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A Federal judge ruled yester day that the city must give up its traditional examinations for selecting school principals be cause the tests discriminated against blacks and Puerto Ricans.
5,000 members of UAW strike strike against J I Case Co, which mfrs farm equipment
city officials impose freeze on funds for construction projects including $74.6-million for 38 school projects, as part of drive to pressure bldg trade unions to admit more blacks and Puerto Ricans
Dem Pres aspirants Sens Humphrey and Muskie join in proposing that US and USSR freeze deployment of MIRVs while they seek accord to control strategic arms; initiative comes from Humphrey in testimony before Muskie subcom; Humphrey proposes Cong include an amendment to defense procurement bill placing in escrow all funds for development and deployment of MIRVs while talks are being field; says funds could be released only if Pres and Cong decide jointly deployment was necessary to guarantee retaliatory capability of US; says he will offer sense-of-Sen resolution calling on Pres to propose that US and USSR agree to freeze deployment of both offensive and defensive nuclear weapons while talks are being held; holds he is not being critical of Nixon but supplementing his efforts; with Muskie, challenges Adm 'bargaining chips' argument; says reason for proceeding with MIRV deployment is now highly tenuous since US and USSR are seeking ABM accord, noting reason for MIRV was to penetrate ABM defense; illus with Muskie
Fed Govt, through Natl Heart & Lung Inst, grants $16.4-million to establish 29 specialized research centers nationwide to mobilize large portion of nation's med resources for attack on diseases of heart, blood vessels and lungs; centers will attempt to apply various tests and treatments to large numbers of subjects in attempt to identify most promising procedures; tests and treatments will employ previously unavailable statistical and analytical methods; breakdown of number of centers that will conduct various facets of research; NY met area insts receiving grants include Rockefeller U, Columbia U Coll of Physicians & Surgeons and Einstein Med Coll
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 14, 1971, covering July 15, 1971.
Carole King
The Rolling Stones
Various Artists
Carpenters
Paul & Linda McCartney
1971The United Red Army is founded in Japan.[†]
The United Red Army (URA) was a militant organization that operated in Japan between July 1971 and March 1972. The URA was formed as the result of a merger that began on 13 July 1971 between two extremist groups, the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist Red Army Faction , led in 1971 by Tsuneo Mori, and the Reformed Marxist Revolutionary Left Wing group, Japanese Communist Party Kanagawa Prefecture Committee, also known as the Keihin Anti-Security Treaty Joint Struggle Group , led by Hiroko Nagata.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]