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July 25: Dayan tells Parliament that Israel will discuss sovereignty of West Bank and Gaza Strip in 5 yrs if Arabs accept Israeli peace plan granting inhabitants partial autonomy; proposal falls short of US request for Israeli commitment to resolve issue in 5 yrs but it is more forthcoming than formula adopted by Israeli Cabinet June 18; Dayan illus (M)
dollar plunges below 200 yen for 1st time since World War II, closing at 199.10 yen in heavy trading: Bank of Japan purchases (L)
Israel will discuss sovereignty of the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip in five years if the Arabs in the interim accept an Israeli peace plan granting the Palestinians there partial autonomy, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan told Parliament. The chamber, voting 68 to 37, tacitly endorsed the slight policy shift. Mr. Dayan said that the undertaking did not permit the Government to reach a decision on sovereignty, but he added without explanation: “This problem is also soluble.” [Page 1, Columns 1‐2.]
Jack Bigel, labor consultant to munic employee pension funds, says that funds will make $1 billion in long-term loans to city if Cong enacts legis that would let them; funds' conditional commitment to participate in city's 4-yr financing plan is important element in moving plan toward completion; Rohatyn comments (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 19, 1978, covering July 25, 1978.
The Rolling Stones
Soundtrack
Gerry Rafferty
Bob Seger
Commodores
1978Gerard Warren, American football player[†]
Gerard Thurston Warren is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons. He played college football for the University of Florida. He was selected by the Cleveland Browns third overall in the 2001 NFL draft, and also played professionally for the Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots of the NFL.
1978Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.[†]
Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Lesser Antilles, it consists of the eponymous main island and numerous smaller islands, including Vieques, Culebra, and Mona. With approximately 3.2 million residents, it is divided into 78 municipalities, of which the most populous is the capital municipality of San Juan, followed by those within the San Juan metropolitan area. Spanish and English are the official languages of the government, though Spanish predominates.
1978Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.[†]
Louise Joy Brown is an English woman noted as the first human born following conception by in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Her birth, following a procedure pioneered in Britain, has been lauded among "the most remarkable medical breakthroughs of the 20th century".
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]