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In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[â ]
1978Brent Albright, American wrestler[â ]
Brent Albright is an American retired professional wrestler, perhaps best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment, during which he appeared on SmackDown! as Gunner Scott. Aside from WWE, Albright is a one-time NWA World's Heavyweight Champion, having won the title while performing for Ring of Honor.
1978Darryl Flahavan, English footballer[â ]
Darryl James Flahavan [fla-hay-van] is an English association football coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently the goalkeeper coach at EFL League One club Plymouth Argyle.
1978Aimee Garcia, American actress and writer[â ]
Aimee SandimĂ©s Garcia LĂłpez de Ordóñez is an American actress. She is known for her television roles as Veronica Palmero on the ABC sitcom George Lopez (2006â2007), Jamie Batista on the Showtime drama Dexter (2011â2013), Yvonne Sanchez on the CBS period drama Vegas (2012â2013), and Ella Lopez on the Fox/Netflix drama Lucifer (2016â2021).
1978Freddie Mitchell, American football player[â ]
Freddie Lee Mitchell II is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for four seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He was chosen as a consensus All-American in 2000 while playing college football for the UCLA Bruins. Philadelphia selected him in the first round of the 2001 NFL draft, and he spent four seasons as a member of the Eagles, culminating in an appearance in Super Bowl XXXIX following the 2004 NFL season.
1978Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer[â ]
Mehdi Nafti is a Tunisian football manager and former player.
1978Michael Simpkins, English footballer[â ]
Michael James Simpkins is an English former footballer who played for Belper Town. A defender by trade, Simpkins was primarily a left back but now plays in the more familiar role of central defender.
1978Haytham Tambal, Sudanese footballer[â ]
Haytham Tambal is a former Sudanese football striker. In 2008 in the Sudanese league he scored 21 goals in 20 games. He used to play rivals Al-Hilal Club and Al-Merrikh SC and made a single appearance for South African club, Orlando Pirates.
1978Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Argentinian businessman (born 1902)[â ]
Antonio Vespucio Liberti was a chairman of Club Atlético River Plate. He presided the club four times, becoming the president who was most often in charge of the club, with 20 non-consecutive years in office.
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US Sup Ct announces it will not rev contempt of ct convictions of NY Times and its reporter M A Farber for their refusal to turn over Farber's notes in Jascalevich murder case; Ct action leaves standing ruling by NJ Sup Ct that neither US Const nor state law designed to protect reporters and their sources gives reporter absolute privilege to refuse information demanded by defendant in criminal case; since murder trial is over Ct's refusal to hear newspaper's appeal has no immediate effect on any of parties; Times has already paid in full its civil and criminal contempt fines totalling $285,000; Farber's 6-mo jail sentence for criminal contempt was permanently suspended by Judge Theodore W Trautwein when he freed Farber; Jack C Landau (Reporters Com for Press Freedom), NY Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and Henry Gallermann (Overseas Press Club of Amer) comment (M)
NYC Hwys Dept, under pressure from City Council, will use $1 million of unspent budget funds to reimburse homeowners for repairing curbs; Councilman Edward L Sadowsky comments; illus (S)
Carter Adm reptdly will seek Cong support to allow 15,000 more Vietnamese refugees into US by May '79, double number previously set, as result of sharply increasing number of refugees, particularly ethnic Chinese, fleeing country (M)
Article on tighter educ standards imposed by Hempstead, LI, school dist in effort to stem tide of declining academic performance; notes that as result of stiffer demands students' scores on NYS 'PEP' tests in Oct showed consistent and dramatic gains in both math and reading; chart (L)
article on Pioneer Venus 1 and Pioneer Venus 2 spacecraft, which will conduct most comprehensive explorations of Venus in attempt to determine why planet and Earth, despite likeness in size, mass and proximity to sun, evolved in such radically different ways; spacecraft will begin mos of photographic and remote-sensing observations of topography and global weather forces and will release instrumented probes into planet's dense atmosphere; photograph of Venus; diagram of spacecraft (M)
illus of tractor-trailer which jacknifed on snow-slicked Clearview Exp
Jonestown described 1 wk after suicides and killings (L)
NYS Sup Ct Justice Edward J Greenfield quashes Assembly Consumer Affairs Com subpoenas, holding com lacks jurisdiction to probe banks' pol and financial activities; Banking Com chmn George W Miller refused com chmn Harvey L Strelzin's request that he sign subpoenas, holding his com should run any probe; Strelzin charges Banking Com represents banks; NY Savings Banks Assn opposed subpoenas (M)
Govt reptdly cancels $5 billion contract with France's Regie Autonomes des Transports de Paris to build subway system in effort to cutback econ development program (M)
McGraw-Hill repts contracts for new construction in Oct jumped to $14.9 billion, up 40% from Oct '77 figure; vp George A Christie still expects '78 to be record yr for construction, with over $150 billion in new starts; is recasting estimate for '79 from previous forecast of $155 billion; graph (M)
Teng Hsiao-ping, in apparent effort to dampen speculation concerning existence of power struggle in China, tells visiting Amer columnist Robert Novak that he and Chmn Hua had always been in complete agreement over everything and that he had refused offer to take over Hua's job as Prime Min (M)