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Article on Sweet 14, project aimed at revitalizing Union Sq, NYC, area; project has received some govt aid but most of its money comes from private businesses in area; NYS Sen Manfred Ohrenstein, group coordinator Carvel Moore and 14th St Block Assn official Richard Sachs comment; illus (M)
Lazard Freres & Co, investment banking concern in which Felix G Rohatyn is partner, withdraws as financial adviser to Munic Assistance Corp because, Lazard maintains, Mayor Koch had impugned in Integrity; MAC chmn George D Gould angrily accuses Koch of âmeddlingâ in MAC affairs; Gov Carey urges Lazard to reconsider; illus of Gould, MAC vice chmn Edward M Kresky, John S Tamagni of Lazard and Simon H Rifkind (M)
Pres Carter begins peacemaking mission to Middle East; is optimistic but uncertain about prospects for resolving differences between Israel and Egypt; Brzezinski, who is conferring with Egyptian leaders in Cairo, notes gains toward peace pact; Khalil says new Amer proposals are âvery positiveâ; illus (M)
Growing number of couples are adopting children with Down's syndrome; reasons for trend discussed; several agencies specialize in hardâtoâplace children; experiences of Mrs and Mrs Louis Marchese with their adopted child, Todd Joseph, noted; illus (L)
Islamic Revolutionary Com, which makes adm decisions in Abadon, has ordered mil officers who were allegedly responsible for torture and killing of Iranians to be executed; illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 7, 1979, covering March 8, 1979.
Bee Gees
Rod Stewart
Village People
Dire Straits
The Doobie Brothers
1979Tom Chaplin, English singer-songwriter and musician[â ]
Thomas Oliver Chaplin is an English musician, best known as the co-founder and lead singer of the British alternative rock band Keane.
1979Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.[â ]
Koninklijke Philips N.V., simply branded Philips, is a Dutch multinational health technology company that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, its world headquarters have been situated in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters is still in Eindhoven. The company gained its royal honorary title in 1998.
1979Images taken by Voyager 1 prove the existence of volcanoes on Io, a moon of Jupiter.[â ]
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. It communicates through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. Real-time distance and velocity data are provided by NASA and JPL. At a distance of 166.40 AU from Earth as of May 2025, it is the most distant human-made object from Earth.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]