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Egyptian mil command announces on Oct 8 that it raided Israeli-occupied Egyptian oilfields at Balayim on Gulf of Suez and set large fires; says Egyptian Pres Sadat personally ordered raids
2d in series of articles on NYC's subway system discusses subway-car maintenance; collapse of concrete tunnel-ceiling in which 1 Flushing-line passenger was killed on Aug 28 has revived questions about subways' efficiency; questions had reached peak of intensity in 70 when train accidents killed NYC subway passengers for first time since '38; outside rev bd named amid '70 outcry reptd that subway system's performance record had deteriorated from '65 to '69; partly in response to bd's recommendations, maintenance spending has doubled in last 5 yrs, maintenance staff has increased about 50%, regular overhaul schedules have been started for cars and large inventory of spare parts has been built up; Transit Auth officials int by NY Times editors and reporters agree that system is inherently safe and has been better maintained in last few yrs; say low rates of accidents are achieved by special automatic controls and by diligence of subway staff; highest number of train collisions since '67 was 7 in '70; highest number of derailments was 21 in '71; there have been 11 derailments and 1 collision in '73; nearly half of subway system's 27,000 employes are involved in maintenance; over 5,800 employes work on cars, and another 6,700 maintain tracks and signals; budget for materials in auth's main car repair shops has risen from $8.7-million in '69 fiscal yr to $19.7-million in '73; subways carry 3.8-million passengers on avg weekday, or 1.1-billion a yr; were placed under MTA in '68; MTA has increased spending for maintaining fleet of 6,700 cars and has replaced 900 old cars with new ones; new cars went to combined IND-BMT div, which still uses 835 cars built from '35 to '40; MTA Chmn Ronan says that one of agency's main concerns in '68 was many idle subway cars lacking repair parts; says no cars are currently out of service for this reason; subway cars, which travel avg 130 mi a day, are inspected every 7,500 mi; more extensive inspection is made every 30,000 mi; delays attributed to signal problems have increased from 1,198 in '69 to 1,870 in '72; increase is attributed to rule imposed by Ronan in '70 forbidding trains to pass red signal light; delays caused by riders totaled 4,088 in '69 and 6,545 in '72; one of most difficult problems faced by Transit Auth in recent yrs has been shortage of experienced maintenance personnel; there are currently 5,800 maintenance workers but over 70% have been with subway system less than 5 yrs; illus
US repr J A Scali on Oct 8 asks UN Security Council to bring end to hostilities in Middle East and to restore cease-fire line that existed before new war broke out on Oct 6; says, at special session that US requested, that US hopes Council will act in such way that 'present tragedy can be made a new beginning rather than simply another lost opportunity'; People's Republic of China repr Huang Hua says that it is 'preposterous' for US to propose that Egypt and Syria withdraw to cease-fire lines of '67; says it is 'perfectly just' for Arab countries to 'rise in resistance to the invading enemies of their own sacred territories'; Soviet repr Y A Malik criticizes Council for holding meeting and expresses his support of Egypt and Syria; Brit repr Sir D Maitland calls for end to fighting; Scali tells Council that UN repts appear to indicate that Syrian MIG's struck 1st in Golan heights and that Egyptians fired 1st on Suez Canal front; basis of assessment of who struck 1st are repts received by UN from observation posts along cease-fire line set up by UN Truce Supervision Orgn at request of Security Council; Egyptian Foreign Min M H el-Zayyat says he takes issue with UN rept; contends that conflict was touched off when Israeli planes attacked Egyptian forces stationed in areas of Zaafarana and Ain Sukhna on Gulf of Suez while Israeli naval units were approaching gulfs western coast; Israeli Foreign Min A Eban tells Zayyat to bring evidence of attack by Israeli naval forces; Council adjourns without any decision until Oct 9; earlier in day, at request of Syria and Egypt, hostilities are debated in General Assembly; Syrian Depty Foreign Min M Z Ismail charges that Israel launched attack along whole front; Eban waives repts of UN observers and asks 'how idiotic would a man have to be' to believe that Israel could think of making any provocative or offensive move on Yom Kippur, 'a day when there were no communications, no activity, no radio, no ability to summon our reserves, when the majority of our soldiers were in their homes or in their synagogues'; Zayyat asks Assembly to support his country's efforts for 'the liberation' of land occupied by Israel during '67 war
Secretariat set another Belmont Park record yesterday in winning the $113,600 Man o'War Stakes' by five lengths in 2:25 4/5. Details, Page 55.
Oct 9: Israeli mil spokesman says on Oct 8 that reinforced Israeli drive opened major counterattacks on 2 broad fronts, throwing Syrian and Egyptian Armies back to cease-fire lines in heavy fighting on 3d day of Middle East war; counteroffensive is reptdly preceded by heavy Israeli attacks against mil airfields, missile sites and other targets deep inside Egypt and Syria; by midday, Israeli mil spokesman repts that total of 90 Egyptian and Syrian aircraft were downed, including about 1 dozen troop-carrying helicopters; Israeli counterattack is encountering heavier resistance than many Israeli commanders expected; sr commanders say fighting is especially bitter on Golan heights, where Syrians amassed force of some 800 tanks and drove 3 deep wedges into Israeli-held territory; Israeli C/S Lt Gen D Elazar says that Israel is determined to 'break and destroy' Syrian and Egyptian forces, news conf; says Israeli forces have not yet crossed Suez Canal as was rumored; Israeli communique says it has hit and damaged Egyptian minesweeper in Gulf of Suez; says Israelis knocked out all of 11 bridges Egyptians laid down over Suez Canal, cutting off remaining Egyptian units; repts that Israelis downed 3 Syrian Sukhoi-20 fighter-bombers over eastern Galilee, in northern Israel; it is first reptd appearance of these advanced Soviet-built bombers in Middle East; sr Israeli Govt official says that Israel has 'no territorial ambitions whatsoever' in either Egypt or Syria; Israeli fighter-bombers carry out intensive attacks against Syria's 5 major mil airfields; by midmorning, no Syrian planes harass Israeli advance; on ground, Israelis reptdly surrounded and crushed 2 brigades of Syrian div that spearheaded assault on their lines; illus of Egyptian tank crossing Suez Canal on Oct 6, Syrian soldiers stepping on airplane parts reptd to be from Israeli jets shot down on Oct 7 near Damascus, and Israeli Defense Min M Dayan conferring in Sinai with Maj Gen R Zeevi and Maj Gen S Gonen; map
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 3, 1973, covering October 9, 1973.
The Allman Brothers Band
Cheech & Chong
Marvin Gaye
Grand Funk Railroad
Stevie Wonder
1973Steve Burns, American actor, television host and musician[†]
Steven Michael Burns is an American actor, musician and television host. He portrayed a fictional version of himself as the host of the children's television series Blue's Clues from 1996 until 2002, for which he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2001. He has also done extensive voice-over work for advertising, including the "Snickers satisfies" advertising campaign.
1973Fabio Lione, Italian singer-songwriter and keyboard player[†]
Fabio Tordiglione, known professionally as Fabio Lione, is an Italian singer who has worked with many bands in the heavy metal genre. He was known for being the singer of Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire for 21 years. He later formed his own band Turilli / Lione Rhapsody with former Rhapsody of Fire guitarist Luca Turilli. He is also the current lead vocalist of Angra, and was the original singer of Labyrinth and Vision Divine.
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]