NIXON ABOLISHES DRAFT DEFERMENT FOR FATHERHOOD
issues exec order abolishing such deferments
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issues exec order abolishing such deferments
NY Times survey of flourishing black power movement in English-speaking Caribbean and some adjoining areas, including Bahama Islands; map; illus
Deputy Asst Sec Friedheim repts Soviet missile submarine has been patrolling in Atlantic within 1,200 to 1,500 mi of E Coast, the effective range of its missiles; also shows brief color film taken by USN in Pacific, showing Soviet multiple warhead entering earth's atmosphere; illus; Defense Dept officials concede both disclosures were made to strengthen case in Cong for Safeguard; Dr J S Foster, at ANPA meeting, discusses Soviet ABM system; says USSR has radar system that in near furture will provide coverage US would have in some 8 yrs if entire Safeguard system is approved
Cambodian sources rept 3 cargo planes have landed at Pnompenh airport with shipment of weapons; say arms are Amer-made; shipment is believed to have originated in either Saigon or Bangkok; US Embassy, Pnompenh, says no Amer planes have arrived, declines to speculate on shipment; diplomatic sources speculate that US does not wish to respond to appeal for arms on its own, that shipment marks start of an unofficial program to help Govt until an official and pub aid effort can be arranged; Cambodian mil leaders cheered by news that Vietnamese Communists have withdrawn from Saang; Ang Tasom taken by enemy; battle illus; Indonesian Min Malik repts ASEAN has agreed to sponsor an Asian conf to try to maintain Cambodian neutrality; Cambodian Govt reprs arrive, Paris, for confs with Cambodian diplomats in Eur, Africa and Latin Amer; US State Dept confirms shipment of captured Soviet-designed weapons has arrived in Pnompenh; says they were supplied by S Vietnam with US knowledge and approval; denies any knowledge of arrival of Amer-made weapons; map
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 22, 1970, covering April 24, 1970.
Simon & Garfunkel
Crosby| Stills| Nash & Young
The Beatles
Santana
The Jackson 5
1970Damien Fleming, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster[†]
Damien William Fleming is an Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer who played for the Australian national cricket team and domestic cricket for Victoria. He played in 20 Tests and 88 ODIs from 1994 to 2001 and was part of the all-conquering Australian teams under Steve Waugh and Mark Taylor. In recent years Fleming has spent time refining his theory of Bowlology, a set of scientific coaching principles to help developing bowlers. Fleming was a part of the Australian team that won the 1999 Cricket World Cup.

1970Otis Spann, American singer and pianist (born 1930)[†]
Otis Spann was an American blues musician many consider the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist.
1970China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.[†]
Dong Fang Hong 1, in the western world also known as China 1 or PRC 1, was the first space satellite of the People's Republic of China (PRC), launched successfully on 24 April 1970 as part of the PRC's Dongfanghong space satellite program. It was a part of the "Two Bombs, One Satellite" program. At 173 kg (381 lb), it was heavier than the first satellites of other countries. The satellite carried a radio transmitter which broadcast the then de facto national anthem of the same name. The broadcast lasted for 20 days while in orbit.
1970The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.[†]
The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa. Geographically, The Gambia is the smallest country in continental Africa; it is surrounded by Senegal on all sides except for the western part, which is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]