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In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[ā ]
1971Mary J. Blige, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress[ā ]
Mary Jane Blige is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, actress, and entrepreneur. Often referred to as the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul" and "Queen of R&B", her accolades include nine Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, four American Music Awards, twelve NAACP Image Awards, and twelve Billboard Music Awards, including the Billboard Icon Award.
1971Jeff Orford, Australian rugby league player[ā ]
Jeff Orford is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. He played for Eastern Suburbs, St. George, Gold Coast Chargers and South Sydney in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. Orford primarily played on the wing.
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J Lopez hangs self in NYC Police Dept's 68th Precinct station house in Bay Ridge sec of Bklyn after being arrested on drunken driving charge
NYC, snarled for 19 mos in its own rod tape, has been able to spend only 1/2 of its $65-million grant of Fed Model Cities funds; city expects to have $32-million still unused at end of Jan; slum neighborhoods that are supposed to be beneficiaries of Model Cities Program are receiving just under 1/2 services originally scheduled to begin when city received Fed grant on July 1 '69 and most of those services were started only in last few mos; inability to use Fed funds may have repercussions far beyond Model Cities Program; it comes at time when Mayor Lindsay is appealing repeatedly for more Fed money and also at time when Pres Nixon is reported to be considering shifting funds from Fed Model Cities Program to revenue sharing plan that will allow cities to use money in any way that they wish; NYC problems have given Fed officials rare glimpse of unwieldy machinery of city govt and that may jeopardize future Fed funding of other programs as well; problems besetting NYC Model Cities Program noted; Fed and city officials, including HUD Dept acting regional dir D Grossman and NYC Model Cities Admr J B Williams, comment
Allied officials in Saigon disclose plans for what is expected to be largest organized movement of peasants in history of Vietnam; Saigon Govt, with full Amer support, hopes to move refugees in northernmost mil region, I Corps, to 2 southernmost mil regions, III Corps and IV Corps; estimates of total number of peasants to be moved vary; US sources cite figures ranging from 200,000 to more than 1-million, S Vietnamese officials confirm movement could involve between 2-million and 3-million during next 3 yrs; plan is attempt to solve refugee problems in I Corps; some Amer officials express fear movement will create more physical and psychological stress than peasants can handle; S Vietnamese officials feel movement will be acceptable to refugees who have already broken ties with their ancestral plots; some Vietnamese, sharply critical of plan, say it is pol move by Govt against Vietnamese of northernmost provs; project is in final planning stages and will be announced soon by Saigon; War Victims Program dir F Stewart says project will he financed by US; he and Mins Tran Nguon Phieu and Pham Quang Dan comment on plan; details; map
Kahane, in s outside USSR UN mission hq, says Jewish Defense League is forming teams to harass Soviet diplomats in NYC; some harassment moves noted
Saigon officials expect main ground action in Indochina in next few mos to come in Cambodia, where Communist forces are reptdly trying to rebuild and establish supply areas
Pres Nixon considering creating Dept of Community Development, combining existing apparatus of Housing and Urban Development Dept with some of major urban-related programs of OEO, such as community action program; action, if taken, seen possibly meaning further restrictions on scope and authority of OEO
Nixon Adm, in hope of reversing current business downturn, plant immediate reduction of several billion dollars in taxes paid by business; tax cuts to come in form of liberalization of rules by which businesses write off costs of new machinery and equipment; to be put into effect without waiting for Cong to act; liberalization will include shortened period of time over which businesses will be permitted to write off cost and making depreciation allowances more generous; Sec Kennedy, in move to forestall criticism by Dems, has informed Repr Mills of plan; tax savings to business, in data supplied to Sen Javits by Treas Dept, noted
Warsaw newspapers outline 'consumers charter' intended to correct major econ mistakes of Gomulka regime; steps cited include reduction of prices of indus goods as production is increased, effort to supply mkt with increased amt of inexpensive goods and correct price abuses that create hidden increases in costs of popular goods, price setting by mfrs subject to rev by several natl agencies rather than central authorities in Warsaw, consumer research on large scale to coordinate supply and demand and inst of 2-yr price freeze on nonseasonal goods
Burnham in NYC en route to Brit Commonwealth leaders conf, Singapore; int; por
US command repts 1 US maj (later identified as R Degen) killed, another (later identified as M F Davis) wounded, following argument between several black enlisted men and the 2 officers, both white; informed sources in field say shooting is another in growing number of incidents in which enlisted men have attacked officers because of hostilities caused by racial problems, attitudes towar war and what seems to be increasing antagonism toward unpopular officers and sgts as war winds down; Army says shooting occurred at Quangtri base camp; withholds details pending completion of investigation and notification of victim's next of kin; account of shooting detailed