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rev of week's Watergate events, including Pres Nixon's decision to turn over to Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski tapes and documents dealing with contributions to his re‐election campaign; Nixon illus (S)
Jonathan Reynolds article, noting consistently high quality of La restaurants, describes DeeDee's restaurant, Opelousas; some of celebrities that have dined at restaurant listed; illus (L)
Ken Norton leaves Venezuela on Mar 30 after paying $80,000 in income tax, but George Foreman remains because his payment of $300,000 came too late for issuance of tax clearances; Foreman's spokesman Bill Caplan says that Foreman had paid $150,000 of his own money and that bond for another $150,000 was reptdly put up by Video Techniques Inc (M)
Sec Kissinger on Mar 30 ends 2 days of talks with Israeli Defense Min Dayan and expresses confidence that he will bring about troop separation agreement between Israel and Syria on Golan hts; says Israeli proposals for disengagement of forces, submitted by Dayan on Mar 29, provides ‘useful basis’ for negotiations; Israel reptdly is willing to give up only territory seized from Syria in Oct Middle East war, whereas Syrians have also asked for at least some land captured on Golan hts in ‘67 war; Kissinger says that ‘after disengagement’ is achieved, he believes Syria will send delegation to Geneva Middle East conf (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 27, 1974, covering March 31, 1974.
John Denver
Joni Mitchell
Mike Oldfield
Barbra Streisand
Paul McCartney And Wings
1974Benjamin Eicher, German director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Benjamin Eicher is a film director famous for his cult film sequel Dei Mudder Sei Gesicht II and further feature-length gangster comedies.
1974Natali, Russian singer, composer and songwriter[†]
Natalia Anatolievna Rudina, better known by stage name Natali, is a Russian singer, composer, songwriter, and TV presenter.
1974Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bass player[†]
Bo Stefan Alexander Olsdal is a Swedish-Luxembourgish musician, best known as the bassist/guitarist of the alternative rock band Placebo, he is also part of the electronic band Digital 21 + Stefan Olsdal and launched the electronic/dance remix at Hotel Persona.
1974Jani Sievinen, Finnish swimmer[†]
Jani Nikanor Sievinen is a former medley swimmer from Finland, who won the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In winning the World Championship 200m individual medley title in 1994, he established a new world record of 1:58.16 which lasted for almost nine years until it was broken by Michael Phelps (USA).
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]