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Pres Carter, news conf, says he hopes that Sens will consider merit and past patterns of discrimination in selecting candidates to fill 152 new Fed judgeships (S)
Illus of 2-yr-old Michael Granholm, who fell from 7th-floor window, Miami, Fla, sustaining minor injuries
Ital Communist Party withdraws parliamentary support from Christian Dem Govt of Prime Min Andreotti, making its fall virtually inevitable; Andreotti is expected to resign; Communist leader Enrico Berlinguer accuses Christian Dems of having made 'erroneous decisions' without taking into account views of Communists and other parties; charges that leading Christian Dems, including Cabinet mins, waged systematic campaign against Communist Party and cast doubt on 'its legitimacy,' while expecting it to support Govt; Christian Dem sec Benigne Zaccagnini rejects Berlinguer's accusations (M)
soldiers kill at least 15 civilians and wound dozens of others in Teheran as more than 100,000 supporters of Khomeini stage anti-Govt demonstrations in defiance of martial law; illus (M)
skeleton frames demolished; rubble will be landscaped as lookout hills for park; bldgs, along with 5 other apt bldgs, are remnants of planned model city project abandoned in '63; illus; map (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 24, 1979, covering January 27, 1979.
Billy Joel
Blues Brothers
Barbra Streisand
Neil Diamond
Rod Stewart
1979Lonny Baxter, American basketball player[â ]
Lonny Leroy Baxter is an American former professional basketball player. He is 6Â ft 8Â in (2.03Â m) in height, and played the power forward and center positions.
1979Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer and coach[â ]
Daniel Luca Vettori is a New Zealand cricket coach and former cricketer who played for the New Zealand national cricket team. He was the 200th player to win their Test cricket cap for New Zealand and an inductee in the New Zealand Cricket Hall of Fame. He is currently an assistant coach of the Australia men's national cricket team.
1979Victoria Ocampo. Argentine writer (born 1890)[â ]
Ramona Victoria EpifanĂa Rufina Ocampo was an Argentine writer and intellectual. Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the literary magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her own right and one of the most prominent South American women of her time. Her sister was Silvina Ocampo, also a writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on 1970 and 1974.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]