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Sen Foreign Relations Com, 8-8, blocks move to thwart Pres Carter's arms package; sends Issue to Sen floor without making recommendation; move is seen as victory for Adm, but it had hoped to avoid floor fight; illus; list indicates how com members voted (M)
Peking charges that Soviet soldiers using helicopter and mil boats crossed Manchurian border, shooting and wounding some Chinese people before withdrawing; Deputy Foreign Min Yu Chan hands note of protest to Soviet Amb Vasily S Tolstikov and demands that USSR apologize for incident; map (M)
Ceremony hosted by Joan Mondale will be held on May 13 to mark opening of 42d St Theater Row, made up of number of Off-Off Bway theaters and restaurant; others attending include Vice Pres Mondale, Mayor Koch and Joseph Papp; Theater Row exec admr John Adams Vaccaro comment; theaters noted; drawing (M)
Israel celebrates 30th anniv in form of giant natl picnic; illus (M)
Strauss, in describing Carter's reaction to organized labor's rejection of voluntary guidelines, says Pres is deeply disappointed; says he asked labor leaders if they had 'enough guts' to give serious thought to statement White House asked them to adopt; Carter left meeting with Meany and other labor leaders after short time, leading some participants to conclude he left in anger, conclusion disputed by White House; conflict seen furthering strain between Carter and Meany; Carter's chief econ adviser, Stuart E Eizenstat, says Strauss's description of Carter's reaction is mild (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 10, 1978, covering May 12, 1978.
Soundtrack
Wings
Eric Clapton
Kansas
Jefferson Starship
1978Malin Åkerman, Swedish-Canadian model, actress, and singer[†]
Malin Maria Åkerman, often anglicised to Malin Akerman, is a Swedish actress. She first appeared in smaller parts in both Canadian and American productions, including The Utopian Society (2003) and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004). Following a main role on the HBO mockumentary series The Comeback (2005), Akerman co-starred in the commercially successful romantic comedies The Heartbreak Kid (2007) and 27 Dresses (2008). She gained wider recognition for her role as Silk Spectre II in the 2009 superhero film Watchmen, for which she received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
1978Jason Biggs, American actor and comedian[†]
Jason Matthew Biggs is an American actor. The accolades he has received include a Screen Actors Guild Award, alongside nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award and a Satellite Award.
1978In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.[†]
Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire, was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa, it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria, and the 11th-largest country in the world from 1965 to 1991. With a population of over 23 million, Zaire was the most populous Francophone country in Africa. Zaire was strategically important to the West during the Cold War, particularly the U.S., as a counterbalance to Soviet influence in Africa. The U.S. and its allies supported the Mobutu regime (1965–1997) with military and economic aid to prevent the spread of communism.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]