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Interior Min Antonio J Benitez says Pres Peron, who has reptdly been suffering from cold, will resume duties within few days (S)
1,434 sanitationmen are laid off on July 18; DeLury scores Deputy Mayor Cavanagh and other city officials for 'reneging' on promise to keep men on job until July 31; Cavanagh denies promise was made; DeLury says union will seek to regain $1.6-million it put up to prevent layoffs; withholds last $55,000 installment on fund; urges members not to strike will union presses case before Acting NYS Sup Ct Justice William Mertens; 18 men in Bronx briefly refuse to work; illus of dist supt Frank Buffamante reading names of men to be dismissed (M)
Gov Carey aides rept that Carey considers talk of special Legis session on NYC's renewed fiscal problem premature and counterproductive' and intends to press Mayor Beame to have city 'stand on its own feet' without another prop from state; city and fiscal and legal experts have said that special session would be needed to authorize city to carry out major austerity measures such as wage freezes or pay cuts (M)
Repr Thomas Downey discloses US Army's testing of hallucinogenic drugs on civilians continued into '60s, noting many subjects may still be suffering psychological after-effects, lr to Repr Melvin Price; calls upon Price to explore issue within Armed Services Com (S)
analysis of troubles facing Municipal Assistance Corp; investor resistance to its bonds seen result of NYC's fiscal ills; financial community holds Mayor Beame responsible; corp chmn Thomas D Flynn comments (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 16, 1975, covering July 19, 1975.
Wings
Elton John
Eagles
Captain & Tennille
Average White Band
1975Luca Castellazzi, Italian footballer[†]
Luca Castellazzi is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He serves as the goalkeeper coach of AC Milan young team under 17.
1975Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1928)[†]
William Orville "Lefty" Frizzell was an American country and honky-tonk singer-songwriter.
1975John Alan Coey, American mercenary and medic in the Rhodesian Bush War[†]
John Alan Coey was a U.S. Marine who served in the Rhodesian Army as one of "the Crippled Eagles", a loosely organised group of U.S. expatriates fighting for the unrecognized government of Rhodesia during that country's Bush War. A devout Christian, vitriolic anti-communist, he was the first American fatality of the war. He moved to Rhodesia to join its army in 1972, the day after graduating from college in his home town of Columbus, Ohio, and served until he was killed in action in 1975. He kept a journal throughout his service that was posthumously published as A Martyr Speaks.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]