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Pres Nixon on Oct 17 meets with Algerian, Saudi Arabian, Kuwaiti and Moroccan foreign mins reptdly without discussing oil matters
Special Watergate prosecutor A Cox on Oct 17 asks Judge J J Sirica to require J Rose, former counsel for Associated Milk Producers Inc, to testify before grand jury concerning illegal contribution to Pres Nixon's re-election campaign
supporters of suspended Lower East Side Dist 1 school supt L Fuentes on Oct 17 begin series of actions aimed at restoring him to post, from which he was ousted on Oct 16 by white-dominated school bd; parents assns unanimously support boycott of 20 schools in dist; NAACP Legal Defense and Educ Fund plans to request US Dist Ct to set aside suspension; controversy revd; Fuentes and supporters illus
US Defense Dept is drawing up plans to ask Cong for supplemental appropriation to replace US arms being rushed to Israel; Pentagon officials estimate that at least $2-billion will be needed to replenish US stocks; dept spokesman J W Friedheim says on Oct 17 that Pentagon is considering possibility of asking Cong to make some of supplies outright gifts to Israel; in past Israel received US credits and paid in cash; preliminary Congressional reaction is strongly favorable to supply efforts; Pentagon sources say that US arms shipments now equal Soviet shipments to Arabs; rept US is sending some 20 cargo flights a day; say that until Oct 17 US-delivered tonnage to Israel was 1/3 of 5,500 tons of equipment believed to have been delivered by USSR in 350 flights over 8 days; figures do not include US equipment being carried on Israeli ships and planes or take acct of 25 F-4's flown to Israel by US pilots; US intelligence sources estimate that Israel has lost about 25 F-4s, mostly to missile fire; mil sources say that 50 to 80 A-4 Skyhawks are being ferried to Israel by ship; other equipment reptdly on its way to Israel includes air-to-air Sidewinder heat-seeking missile, TV-guided Walleye missiles used against ground targets, cluster-bombs for use against troops and armored vehicles and Shrike missiles; Pentagon refuses to confirm this supply pkg or individual items; says there is some evidence that USSR is resupplying Syria and Egypt with heavy tanks and MIG-21 jet fighters; US Sen S Symington says US should see that Israel gets what it needs
White House Deputy Press Sec G L Warren says on Oct 17 that Pres Nixon is confident his friend C G Rebozo acted properly in receiving $100,000 cash gift from billionaire H Hughes; refuses to say whether it was at Pres Nixon's bidding that Rebozo returned money to Hughes several yrs later; Warren's statement is considered significant because of strong possibility gift was illegal or at very least improper; if gift was in corp funds it would be in violation of Fed law; if it was an individual donation a gift tax should have been paid; gift should have been reptd and made a public record by law
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 17, 1973, covering October 18, 1973.
The Rolling Stones
Marvin Gaye
The Allman Brothers Band
Cheech & Chong
Stevie Wonder
1973Stephen Allan, Australian golfer[†]
Stephen Douglas Allan is an Australian professional golfer.
1973James Foley, American photographer and journalist (died 2014)[†]
James Wright Foley was an American journalist and video reporter. While working as a freelance war correspondent during the Syrian Civil War, he was abducted on November 22, 2012 in northwestern Syria. He was murdered by decapitation in August 2014 purportedly as a response to American airstrikes in Iraq, thus becoming the first American citizen executed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
1973Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer[†]
Michalis Kapsis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He was an integral part of Greece's UEFA Euro 2004 winning squad.
1973Rachel Nichols, American journalist and sportscaster[†]
Rachel Michele Nichols is an American journalist and sportscaster. She has covered the National Football League (NFL), National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Baseball (MLB), professional tennis, college sports, the Olympics and is most notable for her work with the National Basketball Association (NBA). In 2014, Sports Illustrated called Nichols "the country's most impactful and prominent female sports journalist".
1973Sarah Winckless, English rower[†]
Sarah Katharine Winckless is a British former rower. She won a bronze medal in Double sculls with her partner Elise Laverick at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and was twice world champion, in 2005 and 2006.
1973Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review (born 1886)[†]
Margaret Caroline Anderson was the American founder, editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review, which published a collection of modern American, English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. The periodical is most noted for introducing many prominent American and British writers of the 20th century, such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, in the United States and publishing the first thirteen chapters of James Joyce's then-unpublished novel Ulysses.
1973Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (born 1913)[†]
Walter Crawford Kelly Jr. was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo. In 1941, at the age of 28, Kelly transferred to work at Dell Comics, where he created Pogo, which eventually became his platform for political and philosophical commentary.
1973Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (born 1899)[†]
Leo Strauss was an American scholar of political philosophy. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books.
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]