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BREST, France, March 17 (AP)‐The American ‐ owned supertanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground and broke up off the Atlantic coast here early today, and huge and growing oil slick began washing up along miles of Brittany shoreline.
Justice Dept says it will prove that role of former Repr Richard T Hanna in influence buying scandal was to install Tongsun Park as selling agent in US for sale of rice to South Korea (S)
Surge of internatl price specualtion combined with rapidly increasing demand has driven prices of diamonds to record levels; rough diamonds now are commanding premiums as high as 40%; illus (L)
Sec Blumenthal and Schultze, in joint memorandum, urge Pres Carter to accept idea that, at least temporarily, inflation has replaced unemployment as nation's chief domestic problem; warn of possible acceleration of inflation rate and urge Fed Govt to take lead in effort to curb inflation; inflation and what to do about it was main subject at meeting of Econ Policy Group on Mar 16; Commerce Sec Kreps and her chief economist, Courtenay M Slater, are not convinced that inflation will continue to accelerate this yr; believe there are dangers in reacting too quickly (M)
Israeli forces advance deeper into southern Lebanon; illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 15, 1978, covering March 18, 1978.
Soundtrack
Billy Joel
Eric Clapton
Jackson Browne
Steely Dan
1978Jan Bulis, Czech ice hockey player[†]
Jan Bulis is a Czech former professional hockey winger who last played as the Captain of Traktor Chelyabinsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He spent nine seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), playing with the Washington Capitals, Montreal Canadiens, and Vancouver Canucks. The Capitals selected Bulis in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft.
1978Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2014)[†]
Fernando Lúcio da Costa, better known as Fernandão, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward.
1978Brooke Hanson, Australian swimmer[†]
Brooke Louise Hanson, OAM is an Australian former competitive swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, and former world record-holder.
1978Hu Jun, Chinese actor[citation needed][†]
Hu Jun is a Chinese actor best known for playing dramatic roles in various films and television series. He has acted in a number of Hong Kong films.
1978Brian Scalabrine, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster[†]
Brian David Scalabrine, jokingly nicknamed the "White Mamba", is an American former professional basketball player who is currently a television analyst for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is also the co-host of "The Starting Lineup", which airs weekdays from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET on SiriusXM NBA Radio.
1978Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer, coach, and manager[†]
Anders Jonas Wallerstedt is a Swedish former footballer who is a pilot for Braathens Regional Airlines, and the former manager of the GIF Sundsvall U-17 Tipselit team. He is known for his aerial and goal scoring abilities. He is nicknamed "Walle" by both fans and teammates. During his career he has represented three clubs in the Swedish top flight, Allsvenskan, and was a part of the IFK Göteborg team that won the 2007 Allsvenskan. He is the first Swedish footballer to have played in the Russian Premier League.
1978Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (born 1915)[†]
Leigh Douglass Brackett was an American author and screenwriter. Nicknamed "the Queen of Space Opera", she was one of the most prominent female writers during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. As a screenwriter, she was best known for her collaborations with director Howard Hawks, mainly writing Westerns and crime films. She also worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), elements of which remained in the film; she died before it went into production.
1978Peggy Wood, American actress (born 1892)[†]
Mary Margaret Wood was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama (1949–1957), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The Story of Ruth (1960); and her final screen appearance as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music (1965), for which she received nominations for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]