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HR-Sen conference com extends to July 1 '84 deadline for indus to install antipollution equipment; votes to relax Fed controls over nation's environmentally delicate wetlands following 2-yr attempt to make 'mideourse corrections' to '72 Clean Water Act (M)
Article on changes in Mozambique in 2 yrs since independence; despite difficulties, Govt appears to have united people and concentrated energies in way that is unusual for 3d world and singular for Africa; country seems to be becoming armed camp; illus; map (L)
Israeli UN delegate Chaim Herzog, in lr to UN Sec Gen Waldheim, says Israel's Nov 9 air strike was aimed solely against 'terrorist' camps or ammunition store points and that civilian casualties were caused by 'chain explosions' of these arms depots (S)
Mayor-elect Koch reptdly will offer high post to Herman Badillo, probably as Deputy Mayor; Badillo refuses to comment on rept; Badillo spokesman says Badillo would be interested in discussing specifics of job with Koch; indicates relationship with Edward Costykian would have to be worked out first; Herman Badillo's wife, Irma, will be offered post whether or not Herman takes post; Basil A Patterson has been approached about serving as Deputy Mayor in charge of labor relations; Irma and Herman Badillo illus (M)
Nov 12: Begin asks 'citizens of Egypt' to join Israelis in silent oath of 'no more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats,' statement in English recorded for Arabic programs beamed by Israeli radio and TV to Arab countries; offers friendship and cooperation; says he would welcome Sadat in Israel or go to Cairo; refers to common Semitic background of Jewish and Arab peoples and to role played by Abraham in both Jewish and Islamic tradition; describes as 'tragic and completely unnecessary' 4 wars between Israel and Arabs, which, he says, started when late Egyptian King Farouk invaded Israel in '48 (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 9, 1977, covering November 12, 1977.
Fleetwood Mac
Linda Ronstadt
Steely Dan
Foreigner
The Rolling Stones
1977Benni McCarthy, South African footballer[†]
Benedict Saul McCarthy is a South African football coach who is currently the manager of the Kenya national football team. He previously worked as head coach of South African Premier Division team AmaZulu, and as assistant coach at Manchester United.
1977Lee Murray, English mixed martial artist[†]
Lee Brahim Murray-Lamrani is an English mixed martial arts fighter and convicted bank robber. In 2005, his MMA career was cut short after he was stabbed multiple times outside a Mayfair nightclub. He was arrested in Rabat, Morocco, in June 2006 and sentenced to 10 years in prison in June 2010, for masterminding the armed Securitas depot robbery in Kent, England, where £53,116,760 of cash bank notes belonging to the Bank of England were stolen by Murray and his associates on 22 February 2006. It was the largest known cash robbery in the world during peacetime. After a failed attempt to escape prison and a failed appeal, his jail term was extended to 25 years on 30 November 2010. He is currently being held at a prison in Tifelt, northwestern Morocco, and despite being incarcerated fathered a child from prison in 2010. In 2018, Murray in an interview stated he was training to fight in prison, and still planned a UFC comeback, with the hope of securing a pardon from King Mohammed VI of Morocco.
1977France conducts the Oreste nuclear test as 14th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests series.[†]
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of 632,702 km2 (244,288 sq mi) and have an estimated total population of over 68.6 million as of January 2025. France is a semi-presidential republic and its capital, largest city and main cultural and economic centre is Paris.
In 1977, the world population was approximately 4,217,863,796 people[†]