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enemy launches 44 arty attacks against allied installations throughout S Vietmnam; series of contacts reptd NW of Saigon near Cambodian border, heaviest of which was 2-hr battle in Tayninh Prov; map; US repts 33 N Vietnamese killed in action; speculation on enemy intentions
Gov Rockefeller discloses plans for 1st part of combined park and residential community on 65-acre strip of land along Bronx side of Harlem River, news conf; cites initiative of state in project as demonstration of 'continued vitality and flexibility of state govt'; says project will be undertaken by NYS Park Comm for city and Urban Development Corp; Pks Admr Heckscher, representing Lindsay, praises project and city-state cooperation it represents; project will consist of 4 concentrations of housing, schools and recreational facilities, called 'activity nodes'; plans call for 2,000 apts, all Govt-subsidized, in 3 groups of twin, 40-story towers; Urban Development Corp head Logue says construction is scheduled to begin within yr and be completed 2 yrs after that; architects Davis, Brody & Assocs aide A Schwartzman and Bronx Boro Pres Badillo comment
US Sup Ct votes, 6-2, to sustain conviction
MOSCOW, Dec. 8 -- Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko met with Ambassador Helmut Allardt of West Germany for 90 minutes today as talks began on the mutual renunciation of force.
Manson, Atkins, Kasabian, Krenwinkel and Watson indicted for Tate slayings along with another member of Manson band, Miss L Sankston, 19, later identified as L Van Houten, indicted for LaBianca slayings
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 3, 1969, covering December 9, 1969.
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Tom Jones
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Temptations
1969Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Jakob Luke Dylan is an American singer-songwriter. He rose to fame as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter of the rock band the Wallflowers, which he formed in 1989.
1969Saskia Garel, Jamaican-Canadian singer-songwriter[†]
Saskia Garel is a Jamaican-Canadian musician and actress.
1969Lori Greiner, American businesswoman and television personality[†]
Lori Greiner (née Husman) is an American television personality and entrepreneur. She is known for her QVC show Clever & Unique Creations (2000–present) for which she has been called the "Queen of QVC", and for being an investor on the reality series Shark Tank (2012–present). She has hundreds of inventions and holds over 120 patents. She is the president and founder of For Your Ease Only, Inc.
1969Annick Lambrecht, Belgian politician[†]
Annick Lambrecht is a Belgian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of Vooruit, she has represented West Flanders since June 2024. She had previously been a member of the Chamber of Representatives from January 2017 to May 2019. She was a member of the Senate from July 2019 to May 2024 and a member of the Flemish Parliament from June 2019 to June 2024.
1969Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer[†]
Bixente Jean Michel Lizarazu is a French former professional footballer who played as a left-back.
1969Raphaël Rouquier, French mathematician and academic[†]
Raphaël Alexis Marcel Rouquier is a French mathematician and a professor of mathematics at UCLA.
1969Allison Smith, American actress[†]
Allison Smith is an American actress, singer, writer and director, best known for her work on television as Mallory O'Brien in Aaron Sorkin's Emmy Award-winning NBC drama The West Wing and for starring on Broadway in the title role Annie. She also played the role of Jennie Lowell on the 1980s Emmy Award-winning sitcom Kate & Allie. In addition to starring in Annie, Smith has also appeared on stage in a host of other roles, including a part in the original Broadway production of Evita, a starring role in the Los Angeles premiere production of David Mamet's Oleanna, and supporting roles in Peter Parnell's QED, and the musical The Education Of Randy Newman, in which she played Randy Newman's first wife.
1969U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.[†]
William Pierce Rogers was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney. A member of the Republican Party, Rogers served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States and then Attorney General of the United States in the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, and as the Secretary of State in the administration of Richard Nixon.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]