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In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]
1971Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer[†]
Massimiliano "Max" Biaggi is an Italian former professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer who achieved six World Championships. With four 250 cc road race titles and two in World Superbikes, he is one of only two riders to score championships across both disciplines.
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Sens Hughes, Javits, Williams and Schweiker, members of Sen subcom studying drug problem in NYC, tour Harlem with United Harlem Drug Fighters dir M Davis; view illicit drug purchase openly on st and walk into room where addicts were taking heroin; details; illus
MacFarlane, Alexander: Man sitting at open window in his West Side apt shot and killed by random bullet fired from car on st below; witnesses describe incident; illus
US Sup Ct agrees to rule on Govt efforts to enjoin The Times and Washington Post from publishing material from study; Chief Justice Burger, in 2 orders, places The Times and The Post under equal publication restraints, based on restriction imposed on The Times by US Appeals Ct; Justices Black, Douglas, Brennan and Marshall declare in dissent they favor freeing both papers to print without hearing arguments; Govt required to file with the Sup Ct and press lawyers lists of any portions of study it asserts will endanger natl security; both papers may publish in their Sat issues any other information in study except items on Govt's dangerous list until Sup Ct decides the cases; Times says it will not resume its series because matter is before the Ct, and that printing an article whose content is dictated by Govt officials amounts to submitting to censorship; Post says that it also will not resume publication of material from study; 4 dissenting justices also dissent from the part of the order that restrains the papers from publishing certain material; Ct to schedule a rare Sat session to hear case
warrant for Ellsberg arrest issued by Fed magistrate in Los Angeles; Ellsberg charged with 'unauthorized possession of top-secret documents and failure to return them'; Atty Gen Mitchell says Ellsberg has 2 sets of study, one complete, the other a partial collection, both made on photocopying machines; warrant does not charge he passed study on to any other unauthorized person; Justice Dept says it has 4 affidavits linking him to study including affidavit by his former wife, Carol; affidavits by 2 Rand Corp security officers say Ellsberg had access to documents during '69 and '70 when Ellsberg was employed by Rand; affidavit by FBI agent C J Jones says Repr McCloskey told him about discussion on the war with Ellsberg; Ellsberg recent views on war cited; text of arrest warrant
Nixon calls for natl effort to upgrade nursing homes for elderly, s, Natl Retired Teachers Assn and Amer Retired Persons Assn combined convs; charges nursing homes are too often 'warehouses for unwanted' and 'dumping grounds for dying'; declares reform of nursing homes will have top priority at White House Conf on Aging and suggests it may be necessary to withhold Fed funds from homes that do not provide adequate standards
S Topping article on Communist China notes marriages can be dissolved at registry office if partners are in agreement and soc worker has attempted reconciliation
State Sup Ct rules Educ Comr has power in limited cases to order mergers of dists to promote desegregation, ruling involving merger of Morristown and Morris Twp
S H Schanberg rept from Dacca says city is nervous and fearful 3 mos after Army launched offensive to crush Bengali autonomy movement; holds army is in clear control of city, but 'normality' does not exist; holds Dacca is city under occupation of mil force that rules by strength, intimidation and terror, but which has been unable to revive effective civil adm; only about half of Dacca's 1.5-million population remains, many shops are still closed, traffic is thin, block upon block of old city has been reduced to rubble and debris by fighting; says army has harassed Hindu minority as W Pakistani Moslem estab has long considered Hindus untrustworthy people whose real allegiance is to predominantly Hindu India; 4-million of 6-million refugees In India are said to be Hindus
crackdown on illegal drug use by troops under way in Mekong Delta; 18,000 soldiers confined to mil compounds and all personnel, vehicles and planes in compounds are searched
Soviet officials at UN deny any soundings between Israel and USSR on resuming ties took place; say that repts originated in Israel and should be dismissed as Israeli trial balloon'; say USSR will not consider resuming ties until Israel withdraws all troops from occupied Arab territories