The U.S. Senate ratifies UN’s anti-genocide convention 37 years later. The Senate approved a United Nations convention against genocide today, nearly 37 years after it was first submitted by President Harry S. Truman. “We have waited long enough,” said the Senate majority leader, Bob Dole of Kansas, moments before the pact, known as the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, was approved, 83 to 11. The convention, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948, declares genocide to be an international crime, and obliges the nations that adhere to it to punish those who commit genocide. More than 90 nations, including the Soviet Union, have joined, but the convention has languished in the Senate since June 1949, when President Truman first submitted it for approval. With the exception of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, every President since has also supported it.
Reagan Administration officials have declared that the extent of United States assistance for some developing countries will depend on their efforts to transfer public assets and programs to private industry. The remarks were made Tuesday by several officials of the Agency for International Development during an International Conference on Privatization sponsored by the agency and attended by 250 participants from 40 nations. Secretary of State George P. Shultz told the conference that “Privatization is not just a device to cut back the size of government; rather, it is a policy to improve the delivery of services people are now getting — energy, housing, transportation, whatever.”
U.S. Air Force officials have devised a plan to continue testing an antisatellite weapon that they believe does not violate a Congressional prohibition against testing the weapon on objects in space, Pentagon officials and Congressional experts say. The plan, which has yet to be approved by Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, calls for carrying out at least two tests in which a missile fired by an F-15 jet would seek to guide itself toward the heat generated by a star. A Pentagon official said Tuesday that the tests would be particularly helpful in developing the capacity to attack satellites that fly in low orbit. These could include Soviet photographic reconnaissance satellites and ocean reconnaissance satellites.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl warmly greeted East Germany’s third-highest official today and agreed that Erich Honecker, the East German leader, should visit Bonn, Mr. Kohl’s press office said. The official, Horst Sindermann, who as president of the East German Parliament is the highest-ranking East German official to visit Bonn, met with Mr. Kohl for an hour and 45 minutes, considerably longer than scheduled. Mr. Honecker’s visit would be the first by an East German head of government since Germany was split into two countries in 1949. “They agreed that the visit of General Secretary Honecker in the Federal Republic of Germany, at the invitation of the Chancellor, should take place at a mutually acceptable date,” a statement from the West German press office said.
A radio station said today that an anonymous caller had asserted that a left-wing Portuguese terrorist group planted the bomb that exploded Tuesday in the trunk of an American marine’s car inside the gates of the United States Embassy compound. An embassy press officer, Don Traub, said work at the heavily fortified compound was “back to normal” after the blast, which sent flames shooting high into the evening sky but caused no injuries or damage to nearby buildings. Radio Commercial here said the caller asserted responsibility on behalf of the left-wing Popular Forces of April 25, or FP-25, and then hung up. It was the third time FP-25 apparently took responsibility for an attempted attack on the embassy.
King Hussein announced today that he was ending a yearlong effort to devise a joint peace strategy with Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. In a three-and-a-half-hour speech on television, the King said the P.L.O. had proved to be untrustworthy in the effort to find a formula for talks with Israel. “I and the Government of the Kingdom of Jordan announce that we are unable to continue to coordinate politically with the P.L.O. leadership until such time as their word becomes their bond, characterized by commitment, credibility and constancy,” he said. There was no P.L.O. reaction. Palestinians close to the P.L.O. leadership said “at no time during the negotiations did it mislead Jordan.” In Israel, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said the decision had created a “historic opportunity” and he called on Palestinians in the occupied territories to “free themselves of the P.L.O.” The King’s announcement marked the second time that the he had tried and failed to join the P.L.O. Diplomats said it appeared to represent a setback for the decadelong United States-brokered effort to obtain land for the Palestinians in return for recognition and security for Israel.
King Hussein’s break with the political leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization today was viewed here as a setback for the Middle East peace process. Many diplomats said they believed the development could mean the end of the decade-long American-brokered effort to obtain land for the Palestinians in return for recognition and security for Israel. Jordan believes it has been forced to pull away from the American-sponsored peace process, and the King, still unhappy that he will not get advanced aircraft from the United States, will continue to build on his recent reconciliation with Syria. After 18 months of negotiating with P.L.O. leaders, the King admitted that he could not succeed where others before him had failed: to persuade P.L.O. leaders to accept two crucial United Nations resolutions that imply the recognition of Israel’s right to exist within pre-1967 boundaries as the P.L.O.’s ticket into the peace process.
