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GAO repts that there are at present 7-million cu ft of radioactive wastes created by nuclear reactors and weapons facilities and that there will be over 11-million cu ft by yr 2000; says EPA is not equipped to deal with problem (S)
Sept 15: Carter Adm now believes that best way to overcome obstacles to Mideast peace conf would be for Israel to drop its objections and agree to negotiate at Geneva with unified pan-Arab delegation that could include Palestinians who accept Israel's right to exist; US view will be discussed with Dayan and Arab foreign mins; US official says unresolved crucial issues include formula for Palestinian 'entity' and demarcation of final borders; says Vance, during Aug Mideast trip, proposed that West Bank be put under some kind of internatl control--either Israeli-Jordanian or UN--for specified period, to be followed by local plebicite; says idea won Arab support but was rejected by Israel; says US would probably be prepared to support PLO participation at Geneva as part of pan-Arab delegation if PLO alters its opposition to Resolution 242 (M)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—A Senate committee heard testimony today in which John L. Stokes, the former United States Attorney in Atlanta, was pictured as having closed out an investigation of a bank headed by Bert Lance over the objections of his subordinates and at time when he was hoping to save his job.
Sen Energy Com rejects Carter Adm's proposal to give Fed Govt authority to order elec rates based on cost of delivering power, but asks staff to draft substitute that would allow it to intervene in state proceedings; Sens Jackson and Haskell see Carter proposal an unwarranted intrusion into states' rights: decision is hailed by J B Kennedy of Elec Consumers Resource Council, which with Natl Assn of Elec Cos lobbied against proposal; com sets hearings on controversial utility proposals involving interconnections, pooling arrangements and transmission of power by utilities for 3d parties (M)
Atty Gen Bell, asked about S Korean Govt's refusal to return Park Tong Sun to US for questioning, says 'We are not' taking no for an answer,' int; says he has drafted 2d lr for Pres Carter to send to Korean Pres Park Chung Hee; is not enthused about S Korean proposal to allow Leon Jaworski to question Park in Korea; says possibility of offering Park immunity from prosecution is 'very remote'; reveals that Justice Dept is studying 20 former and current Congressmen in addition to 24 named in Park's indictment (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 14, 1977, covering September 15, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Soundtrack
Elvis Presley
James Taylor
Crosby| Stills & Nash
1977Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian author[†]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer of novels, short stories, poem, and children's books; she is also a book reviewer and literary critic. Her most famous works include Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013). She is widely recognised as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature.
1977Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter[†]
Kiyomi Angela Aki known professionally as Angela Aki , is a Japanese pop singer, songwriter and pianist.
1977Sophie Dahl, English model and author[†]
Sophie Dahl is an English author and former fashion model. Her first novel, The Man with the Dancing Eyes, was published in 2003 followed by Playing With the Grown-ups in 2007. In 2009, she wrote Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights, a cookery book which formed the basis for a six-part BBC Two series named The Delicious Miss Dahl. In 2011, she published her second cookery book From Season to Season. Her first children's book, Madame Badobedah, was released in 2019. She is the daughter of Tessa Dahl and Julian Holloway and the granddaughter of author Roald Dahl, actress Patricia Neal, and actor Stanley Holloway.
1977Tom Hardy, English actor, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Edward Thomas Hardy is an English actor. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London, Hardy made his film debut in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down in 2001. He had supporting roles in the films Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) and RocknRolla (2008), and went on to star in Bronson (2008), Warrior (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Lawless (2012), This Means War (2012), and Locke (2013). In 2015, he starred as "Mad" Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road and both Kray twins in Legend, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Revenant. Hardy appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Dunkirk (2017). He has since starred as the title character in the film Venom (2018) and its two sequels.
1977Marisa Ramirez, American actress[†]
Marisa Maguire Ramirez is an American actress, known for her work on television soap operas and for her role on the police procedural television drama series Blue Bloods as Detective Maria Baez.
1977Jason Terry, American basketball player[†]
Jason Eugene Terry is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 19 seasons in the NBA as a combo guard and is also known by the initialism "the Jet". With the Dallas Mavericks, Terry won the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award in 2009 and an NBA championship in 2011. As of January, 2025, Terry has made the eleventh-most three-point field goals in NBA history.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]