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Brit Conservative Govt to raise prescription charge from 30- to 48-cents in plan to expand welfare services paid for by pub; will exempt poor and disabled persons from paying increase
N Ginlov and V Pozdeyev, Soviet students, hijack Aeroflot craft with 4 aboard on domestic flight and land craft in Sinop, Turkey, after blindfolding and trussing pilot; ask pol asylum; map; incident is 2d hijacking of Soviet airliner to Turkey in 2 wks
US Labor Dept rept that Los Angeles is area of substantial unemployment seen significant for Sen race
Goodell seeks meeting with Rockefeller to demand he publicly attack Buckley; is being urged by staff to openly criticize Gov if he refuses, 1 aide noting Rockefeller has given nothing but money; Rockefeller in private has said Buckley attack would be 'unrealistic' because so many Buckley supporters are also supporting him, Goodell, in seeking meeting, has enlisted support of Repub nail committeeman Hinman and Mrs Rockefeller; Rockefeller aides charge Goodell asks too much, noting Rockefeller pushed through Repub nomination of Goodell and has contributed generously to campaign; their growing split since Goodell was apptd to Sen recalled, including B Lasker's Feb warning to Goodell that he would be in trouble with 'NY pol and financial establishment' if he did not stop attacking Nixon; Goodell, at NYC news conf, sharply criticizes Buckley and some Nixon aides but sidesteps direct Nixon attack
NYS Conservative Sen candidate Buckley charges Dem opponent Ottinger supports 'far-out and extremist groups,' press conf, Buffalo; says his record 'could suggest' that he has 'sought to condone violence preached by such groups as SDS'
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 1970, covering October 28, 1970.
Led Zeppelin
Santana
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Jackson 5
James Taylor
1970Alan Peter Cayetano, Filipino politician and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines[â ]
Alan Peter Schramm Cayetano is a Filipino lawyer, diplomat, and politician serving as a senator since 2022 and previously from 2007 to 2017. He was the Senate Minority Leader from 2010 to 2013, and later Senate Majority Leader from 2013 to 2016. He also served as the Representative of TaguigâPateros from 1998 to 2007 and from 2019 to 2022 and was the Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2019 until his resignation in 2020. He also served as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018 in the cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte, after unsuccessfully running for vice president in the 2016 elections as Duterte's running mate.
1970Greg Eagles, American voice actor and producer[â ]
Greg Eagles is an American actor. He voiced the Grim Reaper in Cartoon Network's Grim & Evil and its spin-off The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. He also voiced Captain Bob and Sketch Pad on HBO's Canadian-American children's television series Crashbox, Brother 6 and Rokutaro in Afro Samurai, Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise since 2007, and several characters in the Metal Gear Solid games.
1970Baby Huey, American singer-songwriter (born 1944)[â ]
James Thomas Ramey, better known as Baby Huey, was an American singer. He was the frontman for the band Baby Huey & the Babysitters, whose sole LP for Curtom Records in 1971 was influential in the development of hip-hop music.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[â ]