After six months of frantic buying and selling that saw the price of bullion seesaw from less than $300 an ounce to $875, gold fever appears to have cooled in recent weeks. As trading volume has settled down, so has the price, ...  

Gold's Price: Experts Divided; Economic Analysis Analysts Do Not Agree On Future Price of Gold Situation Vary Unstable 

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 14-- Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and his closest aides have begun drafting guidelines for a United Nations commission that would produce a report that would satisfy Iran, avoid humiliating the United States and obtain the release of the American hostages, Asian diplomats said here today.  

Waldheim and Aides Are Reported Drafting Rules for Iran Inquiry; Airing Grievances Against Shah Waldheim Said to Be Drafting Rules for Iran Inquiry Waldheim's Only Confidant Brief Stay in Teheran 

HOWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J.--For the last five years, Vahakn Hovnanian  has dreamed of creating a $15 million community in this rural Monmouth County township so that some of the estimated 50,000 Armenians scattered throughout the New York metropolitan area could live together "in an atmosphere that would perpetuate our heritage."  

A Rural Heritage Clashes With Armenians' Dream; Rural Heritage in a Jersey Town Clashes With Armenian Dream Court Test on Variance Importance of the Church Activities for the Elderly 

THERE are those who say that Greenwich Village has more chic shops than it used to have, and there  are those who say that it is more honky-tonk than it used to be, and they are both right.  

Walks Filled With Discoveries; For Strolling or Nightlife, the Village Is on the Upswing Walking Tours Are Full Of Discoveries Starting at Eighth Street Landmarks of 10th Street The Shops on Bleecker Street Heart of the West Village Villages for All Seasons

CORRECTIONS

LAKE PLACID, N.Y., Feb. 14--With a buzzing style of play that brought standing ovations throughout the game, the United States hockey team achieved its second straight upset in the XIII Olympic Winter Games tonight, defeating Czechoslovakia, 7-3.  

U.S. Hockey Team, in an Upset, Beats Czech Olympic Squad, 7-3; U.S. Six Upsets Czechoslovakia Incident Sparks Americans Crowd Cheers Them On 

MIAMI, Feb. 14--A Federal undercover investigation has resulted in the indictment of 55 persons in 10 states in the largest effort ever against film piracy and the distribution of pornography.  

55 INDICTED BY U.S. AS PORNOGRAPHERS AND IN FILM PIRACY; Warrants Served on Many by F.B.I. in a Nationwide Campaign-- Six in New York Accused Six New Yorkers Indicted Similar to 2 Inquiries 55 Indicted in F.B.I. Undercover Inquiry Court Decision Cited 

QUETTA, Pakistan, Feb. 10--For many people in the stepchild Pakistani province of Baluchistan, the Soviet military occupation of neighboring Afghanistan represents more of an opportunity than a threat.  

Afghan Crisis Focuses Attention On Pakistan's Neglected Baluchis; The Size of Montana Afghan Crisis Gives Pakistani Area a Place in the Sun And Then Some Ridicule Threat to Power the Key Plentiful Water Supply 

Completing your Federal tax return does not mean that you are home free. In New York and New Jersey, as well as about 40 other states, there are local forms to fill out. And even people who live in states without an income tax, such as Connecticut, may owe money to the state authorities.  

States' Returns Present Their Own Complexities; Complexities of States' Returns Recent Tax Developments New York-to-Jersey Commuters 

PHOENIX--Best Western International, an association of more than 2,297 hoteliers in 50 states and 18 countries, is to lodging what the Sunkist cooperative is to oranges. A formidable marketer, Best Western exists only to serve its members. It has no shareholders, no company properties and no corporate profits.  

Computer Tie Aids Hotel Chain; Best Western Passes Rivals, Revamps Image Computer Link Helps Hotel Chain's Growth 

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14--The Carter Administration is preparing new economic measures that may include selective credit controls and a fresh effort to balance the budget, Alfred E. Kahn, the Presidential anti-inflation counselor, said today.  

Kahn Calls Credit Curb Possible in New Plan; Credit Curb Possible, Kahn Says 'An Army of Civil Servants' 

News Summary; International Energy National Metropolitan 

The Patrolmen's Benevolent Associa  tion is flexing its muscle again, fighting New York City's Police Department over an old issue, the one-officer patrol car.  

P.B.A.: A Powerful Voice And Divided Membership; A Divided Army Suspended and Then Restored The Civilian Review Issue The P.B.A. Its Voice Is Powerful And Its Membership Is Divided 

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14--The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) settled Energy Department charges of price violations by agreeing today to make $300 million worth of reimbursements to customers, payments to the Government and cuts in current prices and to spend $400 million on accelerated investment in refining, production and exploration.  

