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Estimate Board and City Council are unable to reach agreement on overriding any of Mayor Koch's 11 vetoes of $8.5 million in additions to his $12.8 billion fiscal '80 expense budget (S)
US Public Health Service and National Institute of Environmental Health Services find that paraquat, herbicide used to kill marijuana plants in Mexico, may seriously injure smokers' lungs and suggest spraying program be halted; program was begun in 75 at request of US, which has contributed over $35 million to support it; report prepared by Mitre Corp under contract to US State Department estimates that 16 million Americans use marijuana and that at any given time 85,600 were probably smoking marijuana contaminated with paraquat; US Health Sec Joseph A Califano, in letter to other Federal executives seeking their aid in persuading Secretary of State Vance to have use of herbicide halted, notes that long-term use can result in severe lung damage called fibrosis; other findings (M)
Final settlement recently reached between French Government and heirs of Pablo Picasso will enable Museum of Modern Art to mount show; museum exec William Rubin comments; illus (M)
Energy Sec Schlesinger says he is 'disappointed' at failure of nation's refiners to increase gasoline and heating oil production, but adds that oil executives have assured him that they will step up refinery runs in July, June 21 news conference; prefers persuasion to coercion as means of getting refiners to increase production; says decline in imports appears to have bottomed out and shipments have begun to rise; illus (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 20, 1979, covering June 22, 1979.
Supertramp
Donna Summer
Sister Sledge
Rickie Lee Jones
Cheap Trick
1979Joey Cheek, American speed skater[†]
William Joseph Cheek is an American former speed skater and inline speed skater. He specialized in the short and middle distances and won Olympic gold in 2006. As of 2024, he is the Executive Vice President of Entrepreneurship for the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
1979Thomas Voeckler, French cyclist[†]
Thomas Voeckler is a French former road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2017, for the Direct Énergie team and its previous iterations.
1979Louis Chiron, Monégasque race car driver (born 1899)[†]
Louis Alexandre Chiron was a Monégasque racing driver who competed in rallies, sports car races, and Grands Prix.
1979Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.[†]
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Beginning as an alliance of Whigs, free trade–supporting Peelites, and reformist Radicals in the 1850s, by the end of the 19th century, it had formed four governments under William Ewart Gladstone. Despite being divided over the issue of Irish Home Rule, the party returned to government in 1905 and won a landslide victory in the 1906 general election. Under prime ministers Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905–1908) and H. H. Asquith (1908–1916), the Liberal Party passed reforms that created a basic welfare state. Although Asquith was the party leader, its dominant figure was David Lloyd George.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]