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army enforces calm; illus; Govt appears in control; leaders of movement attempting to restore Rojas to power threaten to provoke civil war; Rojas and family under house arrest
Reynolds Metals Co sends trucks to colls in 14 states to pick up cans collected in 'trash-in' with bounty of 1/2c for each can
Earth Day marked; details; Con Ed participates; encounters no violence; its security measures noted
Justice Dept, in 1st action of its kind in 20 yrs, files antitrust suit charging Westinghouse and 2 major Japanese cos with illegally conspiring not to sell wide range of products in each other's countries; suit charges alleged accord was part of agreement under which cos exchanged patents and other tech information; Westinghouse denies charges; says if dept wins case, Japanese cos will be able to 'mfr Westinghouse-designed products in Japan with low-wage wage labor and sell those products in US in direct competition with those mfrd by Amer labor'; Justice Dept cites precedents for suit but concedes that current case in which accord to 'divide up world' is alleged but no charge is made of attempt to fix prices is unprecedented; Japanese Govt says cos were forced by Westinghouse to accept accord involving royalty payments on all products covered by agreements whether they incorporated Westinghouse tech or not; says alleged accord required 2 cos to pay higher royalties to Westinghouse on products sold outside Japan; suit asks ct to permanently enjoin Westinghouse from entering into similar accords with foreign cos, require present and future licensing of patents between Westinghouse and 2 cos at reasonable royalties, and other actions to restore competition
Carnegie Comm on Higher Educ survey of 60,447 teachers finds 3/4 disagree that normal acad requirements should be relaxed in apptg members of minority groups to faculty
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 22, 1970, covering April 23, 1970.
Simon & Garfunkel
Crosby| Stills| Nash & Young
The Beatles
Santana
The Jackson 5
1970Egemen BaÄıĆ, Turkish politician, 1st Minister of European Union Affairs[â ]
Egemen BaÄÄ±Ć is a former Turkish politician of, former member of the Turkish parliament, the former minister for EU Affairs and chief negotiator of Turkey in accession talks with the European Union and a former ambassador of Turkey to the Czech Republic.
1970Dennis Culp, American singer-songwriter and trombonist[â ]
Dennis Culp is an American trombonist and singer-songwriter best known for his work with the bands Brave Saint Saturn and Five Iron Frenzy.
1970Andrew Gee, Australian rugby league player and manager[â ]
Andrew Gee is an Australian rugby league administrator and former football operations manager at the Brisbane Broncos of the NRL. Also a former player with the club, he was a Queensland State of Origin representative prop, and at the time of his retirement, held the Broncos' club record for most appearances of any forward.
1970Hans VĂ€limĂ€ki, Finnish chef and author[â ]
Hans VÀlimÀki is a Finnish chef, and since 1998, was the owner of the now closed restaurant Chez Dominique. VÀlimÀki was the chief judge of the Sub culinary show Top Chef Suomi and hosts the Finnish version of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Kuppilat kuntoon, Hans VÀlimÀki!.
1970Tayfur Havutçu, Turkish international footballer and manager[â ]
Tayfur Havutçu is a Turkish football manager and former professional player who was most recently the manager of SĂŒper Lig club KasımpaĆa. He was part of the Turkey national team squad that reached third place at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[â ]