Article on plans for 3 new buildings in Spinney Hill, predominantly black section of Mannasset, NY; new construction includes shopping center; many of section's residents fear that construction will reduce opportunities for blacks in community and mean end of local black-owned businesses; some residents comment; illus (L)

Blacks Fear Loss of Stake In Spinney Hill Business Project

David Frost withdraws from TV interview with Henry A Kissinger, charging that NBC News agreed to let Kissinger review and modify his responses to Frost's questions in taped session devoted primarily to Nixon Administration's Cambodian policies; William Small, NBC News president, disputes Frost's charges, saying that at no time were NBC's journalistic principles compromised (M)

FROST ABANDONING KISSINGER INTERVIEW

Metropolitan Opera to stage opera, which has not been performed by company since 1946-47 season; drawings (M)

MUSIC VIEW

Pope John Paul II, after White House meeting with Pres Carter, issues strong call for world disarmament (S)

President and Pontiff Issue a Plea At White House for World Peace

Federal Reserve Chmn Paul A Volcker announces 1 percentage point increase in discount rate, to record 12%, in move aimed at curbing inflation and calming financial markets (M)

ANTI-INFLATION PLAN BY FEDERAL RESERVE INCREASES KEY RATE

Article on numerous law firms in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, NY, having links to politics; examples cited (M)

U.S. Labor Party: Cult Surrounded by Controversy

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Affirmed Takes Gold Cup

Article on increased office and hotel building activity in Washington, DC; demand for office space is growing by over 2 million sq ft a year and prime building sites that sold for $50 a sq ft 10 years ago now command as much as $375 a ft; commenting are Skidmore Owings & Merrill architect David Childs, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments official Jane Rogers, PADC executive director Andrew Barnes, Coldwell Banker & Co official George Voris and vice president James O'Brien, city's Trade Board president Oliver T Carr Jr, developer George F Mosse and asst city administrator for planning and development James O Gibson; illus; map (L)

The Boom on the Potomac

IT used to be said of the Penn Central Railroad, when that company ran the commuter trains in Westchester and Connecticut, that each winter seemed to catch it by surprise. Schedules were seriously disrupted when snow, ice and cold did their dirty work in January and February.

Conrail Gets Set To Face Winter

THE longstanding debate over development a ong southern Connecticut shore seems to be heading into a new phase, spurred by increasing economic pressures on a dwindling number of potential building sites.

Changing Currents Along the Shore

Article on renewed popularity of atrium in design of commercial and private buildings in NYC; renewed use, fueled by zoning incentives from NYC Planning Comm, was encouraged by highly successful Citicorp Market designed by Hugh Stubbins & Associates and Emery Roth & Sons; Citibank vice president Arthur Driscoll, architect-developer John Portman, Gruen Associates design director Gary Engle, John Beyer (Beyer, Blinder, Belle) and Max Wechsler (Wechsler-Grasso-Menziuso) comment; illus (L)

The Atrium Comeback Transforms Air Shafts

Vincent Canby article on some films shown at NY Film Festival, including The Europeans, Luna, Wise Blood and Nosferatu, the Vampyre; illus (M)

FILM VIEW

Article on plan put forward by Sen Harrison A William Jr to help needy families, including 'working poor,' meet higher home-heating bills they face this winter; under plan, $1.6 billion would be allocated for fiscal year '80 and $5 billion in each of 4 succeeding years; thrust of bill is to provide aid to people with lowest income and highest energy costs in relation to income (M)

Williams Pressing Fuel‐Aid Bill

LOS ANGELES &#8212; He's been called a hatchet man, and names like Ming the Merciless and the Skillful Scalpel as he labored to save failing companies. But Sanford S. Sigoloff has built a reputation as a man who can take an ailing operation and turn it around. The question is, what's an executive with that kind of skill doing in such a going business as the nation's No. 1 home builder, Kaufman & Broad?

