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In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]
1977Rodney Buford, American basketball player[†]
Rodney Alan "The Sheriff" Buford is an American former professional basketball player who last played for the London Lightning of the National Basketball League of Canada. He played college basketball for the Creighton Bluejays.
1977Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player[†]
Konstantinos Economidis is a retired professional Greek tennis player and a former Greek No. 1. In 2007, he qualified for the French Open and defeated Australian Chris Guccione in the first round before losing to Tommy Robredo in the second round. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 112 in February 2007 and has won 5 Challenger titles.
1977Reshma Shetty, British-American actress[†]
Reshma Shetty is a British-born American actress who is best known for her role as Divya Katdare on the USA Network TV series Royal Pains.
1977Leon Taylor, English diver and sportscaster[†]
Leon Taylor is a former British competitive diver. During his diving career he won medals at all major international events including a silver at the Athens Olympics. Following his retirement from competition, Taylor transitioned to a portfolio of projects. He now speaks about mental wellness, supports the SportsAid charity, teaches yoga and mental wellness, works for an executive performance business and commentates for the BBC.
Kidnappers free Dutch millionaire Maurits Caransa in downtown Amsterdam after $4‐million in ransom is paid; police spokesman says kidnapping was work of common criminals and not political terrorists (M)
illus of Pres Carter, AFL‐CIO pres George Meany and Sen Jennings Randolph
Latest NY Times/CBS News Poll finds Carter's approval rating slipping to 55% in Oct; finds drop in number of people who think Carter can fulfill his campaign promise to restore trust in govt, from 70% in Apr to 51% in Oct, and drop in his approval by blacks, from 83% in Apr to 57% in Oct; finds little apparent spillover from OMB Dir Lance's resignation; finds Carter has higher rating than Cong for honesty and same rating as Cong for making decisions and paying attention to people's views; details of Carter's ratings on issues of energy, Panama Canal treaties and budget; drop in Carter's overall rating seen comparable to experience of other recent Presidents after 9 mos in office; charts showing responses to different questions in poll (M)
Sen Finance Com approves and sends to Sen bill that would for 1st time require employers to pay heavier Soc Security payroll taxes than are levied on employees (M)
Carter announces US withdrawal, effective Nov 5, touching off bitter criticism of action at UN; Sec Gen Kurt Waldheim calls action 'retrogressive step"; Egyptian chief delegate Dr Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid scores action; action means end to US contribution of $20‐million annually, 1/4 of agency's budget; Marshall and ILO Dir Gen Francis Blanchard comment (M)
Possible impact of latest Fed Reserve move to raise interest rates on Burns reapptmt discussed; Burns and Carter illus (S)
Quebec Premier Rene Levesque visits tomb of late French Pres Charles DeGaulle, Colombey‐le‐deux‐Eglises; is visiting France and other Eur nations in effort to drum up support for Quebec's independence (M)
Drs David Lipton and Howard Massoff and Smithtown Gen Hosp are reptdly indicted on charges stemming from alleged use of med supply salesman to help perform major bone surgery; hosp is charged with falsifying records, allegedly to conceal participation of salesman of prosthetic devices, William MacKay, in '75 operation to implant artificial hip in patient; MacKay is granted immunity from prosecution in exch for cooperation in investigation of case; hosp lawyer James M LaRossa says assault charges have been brought against 2 drs stemming from their allegedly allowing MacKay to handle sedated patient; patient Mirando brings $2‐million malpractice suit; State Assemblyman Alan G Hevisi comments (M)
Pres Carter and Sec Vance urge Soviet leaders not to proceed with pending trials of dissidents since they would inevitably stir up anti‐Soviet sentiment and imperil Soviet‐Amer relations; upcoming trials of Anatoly Shcharansky, Aleksandr I Ginzburg and Yuri F Orlov discussed (M)
Koch opposes Westway project but Farber, Goodman and Cuomo favor it, meeting with NY Times editors and reporters (S)
Park Tong Sun reptdly gave $190,000 to former Repr Otto Passman when Passman was chmn of HR subcom that held virtual veto power over foreign aid allotments; Ryu Jae Shin, former asst to Park, has told HR ethics com that Park sent him to Switzerland in '72 to withdraw that amt from his bank acct; Park reptdly told friends about personally giving Passman $150,000, and having Ryu give him remaining $40,000; Passman says 'I have never received a dime from Mr Park'; Ryu had testified under grant of immunity (M)
Article on Pathan tribesmen making firearms by hand in Darra, Pakistan (S)