An anonymous caller said tonight that an Islamic fundamentalist group had killed one of two Israeli soldiers it captured in southern Lebanon on Monday. The group, the Islamic Resistance Front, had said it would kill one of the two Israeli soldiers if Israeli troops did not discontinue a major search operation. The search, involving hundreds of helicopter-borne troops, began in southern Lebanon hours after the two Israelis were ambushed and captured inside the Israeli buffer zone. The unconfirmed report of the execution came amid reports from witnesses and Lebanese authorities that Israeli troops were running into strong resistance and were being engaged in firefights as they extended their operation into additional Shiite Moslem villages. Israel denied the reports. The search operation is the biggest Israeli military venture into Lebanon since Israel withdrew the bulk of its forces from Lebanon last year. The anonymous caller, speaking for the resistance front, telephoned the West Beirut radio station Voice of the Nation and said the captive was “executed” at 9 PM Beirut time. The Islamic Resistance Front is believed to be associated with the Party of God, an organization linked to Iran that has been held responsible for numerous terrorist attacks in Lebanon.
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said tonight that Israel rejected an ultimatum by the Islamic Resistance Front to kill one of two captured Israeli soldiers unless Israel called off its search operation. He spoke before the announcement in Beirut of an anonymous caller’s statement that one captive had been killed.
Heavy fighting raged for a 10th day in the strategic Fao peninsula south of here today as Iraq tried to repulse what appears to be Iran’s most serious offensive in the five-and-a-half-year-old war. Iran’s success last week in seizing a swath of southern Iraq has sent a wave of consternation and fear through the Persian Gulf emirates and other Arab governments that are backing Iraq. As has been the case throughout the war, the two sides issued conflicting claims of sweeping victories and of thousands of enemy casualties. The Tehran radio asserted Tuesday that 14,400 Iraqis had been killed or wounded since Iran began its offensive, while an Iraqi commander near Fao, Brigadier General Hisham Sabah al-Fakhri, was quoted in Baghdad as saying, “The battlefield was littered today with the bodies of thousands of Iranians.” But it was clear that Iraq was having difficulty in pressing what it said was a “three-pronged attack” to dislodge the Iranians from the area, which includes what was once Iraq’s key oil terminal. An announcement asserted Tuesday that the main Iraqi column had been able to regain about 500 yards, which, it conceded, had been previously lost. The announcement of the counterattack was the first admission by the Iraqis that the Fao area had been overrun.
A land mine planted by Tamil separatists blew up a truck carrying villagers to market in northeast Sri Lanka, killing at least 36 people and wounding 20, officials said. Security Minister Lalith Athulathmudali said that women and children were among those killed in the blast at Serunuwara. The attack was the worst on Sinhalese civilians since last May, when a raid on Anuradhapura killed 100. The minister said the mine, which blew up as two buses and the truck carrying villagers and their produce from was planted by Tamil separatists seeking an independent state.
South Korean police put more than 200 members of the main opposition party, including all its leaders, under house arrest to stop them from attending a major party meeting, party officials said. About 300 riot police also surrounded the New Korea Democratic Party headquarters to prevent members from gathering there to plan a national campaign for constitutional reforms and direct presidential elections. For dissident Kim Young Sam, it was the third time in a week that he has been placed under house arrest.
Two sons of senior Chinese Communist Party officials were executed in Shanghai after they were convicted of raping or molesting 48 women between 1981 and 1984, the official New China News Agency reported. One of the executed, Chen Xiaomeng, and one of those jailed in the case, Chen Binglang, are the sons of Chen Qiwu, former head of the Communist Party propaganda department in Shanghai. The second man executed, Hu Xiaoyang, was the son of Hu Lijiao, chairman of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress.
