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Some oil analysts charge that Government and oil industry are failing to acknowledge publicly that increasing gasoline production to ease present shortage runs risk of severe heating oil shortage next winter (S)
More than 18 months ago Goldin, citing concern for public safety, urged deRoos to stop accepting delivery of R-46 subway cars whose undercarriages were developing cracks and to halt further payments to manufacturers; deRoos insisted that defects did not pertain to fleet as whole and that withholding payments was not ârequiredâ because contractor was responding in 'responsible manner'; Rockwell International responding to city's $112.3 million lawsuit, says Transit Authority imposed faulty design specifications and that part of cracking resulted from poor maintenance of city tracks; Transport Workers Union Local 100 president John E Lawe says union has requested meeting with Federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration to investigate safety hazards posed by cars; Manhattan Boro Pres Andrew J Stein charges that while deRoos rejected Goldin's advice, Pullman and Rockwell were saying there was 'no definition of trouble-free equipment' under contract; former Pullman executive Walter V Berry confirms that he has been interviewed by FBI; says he does not intend to sell his Pullman stock worth more than $5 million; deRoos contends settlement with contractor would have been preferable to court suit, news conference; says he will not quit 'under fire'; illus (M)
House Foreign Affairs Committee, 26-0, approves measure that would allow Pres Carter to maintain existing economic sanctions against Zimbabwe Rhodesia if ha deems it in national interest; vote increases Administration's chances for preventing immediate repeal of ban on trade with Zimbabwe Rhodesia; Reprs Paul Findley and Stephen J Solarz comment; illus of committee chairman Clement J Zablocki and Repr William S Broomfield (L)
ICC orders trucking companies to pay surcharge of 5.6% to owner-operators, who have been protesting rise in diesel fuel prices (S)
bargain seekers buy up all short flights on American and United Air Lines in order to get half-fare coupons that can be used later on longer, more expensive flights (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 13, 1979, covering June 16, 1979.
Donna Summer
Supertramp
Sister Sledge
Rickie Lee Jones
Cheap Trick
1979Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Ghanaian general and politician, 6th Head of state of Ghana (born 1931)[â ]
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong was a Ghanaian military officer and politician who was the military head of state of Ghana from 13 January 1972 to 5 July 1978, when he was deposed in a palace coup. He was executed by firing squad on 16 June 1979.
1979Nicholas Ray, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1911)[â ]
Nicholas Ray was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" and "one of postwar American cinema's supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers," Ray was considered an iconoclastic auteur director who often clashed with the Hollywood studio system of the time, but would prove highly influential to future generations of filmmakers.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]