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Series of apparently coordinated bomb blasts hits Rochester, NY, heavily damaging Fed Bldg, Monroe County office bldg, bank, 2 churches and grocery store; dynamite placed outside bldgs believed responsible for blasts, in which 3 persons were injured; blasts described
Arafat says guerrilla movement is now stronger and more unified than before civil war and is prepared to fight again, if necessary, int; illus; charges that Sept 17 attack on guerrillas was planned by CIA, US and Zionist power; displays 2 mortar shells allegedly stamped with Israeli markings; discusses reasons for use of Israeli ammunition by Jordanian Army, charges which Israel has denied; silent on aid given guerrillas by other Arab govts and charges of Syrian incursion on Sept 20; rejects Jordanian estimate that there were 300 tanks and says total number was 46, all manned by Palestine Liberation Army; discusses losses; cites possibility that there was internatl intervention to get Syrian withdrawal; links possible US and Israeli intervention to hesitation by some Arab govts to aid guerrillas; discusses charges that army is holding guerrilla prisoners, says guerrillas do not want to control Govt but only seek liberation of Palestine; cites alleged attacks by Jordanian soldiers at Ashrafiya hosp with axes; charges West with promoting genocide against guerrillas; expresses hope for reconciliation between guerrillas and Hussein but eliminates possibility of accord with Israel
Laird, in TV int with Rogers, dismisses repts that there was no clear agreement with USSR on ban on introducing missiles into canal zone after start of cease-fire
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 7, 1970, covering October 12, 1970.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Joe Cocker
The Moody Blues
Soundtrack
The Jackson 5
1970Kirk Cameron, American actor, screenwriter, and Christian evangelical/anti-evolution activist[†]
Kirk Thomas Cameron is an American actor, author, evangelist, television host, documentarian and producer. He first gained fame as a teen actor playing Mike Seaver on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains (1985–1992), a role for which he was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards.
1970Patrick Musimu, Belgian diver and physiotherapist (died 2011)[†]
Patrick Musimu was a Belgian freediver, sport business manager, marketing and event manager, and physiotherapist. He was born in Kinshasa, Zaire. On 30 June 2005, he beat the previous "No Limits" world record in freediving by almost 40 meters by diving to 209 meters. Following his request, this dive was done without the supervision of the International Association for Freediving agency, from which Musimu dissociated since 2002. According to him, extreme deep freediving should not be considered as a sport but as an adventure.
1970Tanyon Sturtze, American baseball player[†]
Tanyon James Sturtze is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher.
1970Charlie Ward, American basketball player and coach[†]
Charlie Ward Jr. is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and current head coach for the Florida A&M Rattlers. Ward was an exceptional college football player as well, winning the Heisman Trophy, Davey O'Brien Award, and College Football National Championship as a quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles.
1970Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian-American illustrator and painter (born 1891)[†]
Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, also known as Rojan, was a Russian émigré illustrator. He is well known both for children's book illustration and for erotic art. He won the 1956 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration from the American Library Association, recognizing Frog Went A-Courtin' by John Langstaff.
1970Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet and academic (born 1930)[†]
Mustafa Zaidi was a Pakistani Urdu poet and a civil servant.
1970Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.[†]
Vietnamization was a failed foreign policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops". Furthermore the policy also sought to prolong both the war and American domestic support for it. Brought on by the communist North Vietnam's Tet Offensive, the policy referred to U.S. combat troops specifically in the ground combat role, but did not reject combat by the U.S. Air Force, as well as the support to South Vietnam, consistent with the policies of U.S. foreign military assistance organizations. U.S. citizens' mistrust of their government that had begun after the offensive worsened with the release of news about U.S. soldiers massacring civilians at My Lai (1968), the invasion of Cambodia (1970), and the leaking of the Pentagon Papers At a January 28, 1969, meeting of the National Security Council, General Andrew Goodpaster, deputy to General Creighton Abrams and commander of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, stated that the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) had been steadily improving, and the point at which the war could be "de-Americanized" was close. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird agreed with the point, but not with the language: "What we need is a term like 'Vietnamizing' to put the emphasis on the right issues." Nixon immediately liked Laird's word.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]