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In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[â ]
1978Alfredo AmĂ©zaga, Mexican baseball player[â ]
Alfredo Amézaga Delgado is a Mexican former professional baseball center fielder and infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2004 to 2011 for the Anaheim Angels, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Florida Marlins. He is currently a coach for the Diablos Rojos del México of the Mexican League, and has previously coached for the Detroit Tigers.
1978A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1890)[â ]
Aiyathurai Varnakulasingham Kulasingham was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician, journalist and editor of the Ceylon Daily News and Hindu Organ.
Article discusses efforts of Fed Reserve to bolster sagging dollar; notes lack of optimism by financial analysts that moves will be effective; possible effects of Fed intervention discussed; some analysts comment (M)
JUHU, India, Jan. 15—Several hundred members of the Hare Krishna sect, chanting and singing and clapping, opened a $2 million temple and cultural center here this weekend in a colorful festival of devotion.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 15—Hand it to the Denver Broncos. They made Tom Landry, the Dallas coach, use every conceivable weapon in the Cowboy arsenal to secure the Super Bowl XII victory here tonight.
Comment on post-Christmas sale in Wallach's that included several thousand men's garments; illus (L)
Carter Burden narrowly defeats Bella S Abzug for Dem nomination for Cong in 18th Dist on East Side; Abzug says she will challenge vote in ct; City Councilman Fred Samuel, chmn of Manhattan Dem com, declares final tally after 3d ballot by com's members from dist; what starts out as unusually peaceful county com meeting ends in pandemonium as Abzug and her supporters angrily protest invalidation of 6 ballots, with total of 829 weighted votes, that had been cast for her; votes would have been enough to nominate her; Burden and Abzug illus (M)
Educ Bd reptdly hired 1,000 ps teachers and supervisors, many unlicensed, under little-known hiring procedure that bypasses merit system; job titles range from narcotics prevention instructor to Educ Bd admr; employees, who hold ctfs of competency, not only earn more than that mandated by union scale but are immune from job cutbacks; hiring system has been attacked by supervisors' union, NYS Assemblyman Leonard P Stavisky and Examiners Bd but defended by bd official Frank C Arricale 2d (M)
Conrail and LIRR spokesmen expect resumption of normal service on commuter lines following weather- related delays (S)
Article on increase in smuggling of marijuana into US by sea; Fed officials rept increase in sea smuggling over past 14 mos; are resurrecting little-used Hovering Vessels Act to counter 'mother ship' arrangement used by smugglers--in which vessels stay outside 12-mi reach of US law and ferry drugs to shore via smaller craft; number of vessels seized by USCG and Customs more than doubled between '76 and '77, from 26 to 54, and amt of marijuana seized has quadrupled; Drug Enforcement Agency admr Peter B Bensinger comments (M)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15‐Israel ana Egypt accepted an American compromise today that resolved a dispute over how to describe the Palestinian issue in the agenda for a meeting of their Foreign Ministers. As a result of the agreement,
Pat Donovan, the offensive right tackle on the Dallas Cowboy team, is a bright, articulate athlete, the kind so often found playing in the line without any recognition.