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Article on guerrilla war; notes war has grown measurably in brutality on all sides and in extent of mil operations; Govt, perhaps in effort to limit or defer panic and flight, has not fully reptd extent of conflict; Govt control over countryside reptdly is breaking down (L)
Fed Appeals Ct issues injunction halting merger (M)
NJ investigators are probing ct findings in GB that Penthouse Casino Ltd let criminal elements use its premises when it operated a London casino in '71; are seeking to determine whether organized crime was involved in recent acquisiton by Penthouse Internatl of hotel in Atlantic City which co hopes to convert to hotel-casino (L)
Analysis of Shcharansky trial and its potential impact; illus of Mrs Shcharansky
Israeli Cabinet rejects as ‘completely unacceptable’ Sadat's latest peace proposal; accepts US invitation for Dayan to meet in London on July 18 and 19 with Vance and Kamel (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 5, 1978, covering July 10, 1978.
Gerry Rafferty
Soundtrack
Commodores
The Rolling Stones
Bob Seger
1978John D. Rockefeller III, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Asia Society (born 1906)[†]
John Davison Rockefeller III was an American philanthropist. Rockefeller was the eldest son and second child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller as well as a grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was engaged in a wide range of philanthropic projects, many of which his family had launched, as well as supporting organizations related to East Asian affairs. Rockefeller was also a major supporter of the Population Council, and the committee that created the Lincoln Center in Manhattan.
1978President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.[†]
Moktar Ould Daddah was a Mauritanian politician who served as the country's first President after it gained its independence from France. Moktar served as the country's first Prime Minister from 1957 to 1961 and as its first President of Mauritania, a position he held for 18 years until he was deposed in a military coup d'etat in 1978.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]