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N Vietnamese deputy to Paris talks says that Nixon Adm stress on Vietnamization and failure to appt successor to Lodge mean that US has reduced scope and importance of talks
Paul O'Dwyer, who won the Democratic nomination for United States Senator in an upset last year but lost the election to Senator Jacob K. Javits, announced yesterday he would seek his party's senatorial nomination again next year.
Interior Dept study, proposing creation of a NY Harbor Natl recreation area, says that 2 partially completed 15-story structures on Breezy Point, Rockaway, originally intended for apts would be completed and used as yr-round cultural and educ complex
Harvard Univ suspends 75 Negroes after students had occupied campus construction site in demand for more Negro construction workers, Cambridge, Mass; Orgn for Black Unity demanding that 20% of workers on campus construction projects be Negroes; Univ says that there is 'no justification' for demand because non-white population in Boston and Cambridge is only 9.3%
A self-styled "paid informer," draped in a black hood to conceal his identity, testified yesterday that the Mafia had so skillfully stolen "over $1-million" in securities from Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner Smith that the brokerage firm did not know the certificates were gone.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 10, 1969, covering December 12, 1969.
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Tom Jones
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Santana
1969Wilfred Kirochi, Kenyan runner[â ]
Wilfred Kirochi is a former Kenyan middle-distance runner who won a silver medal at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo in the 1500 m event. Previously Kirochi had won two World Junior Championship titles in 1986 and 1988.
1969Fiona May, English-Italian long jumper[â ]
Fiona May is a retired track and field athlete who competed for the United Kingdom and later Italy in the long jump. She won the World Championships twice and two Olympic silver medals. Her personal best jump was 7.11 metres, which was her silver medal result at the 1998 European Championships.
1969Michael Möllenbeck, German discus thrower[â ]
Michael Friedrich Möllenbeck was a German discus thrower.
1969The Piazza Fontana bombing; a bomb explodes at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (the National Agricultural Bank) in Piazza Fontana in Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and wounding 88. The same afternoon, three more bombs are detonated in Rome and Milan, and another is found unexploded.[â ]
The Piazza Fontana bombing was a terrorist attack that occurred on 12 December 1969 when a bomb exploded at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana in Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and wounding 88. The same afternoon, another bomb exploded in a bank in Rome, and another was found unexploded in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The attack was carried out by the neo-fascist paramilitary terrorist group Ordine Nuovo, and possibly undetermined collaborators.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[â ]