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January 11, 1980

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Headlines from January 11, 1980

CARTER ASKS OUTLAY OF $2 BILLION MORE FOR YOUTH TRAINING; ACTS TO REDUCE JOBLESS RATE Goals Are Teaching of Basic Skills and Providing of After-School Work for Teen-Agers Builds on Existing Programs Functional Illiterates CARTER ASKS OUTLAY FOR YOUTH TRAINING Comparative Jobless Rates

By Philip Shabecoff Special To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10--President Carter today announced a plan to spend $2 billion more on programs to help unemployed youths prepare for and enter the work market. He termed it a "historic investment" in the future.

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Users of Phones Given the Right To Install Wires; P.S.C. Spurns Argument Operation Is Perilous Rochester Case Noted Wires Not Deemed Dangerous

By Ralph Blumenthal

Telephone companies in New York State were ordered yesterday to further loosen their grip on equipment by allowing customers to purchase or install their own in-house telephone wiring, which they must now rent for a monthly fee.

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E.E.C., Hesitant, Backs Carter's Grain Measures; E.E.C. Backs Grain Plan

By Paul Lewis Special To the New York Times

BRUSSELS, Jan. 10--Western Europe offered hesitant and incomplete support today for President Carter's plan to cut off United States grain sales to the Soviet Union in retaliation for Moscow's intervention in Afghanistan.

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Producer's Prices Rose In December by 0.8%, The Least in 6 Months; Food and Construction Cited Producer Price Rises Slow

By Clyde H. Farnsworth Special To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10--The Labor Department's Producer Price Index, which measures what retailers pay for the goods they sell to consumers, rose eight-tenths of 1 percent in December, the smallest increase in six months, the Government reported today.

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Sadat-Begin Talks End Without Autonomy Accord; 'Our Duty to End Occupation' Begin Would Limit Council Power

By David K. Shipler Special To the New York Times

ASWAN, Egypt, Jan. 10--President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel ended a four-day meeting today with no sign of progress on setting up a self-administering authority for Palestinian Arabs.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 9, 1980, covering January 11, 1980.

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Greatest
Bee Gees
Last week
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Peak
1
Weeks
9
2
On The Radio: Greatest Hits: Volumes I & II
Donna Summer
Last week
1
Peak
1
Weeks
11
3
The Wall
Pink Floyd
Last week
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Peak
3
Weeks
5
4
The Long Run
Eagles
Last week
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Peak
1
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13
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Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants
Stevie Wonder
Last week
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Peak
4
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8

Notable Births

1980Josh Hannay, Australian rugby league player and coach^[†]

Josh Hannay is an Australian professional rugby league coach who is an assistant coach of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the NRL and assistant coach of the Queensland rugby league team. He is also a former professional rugby league footballer who played as a centre in the 1990s and 2000s.

1980Damien Wilkins, American basketball player^[†]

Damien Lamont Wilkins is an American former professional basketball player and basketball executive who played in the National Basketball Association for ten seasons. He is the General Manager and Head of Basketball at Overtime Elite. He is the son of retired 13-year NBA veteran Gerald Wilkins and nephew of nine-time NBA All-Star, Hall of famer Dominique Wilkins.

Notable Deaths

1980Barbara Pym, English author (born 1913)^[†]

Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). In 1977 her career was revived when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century. Her novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Historical Context for January 11, 1980

In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people^[†]

Headlines from January 11, 1980

CARTER ASKS OUTLAY OF $2 BILLION MORE FOR YOUTH TRAINING; ACTS TO REDUCE JOBLESS RATE Goals Are Teaching of Basic Skills and Providing of After-School Work for Teen-Agers Builds on Existing Programs Functional Illiterates CARTER ASKS OUTLAY FOR YOUTH TRAINING Comparative Jobless Rates

Users of Phones Given the Right To Install Wires; P.S.C. Spurns Argument Operation Is Perilous Rochester Case Noted Wires Not Deemed Dangerous

E.E.C., Hesitant, Backs Carter's Grain Measures; E.E.C. Backs Grain Plan

Producer's Prices Rose In December by 0.8%, The Least in 6 Months; Food and Construction Cited Producer Price Rises Slow

Sadat-Begin Talks End Without Autonomy Accord; 'Our Duty to End Occupation' Begin Would Limit Council Power

Greatest

On The Radio: Greatest Hits: Volumes I & II

The Wall

The Long Run

Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for January 11, 1980