The April 6, 1973 was a Friday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 95 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 53 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, April 6, 2026, 57 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, April 6, 2027, in 307 days. You have lived for 19,415 days, or about 465,979 hours, or about 27,958,757 minutes, or about 1,677,525,420 seconds.
6th of April 1973 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 6, 1973
HAYDEN TESTIFIES IN ELLSBERG CASE; Antiwar Activist Is Critical of U.S. Peace Efforts
Date: 06 April 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
T E Hayden on Apr 5 testifies at Pentagon papers trial that 'a lot of diplomacy on the part of the US was stage-managed to create the image that the US was seeking peace when it was not'; reads from 4 vols of so-called diplomatic papers; quotes then Amb H C Lodge as saying that if the bombing of N Vietnam continued 'there would be nobody left in N Vietnam on whom to put pressure' for peace; D S Luce testifies on his work in Vietnam for the World Council of Chs and the Meth and Presb chs and about articles he wrote about 'tiger cages' he helped uncover in a S Vietnamese prison in '70
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Ellsberg Judge Accepts Hayden As Expert on Diplomacy of U.S.
Date: 07 April 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times April 6
US Fed Dist Ct Judge W M Byrne Jr, presiding over Pentagon papers trial, on Apr 6 overrules prosecutor D R Nissen's objection to accepting testimony of antiwar activist T Hayden on release of papers as that of expert witness; Hayden testifies that disclosure of papers did not affect beginning or completion of negotiations; Profs N Chomsky and F P Ward are called as witnesses; Chomsky testifies that release of papers did not injure natl security
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Guild Strikes in Virginia
Date: 07 April 1973
Newspaper Guild members picket Alexandria, Va, Gazette on Apr 6 after calling strike over wages
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Newsman Draws Year in Jail After Secret Trial in Rhodesia; Detained Since Feb. 20
Date: 07 April 1973
By ALVIN SHUSTER
Alvin SHUSTER
African Natl Council on Apr 6 rejects Rhodesian Prime Min Smith's new efforts to settle ind dispute with GB; Smith earlier told Parliament that '71 proposed settlement terms remain basis of new attempts to break deadlock
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Printers Union Head Charges Papers With Unfair Practices
Date: 07 April 1973
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
Typographical Union Local 6 pres B A Powers says on Apr 6 that his local has filed unfair labor practice charges with NLRB against NY Daily News, NY Post and NY Times, alleging that papers, through procedure of cross-designation of spokesmen, have sought to bargain with them as multiemployer unit contrary to earlier decision of NLRB; repts bargaining com, headed by W K Graham, is same for each of 3 newspapers; contends that publishers have devised such procedure to get around NLRB ruling several yrs ago that upheld union's right to negotiate with newspapers seperately; News spokesman say each of publishers has been advised by counsel that their position is 'correct and legal one'; Diario-La Prensa is not published on Apr 6 as several craft unions continue to picket paper's plant
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EL DIARIO'S SALES HALTED BY STRIKE; Deliverers Honor Picketing by Two Other Unions
Date: 06 April 1973
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
El Diario-La Prensa fails to reach NYC newsstands on Apr 5 as result of strike by pressmen and stereotypers, protesting co's attempt to have Apr 5 edition of paper printed in plant in Wayne, NJ; unions hold that many jobs would be jeopardized by move
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Democrats Plan a Fight on Nixon's Proposed Defense Information Curbs
Date: 06 April 1973
By WARREN WEAVER Jr.Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
Dem Sens are preparing strong counterattack next wk against Nixon Adm's new proposal to impose restrictions on dissemination of Govt information on natl defense and foreign relations; Atty Gen Kleindienst will be challenged at hearings on Govt secrecy opening on Apr 10 to justify establishing fines and jail sentences for persons who relay or publish classified information even if it should never have been classified; Govt proposals include: making it felony to communicate knowingly 'information relating to natl defense' to unauthorized person; requiring authorized holder of such information, subject to same penalties, to rept to his superiors any such communication to unauthorized person by someone else; providing that no one accused of these offenses can avoid punishment on ground that information was improperly classified when it was 1st classified or when it was divulged; defining 'natl defense information' as including any facts, regardless of their source, relating to 'conduct of foreign relations affecting natl defense
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Some Africans Feel French Aides Are on Too Lofty a Pedestal; Lives So Much Better' French Attitudes Vary
Date: 06 April 1973
By THOMAS A. JOHNSONSp.ecial to The New York Times
Thomas JOHNSONSp
Article on complaints among many Africans in former French colonies of West Africa that French citizens still living in African countries enjoy privileged situations; says while some Africans insist French presence is essential to indus development, many others maintain such relationships benefit French far more than Africans; notes French residents exhibit variety of attitudes about their roles; French role in several former African colonies noted; recent demonstrations in Senegal in part from student dissatisfaction with French role and forthcoming Sup Ct case brought by Senegalese journalist A R Cisse, whose publication accused French cooperants at Univ of Dakar of responsibility for dismissal of Senegalese linguistics expert, noted
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Moroccans Refuse Entry To a Times Correspondent
Date: 06 April 1973
Moroccan authorities on Apr 4 refuse entry to H Giniger, Madrid correspondent of NY Times; Giniger, on Apr 5, leaves
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66 JOURNALISTS BACK WBAI IN LETTER ISSUE
Date: 06 April 1973
J Leonard and J J O'Connor are among 66 news people who have filed amicus curiae brief with Appellate Div of NYS Sup Ct, defending right of WBAI to keep its news sources confidential
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