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Sen begins considering Carter's energy tax bill; liberals opposed to bill call it giveaway for indus; Sen Long, backed by Adm, is trying to get through skeleton bill containing only tax credits, in hope that taxes sought by Carter will be added in subsequent Sen-HR conf; Sen Budget Com opposes bill because it would exceed budget ceiling (S)
US agrees to support proposed move in UN Security Council to impose mandatory embargo on arms sales to S Africa (M)
W Ger Pres Walter Scheel calls on all world pol leaders to join in common struggle against terrorism, ceremony in St Eberhard RC Ch honoring Schleyer; Soc Dems, in reaction to prison scandal involving deaths of Baader, Raspe and Ensslin, break pol truce that had prevailed during Schleyer's captivity and demand immediate explanation from local Christian Dem govt in Baden-Wurttenberg; illus of Schleyer's widow flanked by Schmidt and Scheel in Stuttgart; illus (L)
NY Times/Channel 2 poll shows that gubernatorial race appears to be closest in state history, with Byrne and Bateman in virtual tie in closing wks of campaign; poll, conducted by phone between Oct 15 and 19, indicates that Byrne, who was decided underdog mo ago, may have picked up momentum at crucial juncture in contest; poll also shows state income tax to be most important issue; among those regis voters who participated in survey, 40% say they favor Byrne and 40% say they favor Bateman; 20% are undecided or refuse to say; among 3/4 of regis voters who seemed 'likely' to vote, 43% favor Byrne and 43% favor Bateman; diagram showing poll findings (L)
Firestone Tire & Rubber ex-vp Robert P Beasley is named in 40-count indictment for allegedly stealing most of $1-million in corporate money that was supposedly being used for illegal pol campaign contributions from some time prior to '60 until at least May '73; US Atty Robert B Fiske Jr comments; Beasley por (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 26, 1977, covering October 26, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Linda Ronstadt
Steely Dan
Foreigner
The Rolling Stones
1977Jon Heder, American actor and producer[†]
Jonathan Joseph Heder is an American actor. He is best known for his breakout lead role as the title character of the comedy film Napoleon Dynamite (2004). He also voiced the character in the Fox animated series of the same name (2012).
1977Marisha Pessl, American author[†]
Marisha Pessl is an American writer known for her novels Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Night Film, Neverworld Wake, and Darkly.
1977Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops a rash in Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date to be the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.[†]
Ali Maow Maalin was a Somali hospital cook and health worker from Merca who is the last person known to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola minor smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery. Although he had many contacts, none of them developed the disease, and an aggressive containment campaign was successful in preventing an outbreak. Smallpox was declared to have been eradicated globally by the World Health Organization (WHO) two years later. Maalin was subsequently involved in the successful poliomyelitis eradication campaign in Somalia, and he died of malaria while carrying out polio vaccinations after the re-emergence of the poliovirus in 2013.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]