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In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]
1973Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player[†]
Kazuhisa Ishii is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher and manager and general manager. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yakult Swallows and Saitama Seibu Lions and in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets.
Vice Pres Agnew says on Sept 8 that Repub party is healthy and has survived worst of Watergate affair, speech, Kane County Fair Grounds, Ill, in benefit fundraising event for Repr Arends; says 'morbid preoccupation' with Watergate 'obstructs' will of people because it distracts Govt from other necessary tasks; says 'we have reached the watershed of Watergate'; calls Watergate 'the misguided actions of a few zealots'; concedes there were real and tragic abuses' connected with it; says abuses resulting from current climate are of much more subtle and tragic proportions; says these abuses include 'persecutorial atmosphere hanging over Amer pol system' that, he says, damages willingness of men to enter politics, casts shadow over normal pol affairs and brings motives of politicians into question; illus
Article describes Bur of Customs computer network, Customs Automated Data Processing Intelligence Network (CADPIN), which aids in identifying suspected smugglers; operation, which was kept secret until recently, began in '70, has 485 terminal points along Mexican and Canadian borders and at internatl airports and several cruise ship ports; system allows customs inspectors to swiftly obtain data on people crossing border into US by entering name, passport number, auto license plate number or similar identification into remote terminal that is hooked up to central computer; computer stores data on known smugglers and criminals and is also linked with FBI and other law enforcement agencies; D Bulman, chief of center, says over Labor Day holiday alone 715,000 inquiries were handled on system
career sketch of M Court, winner of women's singles champ at US Open tennis tourn in Forest Hills
Ceres Land Co, one of nation's largest beef cattle feeding cos, begins on Sept 7 to include in normal diet of its herd substantial portions of feed derived from cattle manure, 1st commitment by major cattle producer to use processed, protein-rich animal waste as cattle feed; move came after 15 yrs of research and testing by a dozen cos and univs; roughly 3/4 of some 1.7-billion tons of wastes produced by farm animals yrly is cattle manure; cattle in feed lots produce some 600-million tons of manure a yr; Agr Dept researchers estimate that protein extracted only from feed-lot manure would equal protein contained in yrly soybean crop in US; soybean is chief protein source in animal feed; Ceres officials think they can produce manure-derived feed with 30% protein content at cost of less than $70 a ton, compared with $206 a ton for soybean oil meal with 44% protein content; Prof David W Seckler, who along with Prof W Brady Anthony pioneered process and is part-owner of Ceres, says that there is image problem since manure is, in effect, recycled; says that manure is far too valuable to waste as fertilizer or fuel; recycling process explained; illus; recycled manure feed will eventually replace only about 15-20% of cow's diet for its 5-mo stay at Ceres feed lot; co expects to spend $500,000 over next 3 yrs converting feed lots into efficient manure collection pens
Both sides in Kompong Cham, Sept 8, reptdly dig in and fortify houses and st positions while bringing up reinforcements; relatively little fighting reptd in city, but both sides seen preparing for maximum effort in next few days; insurgents are in complete control of the mainly residential southern part of city; Govt troops control northern part; river convoy from city arriving in Phnom Penh carries about 30 Govt casualties; convoys move regularly between 2 cities; illus of wounded Govt soldiers
Cong investigators disclose on Sept 8 that Pres Nixon asked White House to fly 1 of Watergate tape recordings to his home in Calif at midnight on 1 of 5 days ex-White House counsel J W Dean 3d was testifying before Sen Watergate com; com officials say Pres discarded plan but had 1 of his Watergate attys, J F Buzhardt Jr, listen to recording at White House same night and then brief him on its contents; say Nixon changed plans after being advised by asst S Bull that there was not a convenient courier flight to rush tape to San Clemente; say this was only 1 of several instances in which Nixon permitted aides to listen to Watergate tapes or to be briefed on their contents; Sen investigators say they believe Nixon's handling of tapes before their existence became known on July 16 could be factor in weighing Nixon's contention that to make tapes available to Sen com, special Watergate prosecutor or a Fed dist