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The Civil Aeronautics Board, blaming a “precipitous” rise in the price of jet fuel, authorized the nation's domestic airlines yesterday to raise fares 4 per cent on April 16.
Sources say at least 1 of 17 wiretaps authorized by Pres Nixon for ‘natl security’ reasons provided White House with pol intelligence about Dem Pres campaign of Sen E S Muskie; repts containing references to Muskie were reptdly prepared in late ‘70 and early ‘71 by Fed agents monitoring wiretap on home telephone of former Natl Security Council officer Morton H Halperin, who later joined Muskie campaign; information relating to Muskie is first indication that some details of his campaign planning were in hands of White House operatives long before Pres primaries; sources who have seen some of repts on Halperin say they contain references to Muskie's activities in behalf of his bid for Dem Pres nomination at time when he was widely considered front‐running candidate against Nixon; neither sources nor FBI documents make clear to what use, if any, White House may have put information on Muskie campaign that was supplied by wiretap (L)
French Foreign Min Michel Jobert warns Arab oil countries that they must treat all Eur consumers equally if they want special links with Eur, Algerian Press Service int; indirectly urges Arabs to lift embargo against Denmark and Netherlands in return for holding conf of Arab and Eur foreign mins that has so annoyed Washington; sees such a conf several mos in future; US Sec Kissinger is reptdly furious because West Ger Foreign Min Walter Scheel failed to get mention of conf removed from communique that was issued from EEC meeting in Copenhagen in Dec ‘73, although other changes requested by Kissinger were made; Scheel has assured Kissinger that Eur plans will not conflict or interfere with Washington's efforts (M)
3 convicted bank robbers who attempted to escape from Fed Detention Hq surrender on Mar 22 and release 4 hostages after being promised they will not be prosecuted for attempt; guns used in incident were passed in through broken windows; inmates identified as Ernest Moore, John Boston and Spencer Chinn; hostages included Capt Will Stretch and guard Eddie Williams; illus (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 20, 1974, covering March 23, 1974.
Barbra Streisand
John Denver
Joni Mitchell
Mike Oldfield
Bob Dylan
1974Mark Hunt, New Zealand mixed martial artist[†]
Mark Hunt is a New Zealand former professional mixed martial artist and kickboxer. As a mixed martial artist, Hunt competed in Pride Fighting Championships from 2004 until 2006, and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) from 2010 until 2018. As a kickboxer, Hunt achieved success as the winner of the 2001 K-1 World Grand Prix. He is known as the "King of Walk-Offs" due to his popularization of walking away and stopping attacks before the referee officially ends the match.
1974Randall Park, American actor, director and screenwriter[†]
Randall Park is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his roles as Agent Jimmy Woo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, FBI Special Agent Edwin Park in the Netflix series The Residence (2025), Louis Huang in the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020), for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2016, and for IKEA heights, a web series.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]