy of liberal Comrs Johnson and Cox; Johnson comments on Agnew s; s scored by Sen Young, Reprs Jacobs and O'Hara (Dems), lauded by Sen Repub leader Scott
US Lines lays up liner United States indefinitely, says lay-up may end all operations
Solzhenitsyn sends lr to writers union, terms USSR a 'sick society'; says he was not given a chance to defend himself; defends L Kopolev and L Chukovskaya, writers whose expulsion is being considered
illus of Nixon and his wife and daughter watching launch
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 12, 1969, covering November 15, 1969.
The Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Johnny Cash
Santana
Janis Joplin
1969Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
1969Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000–500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".[†]
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[†]