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WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who will announce his Presidential candidacy tomorrow, has decided to supplement his political challenge to President Carter with a broad attack in Congress on the President's energy policies.
Recent sharp rise in interest rates has set stage for devastating losses in mortgage market, where hundreds of millions of dollars of securities backed by home mortgages are traded every day; mortgage trading is in spotlight because of sharp increase in interest rates following Federal Reserve Board's credit‐tightening moves on Oct 6; Fidelity Bond and Mortgage Co reportedly lost between $4 million and $6 million in early Nov through speculation in GNMA securities; bulk of market for mortgage securities consists of GNMAs; GNMA guaranteed $452 million in mortgage securites in '70; in '79 agency estimates it will guarantee some $23 billion, bringing total in less than decade to $87 billion; Salomon Brothers partner Robert Dall, GNMA executive vice president R Frederick Taylor, Public Securities Assn executive director Roger Klein comment; graph shows GNMA's issued from '70 to '79; chart shows how mortgage‐backed securities work (L)
Comment on showings of spring‐summer fashions for '80; illus of designs by Geoffrey Beene, Mary McFadden, Mollie Parnis and Stephen Burrows (L)
Named special Middle East negotiator
article on growing number of women detectives assigned to regular duty in police precincts; until recently, women were given only special assignments, usually dealing with sex crimes, missing persons and narcotics; photos of some detectives (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 7, 1979, covering November 7, 1979.
Eagles
Led Zeppelin
Styx
Commodores
Foreigner
1979Mike Commodore, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Michael W. Commodore is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Commodore played for several teams in the National Hockey League (NHL). In 2006, he won the Stanley Cup as part of the Carolina Hurricanes. Commodore was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the second round of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft.
1979Will Demps, American football player[†]
William Henry Demps Jr. is a former American football safety who was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He played college football at San Diego State. He is also the close cousin of top prospect Brody Demps.
1979Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer[†]
Danny Alberto Fonseca Bravo is a Costa Rican professional football coach and a former midfielder. He is an assistant coach with Cartaginés.
1979Barney Harwood, English television host and actor[†]
Barnaby John Harwood is a British actor and television presenter. He is known for his work with CBBC beginning in 2002.
1979Jon Peter Lewis, American singer-songwriter and actor[†]
Jon Peter Lewis is an American singer and songwriter, and was one of the finalists on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series American Idol. He was frequently referred to by the judges and Ryan Seacrest as JPL.
1979Amy Purdy, American actress, model and snowboarder[†]
Amy Michelle Purdy is an American actress, model, para-snowboarder, motivational speaker, fashion designer and author. Purdy is a 2014 Paralympic bronze medalist, 2018 Paralympics silver medalist, and co-founder of Adaptive Action Sports.
1979Joey Ryan, American wrestler[†]
Joseph Ryan Meehan, is an American actor, writer, producer, retired professional wrestler and promoter. He has been a member of SAG-AFTRA since 2014.
1979Otep Shamaya, American singer-songwriter and actress[†]
Otep Shamaya, is an American former singer and rapper, best known as the lead vocalist and founder of the eponymous metal band Otep.
1979Frank O'Connor, American actor, rancher, and painter[†]
Charles Francis "Frank" O'Connor was an American actor, painter, and rancher and the husband of novelist Ayn Rand. Frank O'Connor performed in several films, typically as an extra, during the silent and early sound eras. While working on the set of the 1927 film The King of Kings, O'Connor met Rand, and they eventually dated each other steadily. They married in 1929. When O'Connor and Rand moved to California so Rand could work on the movie adaptation of her novel The Fountainhead, O'Connor purchased and managed a ranch in the San Fernando Valley for several years. In addition to raising numerous flora and fauna on the ranch, he there developed the Lipstick and Halloween hybrids of Delphinium and Gladiolus.
In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]