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Gen Acctg Office repts to Cong that NYC's fiscal and econ base is continuing to deteriorate and that prospects for halting trend 'are not bright'; cites burdensome taxes and unemployment; holds that because of econ decline and continuining 'uncertainties,' city may 'fall short' of goal of having balanced budget by June 30 '78 (M)
Article on practice of 'double-dipping,' in which retired mil personnel work for Fed Govt, receiving both salaries and pensions; notes estimated 150,000 retired personnel currently hold Fed civilian job--83% increase over past 3 yrs; HR Post Office and Civil Service Com probe of double-dipping discussed; Pres Carter's objection to practice noted; findings of com probe detailed; Natl Taxpayers Union researcher Sidney Taylor comments; illus (M)
Southern Airways: At least 66 die in crash of DC-9, New Hope, Ga; craft crashes during attempted landing on roadway after engines failed during hailstorm; between 4 and 7 persons on ground reptd among fatalities; witnesses describe crash; wreckage and resuce workers illus; map (M)
Apr 5: Pres Sadat tells Carter that Palestinian question is 'core and crux' of Arab-Israeli dispute and that 'no progress' can be achieved as long as problem remains unsolved, White House welcoming ceremonies; praises Carter for his comment on Palestinian 'homeland'; calls for establishment of 'pol entity' instead of 'state' for Palestinians; confers with Carter and their aides and also with Vance; communique says Carter and Sadat agreed that Geneva conf should be reconvened in '77; illus of Sadat, Carter and Mrs Carter (M)
30 persons indicted as members of $50-million-a-yr heroin operation, headed by Frank Lucas who currently is serving 70-yr prison sentence on narcotics convictions; Lucas is charged with attempts to distribute heroin in Bklyn, Queens and Manhattan; is said to have considered murder of chief competitor Leroy Barnes; hq of ring operations reptdly was Show Place Club, Jamaica, Queens (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 30, 1977, covering April 5, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Eagles
Stevie Wonder
Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson
Kansas
1977Jonathan Erlich, Israeli tennis player[†]
Jonathan Dario "Yoni" Erlich is an Israeli former professional tennis player. During his career, he was mainly a doubles specialist, having won the men's doubles title at the 2008 Australian Open with Andy Ram. He attained his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 5 in July 2008. Erlich has reached 44 doubles finals and won 22, mostly with partner Andy Ram; together, they are known in Israel as "Andyoni". His Davis Cup doubles record, as of 2018, was 22–12.
1977Trevor Letowski, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]
Trevor Letowski is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger and current assistant coach for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the seventh round, 174th overall, by the Phoenix Coyotes in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft. Letowski also played for the Vancouver Canucks, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Carolina Hurricanes. Following retirement from active play, he has served as head coach of the OHL's Sarnia Sting and Windsor Spitfires.
1977Daniel Majstorović, Swedish footballer[†]
Daniel Majstorović is a Swedish former footballer who played as a centre back.
1977Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba, (born 1903)[†]
Carlos Manuel Prío Socarrás was a Cuban politician. He served as the President of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, three months before new elections were to be held. He was the first president of Cuba to be born in an independent Cuba and the last to gain his post through universal, contested elections. He went into exile in the United States, where he lived for 25 years before dying by suicide at age 73.
1977Yuri Zavadsky, Russian actor and director (born 1894)[†]
Yuri Aleksandrovich Zavadsky was a Soviet and Russian theater director, actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1948) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1973).
1977The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.[†]
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." In 1803, the Court asserted itself the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution via the landmark case Marbury v. Madison. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]