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comment on recent evidence backing theory that fluorocarbons used as propellants in aerosol sprays cause breakdown of earth's protective ozone layer; diagram (S)
Development of Brit North Sea oil falls behind schedule; quantity of oil now coming ashore is less than 1/10 of 500,000 bbls a day that the Govt once expected; some of 25 oilfields discovered have been effectively mothballed because their development would not be profitable unless worldwide oil price rises; at least 6 major oil cos have already cut back search for new oil; number of rigs operating in Brit sector fell from 30 in Apr to 27 today and is expected to drop to only 20 by end of yr; problems are linked to tax and participation policy pursued by Labor Govt and to weather and accidents it has caused; hope for improvement rests on new discovery made by Hamilton Brother Oil Co, expectation that Govt will ease energy policy and decline in operating costs; economist Richard Baily, consultant Keith Hamm, banker Chareles Jordan and Hamilton vp Don F Tankersley comment (L)
Chad Govt accuses French Govt of 'falling to its knees' in offering to pay more than $2-million in ransom to Moslem rebels in exch for release of Francoise Claustre; statement follows French broadcast offerring money to rebels (S)
Seven inmates escaped from the men's jail on Rikers Island last night by cutting through a cell wall and were being hunted by corrections officers. Page 43.
Portuguese Premier-designate Jose Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo pledges not to undo econ and soc gains of Portugal during last 16 mos (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 10, 1975, covering September 14, 1975.
The Isley Brothers
Jefferson Starship
Janis Ian
Elton John
Eagles
1975Walter Herbert, German-American conductor (born 1902)[†]
Walter Herbert was an American conductor and impresario of German birth, and also a world champion at contract bridge.
1975The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.[†]
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was an American Catholic religious and educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. Born in New York and reared as an Episcopalian, she married and had five children with her husband William Seton. She converted to Catholicism in 1805 and established the first Catholic girls' school in the nation in Emmitsburg, Maryland. There she also founded the first American congregation of religious sisters, the Sisters of Charity.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]