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In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]
1979Mikkel Kessler, Danish boxer[â ]
Mikkel Kessler is a Danish former professional boxer who competed from 1998 to 2013. He held multiple super-middleweight world championships, including the World Boxing Association (WBA) title three times between 2004 and 2013, and the WBC title twice between 2006 and 2010.
1979Bruno Langlois, Canadian cyclist[â ]
Bruno Langlois is a Canadian racing cyclist, who currently rides for club team Cartel RT.
1979Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdistan politician (born 1903)[â ]
Mustafa Barzani, also known as Mullah Mustafa, was a Kurdish nationalist leader and one of the most prominent political figures in modern Kurdish politics.
US forced to evacuate secret electronic base at Kabkan, northern Iran, that was used to monitor Soviet missile tests (M)
Heavy fighting reptd intensifying around Lang Son; operations elsewhere along border involve fewer troops; fighting detailed; illus (M)
Scientists studying Nubian artifacts find evidence of oldest recognizable monarchy in human history, dated at 3300 BC, and preâdating earliest Egyptian monarchies; discovery is expected to stimulate new appraisal of origins of African civilization, raising question of to what extent later Egyptian culture may have derived advanced pol structure from Nubians; Chicago Univ research assoc Dr Bruce Williams, who is studying artifacts, and Prof Keith C Seele, who initially recovered them, comment, artifacts described; illus; map (M)
NEW YORK CITY people don't know how hard we try, out here in the country, to dress up our days. While city life is a supermarket of ready‐made symbols, events and occasions, country people have to create their own. We are engaged in an eternal Easter egg hunt for something to respond to, something that will enable us to believe that we have not rusticated our sensibilities.
New strains have developed in IsraeliâUS relations over differences holding up peace treaty; Begin, Dayan and other Israeli officials say recent talks at Camp David worsened situation (M)
NYC's hosps, housing projects and prisons face 50% curtailment of fuelâoil supplies because contracts between city and suppliers do not allow suppliers to pass on added cost of fuel purchased on spot mkt, where prices are topping 60c a gal; Robert B Greenes, Public Fuel Service, says Exxon and other major cos are not delivering; city weighs alternatives (S)
Sup Ct rules that contract requiring Quick Point Pencil to pay royalty to Jane Aronson for right to market key ring she invented remains enforceable even though invention itself was denied a patent (S)
Int with PMI Investment Corp chmn Preston Martin, who formerly was Fed Home Loan Bank Bd chmn, on outlook for housing indus, rising interest rates on home mortgages and money mkt certificates; por (M)
US oil indus practically writes off Baltimore Canyon in Feb 28 lease sale, offering high bids totaling just $41.7 million; oil cos in the bidding, Exxon and Continental, are pleased with results; Energy Action dir James Flug calls sale a âgiveawayâ and urges Interior Dept to reject bids; map (M)
illus of Prime Min Ian D Smith, Deputy Prime Min David Smith and Finance CoâMin Ernest Bulle at Parliament's closing session in which country's whiteâdominated ruling body was dissolved
Article on Immanuel Velikovsky; his controversial theories about evolution of planet Venus discussed; illus (M)
$1 billion bid by Amer Express Co for McGrawâHill is scheduled to expire today; battle has left number of questions unanswered: are rights of McGrawâHill stockholders being trampled? and why did Amer Express chmn James D Robinson 3d give up?; stockholders, including Harold McCraw Jr, who owns 825,000 shares, have lost potential profit estimated at $250 million; rash of multimillionâdollar stockholder suits seeking restitution from McGrawâHill dirs, advisers and others is spreading; history of battle noted; Robinson por (M)