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Wholesale Price Index drops 0.3% in Jan due in large part to 2.5% drop in farm products and processed foods and feed; graph (S)
Judge John J Sirica refuses to set aside or to change in any way the guilty verdicts returned in Watergate coverâup case against 4 former Nixon Adm officials; orders John N Mitchell, H R Haldeman, John D Ehrlichman and Robert C Mardian to appear at US Courthouse Feb 21 for sentencing; says in effect that evidence at trial supports conviction and denys number of postâtrial motions by convicted men; possible sentences and fines each might receive noted; Sirica briefly defends his actions on issue of pretrial publicity (M)
Feb 15: Sr Israeli official says major gap still separates Israel and Egypt on terms of new interim agreement after Sec Kissinger's preliminary round of talks; Kissinger has agreed to return in midâMar for intensive effort at bridging differences between Israel and Egypt and to conclude new interim agreement; Israeli officials say Kissinger kept talks deliberately general; say they sensed no pressure from Kissinger to make specific concessions; authoratative sources say Israel outlined 3 possible negotiating options to Kissinger for transmission to Egypt: full and formal peace treaty, farâreaching nonbelligerence agreement and limited disengagement agreement; Egyptian Pres Sadat has so far ruled out any formal renunciation of war as part of interim agreement and diplomats in Israel tend to take him at his word; diplomats feel that some compromise formula will have to be found that can be interpreted as nonbelligerency commitment by Israelis and something else by Egypt; Kissinger meets with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin for final working session and then Kissinger and his party visit former Premier Golda Meir before departing from Israel (M)
Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville (Sir): Dies at age of 93; detailed career and biog sketches; por (L)
The San Diego Conquistadors defeated the New York Nets, 176‐166, last night in four overtimes, in San Diego, an American Basketball Association record and the highest scoring professional game on record. Julius Erving scored 63 points for New York. Details on page 19.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 12, 1975, covering February 15, 1975.
Linda Ronstadt
Average White Band
Joni Mitchell
Bob Dylan
George Harrison
1975Serge Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[â ]
Serge D. Aubin is a Canadian ice hockey coach and a former professional ice hockey centre who played 374 games in the National Hockey League for the Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets and Atlanta Thrashers. He is currently serving as head coach of EisbÀren Berlin in the German DEL.
1975SĂ©bastien Bordeleau, Canadian-French ice hockey player[â ]
SĂ©bastien Ives Bordeleau is a Canadian-born French former professional ice hockey forward, who played in the National Hockey League. His father is former NHL player Paulin Bordeleau.
1975Annemarie Kramer, Dutch sprinter[â ]
Anna Maria 'Annemarie' Kramer is a former Dutch sprinter. She started with athletics at the age of twelve and soon found out that she had a special talent for the sprinting events. She was a five-time Dutch sprinting champion.
1975Brendon Small, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and actor[â ]
Brendon Small is an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer, director, producer, and musician who is known for co-creating the animated series Home Movies and Metalocalypse. He also writes the music, and is the main performer for the fictional melodic death metal band Dethklok, which began as the subject of Metalocalypse but has taken on a life of its own, with four albums and an occasional live touring band, headed by Small. Small has also released two albums under his own name, in a similar musical style to Dethklok.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[â ]