Monday, Jul. 03, 1978
BORN. To Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, 34, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, and Charles S. Robb, 39, Virginia's Lieutenant Governor: their third child, third daughter; in Fairfax, Va. Name: Jennifer.
DIED. Ahmed Hussein al-Ghashmi. 37, President of the Yemen Arab Republic (Northern Yemen); by assassination; in Sana. As an envoy from the neighboring Yemen People's Democratic Republic (Southern Yemen) opened his briefcase to deliver a message to Ghashmi from President Salem Rubayi Ali, a bomb exploded, killing both Ghashmi and the envoy. The commander of Northern Yemen's army, Ghashmi had been President for only two months and had survived at least one attempt on his life. He succeeded Ibrahim al-Hamadi, who died eight months ago at 41 when assassins machine-gunned his car. In neither murder has an assailant been caught or a motive discovered.
DIED. Jens Otto Krag, 63, twice Prime Minister of Denmark, whose personal crusade for European unity culminated in his country's vote to join the European Community in 1972; of a heart attack; in Jutland, Denmark. An economist and a Social Democrat, Krag became a Cabinet minister at 33, Prime Minister at 47. After Danes voted to join the Common Market, he shocked them by abruptly resigning. Said he: "The time I have used talking to newsmen I will now use for reading."
DIED. Sir Dingle Foot, 72, British parliamentarian, globetrotting barrister and member of a remarkable political family; after choking on a sandwich; in Hong Kong, where he was on legal business. The son of a Liberal statesman, Dingle became an M.P. at 26. He swung to the Labor bench in 1956 and served as Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Solicitor General. When his younger brothers Hugh and Michael also became prominent in government, Tory critics joked that they were the country's "three Left feet."
DIED. Luther W. Youngdahl, 82, unflappable federal judge who in three famous rulings bucked the Government's anti-Communist zeal of the 1950s; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Youngdahl, a deeply religious son of Swedish immigrants, was appointed to the bench in 1951 after five years as a racket-busting Republican Governor of Minnesota. In 1952 he drew a Government perjury case against Asia Expert Owen Lattimore, whom Senator Joseph R. McCarthy called "the top Soviet espionage agent in the United States." Youngdahl threw out several Government indictments against Lattimore, refused to withdraw from the case when a U.S. Attorney accused him of prejudice. Seethed Youngdahl: "Under my oath to preserve sacred constitutional principles, I can properly do no less than to strike the [Government] affidavit as scandalous."
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