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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Joseph M Hendrie says new data show no hazard in cooling systems; announcement comes after emergency meetings with nuclear fuel experts (M)
Bolivia's cities are paralyzed by general strike called to protest military takeover of country; new rulers declare state of siege; Congress meets and votes to support ousted civilian Pres Guevara Arze; Col Natusch Busch announces dissolution of Congress; Bolivian politicans defy him by calling session of Congress for Nov 3; Natusch announces formation of Cabinet of ‘nationalist left’ consisting of 5 officers and 8 civilians, with 3 posts vacant; Gen Julio Herrera, who was Defense Min in Guevara Government, is appointed Industry and Commerce Min; among civilian appointees are Guillermo Bedregal as Foreign Min and Agapito Monzon as Finance Min; Guevara announces from his refuge that his Government will continue to function underground and will seek support to return to power; Natusch pledges that his Government will improve country's adminstrative structure, guarantee individual liberty and human rights and cooperate with labor; says state of siege, involving suspension of civil liberties, is necessary now to protect national security; illus (L)
Foerster, Werner (Trooper): Joanne Chesimard, sentenced to life for murder, escapes from State Prison for Women, Clinton, NJ (M)
Chrysler Corp expresses optimism that it will be able to raise money needed to match $15 billion (M)
illus of funeral procession (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 31, 1979, covering November 3, 1979.
Eagles
Led Zeppelin
Commodores
Styx
Foreigner
1979Pablo Aimar, Argentinian footballer[†]
Pablo César Aimar is an Argentine former professional footballer and current assistant coach of the Argentina national team. During his career, he played as an attacking midfielder.
1979Beau McDonald, Australian footballer and coach[†]
Beau McDonald is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.
1979Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.[†]
The Greensboro massacre was a deadly confrontation which occurred on November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina, US, when members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party (ANP) shot and killed five participants in a "Death to the Klan" march which was organized by the Communist Workers Party (CWP).
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]