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WASHINGTON, Oct. 5--A task force of 25 Democratic Senators presented today a series of broad, generally conservative economic policies aimed at assisting business and at increasing productivity and investment.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5--Edmund S. Muskie has let it be known that he wants major changes in the way foreign policy is managed if he stays on as Secretary of State in a second Carter Administration, his closest aides said today.
TORONTO, Oct. 5--A bid by the British Columbia Resources Investment Corporation for all outstanding shares of Kaiser Resources Ltd. has turned a sudden spotlight on coal as the star of the western Canadian province's growing mining industry.
BOSTON--As John H. McArthur began his first academic year as the new dean of the Harvard Business School, he did the following in rapid succession:
DANBURY, Conn., Oct. 5--It was her first time at the Great Danbury State Fair, but 9-year-old Marci Middleton made an impulsive decision today. "I could live here," she declared.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 1, 1980, covering October 6, 1980.
Queen
Diana Ross
George Benson
Olivia Newton-John/Electric Light Orchestra
The Cars
1980Arnaud Coyot, French cyclist (died 2013)[†]
Arnaud Coyot was a French road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2003 to 2012. He had two race victories, and finished in tenth place in the 2005 Paris–Roubaix race, and tenth place in the 14th stage of the 2006 Tour de France.
1980Wes Durston, English cricketer[†]
Wesley John Durston is an English cricketer who most recently played for Derbyshire, having represented Somerset between 1999 and 2009, and the Unicorns during the 2010 season. He learnt his cricket at Millfield School and is a right-handed batsman and off break bowler.
1980Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer[†]
Abdoulaye Méïté is an Ivorian former professional footballer. He represented Ivory Coast internationally and was awarded a total of 48 caps.
1980Hattie Jacques, English actress and producer (born 1922)[†]
Hattie Jacques was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen. She is best known as a regular of the Carry On films, where she typically played strict, no-nonsense characters, but was also a prolific television and radio performer.
1980Jean Robic, French cyclist (born 1921)[†]
Jean Robic was a French road racing cyclist who won the 1947 Tour de France. Robic was a professional cyclist from 1943 to 1961. His diminutive stature and appearance was encapsulated in his nickname Biquet (Kid goat). For faster, gravity-assisted descents, he collected drinking bottles ballasted with lead or mercury at the summits of mountain climbs and "cols". After fracturing his skull in 1944 he always wore a trademark leather crash helmet.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]