The Senate voted overwhelmingly today to condemn corruption in the Philippine election, as sentiment mounted on Capitol Hill to restrict American aid to the Manila Government and to try to force President Ferdinand E. Marcos from power. By a vote of 85 to 9, the Senate adopted a resolution declaring that the Philippine presidential election on February 7 was “marked by such widespread fraud that they cannot be considered a fair reflection of the will of the people of the Philippines.” No senator defended the Marcos Government, and the negative votes were cast by eight conservative Republicans and one Democrat. The resolution has no force of law, but it reflects a rising sense of outrage over the Philippine situation that has washed over Capitol Hill this week since the lawmakers returned from the Washington’s Birthday recess. On Saturday, the Philippine National Assembly, controlled by supporters of Mr. Marcos, declared him the winner of the election over Corazon C. Aquino.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz today assailed what he called “fraud and violence on a systematic and widespread scale” carried out by the supporters of President Ferdinand E. Marcos in the election in the Philippines. Speaking out for the first time, Mr. Shultz, in testimony before the Senate, issued the Administration’s strongest condemnation so far of the February 7 election. “One can’t say that we got out of the election what one wants to get out of the election, namely a legitimized and credible government,” he said of the re-election of Mr. Marcos over his opponent, Corazon C. Aquino. Before the election, the United States had repeatedly urged the Marcos Government to permit a vote that would be honest and credible to the Filipino people. This was the first time a senior Administration official had publicly questioned the “legitimacy” of the Marcos victory, although President Reagan on Saturday had criticized fraud and violence by the Marcos camp.
An executive for a leading newspaper in the United States opposed to President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines was killed at his suburban Los Angeles home today in what some Marcos opponents say was a political assassination. The news executive, Oscar Salvatierra, was shot dead in Glendale this morning, two days after colleagues on The Philippine News said he received an unsigned death threat. A few days ago, Mr. Salvatierra appeared on television in an interview with the NBC-TV affiliate here, and said that he had been threatened in the past for his criticism of Mr. Marcos. Mr. Salvatierra, 41 years old, was Los Angeles bureau manager and marketing director for The Philippine News, a weekly published in San Francisco with a national circulation. It is a leading voice for Filipinos in the United States who oppose Mr. Marcos.
As President Reagan’s special envoy continued his consultations here Wednesday on the Philippine political turmoil, President Ferdinand E. Marcos denounced what he called foreign “intervention in the internal affairs of our people.” At the same time, Mr. Marcos took a tougher line against his political opponents, saying that he might press charges of sedition and rebellion if they resorted to civil disobedience to protest what they said was widespread fraud and violence in this month’s presidential election. Among actions he would consider illegal, he said, were attempts to interfere with “normal functions of even commercial establishments.” That presumably would include a one-day general strike called for next week by the opposition leader, Corazon C. Aquino.
Officials nationalized Duvalier assets throughout Haiti. The new interim Government in Port-au-Prince also ordered foreign and Haitian nationals to disclose within two weeks any assets they may be holding in the name of former President Jean-Claude Duvalier.
President Reagan participates in a meeting with a group of Bipartisan Members of Congress to discuss continued assistance to the freedom fighters in Nicaragua. Reagan Administration officials accused Nicaragua today of a vast campaign to influence United States public opinion. They asserted that the effort by the Sandinistas included the use of “disinformation.” However, Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, refused to make public the “highly classified document” that he said proved the Administration’s case against Nicaragua.
The U.S.-backed rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government are responsible for most of the human rights violations in that civil war, a human rights group charged. The Washington Office on Latin America cited 139 attacks on Nicaraguan civilians last year — assassination, kidnaping, rape, mutilation and torture — and said 118 were committed by the contras. It said that Nicaraguan soldiers were responsible for 21.
French soldiers and warplanes were positioned around Chad’s main airport at N’Djamena, which was damaged earlier in the week by a bomb, apparently dropped by Libyan warplanes. French sources said the airport was reopened to civilian jets after workmen filled a 50-foot-wide crater in the runway. In Paris, External Relations Minister Roland Dumas said France expects its intervention to restrict further assaults by Libyan-backed rebels. An estimated 500 French troops have been sent to Chad.
