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firefighters struggle to contain at least 16 fires burning some 90,000 acres in California, including fires in Los Padres, Angeles, Cleveland and Sequoia National Forests; illus; US Forest Service revokes all burning permits in state's 17 national forests and places tight limits on access to 4 southern California preserves (S)
WHEN the police moved in, with their pistols and their submachine guns, Jacobo Timerman's family was almost grateful. House arrest, they reasoned, was preferable to the imprisonment and torture already endured by the former Argentine publisher, and they were right.
Sen Sam Nunn says Sen debate has been main influence in changing priorities since 1st budget resolution in spring (S)
House approves 7% Congressional pay increase in nonrecorded vote, then reverses itself when forced into voting on record by opponents of raise; turnabout leaves uncertain what amount of pay increase, if any, Congressmen and 22,000 top-level Federal officials and judges will get this year; Congressmen now receive $57,500 a year; Congress's refusal of pay increase in '78, an election year, recalled (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 19, 1979, covering September 20, 1979.
Led Zeppelin
The Knack
Bob Dylan
Supertramp
Chic
1979Crystle Stewart, American actress and beauty queen[â ]
Crystle Stewart Sebrechts is an American actress and beauty pageant titleholder. Stewart began her acting career in 2011, when she played real estate agent Leslie Morris on the OWN/TBS comedy-drama television series For Better or Worse until 2017. Shortly after, she appeared in the 2018 film Acrimony. She also won Miss Texas USA 2008 and Miss USA 2008, she represented the United States at Miss Universe 2008, where she reached in the placed Top 10.
1979LudvĂk Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1895)[â ]
LudvĂk Svoboda was a Czech general and politician. He fought in both World Wars, for which he was regarded as a national hero, and he later served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1975.
1979A French-supported coup d'Ă©tat in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.[â ]
Operation Caban was a bloodless military operation by the French intelligence service SDECE in September 1979 to depose Emperor Bokassa I, reinstate the exiled former president David Dacko, and rename the Central African Empire back to Central African Republic.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[â ]