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MOSCOW, July 29 — The So viet Union warned Sudanese leaders today against harboring illusions that they could main tain good relations with the Kremlin while cracking down on local Communists.
Sen Foreign Relations Com, 15-0, invokes little-noticed provision in '61 Foreign Assistance Act to force confrontation with Govt on request for 5-yr plans for mil assistance program; provision specifies that spending for foreign aid activity will be suspended if within 35 days exec branch has not supplied document requested by Cong com or GAO or if Pres forbids documents to be furnished to com and gives his reason for so ordering; Sen Fulbright sends lr to Sec Laird notifying him that com is formally requesting 5-yr plans and invoking 35-day cutoff provision; Defense Dept says it will have no immediate comment on move; has refused to supply plans on ground that they were regarded as 'tentative planning document'; action reflects frustration within com over what its members regard as excessive secrecy of exec branch and could be challenge to Defense Dept or any other exec agency to right of withholding documents on any ground short of claim of exec privilege by Pres
Repr Mills proposes that every consideration be given to imposition by US of across-the-bd surcharge on imports and equivalent rebate on exports as means of improving US balance of trade, s, Washington Press Club; suggests use of relatively large import tax and small export rebate on temporary basis pending more fundamental improvements in econ posture or use of value-added tax such as widely used in Eur; holds proposal would be objected to on ground that such measures are prohibited by GATT but says same rules did not prevent at least 3 major trading partners from adopting import surcharges and 2 countries granting export rebates in response to their own problems; proposes enactment of tax incentive for exports known as Domestic Internatl Sales Corps (DISC); says he is surprised that Adm has failed to formally forward DISC proposal to Cong or request any priority action in this regard
Sen rejects compromise proposal by Sens Proxmire, Taft and Weicker to support move to cut off debate if measure is amended to provide loans to Lockheed only; Sen Mansfield had backed proposal
Ford and Chrysler to tentatively raise '72 prices 5% or about $200 a car; Ford says sharpest increase will be on Pinto, which is going up from $1,919 to $2,069; optional equipment on Pinto will also increase; GM seen key to '72 auto pricing; UAW pres Woodcock holds auto indus insistence on high profits, not high wages, is pushing up prices
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 28, 1971, covering July 30, 1971.
Carole King
James Taylor
The Rolling Stones
Paul & Linda McCartney
Various Artists
1971Elvis Crespo, American-Puerto Rican singer[†]
Elvis Crespo Díaz is an American merengue singer. He has won multiple awards, including a Grammy and a Latin Grammy Award in merengue music.
1971Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor[†]
Michael Thomas Green is a Canadian and American comedian, show host, actor, filmmaker, podcaster, and rapper. After pursuing stand-up comedy and music as a young adult, Green created and hosted The Tom Green Show, which aired on Rogers TV and later on MTV from 1994 to 2000. The show became popular for its shock comedy, its absurd pranks, and Green's manic persona, and influenced later series such as Jackass, Punk’d and The Eric Andre Show. Green has appeared in the Hollywood films Road Trip (2000), Charlie's Angels (2000), Stealing Harvard (2002), and Shred (2008). Green directed, co-wrote, and starred in the cult film Freddy Got Fingered (2001). He was briefly married to actress Drew Barrymore (2001–2002), who co-starred with him in Charlie's Angels and Freddy Got Fingered.
1971Christine Taylor, American actress[†]
Christine Joan Taylor Stiller is an American actress. She has played Marcia Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel and appeared in The Craft, The Wedding Singer, Zoolander, and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. In television, she has appeared in roles in Hey Dude, Arrested Development, and Search Party.
1971Thomas Hollway, Australian politician, 36th Premier of Victoria (born 1906)[†]
Thomas Tuke Hollway was the 36th Premier of Victoria, and the first to be born in the 20th century. He held office from 1947 to 1950, and again for a short period in 1952. He was originally a member and the leader of the United Australia Party (UAP) in Victoria, and was the inaugural leader of the UAP's successor, the Victorian division of the Liberal Party, but split from the Liberals after a dispute over electoral reform issues.
1971Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin in the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.[†]
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo followed Project Mercury that put the first Americans in space. It was conceived in 1960 as a three-person spacecraft during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third American human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo.
1971An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.[†]
All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. (ANA) is a Japanese airline headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. ANA operates services to both domestic and international destinations and is Japan's largest airline, ahead of its main rival flag carrier Japan Airlines. As of March 2024, the airline has approximately 12,800 employees. The airline joined as a Star Alliance member in October 1999.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]