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Musicians from A Performance Workshop give brief concerts in crowded NYC subway stations aimed at alleviating subway riders' fears during current crime wave; workshop organizer Arlene Schloss comments; illus (M)
The basic price of crude oil was raised 9 percent by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, meeting in Geneva. OPEC also said individual members would be free to add surcharges to the basic price, and at least five members immediately announced additional charges ranging from $1.20 to $4 a barrel: The decision was strongly opposed by Saudi Arabia, which warned that a pricing freefor‐all might result from the surcharges if the current tight supply situation for oil continued. Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabia's oil minister, called on industrialized countries to curtail their oil consumption or face further price increases. [Page A1.]
analysis of OPEC's decision; says oil economists are not as concerned about rise in base price as they are about sanctioning of individual members' premiums; notes hope that supply situation may ease, taking upward pressure off prices; says big unknown is whether OPEC will be able to restrain production, thus keeping things tight as Iranian oil continues to reâenter mkt; comments by Theodore R Eck (Indiana Standard), Exxon, Walter J Levy and John H Lichtblau (Petroleum Indus Research Foundation) (M)
Article on tens of thousands of unregistered, grass roots lobbyists that go to Albany in effort to influence legislators' votes; grass roots lobbyists do not have to rept to state as long as they do not spend more than $1,000 a yr on their activities; influence of grass roots lobbyists is seen often greater than that of wellâorganized and wellâfinanced professionals; illus (M)
NYS Sup Ct Justice Michael Dontzin, acting on suits brought by Amer Bell Internatl and its parent AT&T and by GTE Internatl and GTE Iran, refuses to enjoin Mfrs Hanover Trust and Credit Lyonnais from making any payments honoring demands that might be made by Iranian banks on lrs of credit issued on behalf of cos; lrs were written at order of these cos to indemnify Iranian banks that guaranteed their performance under multimillionâdollar contracts with Iranian Govt; cos appeal (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 28, 1979, covering March 28, 1979.
Bee Gees
The Doobie Brothers
Dire Straits
Gloria Gaynor
Rod Stewart
1979Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer and media personality[â ]
Masud Rana Sheikh, better known by the stage name Shakib Khan, is a Bangladeshi actor and filmmaker who works in Bengali films. He is widely regarded as one of the most popular figures of all time in Bengali cinema with his career spanning about two decades and 250 films. Referred to in the media as "King Khan", Khan has been the propeller of the contemporary film industry, Dhallywood and is one of the highest paid actor in Bangladesh and West Bengal. He did his debut in 1999 in action romantic Ananta Bhalobasha.
1979Emmett Kelly, American clown and actor (born 1898)[â ]
Emmett Leo Kelly was an American circus performer who created the clown character "Weary Willie", based on the hobos of the Great Depression in the 1930s.
1979A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.[â ]
Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, is a shut-down nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, US, on the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg. It has two separate units, Unit 1 (TMI-1) and Unit 2 (TMI-2).
1979The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by one vote, precipitating a general election.[â ]
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as members of Parliament (MPs), who are elected to represent constituencies by the first-past-the-post system and hold their seats until Parliament is dissolved.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]