Company Doctor Sigoloff

DAVE LEWIS will never forget the first time he walked on campus, when he stepped into a dream that began when O.J. Simpson ran across his television set and he decided he was going to go to the University of Southern California. That's what it became, a dream. He was part of a Rose Bowl team. He played in

Trojan Spirit Instills Bucs With Will and Way to Win

The University of Pennsylvania football team reached a milestone of 1,000 games yesterday but only reached the Columbia goal line once as the Lions beat the Quakers, 12&#8208;7, at Baker Field.

Penn Hits Milestone But Columbia Wins

Carter Administration officials see Brezhnev speech as part of Soviet effort to induce Western European countries not to go along with US proposal (M)

U.S. Aides Link Move to Missiles

‘I want to go ahead and do it’

Analysis of Papal journey through US notes that his manner in some respects resembles style of traditional American revivalist; notes that among his prime evangelistic traits is his ability to sense mood and texture of wide diversity of situations; says Pope's appearance in Chicago showed Polish community his folksiness, American bishops his commanding presence and huge audience in Grant Park his streak of lyric poetry; holds Pope's magnetism and power as spokesman for Christianity have left most listeners favorably impressed (M)

Pope at Ease As Evangelist

1st of 2 articles in series by Patricia Leigh Brown on NYC historic buildings discusses Federal tax incentives included in 1976 Tax Reform Act designed to encourage private investments by individuals and companies in such buildings; Columbia Prof Harold K Bell, Interior Dept Heritage, Conservation and Recreation Service supervisor H Ward Jandl and several homeowners comment; illus (L)

Tax Law Lends Preservation a Hand

Asurvey of the Hispanic section of Yonkers, where an estimated 20,000 of the county's 55,000 Spanish&#8208;speaking people live, has disclosed major problems and a depressing outlook for the city's &#8212; and the county's &#8212; fastest&#8208;growing minority.

Study Sees Plight of Hispanics

My family's idea of a vacation is a day crowded with emptiness. A leisurely afternoon blends into evening the way the sea meets the sky &#8212; almost imperceptibly&#8208;and the biggest decision to be made is what to read on the beach or eat for dinner. Over the years we have found that islands are especially wonderful places to do nothing, and one of our favorite havens for relentless lassitude is Pawleys Island, S.C.

South Carolina's Low Country

Transformer of the Arts

FOR the second'time in recent months, an Apppellate Division Justice will leave one of the state's most prestigious courts to join a politically potent law firm on the Island, thus focusing attention on the growing number of well&#8208;connected law firms here.

L.I. Law Firms Gain in Links To Politics

Simona Amânar is a Romanian former artistic gymnast. She is the 2000 Olympic all-around champion, and a seven-time Olympic and ten-time World Championship medalist. Amânar helped Romania win four consecutive world team titles (1994–1999), as well as the 2000 Olympic team title. She has a vault named after her, one of the most difficult in women's gymnastics, and was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2007.

Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast

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Aaron Richard Ashmore is a Canadian actor. He is the identical twin brother of actor Shawn Ashmore.

Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor

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Shawn Robert Ashmore is a Canadian actor whose career spans film, television, and interactive media.

Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor

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On 7 October 1979, a Swissair DC-8 crashed while attempting to land at Athens-Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece. Of the 154 passengers and crew on board, 14 were killed in the accident.

Swissair Flight 316 crashes at Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece, killing 14.

October 7, 1979

Headlines from October 7, 1979

Blacks Fear Loss of Stake In Spinney Hill Business Project

FROST ABANDONING KISSINGER INTERVIEW

MUSIC VIEW

President and Pontiff Issue a Plea At White House for World Peace

ANTI-INFLATION PLAN BY FEDERAL RESERVE INCREASES KEY RATE

Billboard 200

In Through The Out Door

Get The Knack

Slow Train Coming

Midnight Magic

Off The Wall

Notable Births

Historical Events

Historical Context for October 7, 1979