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Ford Adm estimates 30-mo phase-out of price controls on domestic oil will result in import savings of 25,000 bbls a day by end of '75 and 300,000 bbls a day by end of decontrol period (S)
Israelis resentful of US pressure for Israeli pullback in Sinai on July 14 stone US Embassy in Tel Aviv; attack follows demonstration of about 15,000 people at City Hall organized by Likud Opposition bloc and other nationalist Israeli groups; speakers, who include MPs, say Sinai territory is negotiable in peace settlement but that US 'dictation' is intolerable; Deputy Comdr Binyamin Barlai, police officer in charge of dist, says police, in licensing demonstration at City Hall, agreed that after rally participants could march for several blocks and then return to City Hall where buses were waiting to remove them; some marchers broke ranks and moved in direction of US Embassy, where police had established barriers; undisclosed number reached embassy and threw stones, breaking window; police make 11 arrests (M)
prelaunching preparation for joint Apollo-Soyuz mission continues smoothly at Cape Canaveral and Baikonur space center; millions of tourists pour into nearby beach towns of Cape to witness final Apollo launching and last Amer manned project for at least 4 yrs; NASA repts all systems are ready; Apollo astronauts practice flying skills in mil aircraft; docking maneuvers of Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft described; Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft illus atop rockets at Cape Canaveral and Baikonur launching sites; Soyuz mission flight dir Aleksei S Yeliseyev illus; diagram of docked Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft (L)
dozens of Cambodian refugees who have recently managed to escape to Thailand relate situation in Cambodia, which reptdly is undergoing total revolutionary upheaval; describe mass forced exodus from towns in effort by new officials to make Cambodia agriculturally and economically independent; most of country's 7-million people apparently are clearing large areas for rice cultivation; authenticity of many repts cannot be verified because of lack of outside communication with Cambodia since Apr fall to Communist forces; alleged atrocities by Communist soldiers described; map (L)
Cong Dems, in reaction to Pres Ford's proposal to decontrol oil prices, hold plan would be unlikely to achieve its goals and would be disastrous for econ; Sen Mike Mansfield says he is concerned over impact on inflation; Sen Ernest F Hollings sees econ chaos and catastrophe; Repr John D Dingell says plan is too much for weakened econ to bear (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 9, 1975, covering July 15, 1975.
Elton John
Wings
Eagles
Captain & Tennille
Earth| Wind & Fire
1975Cherry, American wrestler and manager[†]
Kara Elizabeth Drew is a retired American professional wrestler and valet, better known under the ring name Cherry. She is best known for her tenure in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), as the manager of former Tag Team Champions, Deuce 'n Domino.
1975Danny Law, English cricketer[†]
Danny Law is a former English cricketer. Born in Lambeth, Law played for Sussex, Essex and Durham between 1993 and 2003.
1975Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player[†]
Ben Pepper is an Australian former professional basketball player who played twelve seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL).
1975Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.[†]
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II and the onset of the Cold War. The technological advantage demonstrated by spaceflight achievement was seen as necessary for national security, particularly in regard to intercontinental ballistic missile and satellite reconnaissance capability, but also became part of the cultural symbolism and ideology of the time. The Space Race brought pioneering launches of artificial satellites, robotic landers to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and ultimately to the Moon.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]