ATTACKS ON PRESS IN AMERICAS DECRIED
Date: 07 April 1970
Conv, Jamaica
MacKenzie Scott Tuttle, tidigare Bezos, född 7 april 1970 i San Francisco, Kalifornien, är en amerikansk författare och filantrop.
Hon växte upp i en familj i San Francisco, där fadern var finansplanerare och modern hemmafru. Hon studerade engelska på Princeton University med en kandidatexamen 1992. Bland annat studerade hon skrivande för Toni Morrison.
Scott började 1992 arbeta på en hedgefond i New York, där hon träffade företagsdirektören Jeff Bezos. Paret gifte sig 1993 och flyttade 1994 till Seattle, där de grundade Amazon. Hon svarade till att börja med för företagets ekonomiförvaltning, men övergick så småningom till författarskap. Hon debuterade 2005 med The Testing of Luther Albright.
Paret har fyra barn. MacKenzie och Jeff Bezos meddelande i januari 2019 att de avsåg att skilja sig.
Den amerikanska ekonomitidskriften Forbes rankade Scott till att vara världens 20:e rikaste med en förmögenhet på 61 miljarder amerikanska dollar för den 29 april 2021. Hon har sagt att hon ska skänka bort stora delar av sin förmögenhet till välgörenhet som en del av Warren Buffet och Bill Gates Giving Pledge-kampanj.
Läs mer...Den 7 april 1970 var en tisdag under stjärntecknet ♈. Det var 96 e dagen i året. Förenta staternas president var Richard M. Nixon.
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Date: 08 April 1970
By HENRY KAMM Special to The New York Times
Henry Special
Vietnamese Communists intensify pressure on border prov of Svayrieng; focus attack on Chiphou after departure of visiting newsmen; Cambodia repts 20 of its soldiers dead, 30 wounded and 30 missing; estimates Communist force at 3 bns, puts losses at 40 dead and many wounded; Japanese, French and Amer Embassies weigh possible approaches to Vietcong for release of captured newsmen; Cambodian pilots flying fighter-bombers at treetop level rake Communist positions with machine gun fire in Svayrieng mil region; comment on missing Amer newsmen; map
Date: 08 April 1970
Daily Mirror, Daily Express and Sun raise prices to 6c
Date: 08 April 1970
Tokyo newspaper Asahi Shimbun demonstrates home facsimile newspaper receiver which can print both sides of page simultaneously; Toshiba Elec Co technician says cost would be about $300 if mass-produced
Date: 07 April 1970
praising Fed Dist Judge Zirpoli's ruling that NY Times reporter E Caldwell does not have to reveal his confidential news sources because no 'overriding natl interest' exists which would justify violation of Caldwell's rights; noting rights of public, responsible journalism and 1st Amendment have been sustained
Date: 07 April 1970
By HENRY RAYMONT
Henry RAYMONT
11 news stories written while Hemingway was cub reporter for Kansas City Star and collected by Prof M J Bruccoli to be pub; Hemingway opposed pub during his lifetime, fearing his journalism would be used as measure of literary ability; Bruccoli, ed of Hemingway/Fitzgerald Annual, comments; stories have recurring themes of violence and death, to which he was exposed while on assignments; excerpts; illus of assignment sheet; por
Date: 07 April 1970
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
Comments on prolonged chapel (union) meetings held by ITU at NY Times
Date: 07 April 1970
Pres Pompidou gets ct order barring ad in magazine L'Express that appeared to have him endorsing outboard motor
Date: 07 April 1970
Cambodian Army sends large force of airborne troops, arty and armored cars toward S Vietnam to head off Vietcong who crossed into country 90 mi SE of Pnompenh; 3 men reptd captured are identified as S Flynn, son of late film actor E Flynn and D Stone, Amers, and C Arpin, Frenchman; all 3 are photographers
Date: 07 April 1970
By MALCOLM W. BROWNE Special to The New York Times
Malcolm BROWNE
Testimony of police officers, male metal worker and woman med worker that Uruguayan police regularly torture pol prisoners prompts Cong probe and sets off Govt scandal; allegations of torture detailed; Interior Min Cersosimo, Montevideo police chief Col Zina and police intelligence chief Otero deny use of torture; backing of Cersosimo by Pres Pacheco seen in Cersosimo's retention in office despite Pacheco's replacement of 3 other key mins; current charges of torture have not been censored in press; Pacheco seen letting probe take its course with possible new curbs on police; growing harshness of police methods linked to Govt determination to crush Tupamaros, group of left-wing urban guerrillas; theft of safe containing 441 lbs of gold by Tupamaros, largest robbery in country's history, noted; continuation of ltd state of siege, imposed in June '69, aimed at halting rioting, terrorism and guerrilla activity noted