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top US officials see USSR statement aimed at strengthening hand of Cong opponents of Safeguard and rebutting Nixon and Laird assertions that Soviet missile threat was mounting at dangerous pace
Comr Ambrose repts US Customs Bur adds 320 agents to its force and intensifies other efforts to halt smuggling of heroin and other drugs, s, Customs Employes Holy Name Soc, NYC; hopes for cooperation from govts of foreign countries that are sources of drugs; in int describes difficulties of curbing smuggling
Series of incidents, including bad weather and labor dispute, delays Italian Line liner Michelangelo's 7‐day cruise from NYC to Caribbean; passengers await rescheduled 4‐day cruise to Bermuda; their reaction
NY Times survey of campuses finds radical militants turning their activities from campus base back toward soc at large; finds activists conclude that their real enemy is not univ but what they believe to be exploitative and unjust soc within which univ operates, and by which it is controlled; formally organized groups seen fragmented; forms of community action activists are becoming engaged in noted
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 4, 1970, covering March 9, 1970.
Simon & Garfunkel
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Chicago
1970Naveen Jindal, Indian businessman and politician[†]
Naveen Jindal is an Indian industrialist, politician, and philanthropist. He is the Chairman of Jindal Steel and Power and serves as the Founding Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University. He represents the Kurukshetra constituency in the 18th Lok Sabha as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He previously served as a Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2014 representing the Indian National Congress.
1970Martin Johnson, English rugby player and coach[†]
Martin Osborne Johnson CBE is an English retired rugby union player who represented and captained England and Leicester in a career spanning 16 seasons. He captained England to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup, and is regarded as one of the greatest locks ever to have played, and one of England's greatest ever players.
1970Shannon Leto, American musician and songwriter[†]
Shannon Leto is an American musician best known as the drummer of rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. He co-founded the group in 1998 in Los Angeles, California, with his younger brother Jared. Their debut album, 30 Seconds to Mars (2002), was released to positive reviews but only to limited success. The band achieved worldwide fame with the release of their second album A Beautiful Lie (2005). Their following releases, This Is War (2009) and Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), received further critical and commercial success. As of September 2014, the band has sold over 15 million albums worldwide.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]