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Internatl Trade Comm finds that imports of Japanese carbon steel are injuring US steel producers; Treas will now raise duties on carbon steel plate 4-18%; complaint was brought by Gilmore Steel and was directed at 5 Japanese mfrs, Kawasaki, Kobe, Nippon Kokan, Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal (S)
NY Times/CBS poll shows respondents oppose treaties by 5 to 3 margin; margin has remained constant for 6 mos; after interviewers point out that 1st treaty had been amended, 51% say they approve treaties (S)
Ensemble Studio Theater is producing pkg of 19 plays, consisting of 1-act plays, revue sketches and excerpts from full-length plays in progress; event is called Marathon '78; plays noted (M)
Mayor Koch sets up system designed to speed selection of judges for ct and to open selection process to public scrutiny; system detailed (M)
LaPrade is removed as head of bur's NY office; Robert E Kent is named acting head (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 12, 1978, covering April 14, 1978.
Soundtrack
Eric Clapton
Barry Manilow
Billy Joel
George Benson
1978Roland Lessing, Estonian biathlete[†]
Roland Lessing is a former Estonian biathlete. His first World Cup podium was in Pokljuka Pursuit on 20 December 2009.
1978Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (born 1915)[†]
Joseph Lowell Gordon, nicknamed "Flash", in reference to the comic-book character Flash Gordon, was an American second baseman, coach and manager in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians from 1938 to 1950. He was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009.
1978F. R. Leavis, English educator and critic (born 1895)[†]
Frank Raymond "F. R." Leavis was an English literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge, and later at the University of York.
1978Tbilisi demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.[†]
On 14 April 1978, demonstrations in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian SSR, took place in response to an attempt by the Soviet government to change the constitutional status of languages in Georgia. After a new Soviet Constitution was adopted in October 1977, the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR considered a draft constitution in which, in contrast to the Constitution of 1936, Georgian was no longer declared to be the sole state language. A series of indoor and outdoor actions of protest ensued and implied with near-certainty there would be a clash between several thousands of demonstrators and the Soviet government, but Georgian Communist Party chief Eduard Shevardnadze negotiated with the central authorities in Moscow and managed to obtain permission to retain the previous status of the Georgian language.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]