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Nixon to buy 12-room condominium apartment at 817 Fifth Ave, NYC, from Abraham Hirschfeld, for a reported $1 million in cash; building illus (M)
Jean-Claude Martin, senior vice president of Air France, says airline's Concorde jetliners may be grounded if oil prices rise by another 40% by '85 and if it is decided that there will not be another generation of supersonic aircrafts; Concorde consumes 4 times the fuel that Boeing 747 does on Paris-NY run (S)
Jaime Roldos Aguilera, newly sworn in President of Ecuador, praises Sandinist revolution in Nicaragua (S)
Promoted to senior White House staff
Daniel W Horgan, former executive director of Democratic National Committee, resigns from his $47,500-a-year post as personnel consultant to Carter Administration after his name is linked to state and Federal investigation into operation of NJ Housing Finance Agency; resignation follows reports in Trenton Evening Times that housing consultant told NJ law-enforcement officials he was forced to split his fees with Jack C Stein, close friend of Horgan, to get loan approvals from Housing Finance Agency; this is said to have come at time when Horgan was deputy commissioner of Community Affairs Dept, parent agency of state housing agency (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 8, 1979, covering August 11, 1979.
The Knack
Donna Summer
Supertramp
The Cars
Teddy Pendergrass
1979Walter AyovĂ, Ecuadorian footballer[â ]
Walter Orlando AyovĂ Corozo is a former Ecuadorian professional footballer who last played for the Monterrey Flash in the Major Arena Soccer League. He previously played as a left winger for Club Deportivo El Nacional in the Ecuadorian league and in the Ecuador national team, primarily in left defense. He is the cousin of fellow footballer Jaime AyovĂ, who also plays in the Ecuador national team. He also holds Mexican citizenship.
1979J. G. Farrell, English author (born 1935)[â ]
James Gordon Farrell was an English-born novelist of Irish descent. He gained prominence for a series of novels known as "the Empire Trilogy", which deal with the political and human consequences of British colonial rule.
1979Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.[â ]
PJSC Aeroflot â Russian Airlines, commonly known as Aeroflot, is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Russia. Aeroflot is headquartered in the Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, with its hub being Sheremetyevo International Airport. The Federal Agency for State Property Management, an agency of the Government of Russia, owns 73.77% of the company, with the rest of the shares being public float.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]