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US, GB, France and W Ger weigh plans for US development of intermediate range nuclear missile that would be bated in Western Eur and be capable of striking USSR; missile seen response to new Soviet intermediate range missile directed against Western Eur (L)
charges against Grassia, Krauss and Prout are changed to murder, arson and assault after subway token booth clerk Regina Reicherter dies of burns sustained in firebombing attack; Criminal Ct Judge Joseph M Lane denies move to release 3 from Rikers Island and orders them placed in secure facilities; Grassia, Krauss and Prout illus (M)
Figures for '78 show that only 8.5 million tons of cotton were grown, down from 8.76 million tons in '77 (S)
Vietnamese troops clash with Cambodian troops at famous temple ruins of Preah Vihear near Thai border; there is no indication that sanctuary itself has been damaged; helicopter landings in temple area earlier in wk suggest to analysts that important Cambodian figures might have sought refuge there; Cambodian forces recapture Takeo; map; illus of Cambodian insurgents in Phnom Penh (M)
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 19 — Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell was released on parole from a Federal prison at Maxwell Air Force Base near here today after serving 19 months of a two-and-a-half- to eight‐year sentence for conspiracy and obstruction of justice in the Watergate scandals. He was the last of those convicted in the scandals to be released.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 17, 1979, covering January 20, 1979.
Barbra Streisand
Billy Joel
Blues Brothers
Steve Martin
Chic
1979Rob Bourdon, American musician and songwriter[†]
Robert Gregory Bourdon is an American musician, best known as a co-founding member and the former drummer of the rock band Linkin Park. He remained in the band until their hiatus in 2017; when the band members began working together out of the public eye in 2019, he declined to rejoin the band and was succeeded by Colin Brittain.
1979Will Young, English singer-songwriter and actor[†]
William Robert Young is an English singer, songwriter and actor. He came to prominence after winning the 2002 inaugural series of the ITV talent contest Pop Idol, making him the first winner of the worldwide Idol franchise. His double A-sided debut single "Anything Is Possible" / "Evergreen" was released two weeks after the show's finale and became the fastest-selling debut single in the UK. Young also came in fifth place in World Idol performing the single "Light My Fire" written by the band the Doors.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]