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3d in series of articles based on NY Times/Channel 2 survey of regis Dem voters in NYC finds that slightly more than half surveyed disapprove of Beame's performance in office, including 35% who strongly disapprove; total of 38% approve; graph (M)
illus with Sec Vance
Sue Park Thomson testifies at closed session of HR ethics com; denies ever being Korean Govt agent or knowing anything about Korean payments to Congressmen; claims Congressmen she invited to her parties were social and business acquaintances she met as sec to former HR Speaker Carl Albert; says she did not know that 1 of her guests, Kim Yung Hwan, was connected with Korean CIA; her atty, Philip J Hirshkop, characterizes her relationship with Park Tong Sun as 'strained'; says she knows of only 2 meetings between Park and former Speaker Albert; Thomson says Park showed up in S Korea on some trips she took with Cong delegations (M)
Ronald Reagan, after briefing on treaties by Linowitz and Bunker, says Sen should reject them; calls for study of alternative courses of action; illus (M)
GAO estimates that cargo‐preference bill before Cong will cost US consumers $240-million a yr, not counting cost of potential retaliation by other countries and effect of importing more than the 10-million bbls a day predicted by '85 and permitting domestic oil prices to rise to level of imports; $240-million estimate is more than double Commerce Dept estimate of last mo; Comptroller Gen Staats informed Repr John M Murphy of GAO estimate 4 days before Murphy's Merchant Marine Com approved bill; com counsel Ernest Corrado believes com had estimate and says Murphy probably did not mention it because it was 'not a great deal of money' (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 24, 1977, covering August 26, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Crosby| Stills & Nash
Soundtrack
James Taylor
Barbra Streisand
1977Therese Alshammar, Swedish swimmer[†]
Malin Therese Alshammar is a Swedish swimmer who has won three Olympic medals, 25 World Championship medals, and 43 European Championship medals. She is a specialist in short distances races in freestyle and butterfly. She is coached by former Swedish swimmer Johan Wallberg. She is the first female swimmer and the third overall to participate in six Olympic Games.
1977Liam Botham, English rugby player and cricketer[†]
Liam James Botham is an English former professional sportsman who played both codes of rugby football and cricket. He is the son of former England cricketer Ian Botham.
1977Saeko Chiba, Japanese voice actress and singer[†]
Saeko Chiba is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She grew up in Tokyo and married in 2007. She is contracted to the Space Craft Produce.
1977Simone Motta, Italian footballer[†]
Simone Motta is an Italian football coach and a former player who is the manager of the Under-19 squad of Pordenone.
1977Morris Peterson, American basketball player[†]
Morris Russell Peterson Jr. is an American former professional basketball player who played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans, earning Big Ten Player of the Year honors and leading the team to a national title in 2000.
1977H. A. Rey, German-American author and illustrator, created Curious George (born 1898)[†]
H. A. Rey was a German-born American illustrator and author, known best for the series of children's picture books that he and his wife Margret Rey created about Curious George.
1977The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec.[†]
The Charter of the French Language, also known as Bill 101, is a law in the Canadian province of Quebec defining French, the language of the majority of the population, as the official language of the provincial government. It is the central piece of legislation that forms Quebec's language policy and one of the three principle statutes upon which the cohesion of Quebec's society is based, along with the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and the Civil Code of Quebec. The charter also protects the Indigenous languages in Quebec.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]