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In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]
1979Adrián Beltré, Dominican-American baseball player[†]
Adrián Beltré Pérez is a Dominican former professional baseball third baseman. During his career, Beltré played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, and Texas Rangers in Major League Baseball (MLB). He is regarded as one of the greatest third basemen of all time.
1979Patrick Crayton, American football player[†]
Patrick Jamel Crayton is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and San Diego Chargers. He played college football for the Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers.
1979Pascal Dupuis, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Pascal Dupuis is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey winger who is the assistant coach for the Shawinigan Cataractes of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). Undrafted out of the 1997 NHL entry draft, he played 15 seasons in the NHL for the Minnesota Wild, New York Rangers, Atlanta Thrashers, and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
1979Danny Sandoval, Venezuelan-American baseball player[†]
Danny E. Sandoval is a Venezuelan former infielder in Major League Baseball. Listed at 5' 11", 190 lb., he was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed.
Carter Adm cuts off all aid to Pakistan after learning from intelligence repts that Pakistan is acquiring ability to make nuclear weapons; aid cutoff is linked to amendment to '76 Nuclear Proliferation Act prohibiting econ and mil assistance to any country that obtains equipment for nuclear enrichment without placing it under internatl safeguards (M)
gale-force winds whip through NYC met area on Apr 6; are part of icy spring storm that hit Great Lakes area with 90-mph winds; illus (L)
Bazargan aide says former Prime Min Amir Abbas Hoveida's execution is 'virtual certainty'; 5 mil officers and soldier are executed in Teheran after 15-hr court session; were involved in Dec clash between troops and demonstrators in Isfahan in which dozens of people were killed and hundreds wounded, deaths bring to 77 number executed since mid-Feb under edicts of Islamic committees; Bazargan is resigned to fact that executions will continue; Entezam says many of 1,300 pol prisoners will be tried by revolutionary commmittees and executed; Iranian Committee for the Defense of Human Rights chmn Abdel Karim Lahiji comments; Gens Iraj Amini-Afshar and Manucher Khosrowdad are among 6 mil men executed (M)
AFL-CIO pres George Meany, in response to Pres Carter's decision to decontrol domestic oil prices, charges action will 'worsen inflation and increase possibility of recession' (S)
Analysts conclude that major Vietnamese offensive in western Cambodia hat seriously disrupted continued resistance to Vietnamese occupation by Pol Pot loyalists; do not believe offensive will eliminate resistance; say loyalists are withdrawing deeper into jungles and mt regions and avoiding major confrontation; say Soviet planes are still being used to ferry Vietnamese troops into battle areas; presume that Vietnam wants to secure full length of coastline to prevent resupply of Pol Pot forces from Chinese ships; believe principal reason for offensive is to break Pol Pot's control of major sections of Cambodian population; illus; Pol Pot por (M)
Joseph M Hendrie, chmn of Nuclear Regulatory Comm, says comm has voted to permit 8 nuclear reactors mfd by Babcock & Wilcox to continue operating at full capacity, lr to Calif Gov Brown; says comm is revg pump problems that have occurred at several of Babcock & Wilcox plants; Sen Gary Hart questions decision; Penna official repts that Stephen K Conver of comm's inspection and enforcement office warned one mo before accident that 'overall site safety' at 3 Mile Island might decrease owing to 'dilution' of staff caused by startup of 2d reactor (M)
state nears end of negotiations on its $3.1 billion spring borrowing, winning 6.104% interest rate; rise from 5.079% last yr is smaller than for other munic bonds; Regan and investors see small rise as favorable sign (M)
Con Ed granted $158.1 million increase in elec rates, $70 million less than it requested; avg residential bill to rise 8.64%; award is scored by both utility and consumer officials (M)
SAN ANTONIO, April 3 — The scene was straight out of the rich tableau of American ethnic politics, a tableau that stretches back to the Irish precincts of 19th‐century Boston, the Jewish and Italian districts of New York, the Polish and Hungarian wards of Cleveland and the black precincts of Detroit.
PRETORIA, South Africa, April (Reuters) — Cornelius P. Mulder, once a leading candidate to be Prime Minister of South Africa, was expelled from the ruling National Party today because of his role in the scandal now shaking the Government.
S African newspaper The Citizen is at center of scandal; disclosure that newspaper was secretly financed with $37 million in Govt money has ruined career of Information Min Cornelius P Mulder and has led to calls for resignations of Pres Vorster and Finance Min Owen Horwood; Rhoodie has said that Vorster and Horwood lied when they denied involvement in secret project; Horwood por (L)
S Africa is preparing new restraints on press; lower house of Parliament has approved bill that will make it offense to publish 'any untrue matter' about police 'without having reasonable grounds for believing statement is true'; another bill before Parliament makes it offense to 'prejudice, influence or anticipate proceedings or findings' of inquest; Justice Min James Kruger comments (M)