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Econ Development Adm Comr Patton announces plan to set up round-the-clock child-care center at site to serve working mothers; CLICK to operate center, which will be under supervision of Dept of Soc Services
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— President Nixon announced to day that a corps of specially trained guards would begin to morrow to police both domes tic and overseas flights of Unit ed States‐flag airlines to deal with “the menace of air piracy.”
Sen com unanimously approves $1.17-billion auto exhaust standards bill; Sen Muskie and Repr Rogers hail action; indus reprs hold bill is unacceptable and unworkable; provisions detailed
apptd NYC Police Comr; Detroit Police Officers Assn pres Parsell says Murphy, by assn with NYC Mayor Lindsay, hopes to become FBI dir; comment on Murphy career; illus
Agr Dept repts crop will be 3d largest in history despite blight and mild drought in Middle West; estimate is 9% below earlier predictions; Sec Hardin says he is 'gratified' losses were not greater; table corn reptd particularly hard hit
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 9, 1970, covering September 12, 1970.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Soundtrack
Blood| Sweat & Tears
Joe Cocker
Chicago
1970Will Chase, American actor, director, and singer[†]
Frank William Chase is an American actor, director, and singer, best known for his work on Broadway and for his role as country superstar Luke Wheeler on ABC's Nashville.
1970Nathan Larson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Nathan Peter Larson is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and author. He came to prominence in the 1990s as the guitarist for the rock group Shudder to Think. He has since worked on many film score compositions. He is married to Nina Persson, the lead singer of the Swedish rock band The Cardigans, and the couple has collaborated on several musical projects.
1970Dawson's Field hijackings: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Zarqa, Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.[†]
In September 1970, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked four airliners bound for New York City and one for London. Three aircraft were forced to land at Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip near Zarqa, Jordan, formerly Royal Air Force Station Zarqa, which then became PFLP's "Revolutionary Airport". By the end of the incident, one hijacker had been killed and one injury reported. This was the second instance of mass aircraft hijacking, after an escape from communist Czechoslovakia in 1950.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]