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Moses Malone became the highest salaried teen‐age athlete in the United States yesterday by choosing a seven‐year professional basketball deal, with a potential value of $3 million, instead of playing for the University of Maryland.
White House on Aug 29 expresses some unhappiness with comment by Giscard that neither Pres Ford nor Pres Nixon had mentioned word 'Eur' during transition; Ford met with ambs of NATO countries in 1st hrs in office and in speech to Cong called for further cooperation with 'Atlantic' partners; White House notes Ford's concern with Eur, says record of commitment to alliance and to Eur is clear (M)
Judge James A Coolahan of Newark Fed Dist Ct rules that there was no legal justification for FBI's possession of file on teenager Lori Paton, who became subject of FBI investigation as result of classroom exercise, and says existence of records 'may at a later time become a detriment' to Paton; orders files destroyed; Frank J Donner, dir of ACLU's project on pol surveillance, says ruling appears to be 1st of its kind in US; Coolahan denies Paton's claim for $65,000 in damages and refuses to grant 'class' relief, which was aimed at preventing FBI from continuing to conduct type of surveillance that led to existence of 'subversive' file on Paton because she wrote to Socialist Workers party to gather information for pol science course; atty Frank Askin, who filed suit on behalf of Paton and West Morris-Mendham HS soc studies dept chmn William Gabrielson, says he will probably appeal denial of class relief; case revd; illus of Paton (L)
Tokyo police rept that explosion in city's business dist during noon rush hr killed at least 5 persons and injured 'a great number'; it is 1st reptd that a passenger auto hit parked tank truck loaded with liquid propane gas, but a witness cast doubt on rept pointing out that at that time of day passenger vehicles are banned from operating in area; explosion occurred outside Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bldg, which was badly damaged; UPI and Reuters rept that just before explosion a telephone call had warned Mitsubishi that a bomb would explode in bldg; explosion described; illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 28, 1974, covering August 30, 1974.
Eric Clapton
Stevie Wonder
John Denver
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Bad Company
1974Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist (died 2018)[†]
Javier Otxoa Palacios was a Spanish cyclist who was a member of the Kelme cycling team. His name was sometimes spelled Javier Ochoa in media reports.
1974A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.[†]
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. The population of the Belgrade metropolitan area is 1,685,563 according to the 2022 census. It is one of the major cities of Southeast Europe and the third-most populous city on the river Danube.
1974A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities.[†]
The 1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing was a terrorist bombing of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Tokyo, Japan on 30 August 1974, killing eight people and injuring at least 376 others. The bombing was committed by the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front, a radical far-left anti-Japanese organization, against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for supplying the United States against North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
1974The Third World Population Conference ends in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian Demographic Centre is inaugurated.[†]
The first ever World Population Conference was held at the Salle Centrale, Geneva, Switzerland, from 29 August to 3 September 1927. Organized by the forerunner of the United Nations, the League of Nations, and Margaret Sanger; the conference was an attempt to bring together international experts on population, food supply, fertility, migration and health to discuss the problem of human overpopulation. The conference was organized with funds donated by Sanger's husband, J. Noah Slee, as well as a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Sir. Bernard Mallet presided over the meeting, and William H. Welch was vice-president.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]