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WASHINGTON, June 30—Senator Barry Goldwater urged the Republican Party today to nominate President Ford for a full term in the White House to continue “turning this country back in the right direction.”
State's pss, by order of NJ Sup Ct, close on July 1 while legislators remain deadlocked over method of raising $378-million necessary to keep summer programs operating; pressure on legislators to approve some kind of tax measure reaches critical stage on June 30 when a special 11-judge Fed Ct refuses to stay NJ Sup Ct's shutdown order (M)
Christian militiamen capture Jisr el-Pasha; reptdly are clearing it of 'mercenary gunmen'; area is placed under curfew; militiamen intensify attacks against Tell Zaatar; Palestinians and leftists charge Syrian forces with aiding rightists in attacks against camps; casualties noted; Al Fatah comdr Abu Iyad says guerrillas will allow IRC to examine camps to prove that residents are women and children; fighting in Beirut noted; Syrian troops reptdly advance on Saida; map (M)
Matthew J Troy Jr, City Council Finance Com chmn, says that he intends to plead guilty to charge of filing fraudulent income tax return for '72; other politicians say that Troy had told them charge involved taxes on some $50,000 to $60,000 in estates of his legal clients; por (L)
US Customs House, Bowling Green, NYC, is being restored and will be reopened for Bicentennial; rotunda illus (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 30, 1976, covering July 1, 1976.
Wings
Peter Frampton
Aerosmith
George Benson
The Beatles
1976Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer and coach[†]
Patrick Stephan Kluivert is a Dutch football coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the Indonesia national team. As a player, he played as a striker for Ajax, Barcelona and the Netherlands national team. He is considered one of the best Dutch strikers of all time.
1976Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer[†]
Hannu Tihinen is a Finnish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Since January 2014, he worked as a technical director at the Football Association of Finland. In October 2022, Tihinen was appointed as an expert adviser of FIFA in Global Football Development Division High-Performance -unit.
1976Albert Torrens, Australian rugby league player[†]
Albert Torrens is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, Northern Eagles and St. George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL and in England for the Huddersfield Giants of Super League as a centre and on the wing.
1976Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer and manager[†]
Rutgerus Johannes Martinus van Nistelrooij, commonly known as Ruud van Nistelrooy, is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of EFL Championship club Leicester City. Widely regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation, Van Nistelrooy has been the top scorer in three UEFA Champions League seasons, and is the sixth-highest goalscorer in the competition's history with 56 goals. He has also been the top scorer in three European domestic leagues. In 2004, he was listed in the FIFA 100 of the world's greatest living players.
1976Szymon Ziółkowski, Polish hammer thrower[†]
Szymon Jerzy Ziółkowski is a retired Polish hammer thrower and politician.
1976Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.[†]
Madeira, officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira, is an autonomous region of Portugal. It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in the region of Macaronesia, just under 400 kilometres (250 mi) north of the Canary Islands, Spain, 520 kilometres (320 mi) west of the Morocco and 805 kilometres (500 mi) southwest of mainland Portugal. Madeira sits on the African Tectonic Plate, but is culturally, politically and ethnically associated with Europe, with its population predominantly descended from Portuguese settlers. Its population was 251,060 in 2021. The capital of Madeira is Funchal, on the main island's south coast.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]