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May 9, 1976

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Headlines from May 9, 1976

40,000 Believed Homeless After Italian Earthquake

By Malcolm W. Browne Special to The New York Times

Italian bulldozers and blasting teams make way through rockslides and demolished towns to save any trapped survivors; officials rept number of recovered bodies throughout stricken area exceeds 600; authorities estimate that 40,000 people have been left homeless; series of aftershocks strike area on May 8, but became lighter and less frequent as day wore on; Pres Giovanni Leone visits some of towns; Govt reptldy has allocated about $600-million for assistance to victims and for rehabilitation of area; illus (M)

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Record Influx

By James F. Clarity Special to The New York Times

Record number of French tourists, estimated at 250,000, is expected to visit US in '76; principal attraction is Bicentennial (M)

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F.B.I. SOUGHT DOOM OF PANTHER PARTY

By John Kifner Special to The New York Times

Sen Select Intelligence Com staff rept says FBI carried out secret, nationwide effort to 'destroy' Black Panthers, including attempts to stir bloody 'gang warfare' between Panthers and other groups and to create factional splits within party; says FBI efforts, part of Cointelpro, contributed to climate of violence in which 4 Black Panthers were shot to death; says FBI also used informers and bogus messages and cartoons to make trouble between Panthers and black nationalist group called US in southern calif and between Chicago Panthers and Blackstone Rangers, a heavily armed street gang (L)

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 5, 1976, covering May 9, 1976.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Presence by Led Zeppelin

    Presence

    Led Zeppelin

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  2. 2
    Album cover for At The Speed Of Sound by Wings

    At The Speed Of Sound

    Wings

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  3. 3
    Album cover for Frampton Comes Alive by Peter Frampton

    Frampton Comes Alive

    Peter Frampton

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    15
  4. 4
    Album cover for Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 by Eagles

    Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975

    Eagles

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    10
  5. 5
    Album cover for I Want You by Marvin Gaye

    I Want You

    Marvin Gaye

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    6

Notable Deaths

Jens Bjørneboe

1976Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (born 1920)[†]

Jens Ingvald Bjørneboe was a Norwegian writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats. He was also a painter and a Waldorf school teacher. Bjørneboe was a harsh and eloquent critic of Norwegian society and Western civilization as a whole. He led a turbulent life and his uncompromising opinions cost him both an obscenity conviction as well as long periods of heavy drinking and bouts of depression, which in the end led to his suicide.

Ulrike Meinhof

1976Ulrike Meinhof, German militant, co-founded the Red Army Faction (born 1934)[†]

Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a German left-wing militant, journalist and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang". She is the reputed author of The Urban Guerilla Concept (1971). The manifesto acknowledges the RAF's "roots in the history of the student movement"; condemns "reformism" as "a brake on the anti-capitalist struggle"; and invokes Mao Zedong to define "armed struggle" as "the highest form of Marxism-Leninism".

Historical Context for May 9, 1976

In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]