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1 dead, at least 6 injured following explosion and fire at Pump Station No 8, near Fairbanks, on Trans-Alaska oil pipiline; damage estimated at $2- to $5-million; pipeline itself does not appear to be damaged but is expected to be closed for about 1 wk; pipefitter foreman Bill Pender describes explosion; map; illus (M)
Fan Yuan-yen describes China as militarily too weak to launch attack on Taiwan; hopes Pres Carter or State Sec Vance would take up safety of his family as part of their human rights campaign; por (M)
HEW Dept Sec Joseph Califano discloses Carter Adm plans to provide Govt subsidies to families adopting hard-to-place children, as part of Adm effort to find alternatives to abortion (M)
Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid I Brezhnev advises foreign ambs to rept Soviet policies to their govts 'objectively' so as to create atmosphere of goodwill, Kremlin reception for Moscow diplomatic corps; urges weighty and unbiased assessment of any concrete proposals or actions by USSR; talks personally with all ambs at reception, including brief exch with US Amb Malcolm Toon; Soviet news agencies continue attacks against Carter Adm's emphasis on human rights; note blacks are still discriminated against in US; charge US with attempting to darken atmosphere of detente; rejection of Amb Toon's attempts to broadcast to Soviet people on July 4 noted; Brezhnev, Toon and Soviet Chief of Protocol Dmitri S Nikiforov illus (M)
NICE, France, July 8‐Marc Chagall, the most renowned living painter, celebrated his 90th birthday here last night at a concert sponsored by the French Government and played by some of the world's leading musicians.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 6, 1977, covering July 9, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Barry Manilow
Peter Frampton
Commodores
The Steve Miller Band
1977Alice Paul, American activist (born 1885)[†]
Alice Stokes Paul was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Paul initiated, and along with Lucy Burns and others, strategized events such as the Woman Suffrage Procession and the Silent Sentinels, which were part of the successful campaign that resulted in the amendment's passage in August 1920.
1977The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas, a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain.[†]
An authoritarian military dictatorship ruled Chile for seventeen years, between 11 September 1973 and 11 March 1990. The dictatorship was established after the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d'état backed by the United States on 11 September 1973. During this time, the country was ruled by a military junta headed by General Augusto Pinochet. The military used the breakdown of democracy and the economic crisis that took place during Allende's presidency to justify its seizure of power. The dictatorship presented its mission as a "national reconstruction". The coup was the result of multiple forces, including pressure from conservative groups, certain political parties, union strikes and other domestic unrest, as well as international factors.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]