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Moynihan is hit in face by pie, Manhattan, NYC; police identify assailant as Aron Kay, who claims to be Youth Internatl Party member; Moynihan says he will not press charges; illus (M)
article on effort by Corrigan and Williams to organize women's peace movement; recent marches organized by women recalled; illus (L)
NY labor leaders are hoping for econ turnabout on possible election of Dem Adm in Nov (M)
Kissinger and Vorster rept 'further progress' in resolving key southern African issues and order subordinates to meet and work on specific aspects of problems, 2d day of 3-day meeting, Zurich; formation of working groups is aimed at putting down on paper areas where US and S Africa agree and those where they still disagree on Rhodesia and SW Africa; stress on 'progress' is meant to advise African leaders attending Tanzanian meeting that Kissinger and Vorster are having at least some success in devising negotiating framework (L)
3 Palestinians who hijacked KLM airliner and demanded that Israel release 8 prisoners, free their hostages in return for promise of safe conduct from Greek Cypriot authorities; Israeli Army says hijacked jet flew to within 100 miles of Tel Aiv, where 2 jet interceptors were scrambled to meet it but stayed away on orders from Defense Min Peres who agreed to Dutch Govt request; before landing in Cyprus for 2d time, hijackers requested prearranged code word be transmitted to Iraq and reprs of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine regarding release of prisoners or plane would be blown up; however, after 4 hrs on ground hijackers surrendered; Amer passenger Otto Horsting comments on ordeal; map (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 1, 1976, covering September 6, 1976.
Fleetwood Mac
Peter Frampton
Jefferson Starship
George Benson
Boz Scaggs
1976Rodrigo Amarante, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Rodrigo Amarante de Castro Neves is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger. He is part of the bands Los Hermanos, Orquestra Imperial, and Little Joy, and released his first solo record, Cavalo, in Brazil in late 2013 and worldwide in May 2014. He also wrote and performed the narcocorrido "Tuyo", the theme song for the Netflix Original Series Narcos (2015) and Narcos: Mexico (2018), and wrote the score for the film Entebbe (2018).
1976Naomie Harris, English actress[†]
Naomie Melanie Harris is an English actress. She started her career when she was a child, appearing in the television series Simon and the Witch in 1987. She portrayed Selena in the zombie film 28 Days Later (2002), the witch Tia Dalma in the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean films, Winnie Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013), and Shriek in Sony's Spider-Man Universe film Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021). She portrayed Eve Moneypenny in the James Bond films Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021).
1976Jon Ander López, Spanish footballer (died 2013)[†]
Jon Ander López Maquiera, known as Jon Ander in his playing days, was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1976Tom Pappas, American decathlete and coach[†]
Tom Pappas is an American decathlete.
1976Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]