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September 5, 1977

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Headlines from September 5, 1977

Files Show Tests For Truth Drug Began in O.S.S.

By Unknown Author

Documents on file in small college museum in Los Altos Hills, Calif, indicate that US intelligence community's research on control of human behavior focused as long ago as '43 on ways to induce people to tell truth against their will; show that Office of Strategic Services began highly classified experiments, apparently conducted in some cases on unwitting subjects, that were intended to measure potential of marijuana derivative as truth serum; references to search for so-called T-drug that might break down psychological defenses by Allied counterintelligence officers are contained in diaries and correspondence of late George Hunter White, who rose to rank of lt col in OSS and after war had career as sr Fed narcotics official (L)

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Chinatown Attack Kills 5, Wounds 10 In San Francisco

By Wallace Turner

3 masked gunmen kill 5 persons and wound 10 others, 2 critically, in Golden Dragon Restaurant in Chinatown, San Francisco; attack seen as part of gang-related attempt to kill customer; police rept that there have been 39 killings in area since '69 that are apparently related to conflict among Chinese youth gangs; Calvin Fong is 1 of dead and Robert Yuen critically wounded; others not identified; incident detailed; illus (M)

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Poorer Nations’ Bid Puts Common Market on the. Spot

By Paul Lewis Special to The New York Times

Article on efforts of poor nations of southern Eur to obtain favorable trade relationships with EEC; efforts of Spain, Greece, Portugal and Turkey cited; fear of some orgn members, that enlarged membership would create free-trade area without free trade, cited; strong opposition by France and Italy noted; chart; map (M)

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 31, 1977, covering September 5, 1977.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

    Rumours

    Fleetwood Mac

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    28
  2. 2
    Album cover for CSN by Crosby| Stills & Nash

    CSN

    Crosby| Stills & Nash

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    9
  3. 3
    Album cover for Star Wars by Soundtrack

    Star Wars

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    12
  4. 4
    Album cover for JT by James Taylor

    JT

    James Taylor

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    9
  5. 5
    Album cover for Moody Blue by Elvis Presley

    Moody Blue

    Elvis Presley

    Last week
    24
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    7

Notable Births

Rosevelt Colvin

1977Rosevelt Colvin, American football player and sportscaster[†]

Rosevelt Colvin, III is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers and was selected by the Chicago Bears in the fourth round of the 1999 NFL draft.

Joseba Etxeberria

1977Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish footballer[†]

Joseba Andoni Etxeberria Lizardi is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played mostly as a winger, currently a manager.

Minoru Fujita

1977Minoru Fujita, Japanese wrestler[†]

Minoru Fujita is a Japanese professional wrestler who works as a freelancer. He is known for working at Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling.

Nazr Mohammed

1977Nazr Mohammed, American basketball player[†]

Nazr Tahiru Mohammed is an American former professional basketball player who had a journeyman career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), playing for eight different teams over 18 seasons. He is the current general manager of the Oklahoma City Blue and a pro scout for the Oklahoma City Thunder. He played college basketball for Kentucky.

Notable Deaths

Marcel Thiry

1977Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet and activist (born 1897)[†]

Marcel Thiry was a French-speaking Belgian poet. During World War I, he and his brother Oscar served in the Belgian Expeditionary Corps in Russia.

Historical Events

Voyager program

1977Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 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.

Historical Context for September 5, 1977

In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]