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article discusses Watergate Complex, where break-in of Dem Natl Com hq occurred, as Washington's latest tourist attraction; illus
article discusses major kinds of Fed aid recd in '72 in NY-NJ-Conn area; notes that NYS receives more direct Fed aid per capita than all except 6 states and that NJ and Conn are near bottom of list; figures noted; list showing per capita aid recd by states from red Govt in fiscal '72
NY Times survey of USSR on eve of Brezhnev's visit to US finds USSR is nation of anomalies that has borrowed or copied much from outside world but remains a continent unto itself, fearful of foreign intrusion; asserts nation is immensely powerful yet strangely insecure; current econ and soc failures and strengths discussed, including housing, and industrial and technological projects; illus of Brezhnev
About 400 Soviet diplomats and their families from Washington, DC, and NYC, greet Brezhnev on his arrival in Washington for unofficial start of his visit to US
more than 20,000 members of Hutu tribe paint grim picture of slaughter that has taken place in southern Burundi during last mo; number of Hutu tribesmen that has been killed since then is not known, but it is thought that number runs into thousands; mo ago, members of Hutu tribe, which numbers 3-million, tried to oust ruling Tutsi tribe, which had about 600,000 members; witnesses coming from Burundi rept open mass graves on outskirts of capital, Bujumbura, as well as truckloads of bodies in city and central town of Kitega; lr received in Dar Es Salaam from 8 RC priests who are working in missions at Muhinda, Mulera and Kasumo, express belief that they no longer can remain silent while world ignores slaughter in Burundi; Rev R Vicens, sec of Mulema deanery comments; map
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 13, 1973, covering June 17, 1973.
Paul McCartney And Wings
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Edgar Winter
The Beatles
1973Leander Paes, Indian tennis player[†]
Leander Adrian Paes is an Indian former professional tennis player and the first Asian man to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He is regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all-time and holds the record for the most doubles wins in the Davis Cup. Paes won eight men's doubles and ten mixed doubles Grand Slam titles. He holds a career Grand Slam in men's doubles and mixed doubles making him one of only three men in the Open era to achieve this distinction and won the rare men's/mixed double at the 1999 Wimbledon Championships. Paes, together with Mahesh Bhupathi, were the first pair in Open era history to reach the men's doubles finals of all 4 Grand Slams in the same calendar year (1999).
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]