AMOCO SETTLES SUIT BY U.S. WITH ACCORD TO PAY $700 MILLION; CASE INVOLVES OVERCHARGES Terms Call for Customer Refunds, Price Cuts and $400 Million in Accelerated Investment 'Icing on the Cake' Terms of the Agreement Amoco U.S. Petroleum Data 

One of the centers of Manhattan redevelopment activity in the 1970's was the Upper East Side north of 86th Street, in that large area of mostly tenement housing east of Lexington Avenue. The Ruppert Brewery urban renewal effort, on the blocks between Second and Third Avenues from 90th Street to 93d Street, was envisioned as a stimulus to housing improvement on a wide scale.  

About Real Estate Rental Construction for Upper East Side

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14--The Carter Administration has told the steel industry that the trigger price mechanism, a two-year-old device intended to protect steelmakers against "unfairly" priced foreign imports, will be suspended if the industry files huge antidumping suits, as it has threatened to.  

U.S. Warns Against Steel Suits; New Trigger Level Undecided

Honoring "a brave civilian who refused to look the other way," Mayor Koch yesterday made a posthumous presentation of the Mayor's Medal of Heroism to Paul Keating, the 27-year-old photographer who was shot to death on Feb. 5 after coming to the rescue of a mugging victim in Greenwich Village.  

Koch Hails 'Brave Civilian' With a Posthumous Award

ALBANY, Feb. 14--Governor Carey intends to ask the Legislature for a statewide surcharge on automobile registration, a change in the way the state gasoline tax is computed, and, probably, a gasoline tax surcharge in the New York City metropolitan area to close the deficits of the state's financially troubled mass transportation systems.  

Carey Will Propose Statewide Plan For Surcharge on Car Registration; Car Registration Surcharge Weighed Legislative Approval Needed

WEEKENDER GUIDE; Two Decades Later, 'West Side Story' Opens Again on Broadway WEEKENDER GUIDE Sunday NUTMEG SLEIGH RALLY PINES OF CENTRAL PARK FILIPINO DANCE ON 64TH ST. ELIZABETHAN DIVERSION HOFSTRA APPRAISERS 

The Dow Jones industrial average bumped against an old nemesis--the resistance zone just above 900--and plunged more than 10 points yesterday as a broad-based decline rippled through the entire stock market.  

Broad Loss Sends Dow Down 10.07; Stocks Strike Resistance Zone Just Above 900 Setbacks for Indicators Dow Average Falls 10.07 In Broad Stock Decline 

New York City's bar association has reluctantly surrendered to the state appellate court its century-long control over disciplining, lawyers practicing in Manhattan and the Bronx.  

Disciplining of Lawyers Passes From Bar to Court; Disciplining of New York Lawyers Passes From City Bar to the Courts Variety of Complaints Considered 

BUSINESS Digest; Washington Companies International Markets Today's Columns 

Greenwich Village Nightlife Is on the Upswing; Folk and Jazz Are Finding New Audiences Folk and Jazz Are Finding New Audiences 'Getting Crazy on the Weekends' Rediscovered Alberta Hunter 'Like a Crazy Piece of Pie' North Stars at the Lone Star 

MICHAEL CRISTOFER is ready with his  first play for Broadway since "The Shadow Box," which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award in 1977.  The title is "C.C. Pyle and the Bunyon Derby." The play has no director or cast yet, but it does have a producer, Alexander H. Cohen, who says he plans to open it in New York next winter.  

Broadway; 'Shadow Box' author finds new story in 20's sports figure. 

WHICH makes more sense--restricting the demand for a scarce product by high prices (or high taxes) or by rationing? The large majority of economists have favored free-market pricing, or higher taxes, over rationing. But much of the public, especially in times of shortage, favors rationing. This week a new Gallup Poll found that 45 percent of those surveyed favored gasoline rationing while 46 percent opposed it.  

Economic Scene; Gas Rationing: What Is 'Fair'?

Conor Mullen Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. He has also played in several other bands, including Desaparecidos, the Faint, Commander Venus, Park Ave., Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Monsters of Folk, and Better Oblivion Community Center. Oberst was named the Best Songwriter of 2008 by Rolling Stone magazine.

February 15, 1980

Headlines from February 15, 1980

Gold's Price: Experts Divided; Economic Analysis Analysts Do Not Agree On Future Price of Gold Situation Vary Unstable

Waldheim and Aides Are Reported Drafting Rules for Iran Inquiry; Airing Grievances Against Shah Waldheim Said to Be Drafting Rules for Iran Inquiry Waldheim's Only Confidant Brief Stay in Teheran

A Rural Heritage Clashes With Armenians' Dream; Rural Heritage in a Jersey Town Clashes With Armenian Dream Court Test on Variance Importance of the Church Activities for the Elderly

Walks Filled With Discoveries; For Strolling or Nightlife, the Village Is on the Upswing Walking Tours Are Full Of Discoveries Starting at Eighth Street Landmarks of 10th Street The Shops on Bleecker Street Heart of the West Village Villages for All Seasons

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Billboard 200

The Wall

Damn The Torpedoes

Off The Wall

The Long Run

Phoenix

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 15, 1980