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Ethiopian Govt permits 4 Western journalists to inspect shot-down Somali jet and cache of arms in Jijiga; journalists note many pieces of equipment had Russian lettering; map (L)
Carter announces that he will meet with foreign mins of Israel and Arab states when they visit US in Sept, int on ABC-TV; says Israelis should recognize need for new borders that satisfy minimum requirements of Arab neighbors and UN resolutions and some solution to Palestinian refugees; White House, in statement at close of session in which Carter hears Vance rept on Middle East trip, asserts that US will work to bring parties into fruitful negotiations; says major differences between Arabs and Israelis remain on how Palestinian views can best be represented in negotiations, on definition of secure and recognized borders and nature of Palestinian settlement; says US remains hopeful that Geneva conf can be reconvened this fall; Carter illus with Brzezinski and Vance (M)
Quiet revolution is taking place within NYC's munic work force that could break down rigid Civil Service lines, strengthen mgt flexibility, decrease total number of workers and increase pay of those who remain; process, called 'broad-banding,' aims to consolidate dozens of narrow Civil Service titles into few broad jobs whose descriptions encompass duties performed by thousands of workers; city hopes to eliminate not only job titles but also many of Civil Service exams that had been used for yrs to determine promotions; in their place would be substituted broad range of managerial discretion over who does what job; State, County and Munic Employees Dist Council 37 exec dir Victor Gotbaum comments (L)
Aug 15: Israeli Govt announces that it is extending Govt services to inhabitants of West Bank and Gaza Strip to grant them 'equal rights,' same as those enjoyed by residents of Israel; Cabinet Sec Aryeh Naor says legal status of territories is in no way affected by decision; says areas would remain under mil adm, with Jordanian law in force in West Bank and Egyptian law in Gaza; rebuts suggestions that Cabinet is taking step toward annexation; notes Begin gave assurances that although Govt has authority to extend Israeli law to areas, it will not do so without Parliament approval; Cabinet also approves Begin visit to Rumania at end of Aug (M)
Article on former Brandeis Univ pres Morris B Abram, who has been in unusual remission since contracting acute myelocytic leukemia in '73; treatment described; he comments; por (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 10, 1977, covering August 15, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Crosby| Stills & Nash
Barbra Streisand
Peter Frampton
Kiss
1977Martin Biron, Canadian ice hockey player[â ]
Martin Gaston Biron is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender.
1977Anthony Rocca, Australian footballer and coach[â ]
Anthony Rocca is a former Australian rules footballer who has played with the Sydney Swans and Collingwood in the Australian Football League. Rocca is currently serving as North Melbourne's development coach.
1977The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.[â ]
The Ohio State University Radio Observatory was a Kraus-type radio telescope located on the grounds of the Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio from 1963 to 1998. Known as Big Ear, the observatory was part of Ohio State University's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project. The telescope was designed by John D. Kraus. Construction of the Big Ear began in 1956 and was completed in 1961, and it was finally turned on for the first time in 1963.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[â ]