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Repts from correspondents in 35 states where Sens will be elected and ints with pollsters and pol forecasters show econ has replaced war as dominant issue
thousands attend Hon Amir Day rally, Washington; B Hope heads entertainment show at Washington Monument and Rev B Graham leads interfaith religious service at Lincoln Memorial; illus; map; police and dissident youths clash at Washington Monument show; 34 youths held; 20 policemen hurt
Brit troops seize large amts of arms and ammunition in search of virtually every house on 50 sts in Falls Rd dist; confiscate 20,000 rounds of ammunition, 52 pistols, 34 rifles, other weapons; 300 persons arrested; rigid curfew imposed on area; illus; rest of Belfast conducts business as usual; Govt summons troop reinforcements that will raise Brit contingent to 12,000; also bans parades throughout country; Cath planned parade to Armagh, where Devlin is jailed, canceled; Chichester‐Clark stresses ‘determination to rid Northern Ireland of terrorists,’ TV s
Econ badly damaged by war; tourism and rubber indus ruined; nearly every development protect shut down; foreign currency reserves low; foreign economists hold large foreign loans and investments are nation's only hope
12‐man HR com returns from trip to SE Asia with bipartisan majority rept that US incursion into Cambodia was mil success; Montgomery says com will file rept with McCormack
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 1, 1970, covering July 5, 1970.
The Beatles
Paul McCartney
Soundtrack
Chicago
Jackson 5
1970Mac Dre, American rapper and producer, founded Thizz Entertainment (died 2004)[†]
Andre Louis Hicks, known professionally as Mac Dre, was an American rapper from Vallejo, California. He was an instrumental figure in the emergence of hyphy, a cultural movement in the Bay Area hip-hop scene that emerged in the early 2000s. Hicks is considered one of the movement's key pioneers that fueled its popularity into mainstream, releasing songs with fast-paced rhymes and basslines that inspired a new style of dance. As the founder of the independent record label Thizz Entertainment, Hicks recorded dozens of albums and gave aspiring rappers an outlet to release albums locally.
1970Valentí Massana, Spanish race walker[†]
Valentín Massana Gracia is a Spanish race walker, and the Spanish national record holder in the men's 50 km walk (3:38:43) in Ourense, March 20, 1994.
1970Air Canada Flight 621 crashes in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, killing all 109 people on board.[†]
On July 5, 1970, Air Canada Flight 621, a Douglas DC-8-63 registered as CF-TIW, was flying from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, Quebec, Canada to Los Angeles International Airport, California, United States via Toronto International Airport, Toronto, Canada. During landing at Toronto, the aircraft touched-down hard which ruptured the right fuel tanks. After go-around, the right wing's fuel tanks exploded thrice and the aircraft crashed in Toronto Gore Township, now part of Brampton.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]