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Anthony J. Ricco, a convicted rapist who escaped from Rikers Island prison Sunday night, held his wife hostage for nearly nine houri on East 108th Street yestrday. Left: Mr. Ricco and his wife, Yolanda, peer out of their apartment window. Above Mrs. Ricco hands her husband's gun to police on fire escape. Right: Mr. Ricco being led from building after giving up. Page 36.
NJ EPA Comr Ricci proposes new regulations requiring all state sewage dists to present alternative plans within 4 yrs that would end dumping of sewage sludge into waters off NJ and LI; says construction of alternative disposal facilities, estimated at $35-million, should begin in first half of '78; 11 sewage dists now dump about 1.7-million wet tons of sewage each yr into NY Bight; state is expected to go to composting--process that changes sewage into soil conditioner; dedication of composting plant, Camden, described as major step in effort; EPA has approved interim composting plan NY may use while deciding on method; cost has been major factor is shifting from ocean dumping; sludge disposal put at $1.75-a-ton versus composting at $4 ton (L)
Article on controversy in Imperial Valley over Fed regulation that could break up huge farms that have been reclaimed from deserts with irrigation water from Rocky Mts; farm interests want to repeal '02 Fed statute that sets 160 acres as maximum person can farm on land irrigated by Fed projects; valley is exempt from statute; farmer Don Cox and Dr Ben Yellen, who recently won suit against Govt to enforce law, comment; map; illus (M)
Sentenced to 4 yrs in prison following his conviction 6 wks ago of mail fraud and racketeering
NY Knicks to send Walt Frazier to Cleveland as compensation for Jim Cleamons; Frazier por (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 5, 1977, covering October 8, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Linda Ronstadt
Shaun Cassidy
Soundtrack
Elvis Presley
1977Anne-Caroline Chausson, French cyclist[â ]
Anne-Caroline Chausson is a French professional cyclist who competes in bicycle enduro, bicycle motocross (BMX), downhill time trial and cross-country mass start, dual, and four-cross mountain bicycle racing. She is best known for having won thirteen Union Cycliste Internationale senior mountain bike world championship rainbow jerseys, fourteen European mountain bike championships, and five consecutive Mountain Bike World Cup downhill series (1998â2002). She was nominated for the 2003 Laureus World Sports Awards Alternative Sportsperson of the Year. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Chausson competed for France in the inaugural women's BMX event, winning the gold medal.
1977Jamie Marchi, American voice actress, director, and screenwriter[â ]
Jamie Lynn Marchi is an American voice actress, ADR director and script writer. She has provided a number of voices for English-language versions of anime and video games. She is known for her role as Masane Amaha in Witchblade, Mari Ohara in Love Live! Sunshine!!, Mimi in Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne, Mitsuko Kongo in A Certain Scientific Railgun, Charlotte E. Yeager in Strike Witches, Haruna Saotome in Negima!, Rias Gremory in High School DxD, Panty Anarchy in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Cathy in Angels of Death, and Junko Enoshima in Danganronpa.
1977Erna Siikavirta, Finnish singer-songwriter and keyboard player[â ]
Erna Inari Kaarina Siikavirta is a Finnish keyboard player. She is best known as a member of the rock band Lordi, which she joined in 1997 under the stage name Enary. She left the band in 2005, at the request of the other members.
1977Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (born 1902)[â ]
Giorgos Papasideris was a Greek singer, composer, and lyricist. He was born on Salamis Island. After leaving elementary school, he spent his entire career working professionally in the field of traditional Greek folk music, producing many popular recordings. He died of a heart attack in 1977 on Salamis Island. In a district of Salamis City, named Alonia in the birthplace of Papasideris, there is a bust in memory of him.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[â ]