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Lindsay press sec Morgan charges talks are undermined by Times story on spot state audits of city agencies that have found widespread mismgt and fraud in past 2 yrs; notes uniformed service employes are understandably irked by welfare system, which is 'forced' on city by state and Fed law
Lindsay urges City Council to authorize compulsory arbitration in event of impasse in negotiations, lr to Council majority leader Cuite; warns that without legis city may be unable to settle disputes peaceably; Cuite says there had been clear understanding that proposal would be deferred until Jan; union leaders strongly oppose proposal; DeLury says normal collective bargaining processes should be developed; Collective Bargaining Office chmn Anderson explains state law docs not contain compulsory provision for city
Nixon Adm weighs ending funding for program in fiscal '72 budget
Gov Rockefeller says Mayors of 'Big 6' NY cities agree to back him in his call to Cong to provide additional $10-billion to states; Mayors propose mutual effort to seek cooperation of other Mayors and Govs on Eastern Seaboard so that state and local officials in region can speak with 1 voice in Washington
McKneally indicted by Fed grand jury for failing to file income tax returns from '64 to '67; 4-count indictment announced in Washington by Atty Gen Mitchell; charges McKneally had gross income of $78,515 in period; earlier repts in investigation, McKneally denials recalled; charges detailed; IRS acknowledged in Sept that it had no record of returns from '58 to '63; notes statute of limitations bars prosecution for period before '64; reptdly recommended prosecution to Justice Dept in Aug; McKneally opponents in recent campaign had charged Justice Dept was delaying action to protect him as Repub; maximum penalty for each count is yr in prison and $10,000 fine
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 16, 1970, covering December 17, 1970.
Santana
Sly & The Family Stone
Led Zeppelin
Stephen Stills
George Harrison
1970Sean Patrick Thomas, American actor[†]
Sean Patrick Thomas is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Derek Reynolds in the 2001 film Save the Last Dance and as Jimmy James in Barbershop (2002), Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004), and Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016), as well as his television role as Detective Temple Page in The District and as Professor Macalester in Vixen (2015–2016).
1970Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian, author, and educator (born 1896)[†]
Oliver Waterman Larkin was an American art historian and educator. He won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Art and Life in America.
1970Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.[†]
The 1970 Polish protests, also known as the December 1970 Events and the Coast Massacre, occurred in northern Poland from 14–19 December 1970. The protests were sparked by a sudden increase in the prices of food and other everyday items while wages remained stagnant. Strikes were put down by the Polish People's Army and the Citizen's Militia, resulting in at least 44 people killed and more than 1,000 wounded.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]