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Bill extending '75 tax cuts through '76 is considered 1 of 3 major pieces of legis that pose pol risk to Pres Ford; Ford has pledged he will veto tax cuts not accompanied by equivalent cuts in Fed spending (S)
Repr Peter A Peyser, reptg plan to challenge Sen James L Buckley for Repub Sen nomination, scores Buckley's hard line on Fed aid for city, news conf (S)
Israeli Cabinet denounces decision to permit PLO participation in Council debate and says Israel will boycott sessions on Middle East; ordinary Israelis angered at US failure to veto resolution (M)
survey finds NYC fiscal crisis has apparently intensified slowdown in spending by state and local govts; Data Resources Inc aide Otto Eckstein questions whether impact of NY's problems will stop spending growth; most local and state officials publicly deny that NYC's problems have changed their budget practices, but outside economists see them now fearing reliance on deficit financing (M)
NYC Dept of Consumer Affairs warns consumers on use of holiday scrip issued by some of NYC's major dept stores; dept says stores failed to tell customers that if they do not return unused scrip, they will be charged for it; NYC dept stores that use scrip are Macy's, Abraham & Straus, Korvette's and Gimbels; Consumer Affairs Dept proposes new regulation that stores must disclose fact that total amount of scrip will be included in customers charge-acct bill and that disclosure would have to be written on scrip (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 26, 1975, covering December 2, 1975.
Jefferson Starship
John Denver
Elton John
Paul Simon
Pink Floyd
1975Mark Kotsay, American baseball player and manager[†]
Mark Steven Kotsay is an American professional baseball manager and former outfielder. He is the manager for the Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). As a player, Kotsay appeared in 1,914 MLB games for the San Diego Padres, Florida Marlins, Athletics, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, and Milwaukee Brewers. He coached for the Padres and Athletics before becoming the Athletics' manager for the 2022 season.
1975Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forces the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaims the Lao People's Democratic Republic.[†]
The Laotian Civil War was waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December 1975. The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater during the Vietnam War with both sides receiving heavy external support in a proxy war between the global Cold War superpowers. The fighting also involved the North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, American and Thai armies, both directly and through irregular proxies. The war is known as the Secret War among the American CIA Special Activities Center, and Hmong and Mien veterans of the conflict.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]