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NYS Gov Rockefeller says on Mar 5 that he is giving 'very serious consideration' to proposing death penalty for members of organized crime who are convicted of trafficking in narcotics, but indicates he will accept compromise on certain parts of his antinarcotics proposals as part of legis 'give and take', AFL-CIO meeting
NYS Sup Ct Justice A J Gellinoff on Mar 5 rules that NYC Transportation Adm does not have authority to create pedestrian mall on Madison Av; says city s Estimate Bd only has power to make 'monumental changes in physical and economic existence' of Av; agrees with merchants' argument that mall's construction would be 'ruinous to their business'; 20 plaintiffs, including 5th and Madison Av Assns sued to prevent city from creating mall; plaintiffs listed; Mayor Lindsay spokesman says Corp Counsel Redlich will appeal ruling; Lindsay appts his asst R Weston as mall's project mgr; City Council Pres Garelik supports Gellinoff ruling; Gellinoff por
Mar 6: Sudanese Foreign Min M Khaled on Mar 5 says that Black September commandos who killed Noel, Moore and Eid will have early trial on murder charges; says he will not pre-judge what action of ct might be; notes there will be an investigation, trial and murder charges; denies repts that 8 commandos had extracted promise from Sudanese Govt that no capital charges will be filed against them; Pres Nimeiry appoints 3-man investigating comm headed by prosecutor gen A Imam; Presidential jet takes bodies of Noel and Moore to US; US mil plane flies Eid's body to Cairo; Sudanese in increasing numbers are suggesting that commando attack was inspired and planned by Libya and had nothing to do with issue of Palestine; Govt-controlled Khartoum newspaper Al Sahafa attributes attack to 'external fronts'--euphemism used to describe activities by Libya and other Arab govts with whom Sudan's relations have been tense; says 6 commandos arrived in Khartoum from Libya and that officials of local Al Fatah office were in charge of them; notes Fatah leader F Yassin left Khartoum for Libya on day of attack; illus of Noel's coffin, Mrs Noel and Mrs Moore and several of their children
Sup Ct approves plan for El Paso Natural Gas Co to sell assets of Pacific Northwest Pipeline Co to Alaska Interstate-APCO-Gulf-Tipperary Group (APCO), ending 15-yr antitrust action; details
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 28, 1973, covering March 6, 1973.
Elton John
Carly Simon
War
Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell
Neil Diamond
1973Michael Finley, American basketball player[†]
Michael Howard Finley is an American former professional basketball player who is the assistant general manager and vice president of player personnel for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 15 seasons in the NBA, predominantly with the Mavericks, but also for the Phoenix Suns, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Boston Celtics. He was a two-time NBA All-Star and won an NBA championship with the Spurs in 2007.
1973Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist and songwriter[†]
Peter Lindgren is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former guitarist of Swedish progressive metal band Opeth.
1973Greg Ostertag, American basketball player[†]
Gregory Donovan Ostertag is an American former professional basketball player. He spent most of his career with the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks.
1973Trent Willmon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Trent Willmon is an American country music artist, songwriter, and producer. Active since 1998 as a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, Willmon was signed to Columbia Records in 2004. He released two albums for the label and charted six singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts before exiting Columbia in 2006. A third album, Broken In, was released on the independent Compadre label in February 2008.
1973Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)[†]
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]