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Blue Cross to extend full coverage to subscribers for comprehensive, nonhosp treatment of alcoholism; has contracted with Natl Inst on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to undertake study to determine factors involving employment and health (M)
Rand Corp study of more than thousand alcoholics admitted to treatment programs throughout US suggests that sizable percentage of alcoholics can return to normal, moderate drinking without relapsing into alcohol abuse; finding already has aroused dissent among leading alcoholism groups, which maintain that abstinence is only reliable form of recovery from disorder; rept's authors Drs David J Armor, Harriet B Stambul and J Michael Polich caution against assumption by alcoholics that it will be safe to resume drinking, warning that at present there is no way to distinguish between those who can safely drink again and those for whom soc drinking will be 1st step back to alcohol abuse; study, supported by grants from Natl Inst on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, is based on information gathered from 14,000 persons admitted to 44 NIAAA alcohol treatment centers in US; former NIAAA dir Dr Morris E Chafetz and Natl Council on Alcoholism bd vice chmn Dr Luther A Cloud comment (M)
Syrian armor, after meeting stiff resistance, is reptd halted in mts east of Beirut and outside port of Saida; negotiations for cease-fire are reptd being conducted by Jalloud and Algerian Min Mahmoud; reptdly meet with Syrian Air Vice Marshall Naji Jamil, Deputy Prime Min Mohammed Haidar and Al Fatah deputy leader Salah Khalaf, also known as Abu Iyad; newly arrived US Amb Francis E Meloy Jr comments; clashes reptd in Tripoli between Lebanese leftist groups and followers of Farouk Moukadam; Assad reptdly sent reinforcements into Tripoli area in recent days; Syrian positions in Lebanon noted; illus; map (M)
Carter, virtually assured of Dem Pres nomination, discourages speculation about running mate; among those mentioned for post are Sens Frank Church, Adlai E Stevenson 3d, Walter F Mondale and Henry M Jackson; Carter is reptdly annoyed at Repr Morris K Udall and Gov Edmund E Brown Jr (S)
Mayor Beame, in his strongest complaint yet about Gov Carey's fiscal prodding, insists that Carey and NYS Legis should return to NYC in form of special aid for CUNY some of $271-million 'state windfall' from city budget cuts; notes that Carey has proposed ending matching formula so that state can increase its support; Beame with financial chart illus (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 9, 1976, covering June 10, 1976.
The Rolling Stones
Wings
Peter Frampton
Elton John
Led Zeppelin
1976Alari Lell, Estonian footballer[†]
Alari Lell is a retired football (soccer) defender from Estonia. He played for several clubs in his native country, including FC Flora Tallinn, JK Tervis Pärnu, JK Viljandi Tulevik and FC Kuressaare.
1976Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician[†]
Esther Ouwehand is a Dutch politician and former marketing manager serving as leader of the Party for the Animals and its parliamentary group in the House of Representatives since 2019. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2006 election with two interruptions.
1976Hadi Saei, Iranian martial artist[†]
Hadi Saei is an Iranian councilor and former taekwondo athlete who became the most successful Iranian athlete in Olympic history and the most titled champion in this sport by winning 9 world class titles . Earlier in his career and in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Saei had won the Bronze medal. He was elected as member of City Council of Tehran in 2006 local elections and was reelected in 2013 but lost the 2017 election. He is one of the three most medal winners olympians in the sport of Taekwondo.
1976Adolph Zukor, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (born 1873)[†]
Adolph Zukor was a Hungarian-American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Prisoner of Zenda, in 1913.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]