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USSR has informed US that Cuban mil forces in Ethiopia will be substantially reduced once Somali troops are withdrawn from Ogaden and fighting stops; USSR has agreed with US that neutral internatl observers should be sent to region to insure that reprisals are not take by Ethiopian forces against ethnic Somalis in area (M)
Mayor Koch proposes to let city's work force shrink by 6,345 jobs by July 1 '79 in move that he says will help close $457 million budget gap with no layoffs and no significant cuts in services; loss of jobs, from pool of 190,000 workers, and such actions as cut in number of ineligible people collecting welfare, is meant to trim $174 million in projected city costs in fiscal '79; table shows proposed job reductions in various city depts (M)
Citibank has decided not to make loans to S African Govt or Govt-owned mfg and utility enterprises; US Sen rept indicates Citibank has participated in $767 million worth of syndicated loans to S Africa (M)
business reprs attribute rise in teen-age jobless rate in Feb to 15% rise in minimum wage; US C of C economist Jack Carlson says orgn will call on Cong to enact immediately youth differential in minimum wage to reverse trend (S)
S African Govt, apparantly confident that upsurge of black resistance to rule has subsided, has released 10 of blacks it seized in crackdown on dissidents in late '77, including The World editor Percy Qoboza (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 8, 1978, covering March 11, 1978.
Soundtrack
Billy Joel
Jackson Browne
Eric Clapton
Queen
1978Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer[â ]
Didier Yves Drogba TĂ©bily is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the all-time top scorer and former captain of the Ivory Coast national team. He is known for his career at Chelsea, where he is the clubâs top goalscorer as a foreign player and is currently the club's fourth highest goalscorer of all time. Widely regarded as one of the greatest African players of all time, he was known for his pace, aerial abilities, and powerful and accurate strikes. Drogba was named African Footballer of the Year twice.
1978Albert Luque, Spanish footballer[â ]
Albert Luque Martos is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a left winger or striker.
1978Claude François, French entertainer (born 1939)[â ]
Claude Antoine Marie François, also known by the nickname Cloclo, was a French pop singer, composer, songwriter, record producer, drummer and dancer. François co-wrote the lyrics of "Comme d'habitude", the original version of "My Way" and composed the music of "Parce que je t'aime mon enfant", the original version of "My Boy". Among his other famous songs are "Le Téléphone Pleure", "Le lundi au soleil", "Magnolias for Ever" and "Alexandrie Alexandra". He also enjoyed considerable success with French-language versions of English-language songs, including "Belles! Belles! Belles!", "Cette année là " and "Je vais à Rio".
1978Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.[â ]
The coastal road massacre occurred on 11 March 1978, when Palestinian militants hijacked a bus on the Coastal Highway of Israel and murdered its occupants; 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, were killed as a result of the attack while 76 more were wounded. The attack was planned by the influential Palestinian militant leader Khalil al-Wazir and carried out by Fatah, a Palestinian nationalist party co-founded by al-Wazir and Yasser Arafat in 1959. The initial plan of the militants was to seize a luxury hotel in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv and take tourists and foreign ambassadors hostage to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[â ]