Liberia rejected a French request to grant asylum to former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. Liberia had been the only country to indicate publicly that it might accept Duvalier and his family, who have been living in a French resort hotel since fleeing the Caribbean nation February 7. Liberia had said it would consider an asylum request if it came from Duvalier, but he said he doesn’t want to live there, preferring France or the United States. Neither country wants him, and they have been trying to find a country willing to accept him.
South African President Pieter W. Botha was criticized by liberal and conservative politicians for secretly recording a conversation with Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, an opposition party leader who later resigned his seat in Parliament, citing disillusionment with apartheid. “I strongly disapprove of any such treatment of an interview, especially when it was not stated beforehand,” right-wing legislator Andries Treurnicht said. Botha said, “It is normal and accepted international practice that there should at times be a record of certain important discussions.”
South Africa’s three leading anti-Government clerics called on Western creditor banks today to refuse to reschedule the nation’s frozen foreign debt until the Government resigns. The clerics — Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, the Rev. Allan Boesak and the Rev. Beyers Naude — also called for the seizure of South African assets abroad to put pressure on the white Government to abandon apartheid. The call was made one day before a meeting in London to discuss a rescheduling of part of the frozen, $24 billion debt. In a separate development, the Government faced white opposition criticism today after President P. W. Botha, tacitly acknowledging that he had had his own office bugged, made public the transcript of a conversation last year with Frederick van Zyl Slabbert, who recently resigned unexpectedly as a white opposition leader.
NASA’s technical experts reviewed the shuttles’ booster rocket sealing problems last August without considering the impact of cold weather on the seals or giving much attention to the possibility that launchings should be delayed while the seals were strengthened, according to a key participant in the top-level review and recently released documents. The participant, William H. Hamby, deputy director of shuttle program integration, described in an interview a history of rising concern over the rocket seals. Documents made public by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and interviews with key participants disclose that the space agency faced two pivotal decisions in assessing the safety of the space shuttle Challenger. These two decisions have become the centerpiece of a growing debate over whether the explosion could have been avoided. The first decision came last summer as engineers discussed possible changes to improve the safety of seals on the shuttle’s solid-fuel booster rockets. Although the engineers conceded that there was a long history of erosion in these vital seals, there was apparently no formal discussion by NASA officials of whether the problems were serious enough to halt further shuttle missions while a solution was sought. In fact, a long meeting held at NASA headquarters on August 19, 1985, resulted in a consensus that the shuttle would fly “as is” while safety solutions were explored.
The second pivotal discussion arose the night before the January 28 liftoff, as the Challenger sat on the launching pad in freezing cold. In a long meeting at the Kennedy Space Center, the director of the solid-fuel motor project at Morton Thiokol Inc., the company that built the boosters, argued repeatedly with NASA officials that the launching should be delayed because of potential damage to the seals caused by cold weather — colder by far than any of the previous 24 shuttle launchings. The engineer, Allan J. McDonald, said he continued to argue against launching the shuttle even after he was overruled by his superior. “I argued before and I argued after,” Mr. McDonald said. The next morning, after several delays related to the cold, the Challenger lifted off. An explosion 73 seconds later destroyed the shuttle, killing all seven astronauts aboard. A failure of the booster rocket seals has emerged as one of the most likely causes of the explosion, although investigators say they are pursuing other possible explanations. If the seals were in fact responsible, they say, the cold may only partly explain their failure.
Jesse W. Moore, the space agency official who made the final decision to launch the Challenger space shuttle, will leave his position as associate administrator for space flight sooner than expected and be replaced by Richard Truly, a former shuttle astronaut, agency sources said last night. Meanwhile, the Presidential commission investigating the Challenger explosion said today that “at least three key NASA officials” responsible for the decision to launch the craft had never been informed that engineers working for the manufacturer of the Challenger’s booster rockets had “strongly urged against the launch.” The commission declined to name the three officials. One source familiar with the investigation said it would be a “reasonable assumption” that the apparent failure by middle-level NASA officials to pass on the warnings prompted the commission to issue its statement over the weekend that the process leading to the decision to launch “may have been flawed.”
