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SAN FRANCISCO, March 20—She looked tiny, fragile, pale, more than a bit too small to be the focus of so much attention, and for a moment late this afternoon she even ware that now familiar half‐smile that some have called haunting and mysterious.
article on Cuban influence in Caribbean area and US concern over increased regional support of Cuba; notes Castro's principal friends are Guyana and Jamaica, both of which have endorsed Cuba's intervention on behalf of Marxist Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola; notes 2 US specialists on Caribbean say it would be relatively cheap and easy for USSR and Cuba to acquire additional base or 2 in region by offering to bail out one of smaller, heavily indebted Caribbean republics; notes US concern over Castro's presentation as revolutionary liberator of blacks, not only in Cuba, but also blacks in Angola and perhaps in other parts of Africa in future (M)
Illus of S Vietnamese villagers gathered at My Lai 4 to commem 8th anniv of US atrocity
both released on bail; comment; Carter calls State Sup Ct Chief Justice Richard J Hughes to request escort of state prison guards because he feared being in hands of county officials; case revd; illus (M)
US State Dept says it will immediately begin withdrawing 4,000 US servicemen (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 17, 1976, covering March 21, 1976.
Eagles
Peter Frampton
Fleetwood Mac
Carole King
Bob Dylan
1976Rachael MacFarlane, American voice actress and singer[†]
Rachael Ann MacFarlane is an American voice actress. Her voice credits include Hayley Smith on the animated television show American Dad!, the creator of which, Seth MacFarlane, is her older brother; Supreme Leader Numbuh 362 in the television series Codename: Kids Next Door, and Kate Lockwell in the video game Starcraft II.
1976Bamboo Mañalac, Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Francisco Gaudencio Lope Belardo Mañalac, popularly known as Bamboo Mañalac or simply by the mononym Bamboo, is a Filipino musician, singer, and songwriter. He began his career as vocalist and original frontman of Rivermaya and later fronted his own band, Bamboo. Bamboo band disbanded in 2011 and Mañalac then pursued a solo career and released his first solo album, No Water, No Moon.
1976Tekin Sazlog, German-Turkish footballer[†]
Tekin Sazlog is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]