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WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—The Price Commission is expected to rule this week, in a depar ture from its other decisions during Phase Two of the wage price freeze, that hospital charges will be allowed to rise between 5 and 6 per cent.
State Budget Dir R L Dunham minimizes impact on local govt of Rockefeller's proposal to postpone $400-million in state aid payments due in Jan and Feb; says $350-million of this will be in school aid that will still be paid in Apr during current school yr, so that there will be no massive effect despite minor cost for short-term borrowing
Gandhi announces recognition of Bangladesh as govt of E Pakistan; India claims total air superiority in cast, claiming to have destroyed all but 4 Pakistani planes; says any neutral ships in Chittagong harbor will be attacked; Navy repts sinking of 2 Pakistani destroyers and merchant ship in action off Karachi and sinking submarine in Bay of Bengal; foreign observers say continued Pakistani use of transport planes to reinforce and supply forces in E Pakistan will be impossible without substantial fighter protection; India indicates it will no long honor Kashmir cease-fire line and will hold any part of Pakistani Kashmir it captures; Indian troops reptdly bypass Jessore, reach Jamalpur and advance in other sectors from 10 to 20 mi; Indian spokesman says Pakistani forces have penetrated about 14 mi into Rajasthan State in attack that hit and then bypassed Longewalla; says Indian forces have taken several Pakistani positions in Sind in W Pakistan; Indian Mins Ram and Kaul illus; Indian column illus; map
Seamans illus at Phucat air base
Kheel offers 7-part plan to turn all pub transportation in tristate met region over to 1 agency, which would be responsible for planning and implementation of plans, TV int; says NY Port Auth would be best agency to take over task; suggests Rockefeller make NYS's planned lease of 58 floors of World Trade Center contingent on greater participation by agency in mass transit
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 1, 1971, covering December 6, 1971.
Santana
Cat Stevens
Soundtrack
Sly & The Family Stone
Carole King
1971Craig Brewer, American director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Craig Houston Brewer is an American filmmaker. His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp". He is also known for directing the 2011 remake of Footloose, the 2019 film Dolemite Is My Name and the 2021 film Coming 2 America, the latter two films starring Academy Award nominee Eddie Murphy.
1971José Contreras, Cuban baseball player[†]
José Ariel Contreras Camejo is a Cuban former professional baseball pitcher, who played in the Cuban National Series (CNS), Major League Baseball (MLB), and internationally for the Cuban national baseball team. He also played in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Chinatrust Brothers.
1971Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player[†]
Richard Peter Stanislav Krajicek is a Dutch former professional tennis player and tournament director. Krajicek won 17 singles titles during his career, including the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, becoming the first Dutchman to win a major singles title. He was ranked world No. 4 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in March 1999. Retiring from the sport in 2003, Krajicek has been the tournament director of the Rotterdam Open since 2004. He is also the author of various sports books.
1971Naozumi Takahashi, Japanese singer and voice actor[†]
Naozumi Takahashi is a Japanese singer and voice actor who released the two popular singles "Soshite Omae ni Deaeta Dake De" and "Muteki na Smile". Naozumi's single "Ashita No Kioku" was used as an opening theme for Black Blood Brothers.
1971Carole Thate, Dutch field hockey player[†]
Carole Helene Antoinette Thate is a Dutch former field hockey player, who played 168 international matches for the Netherlands, in which she scored forty goals. She made her debut on 20 November 1989 in a friendly match against England.
1971Ryan White, American activist (died 1990)[†]
Ryan Wayne White was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after his school barred him from attending classes following a diagnosis of AIDS.
1971Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.[†]
The Indo-Pakistani war of 1971, also known as the third Indo-Pakistani war, was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 December 1971. The war began with Pakistan's Operation Chengiz Khan, consisting of preemptive aerial strikes on eight Indian air stations. The strikes led to India declaring war on Pakistan, marking their entry into the war for East Pakistan's independence, on the side of Bengali nationalist forces. India's entry expanded the existing conflict with Indian and Pakistani forces engaging on both the eastern and western fronts.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]