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MIYANDUAB, Iran, Sept. 2 — Kurdish rebels reportedly repelled 400 soldiers advancing on the mountain stronghold of Mehabad today in the second day of a new Iranian Government offensive to put down a Kurdish rebellion.
Baronet Sir Ranulph TwistletonâWykeham Fiennes and 11 companions begin 3âyear journey to circle globe via North and South poles; festivities at Greenwich, England, as flagship Benjamin Bowring sets off on journey, joined at start of trip by patron Prince Charles, described; if 52,000âmile trip is successful, it will be 1st longitudinal circumnavigation of globe; more than 600 companies, mostly British, are financing expedition; trip's objective is to follow as closely as possible Greenwich meridian, imaginary line running north and south around world (M)
Red Smith article recalls highlights of NFL in its 60 years of existence (M)
MIAMI, Sept. 2 — Hurricane David, drawing renewed destructive force from open water, moved toward south Florida tonight, forcing tens of thousands in coastal areas from their homes as far north as Cape Canaveral.
Management of economy is emerging as main issue in upcoming election that will decide political fate of Prime Min Ola Ullsten; problem of currency outflow discussed; latest polls indicate that Social Democratic Labor Pary, led by Olof Palme, is in a close race with nation's 3 nonâSocialist parties, including Liberals; Palme, Ullsten portraits (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 29, 1979, covering September 3, 1979.
The Knack
Supertramp
The Cars
Earth| Wind & Fire
The Charlie Daniels Band
1979JĂșlio CĂ©sar, Brazilian footballer[â ]
JĂșlio CĂ©sar Soares de EspĂndola, known as JĂșlio CĂ©sar, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1979Tomo MiliÄeviÄ, Bosnian-American guitarist[â ]
Tomislav "Tomo" MiliÄeviÄ is a Bosnian Croat-American musician and record producer. He was the lead guitarist of the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars from 2003 to 2018. Born in Sarajevo but raised in the United States, MiliÄeviÄ moved to Troy, Michigan, in the early 1980s, where he became active in the local heavy metal scene and played in a number of bands, co-founding Morphic. In 2003, he joined Thirty Seconds to Mars, with whom he achieved worldwide recognition in the mid-2000s after recording the band's second album A Beautiful Lie (2005). Its full-length follow-ups, This Is War (2009) and Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), received further critical and commercial success.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]