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September 7, 1979

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Headlines from September 7, 1979

Carter Aide Bars Senate Fuel Plan

By Warren Weaver Jr.; Special to The New York Times

W Bowman Cutter, associate director of Office of Management and Budget, tells task force of Senate Banking Committee that Carter Administration rejects 2‐phase kind of synthetic‐fuel plan taking shape in Congress, which would involve testing several technologies before deciding which ones to pursue aggressively; indicates that Administration has cut hack production goals, from 2.5 million bbls of oil equivalent a day to 1.75 million bbls a day by '90; says Administration is willing to require that Energy Security Corp, which will direct program, seek separate Congressional approval for each of four $22 billion installments of its financing; Sen Russell Long, chairman of Senate Finance Committee, protests that Carter Administration is lumping together in proposed Energy Trust Fund proceeds of windfall profits tax and additional revenue that existing corporate‐tax laws will produce as result of decontrol; illus (M)

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President to Free 4 Puerto Ricans In Washington Shootings of 1950's

By Martin Tolchin Special to The New York Times

Pres Carter's commuting of sentences of 4 Puerto Rican nationalists is expected to clear way for release of Americans Lawrence Lunt, Juan Tar, Everett Jackson and Claudio Morales, who are held by Cuban Government; Pres Castro has offered to exchange prisoners for nationalists (S)

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 5, 1979, covering September 7, 1979.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Get The Knack by The Knack

    Get The Knack

    The Knack

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    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    11
  2. 2
    Album cover for Breakfast In America by Supertramp

    Breakfast In America

    Supertramp

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    2
    Peak
    1
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    24
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    Album cover for Candy-O by The Cars

    Candy-O

    The Cars

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    Peak
    3
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    11
  4. 4
    Album cover for I Am by Earth| Wind & Fire

    I Am

    Earth| Wind & Fire

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    3
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    13
  5. 5
    Album cover for Million Mile Reflections by The Charlie Daniels Band

    Million Mile Reflections

    The Charlie Daniels Band

    Last week
    5
    Peak
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    18

Notable Births

Nathan Hindmarsh

1979Nathan Hindmarsh, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster[†]

Nathan William Hindmarsh is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who captained the Parramatta Eels in the NRL. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative second-row forward, he played his entire career at the Eels, in 2010 breaking the record for most games with the club. On 28 August 2018, Hindmarsh was inducted into the Parramatta Eels hall of fame.

Paul Mara

1979Paul Mara, American ice hockey player[†]

Paul Richard Mara is an American former professional ice hockey defenceman, former head coach of the Boston Pride in the PHF, and current Assistant Coach of the Hartford WolfPack in the AHL. Additionally, he served temporarily as an Assistant to Player Development for the New York Rangers of the NHL in 2023-24.

Owen Pallett

1979Owen Pallett, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player[†]

Michael James Owen Pallett-Plowright, known professionally as Owen Pallett, is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Under their former pseudonym Final Fantasy, Pallett won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds. Pallett is also known for their contributions to Arcade Fire, having served as a string arranger and touring member of the band. In January 2014, Pallett and Arcade Fire member William Butler were nominated for Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards for their original score of the film Her (2013).

Brian Stokes

1979Brian Stokes, American baseball player[†]

Brian Alexander Stokes is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, New York Mets, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Major League Baseball.

Notable Deaths

I. A. Richards

1979I. A. Richards, English literary critic and rhetorician (born 1893)[†]

Ivor Armstrong Richards CH, known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained and self-referential ĂŠsthetic object.

Historical Events

Chrysler

1979The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.[†]

FCA US, LLC, doing business as Stellantis North America and known historically as Chrysler, is one of the "Big Three" automobile manufacturers in the United States, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan. It is the American subsidiary of the multinational automotive company Stellantis. Stellantis North America sells vehicles worldwide under the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram Trucks nameplates. It also includes Mopar, its automotive parts and accessories division, and SRT, its performance automobile division. The division also distributes Alfa Romeo, Fiat, and Maserati vehicles in North America.

Historical Context for September 7, 1979

In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]