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In 1979, the world population was approximately 4,368,539,528 people[†]
1979Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer[†]
Christian Terlizzi is an Italian former professional footballer who last played for Marsala as a defender. He played for clubs on all professional levels of Italian football, including U.S. Città di Palermo, U.C. Sampdoria, and Catania Calcio in the Serie A. He has also been capped for the Italy national football team.
THE time is almost here. The air is crisp and chill, the stores aretrilliant with glittering displays, the streets throng with shoppers. “ ‘Tis the season to be jolly,” the ancient song admonishes. Perhaps. For some of us it is a season fraught with guilt and gloom.
Banking sources say Iran has defaulted on $500 million loan from syndicate of international banks; say default could put severe pressure on Iran's financial situation by causing other bank syndicates to declare their loans to Iran to be in default also; Iran is believed to owe banks around the world slightly over $5 billion and American banks $2.6 billion; Chase Manhattan Bank is agent for defaulted loan, and for about $2.1 billion of Iran's foreign debts in all (M)
US Justice Dept, in series of new actions against Nazi war criminals living in US, files suit to revoke citizenship of Karl Linnas, Greenlawn, NY, resident charged with killing unarmed men, women and children at concentration camp in Estonia during war; has filed similar suits against Wolodimir Osidach of Philadelphia and Bohdan Koziy of Ft Lauderdale for atrocities in Ukraine and Poland (M)
Article on decorating kitchen; Giuliano Bugialli, Maurice Moore-Betty and Sherry Zitron comment; illus (L)
Top UN officials offer Iran 2 forums in which to state its case in return for release of US hostages; under proposal, Sec Gen Kurt Waldheim would appoint group of international legal experts to examine Khomeini's charges that Shah was tyrant who stole from his own people; Security Council would grant Iran meeting to broadcast its charge that Shah was ‘creature’ of US; neither move would take place unless hostages were freed; proposal is given to Ahmad Salamatian, special envoy of Foreign Min Bani-Sadr; was devised by Waldheim, General Assembly Pres Salim A Salim end Security Council Pres Sergio Palacios de Vizzio (M)
Gunmen who seized Grand Mosque still hold hostages in shrine, but Saudi Government says its troops have been deployed and are awaiting orders; Interior Min Prince Nayef says Government has delayed storming mosque out of concern for hostages (M)
Koch administration reports that major changes that give city budget officials greater control over spending by Education Board are result of recent agreements that eliminated $55 million budget deficit in school spending and prevented layoff of teachers; Management and Budget Office Dir James R Brigham Jr outlines new controls; por (M)
Gov Ella T Grasso discloses that state is facing budget gap of $148.9 million in its next fiscal year, which will require some combination of spending cuts or new or higher taxes to close; according to tentative budget, spending requests of state agencies already have been trimmed by more than $200 million to produce spending recommendation of $2.69 billion for fiscal year starting July 1, 9.9% increase over current fiscal year (S)
Concorde service linking New York City with Paris and London has become financial success in sharp contrast with craft's routes elsewhere; craft's acceptance in NYC following years of opposition recalled; photo of Concorde interior; chart shows Concorde history, vital statistics, trans-Atlantic flight times and fares (M)
NYS Criminal Justice Services Division reports that reported crime rose 4.8% in 1st half of '79 over same '78 period; statistics cited; Comr Frank J Rogers comments (M)
company, believing that next decade will see decline in construction of new housing, plans to focus on maintenance, renovation and remodeling of old houses; chairman and chief executive officer John B Fery, senior vice president of building materials group George E McCown and Bache Halsey Stuart Shields Inc analyst Thomas Farrell comment; Fery illus; market performance chart; graph shows company's turn to home improvement market from '75 to '79 (L)
Iranian students holding US Embassy and 49 Americans warn that ‘all hostages will be destroyed on the spot’ if US mounts military action to free them; say embassy itself will be blown up and any Americans in Iran will be endangered; millions of Iranians take to streets of Teheran in intertwined religious and political demonstration, called biggest in many months; religiously, demonstration marks 1st day of Muharram; demonstration seen constituting revolution's response to US statement that it would be justified under UN Charter and international convention to use military force; demonstration illustrations (M)