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Cunard Line vp Charles Dickson, chmn of group representing shipping lines that will use NY Port's new terminal, says facility has come too late to prevent shipping industry's loss of transâAtlantic passenger service to airlines; NYC officials hope terminal will help expand NYC into base for vacation cruises (M)
Egypt on Nov 23 accuses Libya of having trained and financed members of Palestinian ârenegadeâ group from which hijackers of Brit Airways VCâ10 airliner now in Tunis were recruited; Govt statement says Egyptian Pres Sadat decided to release 5 terrorists demanded by guerrillas held in Cairo out of humanitarian considerations and as âexceptional measure that will not be repeated'; says 5 had committed âcriminal actâ by attacking Pan Am Boeing 707 at Rome airport in Dec â73, killing â32 innocent people'; says Algerian Pres Houari Boumediene, Tunisian Pres Habib Bourguiba and Lebanese Pres Suleiman Franjieh telephoned Sadat to appeal for release of prisoners; charges that hijackers, who identified themselves as members of Martyr Abou Mahmoud Squad, are trying to harm Palestine Liberation Orgn at crucial moment in history; hijackers reptdly agreed in negotiations with Tunisian authorities and with Al Fatah official Abu Ayad to scale down their demand to release of 5 men who were flown to Tunis; fact that Rome 5 were released but not 8 terrorists who are being detained for killing US Amb Cleo A Noel Jr, US charge d'affaires George C Moore and Belgian charge d'affaires Guy Eid in Khartoum, Sudan, on Mar 2, â73, leads observers to believe that US might have exerted pressure on Egypt to prevent their release; US Embassy officials in Cairo deny participation in consultations about hijackersâ demands (M)
utility cuts, holes made for repair or installation of underground utilities are hindering NYC efforts to repave potholed sts; have become major harzard for NYC motorists (L)
Jordanian King Hussein on Nov 23 dissolves Parliament and Premier Zaid alâRifai forms new 20âmember Govt; 4 of newcomers to ministerial posts are from west bank of Jordan River (S)
Repr Morris K Udall announces his candidacy for Dem Pres nomination on Nov 23; is 1st Dem to officially enter race; will enter primaries in NH and elsewhere; says he has raised between $20,000 and $25,000 thus far; lists major issues as environment, econ and energy; speculation by some pol observers, that Dem party's new rules eliminating winnerâtakeâall primaries might result in no candidate coming to conv with votes to win nomination, with âbrokeredâ slate emerging, noted; Udall illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 20, 1974, covering November 24, 1974.
The Rolling Stones
Jim Croce
America
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Cheech & Chong
1974Amy Faye Hayes, American boxing ring announcer and model[â ]
Amy Hayes is an American ring announcer and model. She is a regular aunnancer on Fox Sports Net, and in 2001 was the exclusive ring announcer on Fox Sport's networks "Sunday Night Fights" series under promoter Dan Goossen.
1974Stephen Merchant, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[â ]
Stephen James Merchant is an English comedian, writer, director, and actor. He was the co-writer and co-director of the British TV comedy series The Office (2001â2003), and co-writer, co-director, and co-star of both Extras (2005â2007) and Life's Too Short (2011â2013) alongside Ricky Gervais. With Gervais and Karl Pilkington, he hosted The Ricky Gervais Show in its radio, podcast, audiobook, and television formats; the radio version won a bronze Sony Award. He also provided the voice of the robotic "Intelligence Dampening Sphere" Wheatley in the video games Portal 2 (2011) and LEGO Dimensions (2015). Merchant co-developed the Sky One travel documentary series An Idiot Abroad (2010â2012) and co-created Lip Sync Battle (2015â2019).
1974Machel Montano, Trinidadian singer-songwriter and producer[â ]
Machel Montano is a Trinidadian soca recording artist and record producer. Known for his high energy, fast-paced, and often unpredictable on-stage performances, he is one of the genre's most popular artists.
1974TarĆ Yamamoto, Japanese actor and politician[â ]
TarĆ Yamamoto is a Japanese politician and former actor, who is the founder and current leader of the anti-establishment political party Reiwa Shinsengumi. Yamamoto currently serves in the House of Councillors representing Tokyo, and previously served in the House of Representatives from 2021 to 2022. He unsuccessfully ran in the 2020 Tokyo gubernatorial election as a candidate under Reiwa.
1974Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.[â ]
Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. He is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[â ]