1979Quinton Jacobs, Namibian footballer[†]
Quinton Norman Jacobs is a Namibian former footballer who played as a midfielder.
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In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]
1979Quinton Jacobs, Namibian footballer[†]
Quinton Norman Jacobs is a Namibian former footballer who played as a midfielder.
1979Melendi, Spanish singer[†]
Ramón Melendi Espina, known mononymously as Melendi, is a Spanish singer-songwriter. His specialties are rock, flamenco, and rumba styles.
1979Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player[†]
Brian Gerard O'Driscoll is an Irish former professional rugby union player. He played at outside centre for the Irish provincial team Leinster and for Ireland. He captained Ireland from 2003 until 2012, and captained the British & Irish Lions for their 2005 tour of New Zealand. He is regarded by critics as one of the greatest rugby players of all time.
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HOBOKEN, N.J., Jan. 20 — It was cold and grim along Clinton Street here today. All that was left of the building at No. 131 was a charred frame. A crowd thronged the street, watching firefighters pull bodies from the building's remains. Relatives at the scene were frantically seeking news of their families.
The story begins in July 1977, when Prime Minister Menachem Begin received a visit in his office from the men who run Israeli intelligence. They came with a thick file on a startling plot: The Libyan dictator, Colonel Qaddafi, had organized an operation to assassinate the Egyptian President, Anwar el‐Sadat. Begin thumbed through the file. Without looking up, he said, ‘Why don't you give this to the Egyptians?’
TEHERAN, Iran — The photographs of Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi with every American President since Franklin D. Rnoseve:t still lire the staircase of the United States Embassy in Teheran, but the Shah himself is in unpiroclaimed exile, carrying with him a packet of earth 'scooped from his palace garden.
US Olympic Invitational meet held; results; illus (M)
TO many literate Americans, Hermann Hesse is little more than an exhibit of what went wrong with America's youth in the 1960's. He appears to them as a symptom, rather than the diagnostician, of a great malaise. As
Gropper, William: Sophie Gropper, widow of artist William Gropper, whose paintings will be on view at Adelphi Univ Alumni House Gallery, int on her husband; illus
W Gers ambiguous about watching Holocaust; series is being telecast on regional stations, rather than on natl channel; right-wing extremists blamed for bomb blast; other threats reptd (M)
NEW CANAAN DEDICATION, some call it. Businessmen getting off commuter trains, rushing home and changing into short pants, pads, jerseys, gloves and hockey skates, then for an hour and a half chasing a puck around the frozen rink of the Winter Club, getting ready for the game.
ALBANYI DON'T think there ‘ are four people in the whole state government who can really understand the way school-aid-for mula bills work,” one of Governor Carey's top legal aides said'Iast week, freely admitting that he was not among this sifted comoanv. But if the techni- calities are mystifying, the details of school financing - specifically the property tax and the fight over the school‐aid formula that goes to the heart of that fractious battle - are clearly an emotional concern to residents and state legislators in the suburbs.
MIAMI, Jan. 20 — Enough is enough, Jon Kolb decided. The Pittsburgh Steeler's ranch is his castle, and just bow much can any man look at films of Harvey Martin?
urban experts fear probable cut in Fed funds to cities will threaten efforts to revitalize nation's urban areas (M)