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Prime Min Barre says Govt will freeze all taxes for next 2 yrs, phase out price controls and seek pact with leftist trade unions to restrain wage increases; stresses that factors outside France's control make it difficult to stimulate econ and reduce unemployment (M)
US Sec Vance arrives, Moscow, for 3-day visit aimed at improving relations between both nations prior to possible visit to US by Communist Party leader Brezhnev; illus (M)
Sen, 83-9, approves legis giving airlines broadest freedom in 40 yrs to compete for passengers by lowering fares and allowing new carriers to enter interstate routes without CAB approval; other provisions (M)
Seeking gains toward an arms accord, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance arrived in Moscow for talks with Soviet leaders. Mr. Vance will try to narrow Soviet‐American differences over limiting strategic weapons and to improve overall relations in advance of a possible visit to Washington later this year by Leonid L Brezhnev, the Soviet leader. The visit marks the highestlevel Soviet‐American negotiations in seven months. [Page Al, Column 1.]
News analysis of Carter Adm's successful fight for approval of Panama Canal treaty holds success has not stimulated pol support for strategic arms agreement with USSR (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 19, 1978, covering April 20, 1978.
Soundtrack
Eric Clapton
Barry Manilow
Billy Joel
George Benson
1978Carl Greenidge, English cricketer[†]
Carl Gary Greenidge is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, the son of Gordon Greenidge.
1978Lord Richard Cecil, British soldier and journalist in the Rhodesian Bush War[†]
Lord Richard Valentine Gascoyne-Cecil was a British soldier, Conservative politician and freelance journalist who was killed in Rhodesia whilst covering the country's Bush War. The second son of the 6th Marquess of Salisbury, Cecil was in Rhodesia with a freelance film-maker, Nick Downie, recording material for a television documentary about the war. Carrying a rifle and wearing a Rhodesian Army uniform, he was shot dead at close range by a member of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army. The Rhodesian government reported that Cecil had been "killed in action"; his body was returned to the United Kingdom for burial.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]