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Nixon Adm, announcing measures to ease fuel shortage, exempts natural gas liquids that are imported from Canada from inclusion in crude oil quota limits and permits importation of liquefied petroleum gas
Agnew defends 'domino theory' that holds loss of S Vietnam to Communists will imperil string of neighboring nations, s, Repub rally, Minot, ND
P Mellon gives gallery early Cezanne painting, 1866 life-size for of artist's father; reptdly paid over $1.5-million for work; illus
NYC Mayor Lindsay announces that city's methadone program for treatment of narcotics addicts is expected to double its capacity within next 10 mos; capacity will then be 5,000 persons; program, to be directed by Dr R Newman, detailed; Lindsay swears in G S Finney as Addiction Service Agency Comr
confs with Govt and other leaders to set plans for funeral; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 30, 1970, covering September 30, 1970.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Soundtrack
Joe Cocker
Chicago
The Band
1970Tony Hale, American actor and producer[†]
Anthony Russell Hale is an American actor and comedian. He is most known for his comedic leading roles in the Fox series Arrested Development as Buster Bluth, and as Gary Walsh on the HBO series Veep. For the latter, Hale won the 2013 and 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
1970Damian Mori, Australian footballer and manager[†]
Damian Mori is an Australian former football player who is an assistant coach for Adelaide United. He won two Johnny Warren Medals, awarded to the best player in the Australian league and was top scorer on 5 occasions. He established a reputation as a pacy, poaching goalscorer, which is notable for a player who started his career as a defender.
1970Eric Piatkowski, American basketball player[†]
Eric Todd Piatkowski is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. He is the son of former ABA player Walt Piatkowski.
1970Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.[†]
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[†]