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WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 — After several years of debate, the Federal Government is moving to tighten controls on the use of Darvon, a mild painkiller that is the country's third most widely prescribed drug.
S African Govt announces that blacks purchasing own homes now will have unrestricted title to land but follows action with tough speeches suggesting basic living conditions will remain fundamentally unchanged; black homeowners previously were to have been limited to 30âyr leaseholds, making them in effect tenants in own homes; Govt earlier dropped requirement that buyers formally adopt citizenship of tribal homelands, move that theoretically would have deprived them of any claim to rights as S Africans; some community leaders hail latest move as recognition of permanency of urban blacks; Justice Min James T Kruger and Min for Black Affairs Michiel C Botha comment (L)
Pres Ford says he sees merit in proposal that Pres aspirants name running mates before nomination, Repub Natl Com; does not explain shift from bitter opposition to rules change, which his supporters defeated less than 72 hrs earlier, after it was proposed by Ronald Reagan forces; urges com to weigh change for â˛80 (S)
The United Nations Council for Namibia—as SouthWest Africa is called in the world body—issued a statement last night that rejected as highly inadequate the proposals sponsored by South Africa to grant independence to the territory. Page 6.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 20 —With the two Presidential candidates already committed to debate, Senators Robert J. Dole and Walter F. Mondale said today that they would be willing to meet in what would be the first nationally televised debates between Vice‐Presidential candidates.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 18, 1976, covering August 21, 1976.
Peter Frampton
George Benson
Jefferson Starship
Neil Diamond
Fleetwood Mac
1976Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player and scout[â ]
Alex Whitmore Brooks is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played, as an undrafted player, 19 games in the National Hockey League for the New Jersey Devils in the 2006â07 season.
1976Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican-American soccer player[â ]
Jeff Cunningham is a former professional soccer player who played as a forward. He is Major League Soccer's third-all-time leader in regular-season goals scored with 134. Born in Jamaica, Cunningham initially played for the country of his birth before switching to the United States for which he played for the rest of his international career.
1976Robert Miles, Australian rugby league player[â ]
Robert Miles is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in 1990s and 2000s, he played in the National Rugby League (NRL) for the Sydney City Roosters, Northern Eagles and the Wests Tigers. His regular position was wing, however he also played as a centre and at fullback during his NRL career.
1976RamĂłn VĂĄzquez, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach[â ]
RamĂłn Luis VĂĄzquez is a Puerto Rican professional baseball coach and a former infielder. He is currently the bench coach for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB).
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[â ]