ISRAELI COMMANDOS RAZE GUERRILLA BASE ON LEBANON'S COAST
Lt Gen Ensio Siilasvuo of Finland, chief coordinator of UN peace missions in Middle East, says raid will not affect Israel's withdrawal plans (S)
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Lt Gen Ensio Siilasvuo of Finland, chief coordinator of UN peace missions in Middle East, says raid will not affect Israel's withdrawal plans (S)
NYS Commerce Comr John S Dyson calls for const amendments to limit total number of public employees to 3% of population; Dyson specifically calls for 2 amendments that would: limit state employees to 1% of state's population and local govt employees to 2% of local population; Civil Service Employees Assn spokesman labels Dyson recommendations as 'typical meaningless rhetoric' (M)
Ford recalls 1-5 million Pintos and Mercury Bobcats for 'modifications' of fuel system aimed at increasing resistance to leakage and diminishing risk of fire in event of rear-end crashes; consumer advocate Ralph Nader hails recall; Ford vp Herbert L Misch comments (M)
Mormon Church strikes down 148-yr-old policy against blacks in priesthood; ch pres Spencer W Kimball, in lr to all ch leaders, says all worthy male members of Ch may be ordained to priesthood without regard for race or color; declaration leaves intact ch exclusion of women from all priestly functions; Ruffin Bridgeforth, leader of small group of black Mormon ch members called Genesis Group, and James Dooley, leader of Utah chap of NAACP, comment; Kimball por (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 7, 1978, covering June 10, 1978.
Soundtrack
Wings
Chuck Mangione
The Isley Brothers
Jefferson Starship
1978Raheem Brock, American football player[†]
Raheem Fukwan Brock is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Temple Owls. He was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the seventh round of the 2002 NFL draft, but was never signed by them. Brock subsequently played for the Indianapolis Colts for eight years, winning Super Bowl XLI with them over the Chicago Bears, and he also played with the Seattle Seahawks.
1978Subhash Khot, Indian-American mathematician and computer scientist[†]
Subhash Khot is an Indian-American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who is the Julius Silver Professor of Computer Science in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Khot has contributed to the field of computational complexity, and is best known for his unique games conjecture.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]