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Enormous black mkt in fraudulent documents is thwarting efforts to stem flow of illegal aliens into US; illus (M)
Vance arrives in Peking; Chinese leaders appear to be in far more confident and stable position than leadership has been since Nixon visit in '72; US-Chinese relations revd (M)
Atty Gen Bell seeks to form bur of criminal justice statistics to replace fragmented and much criticized system of measuring crime; new Justice Dept agency would take over crime statistics work of FBI, Law Enforcement Assistance Adm and several other depts (M)
Aug 22: analysis of Begin's policy; despite numerous predictions that he is on collision course with US, Begin gives every sign of being deeply convinced of rightness of his view; his basic premise is that Arabs continue to seek Israel's destruction, and therefore he not only must hold firm but also retain US support; Begin professes not to understand why US seems upset at his refusal to hold off further Jewish settlement of West Bank or at his decision to give equal soc rights to Arab Palestinians under Israeli rule; Begin illus (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 17, 1977, covering August 22, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Crosby| Stills & Nash
Barbra Streisand
Soundtrack
James Taylor
1977Sebastian Cabot, English actor (born 1918)[†]
Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot was a British actor. He is best remembered as the gentleman's gentleman Giles French in the CBS-TV sitcom Family Affair (1966–1971). He was also known for playing the Wazir in the film Kismet (1955) and Dr. Carl Hyatt in the CBS-TV series Checkmate (1960–1962).
1977Chunseong, Korean monk, philosopher and writer (born 1891)[†]
Lee Chang-rim, also known by his Dharma name Chunseong, was a Korean Buddhist monk, scholar, poet, writer, and philosopher.
1977Rex Connor, Australian politician (born 1907)[†]
Reginald Francis Xavier Connor was an Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1963 until he died in 1977, representing the Labor Party. He was the Minister for Minerals and Energy in the Whitlam government from 1972 to 1975.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]
