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Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc becomes 1 of smallest cos ever to tap commercial paper mkt, with successful sale of $5 million in paper; growing sale of commercial paper by cooperatives such as Ocean Spray discussed; table; illus (M)
Carter Administration asks Congress to approve agreement with China for expanded trade, leaving unclear whether similar agreement with USSR will be submitted at same time; both nations have been barred from trade concessions until they can show substantially more liberal emigration policies, under terms of amended '74 Trade Act (M)
general manager Toni Schmucker presents co's supervisory board with record $3 billion investment program designed to meet worldwide demand for economical compact cars; program reportedly earmarks $820 million for investment in US by '82 (S)
John F Burns article on his 1st-hand observation of Rhodesia's guerrilla war; Burns spent week in June with Fire Force Bravo at Grand Reef Air Base outside Umtali; until recently, communiques were as close as most reporters got to combat but with establishment of transitional Government last year, Government began to allow selected reporters and TV teams to watch raiding parties in action; this policy has been extended by Prime Min Muzorewa; purpose is to counter charges that Government troops have committed atrocities against civilians and have made other violations of Geneva conventions, including shooting wounded guerrillas; Government estimates over 13,000 guerrillas are operating inside country, double number year ago; events during week and chronology of typical day noted; map; illus (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 4, 1979, covering July 4, 1979.
Donna Summer
Supertramp
Rickie Lee Jones
Earth| Wind & Fire
Cheap Trick
1979Siim Kabrits, Estonian politician[†]
Siim Kabrits is an Estonian entrepreneur and former politician. He was a member of Riigikogu from April 6, 2011, to March 26, 2014.
1979Josh McCown, American football player[†]
Joshua Treadwell McCown is an American professional football coach and former quarterback who is the quarterbacks coach for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the SMU Mustangs and Sam Houston Bearkats, and was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the third round of the 2002 NFL draft. McCown went on to play eighteen seasons in the NFL across twelve franchises. He also spent a season in the United Football League (UFL).
1979Renny Vega, Venezuelan footballer[†]
Renny Vicente Vega Hernández is a Venezuelan former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1979Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer and manager (born 1905)[†]
Lee Wai Tong was a Hong Kong and Chinese international association football player, head coach, and former Vice President of FIFA. He is often regarded as the greatest Chinese footballer, due to his accomplishments in winning several Far Eastern Games titles with the national team of the Republic of China as well as captaining the national football squad on a 13-year unbeaten run in competitive games from 1923 to 1936, a streak that ended at their first ever Olympic tournament.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]