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coal indus spokesman says environmental parts of Carter energy program and requirements for existing indus plants and utilities to switch to coal from oil and natural gas will retard expansion of coal production Carter seeks (S)
US experts begin effort to cap North Sea oil-well blowout; Phillips officials hope to cap it by Apr 27; failing that, they will have to drill new well to relieve pressure, which may take 30 days; Norway moves to restrict oil slick, moving eastward and threatening fishing indus; Adair aides confident of solving problem soon; Boots Hansen comments; Adair fee reptd as tens of thousands of dollars a day; Adair prediction in Brit radio int, 2 wks earlier, of 'disaster in the North Sea, sooner or later,' because of lack of proper facilities for coping with trouble cited; Phillips safety mgr Don Jones describes Adair plans; illus (M)
Net exodus of Ital immigrants has come to halt for 1st time; '75 statistics show that number of Italians returning to Italy outnumbered those leaving by some 30,000; Under Sec Franco Foschi attributes return to Eur econ crisis; illus (M)
Prime Min Castro, in meeting in Havana with Minn businessmen, says Cubans have fixed date for mil withdrawal from Angola, although he does not say what that date is (S)
WASHINGTON, April 24—Again and again during his marathon pursuit of the White House last year, Jimmy Carter heard interviewers ask the same question in a hundred different ways.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 20, 1977, covering April 25, 1977.
Eagles
Fleetwood Mac
Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson
Stevie Wonder
Kansas
1977Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer-songwriter[†]
Constantinos Christophorou is a Greek-Cypriot singer. He represented Cyprus in Eurovision Song Contest as a solo singer with "Mono Yia Mas" (1996) and "Ela Ela " (2005) and as part of the boy band formation One with "Gimme" (2002).
1977Marguerite Moreau, American actress and producer[†]
Marguerite Moreau is an American actress. She is known for her role as Jesse Reeves in the fantasy horror film Queen of the Damned, Katie in the comedy Wet Hot American Summer, and her role as Connie in The Mighty Ducks series of films. She has also made appearances on the television series Smallville, Lost, Cupid and The O.C.
1977Matthew West, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor[†]
Matthew Joseph West is an American contemporary Christian musician and singer-songwriter. He has released five studio albums and is known for his songs "More", "You Are Everything", and "The Motions". He was nominated for five Dove Awards in 2005, two of which were for his major-label debut album, Happy. West won the 2013 American Music Award for Best Contemporary Inspirational Artist.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]