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Hundreds of young black Rhodesians flow across western border, through Botswana, bound for guerrilla training camps in Zambia; map; 400 students from Swedish Lutheran school in Maname cross border; Rhodesian Govt charges kidnapping by guerrillas but only 53 return to Rhodesia after parents are sent after them (M)
NYC Housing Auth raises income ceilings for its projects to get 'upwardly mobile' families into units and comply with '76 Cong directive for 'economic mix'; income for 4‐member family in some apts may now be $15,600; other limits; little immediate effect seen because of long waiting lists (M)
Prime Min Gandhi's son Sanjay, whose activities as her close pol adviser have caused dissension within Cong Party, is nominated by party to make his 1st run for Parliament in Mar elections; Gandhi and Sanjay are among 85 candidates from Uttar Pradesh, traditionally Cong Party stronghold; opposition Janata Party names Ravindra Pratap Singh to run against Sanjay; Raj Narain to run against Gandhi in Rae Bareli; illus of Sanjay (M)
SEC staff investigation that is still in progress has in its preliminary stage been severely critical of both high NYC officials, including Mayor Beame and Comptroller Goldin, and officials of major banks, who coordinated their activities at outset of city's fiscal crisis; investigation centers on alleged fraud in sale of city securities (S)
craft illus atop Boeing 747, Edwards AFB, Calif, during ground tests
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 16, 1977, covering February 16, 1977.
Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson
Eagles
Stevie Wonder
Paul McCartney And Wings
Al Stewart
1977Ian Clarke, Irish-American computer scientist, founded Freenet[†]
Ian Clarke is the original designer and lead developer of Hyphanet.
1977Ahman Green, American football player[†]
Ahman Rashad Green is an American former professional football running back who played 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, earning second-team All-American honors in 1997. Green was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the third round of the 1998 NFL draft, playing there for two seasons before being traded to the Green Bay Packers, with whom he played for eight of the next ten seasons. Green also played for the Houston Texans, and was a four-time Pro Bowl selection with the Packers, where he holds the franchise record for rushing yards. He was the head esports coach at Lakeland University until the end of 2022.
1977Alexei Morozov, Russian ice hockey player and executive[†]
Alexei Alekseyevich Morozov is the president of the Kontinental Hockey League and a Russian former professional ice hockey player.
1977Janani Luwum, bishop, Church of Uganda, martyr (born c.1922)[†]
Janani Jakaliya Luwum was a Ugandan Anglican bishop. He was the archbishop of the Church of Uganda from 1974 to 1977 and one of the most influential leaders of the modern church in Africa. He was arrested in February 1977 and died shortly after. Although the official account describes a car crash, it is generally accepted that he was murdered on the orders of then-president Idi Amin.
1977Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (born 1905)[†]
Rózsa Péter, until January 1934 Rózsa Politzer, was a Hungarian mathematician and logician. She is best known as the "founding mother of recursion theory".
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]