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Mass meeting, apparently 11th Cong of Communist Party, is under way in Great Hall of the People, Peking, amid repts that major shift in official ideology from revolutionary radicalism to more down-to-earth policies would be announced within 24 hrs; sources rept that Chmn Hua read pol rept to Cong and Deputy Chmn Yeh Chien-ying delivered major speech on revision of party const (M)
S African Govt reptdly has completed const rev and to have settled on system that would allow Asians and those of mixed races, but not blacks, to share pol power (M)
illus of 25 policemen promoted for their work in capture of 'Son of Sam'
Sources rept Lance inquiry has prompted full-scale investigation of standards and methods used by Comptroller's office in regulating nation's banks; say investigation is focusing on activities of 3 sr officials involved in Lance controversy; officials identified as Donald Tarleton, H Joe Selby and Robert Bloom; investigation to focus on whether information on Lance was withheld from FBI, whether Tarleton improperly accepted plane ride from Natl Bank of Ga in '76 and whether Bloom withheld information from Sen Governmental Affairs Com concerning cancellation of agreement between Calhoun First Natl Bank and Comptroller's office aimed at correcting bank's mgt deficiencies; White House discloses that d Carter made 2 campaign trips aboard aircraft owned by Natl Bank of Ga; aide to Sen banking Com chmn Sen Proxmire says hearings into Comptroller's regulatory practices may be held in Sept; HR Banking Com chmn Repr Henry S Reuss says Comptroller's rept raises serious questions about nation's entire banking system (M)
Earthquake measuring between 7. 7 and 8. 9 on Richter scale, possibly strongest ever recorded, strikes eastern Indian Ocean between Australia and Indonesia on Aug 19, rattling bldgs as far away as Perth; there are no immediate repts of injuries, delay attributed to relative isolation of Indonesian islands closest to quake's epicenter; map (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 17, 1977, covering August 20, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Crosby| Stills & Nash
Barbra Streisand
Soundtrack
James Taylor
1977Paolo Bianco, Italian footballer[†]
Paolo Bianco is an Italian football coach and former footballer who played as a defender. He currently manages Frosinone Calcio.
1977Wayne Brown, English footballer[†]
Wayne Lawrence Brown is an English football coach and former player who was most recently manager of Colchester United.
1977Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player, coach, and physician[†]
Felipe Contepomi is an Argentine professional rugby coach who is currently the head coach of the Argentine national side.
1977Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player[†]
Manuel Contepomi is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He started playing rugby at his secondary school, Colegio Cardenal Newman, and currently plays for Club Newman in the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires competition. He has also made numerous appearances for the Argentina national team. He is the twin brother of fellow Argentine rugby international Felipe Contepomi.
1977Shockmain Davis, American football player[†]
Shockmain Nastase Davis is an American former professional football wide receiver. He attended Angelo State University.
1977Stéphane Gillet, Luxembourgish footballer[†]
Stéphane Gillet was a Luxembourgish footballer. He played in goal twenty times for Luxembourg. He has played for clubs in several countries, including Jeunesse Esch and Racing FC Union Luxembourg in Luxembourg, Chester City in England, SV Elversberg in Germany, and FC Wil in Switzerland.
1977Aaron Hamill, Australian footballer and coach[†]
Aaron Hamill is a former professional Australian rules footballer, who is best known for his time at the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) when he briefly captained the club. He also played five seasons with Carlton.
1977Ívar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer[†]
Ívar Ingimarsson is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as a centre back.
1977James Ormond, English cricketer[†]
James Ormond is an English former cricketer. He played two test matches for the England cricket team and in total made 137 first class appearances.
1977Josh Pearce, American baseball player[†]
Joshua Ray Pearce is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 2002 to 2004.
1977Aaron Taylor, American baseball player[†]
Aaron Wade Taylor, nicknamed Big Country, is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Seattle Mariners.
1977Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.[†]
The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable planetary alignment to explore the two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and potentially also the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune—to fly near them while collecting data for transmission back to Earth. After Voyager 1 successfully completed its flyby of Saturn and its moon Titan, it was decided to send Voyager 2 on flybys of Uranus and Neptune.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]