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1st lead in murder case involving Kearney and Hill was provided by parents of slain John Lemay, 17; Lemay's background noted; police officials say that defendants have already been linked to 12 murders and that toll may reach as high as 40; relationship between Kearney and Hill and their backgrounds noted; friends and neighbors comment; illus (L)
1st of series of 3 articles by John Darnton on war for independence in Eritrea; notes war has reached decisive stage, with rebel forces braced to meet major offensive by Ethiopian troops; 2-wk trip by Darnton with Eritrean Liberation Front guerrillas confirms that orgn has made significant advances over last several mos; situation revd; illus (L)
Cong sources say that survey of HR by House ethics com has turned up pattern of S Korean favors for sr House members that was more extensive than had been reptd; survey discloses that Repr Thomas S Foley, Agr Com Chmn, is among sr Dem who had recd favors from Koreans; Foley says one of his election coms had recd $500 contribution from Park Tong Sun; says that in '70 he was entertained by Park, along with group of Korean flour mill officials, and discussed with Park relations between Korea and US (S)
Owners of Crossroads pornographic bookstore and peep show at 42d St and Bway, converted in May into travelers' information center operated by police, are reptd planning to resume business at 228 West 42d St; city says it is powerless to stop bookstore owners from reopening because they are not violating any laws; Baumgarten says Crossroads owners will pay about $200,000 a yr in rent for new address (M)
Liberal Dem Party wins 60 of 108 seats for which results are known; party appears to be on verge of losing sole control of upper house; other results noted; illus of Prime Min Fukuda and wife voting (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 6, 1977, covering July 11, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Barry Manilow
Peter Frampton
Commodores
The Steve Miller Band
1977Brandon Short, American football player and sportscaster[†]
Brandon Darrell Short is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions, earning consensus All-American honors in 1999. He played professionally for the New York Giants and Carolina Panthers of the NFL, and was a member the Giants' team that played in Super Bowl XXXV. He is currently Director of Mergers and Acquisitions at Round Hill Capital in London and a member of the Pennsylvania State University's board of trustees.
1977Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968, is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[†]
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]