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Communist countries’ borrowing in the West is rising so much that the lending banks in this country and Western Europe are stiffening their terms and some American banks are said to be nearing their legal lending limits. Details, Section 3.
J N Wilford describes June 5 operations; expedition has already obtained 8,000 color photos from 1 camera submerged in water; film is to be processed during wk of June 6; engineers and scientists have established lakeside operations station; activities there described; most of expensive photo and other equipment reptdly is being donated by Amer cos specializing in photo and underwater exploration; film crew from NBC, which has exclusive TV rights to record expedition, has been covering some lakeside activities; illus of Dr Harold E Edgerton studying sonar scanner printout; illus of press relations man Dennis Meredith and photo analyst Charles W Wyckoff assembling main camera rig; illus of Dr Robert H Rines, Wyckoff and Edgerton conducting sonar sounding (L)
former Reclamation Bur geologist Shirley Ptylak testified in Fed Dist Ct that new dam might leak because of nature of soil (S)
NYC Consumer Affairs Dept begins law enforcement campaign against dishonest souvenir gift shops in Times Sq area in anticipation of Dem Natl Conv (M)
article assessing impact of urban crisis in Chicago notes city's pss were closed 16 days early this spring because of $47.4-million deficit that resulted from settlement of an 11-day teachers's strike last fall; notes unless Ill Legis waives law to exempt city from a penalty for early closing, city schools will lose $56-million more in Sept; also notes Mayor Daley pressed for settlement of strike because he believed that he could persuade Legis to pass 3 educ bills that included school financing; Chicago Teachers Union pres Robert M Healey predicts Daley will not muster enough support to get exemption for Chicago passed; school employees are expected to lose 8.5% of their salaries as result of early school closing (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 2, 1976, covering June 6, 1976.
The Rolling Stones
Wings
Led Zeppelin
Marvin Gaye
Elton John
1976J. Paul Getty, American businessman, founded the Getty Oil Company (born 1892)[†]
Jean Paul Getty Sr. was an American petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the patriarch of the Getty family. A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was the son of pioneer oilman George Getty. In 1957, Fortune magazine named J. Paul Getty the wealthiest living American, while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records declared him to be the world's wealthiest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion. At the time of his death, he was worth more than $6 billion. A book published in 1996 ranked him as the 67th wealthiest American who ever lived.
1976Chief Minister of Sabah Faud Stephens, Peter Joinud Mojuntin, and several other politicians are killed in a plane crash near Kota Kinabalu International Airport in Malaysia.[†]
The chief minister of Sabah is the head of government of Sabah, Malaysia. Since September 2020, the position has been held by Hajiji Noor from the Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah from the coalition of Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) which had won the 2020 Sabah state election. As in other parts of the Malaysian federation, the Westminster Parliamentary system is adopted, whereby, the leader of the party with the most seats in the state legislature would usually become the chief minister of Sabah. In other words, it is the person commanding the support of the state legislature. The chief minister is appointed by the head of state known as the Yang di-Pertua Negeri. In comparison to other states in Malaysia, the office of the chief minister of Sabah has been held by a more diverse group of people in terms of ethnicity and religion. The post has been held by Kadazan-Dusuns, Bajaus, Malays, Chinese, Muruts, Rungus, Sungai, Idaans, and other persons of mixed heritage as well as being Muslims, Buddhists and Christians.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]