judge would violate 'principle of confidentiality' essential to Presidency; sources say com obtained new details concerning treatment of tapes when its staff conducted private ints last mo with Bull and White House press sec Ziegler; say Bull was told on June 27 to make arrangements for Secret Service to play Apr 15 tape at White House for White House special Watergate counsel J F Buzhardt Jr; say Nixon, on June 4, was said to have asked Bull to listen to recording of a Mar 15 meeting Nixon had with Dean and special Pres counsel R A Moore; Bull is said to have made notes on conversation and then read notes to Nixon; sources say Nixon had Bull repeat information to Ziegler; say Bull gave com information about availability of several tapes to H R Haldeman both before and after Haldeman resigned Apr 30 as White House chief of staff; com will meet on Sept 11 to plan for resumption of public hearings later this mo
gunman W Pauneto is shot and beaten to death by angry crowd after he apparently went berserk and wounded 2 women in burst of gunfire on Sept 8 in Bronx; victims are identified as L Rosario and C Ponza
Pres Nixon on Sept 8 urges relaxation of air quality standards to avert shortage of heating oil, news briefing following conf on energy matters with 15 sr Adm officials; urges enactment of bill permitting construction of trans-Alaska pipeline
Sept 9: 5 Palestinian guerrillas who have been holding 4 Saudi Arabian hostages aboard Kuwait Airways airliner at Kuwait airport surrender on Sept 8 and release their prisoners unharmed; gunmen give up after Kuwaiti officials firmly refuse to consider their demand for release of Palestinian guerrilla leader M D Odeh from Jordanian prison where he is serving life sentence; before giving up, guerrillas take Palestine Liberation Orgn repr A Yassin, who is serving as mediator between guerrillas and Kuwaiti Govt, as 5th hostage; Kuwaiti officials offered to give guerrillas safe conduct by car, with Yassin at wheel, to Iraq, if hostages were released; guerrillas demand that Kuwaiti security officials accompany then on drive to Iraq and when this demand is refused, gunmen give up; are taken into custody by security officials; thank Kuwaiti Defense Min Sheik Saad Abdullah el-Salem, who directed negotiations; 5 Palestinians arrived in Kuwait on Sept 7 from Paris, France, with hostages, whom they captured when they took over Saudi Embassy in Paris on Sept 5; Lebanese newspapers on Sept 8 publish statement attributed to 'Jordanian-Palestinian liberation movement' that says it is parent body for 'Punishment' (Al Icab) group that gunmen say they represent; statement attacks Palestine Liberation Orgn, headed by Y Arafat, and denounces 'Arab regimes that disguise themselves behind progressive slogans but move in the line of surrender'; attack on Saudi Embassy is seen as deliberate attempt by Palestinian radicals to disrupt growing cooperation in recent mos among Arab govts, including efforts to restore normal relations between Jordan, Egypt and Syria in 'confrontation' with Israel; action is particularly embarrassing for Arafat and Palestine Liberation Orgn, since Saudi Arabia has been major source of financial support for his guerrilla leadership; illus
Dr G Biorck, who heads med team assiged to King Gustav Adolf, tells newsmen on Sept 8 that King's circulation has dropped and his kidney function has deteriorated; King's condition is described as 'extremely serious' though his circulation and kidney functions have stabilized later; bleeding that necessitated surgery on Aug 20 came from several noncancerous ulcers and inflammation in small intestine; King's latest battle for life and hosp stay detailed; por of Biorck
UN Sec Waldheim's call for $250-million in internatl aid for 5-million flood victims recalled on occasion of promise for aid to refugees resettling in Pakistan and Bangladesh as result of pact between nations involved in India-Pakistan war in '71
Soviet physicist and civil rights advocate A D Sakharov on Sept 8 accuses Soviet Govt of 'shameless attempt to play on the antiwar sentiments of the people' by contending that he is against peace and virtually in favor of war, informal news conf with Western correspondents at his Moscow home; Sakharov's action in calling 2d such conf within 3 wks in defiance of warnings from Soviet officials seen as 'highly unusual' because it appears to pit single Soviet citizen against 'great weight' of Govt; insists that better relations with West are dependent upon mutual trust and dem reforms with USSR; Soviet press agency Tass has official statement published in all newspapers that asserts that 'To be a Soviet scientist means to be a Soviet patriot. There is no other way'; Sakharov contends that he has right to air his views as citizen, that he would prefer to do so through Soviet press if it would allow him, but that he sees nothing illegal in making his views known through Western newsmen