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65 persons are injured when 52 vehicles pile up in chain‐reaction accident on icy Interstate Hwy 81 in Syracuse; Police Chief Thomas J Sardino says most seriously injured person was Carl Smith, who had his leg amputated; illus (M)
NYS Ins Dept grants Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater NY permission to raise rates for 4‐million policyholders in NYC and 12 downstate counties; over‐all rise is 3.9%; NYS Ins Supt Thomas A Harnett says increase is lowest granted plan in last 10 yrs; Blue Cross had requested 20.1% increase; rate raise was granted to adjust certain Medicare hosp coverage to handle increase in amt deductible under recent HEW order and because total Blue Cross surplus, which should be $58.8‐million, is only $23.9‐million (M)
Article on hundreds of daily encounters in NYC between st peddlers and police; NYC officials say there are about 13,000 sidewalk peddlers in city, of whom fewer than onefourth bother to obtain a license ($5 for push cart and $2 for hand vending); peddlers' real adversaries are retail merchants who apply pressure to get peddlers chased from their area; police believe many of hard goods peddlers are dealing in stolen goods but have no proof; NYS Sanitary Code has been amended to require that food peddlers be licensed by Health Dept instead of Dept of Consumer Affairs; because new ordinances are required, city adm has been revg entire legis; illus of peddlers (L)
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 3—A rccent newspaper headline read, “Raiders Win Asylum in Algeria.” If Ow Raiders. Oakland variety, don't win thr American Conference championship game tomorrow, they'll have to seek asyhim in a far more distant land than Algeria to escape the wrath of Al Davis.
Nationalization of internatl oil co holdings in Venezuela, Iraq and Kuwait and forthcoming nationalization of Arabian Amer Oil by Saudi Arabia discussed; Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Libya, realizing value of keeping internatl cos involved in their oil operations, have shown little interest in taking full 100% control; most important issues in nationalization talks, aside from takeover compensation, are amount of oil that internatl co will be able to ship from former holdings and perbbl profit that it will be allowed on oil from producing nation; John H Lichtblau (Petroleum Indus Research Foundation), Howard Blauvelt and John E Kircher (Continental), M L Ralston and Herbert E Hansen (Gulf), United Arab Emirates Oil Min Mana Saeed al‐Otaiba and Saudi Oil Min Ahmed Zaki Yamani comment; illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 31, 1975, covering January 4, 1976.
Chicago
Earth| Wind & Fire
America
Joni Mitchell
Paul Simon
1976Ted Lilly, American baseball player[†]
Theodore Roosevelt Lilly III is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Lilly attended Yosemite High School in Oakhurst, California, and Fresno City College. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1999 to 2013 for the Montreal Expos, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers. He was a two-time MLB All-Star.
1976The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.[†]
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed to have ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Although the Troubles mostly took place in Northern Ireland, at times violence spilled over into parts of the Republic of Ireland, England, and mainland Europe.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]