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November 18, 1975

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Headlines from November 18, 1975

Cleaver Returning After 7‐Year Exile

By Unknown Author

Eldridge Cleaver, former leader of Black Panther party, will give himself up tomorrow when he returns to US after 7 yrs of exile; Cleaver faces charges of murder in connection with Apr '68 shootout between Black Panthers and Oakland, Calif, police; he jumped bail after being notified he would have to return to prison; says at news conf on Nov 17 in Paris that he was returning because he was tired of being in exile and that America had changed in 7 yrs and he is sure of getting ‘fair and objective’ trial; FBI says Cleaver is also wanted on Fed warrant issued in San Francisco in '68 charging interstate flight to avoid jail; illus (L)

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Dr. Detlev Bronk Dies

By Unknown Author

Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, president emeritus of Rockefeller University and former president of Johns Hopkins University, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, died yesterday at 78. Page 40.

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For Economic Health

By Flora Lewis Special to The New York Times

PARIS, Nov. 17—The leaders of six of the non‐Communist world's richest countries rang the expected note of optimism as they went home today after

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 12, 1975, covering November 18, 1975.

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    Album cover for Rock Of The Westies by Elton John

    Rock Of The Westies

    Elton John

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    Album cover for Windsong by John Denver

    Windsong

    John Denver

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    7
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    Album cover for Red Octopus by Jefferson Starship

    Red Octopus

    Jefferson Starship

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    18
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    Album cover for Prisoner In Disguise by Linda Ronstadt

    Prisoner In Disguise

    Linda Ronstadt

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    7
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    Album cover for Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen

    Born To Run

    Bruce Springsteen

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    10

Notable Births

1975Lucy Akhurst, English actress and producer[†]

Lucy Akhurst is an English actress, writer and director who has been working mainly in television since the 1990s. She starred alongside Neil Morrissey in The Vanishing Man and then came to prominence in a lead role in 1999's ITV seven-part drama Wonderful You.

Shawn Camp (baseball)

1975Shawn Camp, American baseball player and coach[†]

Shawn Anthony Camp is an American baseball coach and former pitcher, who is the current head coach of the George Mason Patriots. He played college baseball for George Mason from 1995 to 1997. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2004 to 2014 with his longest tenure as a player with the Toronto Blue Jays. He also played for the Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Chicago Cubs, and Philadelphia Phillies.

Ant McPartlin

1975Anthony McPartlin, English comedian, actor, and producer[†]

Anthony David McPartlin is a British television presenter, former singer, rapper and actor. He is best known for working alongside Declan Donnelly as part of the presenting duo Ant & Dec.

David Ortiz

1975David Ortiz, Dominican-American baseball player[†]

David Américo Ortiz Arias, nicknamed "Big Papi", is a Dominican-American former professional baseball designated hitter and first baseman who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1997 to 2016, primarily for the Boston Red Sox. After playing parts of six seasons with the Minnesota Twins with unremarkable results, Ortiz moved to the Red Sox, where he played a leading role in ending the team's 86-year World Series championship drought in 2004, as well as winning championships in 2007 and 2013; he was named the World Series Most Valuable Player in 2013. In his first five seasons with the club, he averaged 41 home runs and 128 runs batted in (RBIs), leading the American League (AL) twice in the latter category and setting the team's single-season record of 54 home runs in 2006; he finished in the top five of the AL's Most Valuable Player voting all five years.

Pastor Troy

1975Pastor Troy, American rapper, producer, and actor[†]

Micah LeVar "Pastor" Troy is an American rapper from Augusta, Georgia. He is best known for his 2002 single "Are We Cuttin'", which entered the Billboard Hot 100. The year prior, he signed with Universal Records to release his fourth album and major label debut, Face Off (2001), which entered the Billboard 200. "Are We Cuttin'" spawned from his sixth album, Universal Soldier (2002), which peaked at number 13 on the chart. His seventh, By Any Means Necessary (2004), served as his final release with the label.

Jason Williams (basketball, born 1975)

1975Jason Williams, American basketball player[†]

Jason Chandler Williams is an American former professional basketball player who was a point guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for twelve seasons from 1998 to 2011. In 2006, Williams won his first and only NBA championship as the starting point guard for the Miami Heat. Nicknamed "White Chocolate", Williams is known for his unorthodox streetball style of playing throughout his career in the NBA.

Historical Context for November 18, 1975

In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]