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TEHERAN, Iran, Nov. 28--Who is holding the American hostages remained a mystery today as an Iranian official said he could not confirm reports that the Islamic militants occupying the American Embassy had surrendered their captives to the Iranian Government.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28--The Beatrice Foods Company was ordered today to divest itself of Tropicana Products, the nation's largest citrus juice processor, and to turn over Tropicana's recent profits to the United States Treasury.
NEWARK, Nov. 28--A police officer tried to stop a bank robbery while on his lunch hour today and was shot and then kicked as he lay dying on the floor.
MOSCOW, Nov. 28--Senator Charles H. Percy said tonight that he expected the United States and the Soviet Union to open discussions "soon" on a new strategic arms limitation treaty to replace the treaty signed last year by the two countries but not ratified.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 28--William E. Simon, who had been President-elect Ronald Reagan's first choice to return to his old job as Treasury Secretary, has removed himself from consideration for any post in the incoming cabinet, Mr. Reagan said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 26, 1980, covering November 29, 1980.
Bruce Springsteen
Barbra Streisand
Kenny Rogers
Stevie Wonder
Queen
1980Janina Gavankar, American actress and singer[†]
Janina Zione Gavankar is an American actress and musician. She is trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist and majored in theatre at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her roles include Eva "Papi" Torres on Showtime's The L Word, Shiva on The League, Leigh Turner on The Gates, Luna Garza on HBO's True Blood, McKenna Hall on The CW's Arrow, and Diana Thomas on FOX's Sleepy Hollow as well as Qetsiyah/Tessa in the The CW's The Vampire Diaries in the marketing world Janina is known to have played the role of "Ms. Dewey", a personified search engine and virtual assistant for Microsoft.
1980Dean Howell, English footballer[†]
Dean George Howell is an English former professional footballer, who played at left-back or left-midfield.
1980Dorothy Day, American journalist and activist, co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement (born 1897)[†]
Dorothy Day, OblSB was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]