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Holiday Inns to acquire Harrah's for about $300 million in stock and cash; Holiday Inns executives Roy E Winegardner and Michael D Rose say Harrah's will provide good entry for Holiday Inns' venture into casino-hotel business; illus (M)
Syrian Pres Hafez al-Assad, Iraqi Pres Saddam Hussein and PLO leader Yasir Arafat oppose Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, 3d world nations conference, Havana, Cuba; UN Sec Gen Waldheim proposes international conference on Middle East under UN auspices (M)
Article on soon‐to‐be‐published Dictionary of American Regional English by Harvard University's Belknap Press; 4‐volume unit will contain assemblage of folk expressions in all 50 states; project director Prof Frederic Cassidy comments; illus (M)
Dow Jones industrial average falls 15.02 points to 872.61, largest 1‐day decline since Dec 18, '78; trading volume was 33.4 million shares; market profile (M)
Senator Frank Church, chairman of Foreign Relations Committee, announces that hearings on nuclear arms treaty will be postponed so his committee can deal immediately with reports of Soviet combat forces in Cuba; CIA Dir Stansfield Turner and State Sec Cyrus Vance will testify about Cuban situation at closed door hearing; Pres Carter meets with his advisers and Sen Robert C Byrd; Vance, Turner, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's national security adviser, and Defense Sec Harold Brown confer at White House without Carter to develop options on how he might respond to Soviet activity; State and Defense Department officials say that Soviet force is no military threat to US, but officials in State Department acknowledge that it does constitute a political problem; illus of Church with committee members Jacob Javits and John C Stennis (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 5, 1979, covering September 5, 1979.
The Knack
Supertramp
The Cars
Earth| Wind & Fire
The Charlie Daniels Band
1979John Carew, Norwegian footballer[†]
John Alieu Carew is a Norwegian actor and former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was capped 91 times and scored 24 goals for the Norway national team.
1979Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster[†]
Stacey Dales is a Canadian-American former basketball player and a current reporter on the NFL Network. Dales was born in Collingwood, Ontario, and raised in Brockville, Ontario.
1979Julien Lizeroux, French skier[†]
Julien Lizeroux is a retired French World Cup alpine ski racer. He competed mainly in slalom, but also in giant slalom and combined.
1979Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer[†]
Salvatore Mastronunzio is an Italian former footballer who played as a forward.
1979George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer[†]
George Paul O'Callaghan is an Irish former football player and manager.
1979Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (born 1884)[†]
Alberto di Jorio was a cardinal of the Catholic Church and for many years along with the layman Bernardino Nogara the powerhouse behind the growing wealth of the Vatican and the Istituto per le Opere di Religione.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]