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President’ Carter's pardon for draft resisters drew sharp denunciations yesterday from major veterans' organizations and only qualified praise from pro‐amnesty groups, which called it insufficient because of its exclusion of deserters and veterans with less‐thanhonorable discharges.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 21—President Carter called on “all Americans” tonight to turn down their thermostats at home “to 65 degrees in the daytime and lower at night” to help cope with what Mr. Carter called an energy “crisis” precipitated by this winter's unusaily cold temperatures.
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Article on 3dâworld diseases that have debilitated, crippled and killed thousands in northern Brazil discusses Chagas' disease, believed to be caused by âshaving beetleâ (S)
US IRS says Park Tong Sun owes US Govt $4.5 million in back income taxes, interest and penalties; tax lien against Park's property shows IRS contention that Park owes taxes for â72 through â75, yrs he was allegedly active in cultivating, entertaining and bribing US Cong members; spokesman says statistics on Park's income are unavailable, but he allegedly spent $500,000 to $1 million each yr in period in Cong lobbying; Park has told US acquaintances that he is 2d cousin of Pres Park Chung Hee; such a family tie is important in terms of trust, loyalty influence and obligation in Korea and, if true, adds new dimension to case (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 19, 1977, covering January 22, 1977.
Paul McCartney And Wings
Eagles
Stevie Wonder
Boston
The Doobie Brothers
1977Mario Domm, Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer[â ]
Mario Alberto DomĂnguez Zarzar, known as Mario Domm, is a Mexican singer, songwriter and record producer. A founding member of the pop rock band Camila, he has won four Latin Grammy Awards; four Billboard Awards; 11 Premios Lo Nuestro; 14 SACM awards; five Juventud Awards, five Telehit awards, four MTV Awards, eight ASCAP Awards, three Gaviotas de Plata Awards and three Gaviotas de Oro Awards, seven Monitor Latino Awards, two Los 40 Principales Awards, one Orgullosamente Latino Award, and a recognition as a musical genius by Telehit.
1977Anna Linkova, Russian tennis player[â ]
Anna Linkova is a former Russian tennis player.
1977Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer[â ]
Hidetoshi Nakata, OSSI is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Considered one of the best talents to come from an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) country in the early late 1990s and early 2000s, Nakata became the first ever AFC player to be nominated for the Ballon d'Or.
1977Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel, Saudi Arabian diplomat (born 1916)[â ]
Sheikh Ibrahim bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel was a Saudi Arabian statesman, diplomat, and military officer who served as the Saudi Arabian minister of foreign affairs from 1960 to 1962. Appointed on 22 December 1960 by King Saud, he succeeded the future king Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and was succeeded by him again on 16 March 1961. He was noted for being the first non-royal to hold the position of foreign minister. He also served as the Saudi Arabian ambassador to both the United States and Iraq, as the minister of agriculture, and later as a member of the Council of Ministers and an advisor to the Royal Court.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[â ]