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NY Times (Flora Lewis) survey of pol trends in W Eur finds movement is toward center, not to left as surface might indicate; finds move toward right in countries where soc reformers have been in power for some time and toward left in countries where conservatives have long been in power; illus of French Pres Valery Giscard d'Estaing (L)
NYS officials complete arrangements for $8.9âmillion aid pkg for Yonkers, NY, to avoid default; city officials receive commitments for additional $2âmillion; City Mgr J Emmet Casey says savings banks will be tapped for funds; says city needs $3.6âmillion to retire shortâterm notes and $600,000 for interest payments; says city also needs $2âmillion to meet payrolls; state officials have assured city it will be able to meet noteholders' demands even if it fails to close its budget gap; city will collect estimated $10âmillion in taxes in Apr and $3.5âmillion in state aid in June; must renew $16âmillion in shortâterm notes on Mar 19; Casey illus (M)
NYS Comptroller Arthur Levitt, in lrs to NYS Cong members, says Fed and NYS govts may disallow âas much as $431âmillionâ in welfare rent costs that NYC has paid since â68; funds are claims for which city has already been reimbursed, so that money may have to be withheld from future rent payments; Levitt asks Cong members to seek what he calls unreasonableâ Fed limit on reimbursement for 2âparty checks, which both clients and landlords or utilities must sign; Levitt's estimate reptdly is still preliminary; NYS Soc Services Comr Stephen Berger says dept plans to invoke âecon muscleâ to insure that landlords are not charging excessively for welfare rents and utilities and to try to improve housing for relief recipients statewide; says he is ready to use state veto power over city's choice of new HEW Admr if necessary to insure apptmt of qualified mgt expert to run program; Levitt por (M)
Airline indus officials express concern that several carriers, driven close to bankruptcy by heavy '75 losses, cannot afford financial gamble of lower fares (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 11, 1976, covering February 16, 1976.
Bob Dylan
Paul Simon
Earth| Wind & Fire
Chicago
Barry Manilow
1976Eric Byrnes, American baseball player and sportscaster[â ]
Eric James Byrnes, is an American baseball analyst and former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Colorado Rockies, Baltimore Orioles, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Seattle Mariners. Byrnes retired from playing in 2010 and was an analyst for MLB Network until 2021.
1976Kyo, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer[â ]
Kyo is a Japanese musician, singer, lyricist and poet. He is best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the heavy metal band Dir En Grey. He was formerly in a string of visual kei rock bands, with the most notable being La:Sadie's from 1996 to 1997. When they disbanded, he formed Dir En Grey in February 1997 with three of its members. Kyo formed the experimental rock band Sukekiyo in 2013, and the supergroup Petit Brabancon in 2021.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[â ]