U.S. Again Links South Africa Ties To Full Black Role
Sec Vance addresses orgn's conv, St Louis; illus of Vance with Wilkins (S)
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Sec Vance addresses orgn's conv, St Louis; illus of Vance with Wilkins (S)
Sen debates neutron bomb in closed session on July 1; Sen Mark Hatfield's motion to remove funding is amended by Sen John C Stennis to state that funds should be withheld until arms control impact statement has been filed with Cong and Pres Carter certifies to Cong that it is in natl interest; Hatfield then moves that production of weapon be made subject to veto by either house of Cong, but this is amended by Sen Sam Nunn to make production subject to concurrent vetoes by both houses; Hatfield, Sen Edward M Kennedy and other opponents of weapon threaten to filibuster; debate will resume when Cong recovenes on July 11; comments by Hatfield, Stennis, Kennedy and Sens James B Allen, H John Heinz and Dick Clark noted; graph compares destructiveness of conventional and neutron warheads (M)
Office of Mgt and Budget rept estimates that unemployment rate will be near 5% in '80; chart (M)
WASHINGTON, July 1—With a major extension of service today, the capital's smooth‐running but financially and politically troubled subway system is finally getting a chance to show whether rapid rail transit can reshape and help revive the nation's ninth largest metropolis, as planners here have promised. The signs are mixed.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 29, 1977, covering July 2, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
The Steve Miller Band
Commodores
Barry Manilow
Peter Frampton
1977Deniz Barış, Turkish footballer[†]
Deniz Barış is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder or centre-back.
1977Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (born 1899)[†]
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in Berlin, where he met his wife, Véra Nabokov. He achieved international acclaim and prominence after moving to the United States, where he began writing in English. Trilingual in Russian, English, and French, Nabokov became a U.S. citizen in 1945 and lived mostly on the East Coast before returning to Europe in 1961, where he settled in Montreux, Switzerland.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]