Moscow launched a new space station into Earth orbit, but no astronauts were immediately put aboard, the press agency Tass announced. The new station, which was described as a research laboratory, joined the Salyut-7 station, which was sent aloft in April 1982.
The federal budget deficits that have bedeviled the economy since the start of the Reagan Administration have reached a turning point, according to government and private analysts. They have stopped going up, and as far as such experts can see, they are now going down. They are declining, they say, even without the contribution of cuts required under the new balanced-budget law, except for the small ones taking effect this year. An awareness of this shift has not yet become part of the conventional economic wisdom, because the turnaround is only now being detected by economic analysts in the government and the private sector. The emerging trend, if it continues, means that the nation’s most divisive economic issue would begin to recede.
President Reagan participates in a meeting to discuss coal reclamation with Governor, Martha L. Collins (D-Kentucky).
Republicans and Democrats on a Senate subcommittee today criticized a proposal by the Reagan Administration to reduce or eliminate a number of transportation assistance programs in the next fiscal year. Senator Mark Andrews, chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, said he doubted that the panel would go along with the Reagan Administration’s request to eliminate $616 million in subsidies for Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. The North Dakota Republican made his comments to reporters after a hearing at which Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole appeared to defend the Administration’s budget request.
Fred F. Fielding, one of the few remaining key officials who served in President Reagan’s first term, has resigned as White House counsel to practice law in Washington. “I guess I’m one of the last of the Mohicans,” Mr. Fielding said with a laugh as he confirmed today that he had resigned from the position he has held since 1981. “I’m leaving because it’s simply time to go. I’ve spent longer here than I anticipated.”
A trimmed-down plan for two big federal agencies to exchange millions of acres of public land has been sent to Congress, the Reagan Administration announced. When the proposal was announced more than a year ago, it called for the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service to swap a net of 34 million acres, closing scores of offices and eliminating as many as 900 jobs. The revised proposal would mean land exchanges of about 25 million acres and only half as many lost jobs. Most of the land is in the western half of the United States.
The House refused to authorize spending nearly $900 million in the next two years to provide medical care for an estimated 5.7 million people, including migrant farm workers, who lack health insurance and cannot afford to see a doctor. Rip Forbes, an aide to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-California), floor manager for the bill, said Waxman would promptly seek another House vote under more favorable parliamentary rules requiring only a simple majority for passage.
Leaders of the meatpackers on strike against the Geo. A. Hormel & Company plant in Austin, Minn., ventured today onto the winter meeting ground of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. but were shunned by labor leaders who oppose tactics used in the six-month struggle. Lane Kirkland, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Workers, declined a request by James Guyette, president of the Austin meatpackers’ local and Ray Rogers, a consultant to the union, to address the federation’s executive council to seek support. Mr. Kirkland said today that the council would follow the lead of the parent union in opposing the tactics used by Austin strikers, which have included picketing Hormel’s bankers and its plants elsewhere. Parent Union’s Opposition Mr. Kirkland’s reluctance to give any encouragement to the Austin strikers appeared to be shared by most executive council members here willing to comment publicly.
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company plans to test job applicants for illegal drug use and turn away any who fail the test. Some of the company’s 110,000 current employees will also be tested, but only if there is a “reason for suspecting someone has a problem,” said Dr. Bruce W. Karrh, a Du Pont vice president who announced the plan Tuesday. He added that employees would not be dismissed if they refused to be tested, “but the refusal will be grounds for a performance review.” He said the testing of job applicants would begin March 1.
A new combat helmet whose design was questioned by the Pentagon has been found to meet safety standards, although the government may have paid too much for it, the Army said. The Army believed there might be an unacceptable weak spot on the top of the helmet, worn by nearly a half-million soldiers and Marines. The inspector general’s office began an investigation last year into whether the maker, Gentex Corp. of Carbondale, Pennsylvania, cut corners in production to save about $42 of the $85.20 paid for each helmet.
Pilots for Eastern Airlines set up informational picket lines outside airports in 11 cities today while a Federal mediator in Miami held talks aimed at averting a possible strike next week. Informational picket lines went up outside Eastern terminals in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Miami, Newark, New York, Orlando, Florida, Philadelphia, Tampa, Florida, and Washington, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association said.
