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28 guests and permanent residents killed, 27 hurt in fire that destroys upper floors; cause of fire is unknown but police are investigating possibility of arson; illus; Asst Fire Chief Slagel repts hotel has no sprinkler system or modern fire alarm; contends most of deaths might have been averted if hotel met city's modern bldg codes; partial list of victims
White suburbs of Dayton agree to provide housing for poor, despite strong opposition by many residents; in what natl housing experts describe as remarkable development, Dayton officials approve plan that will disperse federally subsidized low and moderate-income housing throughout 5-county area; although plan is said to De unique, heated pub controversy that accompanied its initial implementation and conditions in Dayton that brought it about are indicative of urban dilemma across nation; plan calls for each community to be assigned quota, its share of some 14,000 units, many of them pub housing, that are expected to be constructed over next 4 yrs; plan, if carried out, will bring about both neighborhood and school integration and will reverse trend of poor's being concentrated in deteriorated central-city neighborhoods; Fed and local officials comment; controversy outlined; plan detailed
top-level UAR delegation under Vice Pres Sabry flies to Moscow for talks with Soviet leaders on war and peace issues after Suez Canal cease-fire expires Feb 5; includes Mins Riad, Fawzi and Sidky; UAR and USSR, in communique on Soviet delegation visit to UAR, demand timetable for withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied Arab territory; delegation, led by B N Ponomarev, joins UAR in accusing Israel of 'procrastination and sabotage' on efforts for pol settlement of conflict
Ousted from Polish Politburo
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 16, 1970, covering December 21, 1970.
Santana
Sly & The Family Stone
Led Zeppelin
Stephen Stills
George Harrison
1970First flight of F-14 multi-role combat aircraft.[†]
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, tandem two-seat, twin-tail, all-weather-capable variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program after the collapse of the General Dynamics-Grumman F-111B project. A large and well-equipped fighter, the F-14 was the first of the American Teen Series fighters, which were designed incorporating air combat experience against smaller, more maneuverable MiG fighters during the Vietnam War.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]