Americans Are Barred From Spy Raids in Laos
Nixon Adm bars Amers from entering S Laos as leaders of teams watching enemy movements along Ho Chi Minh Trail
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Nixon Adm bars Amers from entering S Laos as leaders of teams watching enemy movements along Ho Chi Minh Trail
US officials in Calcutta concerned that their planned airlift of E Pakistani refugees to Assam state in India's NE may be met with hostile, perhaps violent demonstrations; 6,000 refugees reptdly have already left NE border state of Meghalaya and returned to E Pakistan 'out of disgust, fear, grief' because of hostility of local tribal population; map; original enthusiasm in India for Bengali independence movement and sympathy for refugees has all but disappeared, particularly in border states, where sentiment is close to anger over cholera, taking over schools as refugee camps, other irritations
Sens E M Kennedy and Javits, as Subcom on Employment, Manpower and Poverty, hold hearing at Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corp in Bklyn on extension of Econ Opportunity Act; hear praise of community development corps that promote econ development in poor communities; opposes Nixon Adm proposed cutback in Urban Community Econ Development Program; illus
Brezhnev makes nationally televised s to voters in Moscow's Bauman Dist in which he is unopposed candidate in election to Russian Repub Sup Soviet
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 9, 1971, covering June 12, 1971.
The Rolling Stones
Carole King
Various Artists
Paul & Linda McCartney
James Taylor
1971Mark Henry, American weightlifter and wrestler[†]
Mark Jerrold Henry is an American former powerlifter, Olympic weightlifter, strongman, and retired professional wrestler currently signed to WWE under a Legends contract.
1971Ryan Klesko, American baseball player[†]
Ryan Anthony Klesko is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman and corner outfielder who played for the Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants. He attended Westminster High School in Westminster, California.
1971Jérôme Romain, Caribbean-Dominican triple jumper and coach[†]
Jérôme Romain is a former world-class track and field athlete who competed mainly in the triple jump.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]