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Sources familiar with financial plan now being drafted for NYC say that Koch adm will impose limited freeze on hiring and cut funds of every dept to help close budget deficit for next yr that is now projected at close to $500‐million; freeze would be in depts other than Police, Fire and Corrections (M)
Cong members, returning to 95th session after holiday recess, find that dominant issue among constituents is increased Soc Security taxes (M)
IRS revokes rulings that have permitted cos producing crude oil in Saudi Arabia and Libya to deduct payments made to host govts from US income tax liability, instead of from their taxable income; avoids basic question of whether payments are royalties or income taxes; cos most affected by ruling noted (M)
Gov Carey mobilizes Natl Guard to help LI residents recover from storm; 340,000 island residents are without heat and elec for 3d straight day; Suffolk County Exec John V N Klein will seek Fed disaster status for county (M)
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 11, 1978, covering January 17, 1978.
Fleetwood Mac
Rod Stewart
Earth| Wind & Fire
Electric Light Orchestra
Linda Ronstadt
1978Lisa Llorens, Australian Paralympian[†]
Lisa Christina Llorens, OAM(born 17 January 1978) is an Australian Paralympic athlete. She was born in Canberra. She specialises in Paralympic high jumping, long jumping, and sprinting, participating in competitions for athletes with autism.
1978Ricky Wilson, English singer-songwriter[†]
Charles Richard Wilson is an English musician and the frontman of five-piece rock band Kaiser Chiefs. Before the formation of the band, in 2003, Wilson was a member of the band Runston Parva, which consisted of members of Kaiser Chiefs. In September 2013, Wilson was confirmed as a coach on The Voice UK. He was the winning coach for both the fourth and fifth series of the show, being the first coach to win two years consecutively. Wilson left the show after three series, following the show's move to ITV.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]