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Enemy troops reptdly fight way into some Govt positions, 2d day of fighting near Kirirom; 1,000 enemy soldiers reptdly are involved; S Vietnamese helicopters airlift 2 bns of Cambodian infantrymen into Kompong Thorn, which reptdly is surrounded by thousands of Vietnamese Communist troops; map
Nassau-Suffolk Regional Planning Bd, in comprehensive 15-yr development plan for LI, continues to back construction of Rye-Oyster Bay span; holds span will mitigate dead-end situation for some truck freight
NYC Community Planning Bds 6 and 8 protest $10,000 deduction for rent, furniture, equipment and other overhead from $50,000 study of bridge traffic to be made by T Thomas; cut made to reimburse city as study will be conducted in office space of City Planning Comm; Comr Elliott says additional space for study was necessary; Planning Comm officials concede that no such deductions were made from $8.4-million worth of studies conducted by another consultant occupying comm's office; planning bd officials W J Diamond and A Eisenstaedt score reduction in funds
Sec Rogers reptdly accepts theory that Vietnamese Communists will not negotiate peace settlement in Vietnam from position of relative weakness following allied attacks in Cambodia
Israel repts commando force crossed into Jordan and blew up Jordanian Army fortification 2-mi southeast of Yardena, which served as terrorist base, in retaliation for guerrilla attacks on Israeli towns and positions; says guerrilla activities have been intensified with active aid of Jordanian Army; repts at least 4 Jordanian soldiers and 1 Israeli soldier killed and 4 Israeli soldiers injured in raid
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 8, 1970, covering July 13, 1970.
Soundtrack
The Beatles
Paul McCartney
Jackson 5
The Who
1970Andrei Tivontchik, German pole vaulter and trainer[†]
Andrei Tivontchik is a former German pole vaulter. He was Olympic bronze medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
1970Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (born 1896)[†]
Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
1970Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (born 1895)[†]
Sheng Shicai was a Chinese warlord who ruled Xinjiang from 1933 to 1944. Sheng's rise to power started with a coup d'état in 1933 when he was appointed the duban of Xinjiang. The Soviet era ended in 1942, when Sheng approached the Nationalist Chinese government, but still retained much power over the province. He was dismissed from this post in 1944 and named Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. Growing animosity against him led the government to dismiss him again and appoint him to a military post. At the end of the Chinese Civil War, Sheng fled mainland China to Taiwan with the rest of the Kuomintang.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]