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Overseas National Airways: Overseas National Airways DC-10 jetliner, with 139 airline personnel aboard en route to Saudi Arabia, crashes during takeoff from Kennedy Internatl Airport after striking flock of birds; craft is totally destroyed, but only minor injuries are reptd among passengers; reptdly lost engine after striking birds; wreckage illus (M)
Sen Banking Com votes to kill Pres Ford's nomination of Benjamin B Blackburn, former repr from Ga, to head HLBB; 8-5 vote crossed party lines; HLBB regulates savings and loan indus and administers natl Fair Housing Act, 1 of civil rights bills Blackburn voted against when he was in Cong; opponents to Blackburn's nomination agree that his nomination would be backward step in race relations; Blackburn's defenders says vote to reject him would be based on his conservative pol philosophy and fact he is a Southerner (M)
NYS Comptroller Arthur Levitt rejects tentatively arranged $35-million loan to Yonkers, NY, but says other sources of funds might be available by Nov 14 when Yonkers faces default; Gov Carey says banks might be encouraged to help if a proposed Emergency Financial Control Bd, similar to 1 operating in NYC, is estab for Yonkers; Yonkers agrees to control bd; Yonkers City Mgr J Emmett Casey comments; he was told 2 wks ago by bank reprs that investors were lumping Yonkers with NYC as fiscal risk; Casey says Nov 13 payroll is last Yonkers can fully meet without new money; agreement rejected by Levitt described (M)
USSR, citing danger to Soviet security, denies Andrei D Sakharov, dissident human rights advocate who played key role in Soviet H-bomb development, permission to travel to Oslo to receive Nobel Peace Prize (S)
US introduces in UN Assembly Soc, Humanitarian and Cultural Com resolution calling on govts to release all pol prisoners; text demands unconditional amnesty for persons detained because of peaceful dissent; many delegates sec move as counter to Assembly's approval of Arab-inspired resolution equating Zionism and racism; proposal appears aimed at Communist and 3d-world nations that voted for Zionism resolution but US Amb Daniel P Moynihan says there is no direct link between 2 resolutions; adds however that US links its resolution and attacks on Israel; in introducing resolution, denounces 'selective morality' of UN in matters of human rights; in clear allusion to Israel, says UN human rights activities had been most recently directed toward 'dem soc that is unquestionably free' (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 12, 1975, covering November 13, 1975.
Elton John
John Denver
Jefferson Starship
Linda Ronstadt
Bruce Springsteen
1975Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (died 2008)[†]
Tom Compernolle was a Belgian runner, who specialized in the 5000 metres. He was born in Bruges.
1975Alain Digbeu, French basketball player[†]
Alain Donald Digbeu is a French former professional basketball player. He was drafted by the NBA pro club the Atlanta Hawks with the 49th pick in the 1997 NBA draft. He is 6 ft 6 in in height and 220 lb (100 kg) in weight. He can play at both the shooting guard and small forward positions.
1975Ivica Dragutinović, Serbian footballer[†]
Ivica Dragutinović is a Serbian former professional footballer. Mainly a central defender, he could also operate as a defensive left back.
1975Aisha Hinds, American actress[†]
Aisha Hinds is an American television, stage and film actress and director. She had supporting roles in a number of television series, including The Shield, Invasion, True Blood, Detroit 1-8-7 and Under the Dome. In 2016, she played Fannie Lou Hamer in biographical drama film All the Way. She has also appeared in Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) and was cast as Harriet Tubman in WGN America period drama Underground. Beginning in 2018, Hinds stars in the Fox procedural drama series 9-1-1.
1975Quim, Portuguese footballer[†]
Joaquim Manuel Sampaio da Silva, known as Quim, is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1975Toivo Suursoo, Estonian ice hockey player and coach[†]
Toivo Suursoo is an Estonian ice hockey coach and former professional player.
1975Olga Bergholz, Russian poet and playwright (born 1910)[†]
Olga Fyodorovna Bergholz was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, playwright and journalist. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's siege, when she became the symbol of city's resilience.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]