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summary of events leading up to trial and conviction of Bhutto for alleged murder of Nawah Mohammed Ahmed Khan; notes case has aroused worldwide interest (M)
NYC Police, aided by unidentified S Bronx resident, arrest Fernando Davis, Angel Vega and William Lopez, 17, in connection with separate sniper attacks on Michael Stewart and Tamara Richardson, 15; illus; map (M)
Edward Cowan news analysis of US econ scene notes Feb Consumer Price Index jumped 1.2% making it painfully clear that inflation has been rising even faster than Pres Carter's econ advisers expected; says main problem is confusion within Adm on how best to fight inflation as result of mixed econ signals that have been coming in; says there is rift within Adm over whether further rise in interest rates is desirable, with Treas Sec Blumenthal and budget dir McIntyre backing rise, Secs Marshall and Kreps and Domestic Policy Council head Eizenstat opposed; Blumenthal's position detailed; analysis notes that on all sides of econ spectrum, officials see Adm's wage-price guideline program in imminent danger of collapse (L)
Bernstein is told by Mayor Koch that she is being removed as operating head of agency but that she could remain in her present position with greatly reduced powers if she wants to; Koch tells her that he will name Employment Comr Stanley Brezenoff as first deputy admr with full operating authority over $3.8 billion-a-yr agency, which administers city's welfare and soc-service programs; Koch explains that Brezenoff, in effect, will be pres and chief exec officer of agency, with full powers of hiring and dismissal, and Bernstein, if she remains, will be bd chmn; says decision to remove Bernstein was made because of 'severe mgt problems' in agency; pors (M)
Pres Carter says US wants 'direct relations' with Palestinians living under Israeli occupation but finds it 'a problem' to deal with PLO, ints with Israeli and Egyptian TV commentators in Washington, DC; wants Palestinian leaders on West Bank and in Gaza Strip to take part in next round of peace talks that follow signing of treaty; says US would work with PLO if it dropped its opposition to UN Security Council Resolution 242, basis for peace efforts in Middle East, and if PLO accepted Israel's right to exist; Prime Min Begin says PLO is 'most barbaric orgn since the Nazis'; Israeli Foreign Min Moshe Dayan says he and Sec of State Vance have reached basic understanding on US assurances included in 'memorandum of agreement,' which covers possible violations of treaty (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 21, 1979, covering March 24, 1979.
Bee Gees
The Doobie Brothers
Dire Straits
Rod Stewart
Gloria Gaynor
1979Lake Bell, American actress, director, and screenwriter[†]
Lake Siegel Bell is an American actress, screenwriter, and director. She has appeared in various television series, including Boston Legal (2004–2006), Surface (2005–2006), How to Make It in America (2010–2011), Childrens Hospital (2008–2016), and Bless This Mess (2019–2020) and in films including Over Her Dead Body (2008), What Happens in Vegas (2008), It's Complicated (2009), No Strings Attached (2011), Million Dollar Arm (2014), No Escape (2015), Man Up (2015), The Secret Life of Pets (2016), Shot Caller (2017), Home Again (2017), The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).
1979Norris Hopper, American baseball player[†]
Norris Stephen Hopper is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played three seasons of Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds. Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the eighth round of the 1998 Major League Baseball draft, Hopper made his MLB debut on August 20, 2006, with the Cincinnati Reds. He has a major league career .316 batting average with 125 hits, 15 doubles, two triples, one home run, 20 runs batted in, and 17 stolen bases.
1979Periklis Iakovakis, Greek hurdler[†]
Periklís Iakovákis is a retired Greek athlete mainly competing in 400 metres hurdles. He is the Greek record holder with a time of 47.82 seconds and fifteen times national champion in the event.
1979Graeme Swann, English cricketer[†]
Graeme Peter Swann is an English former cricketer who played all three formats of the game. Born in Northampton, he attended Sponne School in Towcester, Northamptonshire. He was primarily a right-arm off-spinner, and also a capable late-order batsman with four first-class centuries, and often fielded at second slip. Swann could score quickly; his test strike rate is the third highest of any English batsman to have scored at least 1000 runs after Harry Brook and Ben Duckett. Swann was a member of the England team that won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]