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Consolidated Edison, citing increased costs, applied to the Public Service Commission yesterday for an annual increase in gas rates of $27,577,600. The bid for a 17 per cent rise came the day after the utility was granted a $164.5‐million Increase in its electricity rates. Page 64.
The American Meat Institute forecast yesterday that consumers throughout the country should find meat prices “down considerably” in a week or two, citing drops in wholesale prices of 13 to 26 per cent from mid. August highs through yesterday.
Sept 8: 5 Palestinian terrorists who occupied Saudi Arabian Embassy in Paris, France, take 4 Saudi hostages on flight over Saudi capital from Kuwait on Sept 7 and threaten to toss them out of plane; but move, described as attempt to get Saudi help in winning release of Palestinian guerrilla leader M D Odeh from Jordanian prison, is rebuffed and plane returns to Kuwait; Saudi Arabian officials, on orders from King Faisal, who is reported to be furious about incident, refuse to cooperate; broadcast from Amman, Jordan, says that Odeh, who is serving life sentence for plotting to assassinate Jordanian officials, will not be released; guerrillas are quoted as saying when they arrive in Kuwait aboard Kuwaiti Boeing 707 that they want another plane to fly them out with their hostages to Damascus, Syria; gunmen arrived in Kuwait early on Sept 7 from Paris with their hostages, whom they captured on Sept 5; gunmen's actions have been repudiated by all established Palestinian guerrilla groups, including Al Fatah, and have been called 'criminal acts' by Palestine Liberation Orgn; map
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7—Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz became the first high Administration official today to acknowledge that the United States was “burned” in last year's Soviet wheat deal. He said that it would not happen again.
H A Kissinger, at Sen com hearings on his nomination to be US Sec of State, says he was 'very moved' by writings of Soviet dissident A D Sakharov who has warned against improved relations with USSR so long as repression continues in USSR, but he feels US must continue on its present course of improving relations and extending trade concessions
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 5, 1973, covering September 8, 1973.
The Allman Brothers Band
Chicago
Pink Floyd
Cat Stevens
Grand Funk Railroad
1973Khamis Al-Dosari, Saudi Arabian footballer (died 2020)[†]
Khamis Al-Owairan Al-Dossari was a Saudi Arabian footballer. He played most of his career for Al-Hilal and Al Ittihad.
1973Gabrial McNair, American saxophonist, keyboard player, and composer[†]
Gabrial McNair is a musician and composer, most famous for his work in No Doubt since 1993 as a trombonist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist. He recorded and toured with Green Day during the Nimrod and Warning tours, playing trombone and tenor saxophone. In 2003, he was one of the co-founders of the California-based rock band Oslo where he plays the guitar.
1973Troy Sanders, American singer-songwriter and bass player[†]
Troy Jayson Sanders is an American musician, best known as the bassist and one of the vocalists of heavy metal band Mastodon. He is also active in the supergroups Killer Be Killed and Gone Is Gone and is the current touring bassist for rock band Thin Lizzy.
1973Matteo Strukul, Italian writer and journalist[†]
Matteo Strukul is an Italian writer and journalist.
1973World Airways Flight 802 crashes into Mount Dutton in King Cove, Alaska, killing six people.[†]
On September 8, 1973, a Douglas DC-8 operated by World Airways as World Airways Flight 802 crashed on high ground while on approach to Cold Bay Airport, Alaska, killing all six people on board.
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]