The senior test pilot for the Douglas Aircraft Company, manufacturer of the Midwest Express Airlines DC-9 that crashed on takeoff last fall, told a Federal investigative panel today that there might have been a breakdown of communications in the cockpit.
An avalanche roared onto a ski run at the Alta, Utah, resort, and killed a 16-year-old skier, the second person to die beneath tons of sliding wet snow in Utah in three days. The youth, whose name was withheld, was buried in snow for 2 ½ hours before rescuers found him, still alive, and he was flown to LDS Hospital in nearby Salt Lake City where he died of cardiac arrest and hypothermia.
A federal judge has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration acted legally in declining to remove nine food, drug and cosmetic dyes from the market. U.S. District Judge Stanley S. Harris said in Washington that the FDA could extend the deadline for a decision on the safety of food dyes, even though the agency has been studying the issue for more than 25 years. After 27 extensions, the FDA approved an indefinite extension on a decision on the food dyes last September.
The Prince of Wales, on the second day of a four-day visit marking the Republic of Texas’s 150th birthday, sampled a taco today and toured an oil refinery and the battlefield where Texas won its independence. The Prince, riding in a Jaguar sedan, followed an itinerary that reads like a travelogue. He said he was fascinated by most of what he saw, if taken aback a bit by the Texas heat, which hit a humid 87 degrees as he toured the San Jacinto Monument outside Houston. The monument marks the site of a battle on April 21, 1836, in which Texas forces led by Gen. Sam Houston defeated the Mexican Army of Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. The battle secured Texas’s independence.
A popular test kit for detecting birth defects in fetuses may produce too many incorrect results, unnecessarily forcing pregnant women to undergo possibly hazardous follow-up exams, researchers warned in the New England Journal of Medicine. The kit, made by Kallestad Laboratories Inc. of Austin, Texas, could produce positive results for spinal and brain defects twice as often as it should, according to the Foundation for Blood Research in Scarborough, Maine. But a spokesman for Kallestad said the kit would produce accurate results as long as it was used properly.
Heavy rainfall in the West continued spreading and the estimated number of flood refugees rose above 11,000. Northern California was hardest hit, with up to 22 inches of rain in the valleys and nine feet of snow in the mountains.
More than 6,000 acres of prime vineyards in California’s Napa Valley were flooded by record rains in the past week. But as the community mopped up the mess today after the downpour tapered off, the good news from the valley was that the flooding was not expected to result in any lasting damage to the vineyards. “There could be some problems with the roots if the water doesn’t drain off,” said Pete Bardessono, who grows premium wine grapes as a sideline to his job as director of public works for this town of 2,000 people. “But the water’s starting to recede, and as long as that continues, we’ll be all right.” Growers in both the Napa and Sonoma valleys agreed that the timing of the flooding was fortunate for them because at this time of the year the grape vines are dormant.
James O. Eastland died in a Greenwood (Mississippi) hospital at the age of 81. Mr. Eastland, a conservative, served in the Senate for 36 years, was chairman of the Judiciary Committee for 22 years and was known as a symbol of Southern resistance to racial desegregation.
The stock market’s winning streak came to an abrupt end yesterday, with prices suffering their steepest decline in more than a month. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 20.52 points, to 1,658.26. The drop followed testimony by Paul A. Volcker, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, indicating that the central bank has not been putting downward pressure on interest rates.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1658.26 (-20.52)
Born:
Kyle Chipchura, Canadian NHL centre (Montreal Canadiens, Anaheim Ducks, Phoenix-Arizona Coyotes), in Westlock, Alberta, Canada.
Linus Klasen, Swedish NHL left wing (Nashville Predators), in Stockholm, Sweden.
Michael Schwimer, MLB pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies), in Fairfax, Virginia.
Trevor Ford, NFL cornerback (Green Bay Packers), in Miami, Florida.
Maria Mena, Norwegian pop-folk singer-songwriter (“Hold Me”; “You’re The Only One”), in Oslo, Norway.
Died:
James O. Eastland, 81, American politician (Senator-D-Mississippi, 1943-1978).
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