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UTU and MTA agree on tentative contract settlement, averting threatened strike against LIRR; contract provisions, which will add $24 million to '77 payroll of $124 million, noted; MTA chmn Harold L Fisher believes fare increase is unlikely; union chmn Raymond J Mills repts mgt has agreed not to cut as many brakemen as originally anticipated (M)
Former Repr Otto E Passman is indicted for allegedly putting pressure on South Korean officials to appt Tongsun Park as agent for rice purchases (S)
US Sec Vance may visit USSR in effort to break impasse in negotiations on new SALT treaty (S)
Port Auth reaches agreement with Airbus Industries, A300 Airbus mfr, allowing plane to operate from airport; runways that extend into E River will be strengthened an plane's landing gear will be modified to distribute weight more evenly (M)
Commerce Dept repts imports exceeded exports by record $4.52-billion in Feb; triggers dollar declines in foreign currency mkts and results in call from outgoing Fed Reserve Chmn Burns for more vigorous defense of currency; dept's chief economist Courtenay Slater comments; factors in decline discussed; chart (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 29, 1978, covering April 1, 1978.
Soundtrack
Eric Clapton
Billy Joel
Barry Manilow
Steely Dan
1978Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (died 2009)[†]
Antonio de Nigris Guajardo was a Mexican professional footballer who played as a striker.
1978Mirka Federer, Slovak-Swiss tennis player[†]
Miroslava "Mirka" Federer is a Swiss former professional tennis player of Slovak origin.
1978Anamaria Marinca, Romanian-English actress[†]
Anamaria Marinca is a Romanian actress. She made her screen debut with the Channel 4 film Sex Traffic, for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Marinca is also known for her performance in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, earning several awards for her performance, and was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actress, London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress. In 2008, at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival, she was presented the Shooting Stars Award by the European Film Promotion.
1978Etan Thomas, American basketball player[†]
Dedrick Etan Thomas is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Washington Wizards, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is also a published poet, freelance writer, activist, and motivational speaker, as well as a co-host of Centers of Attention, a sports talk show on ESPN Radio Syracuse in Syracuse, New York, alongside former professional basketball player Danny Schayes.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]