However, Goukouni ’ s January 1981 statement that Chad and Libya had agreed to work for the realization of complete unity between the two countries generated intense international pressure and Goukouni's subsequent call for the complete withdrawal of external forces.

The international airport at N ’ Djamena was damaged in fighting in 1981, but is now served by several international carriers including Air Afrique, which is partly owned by Chad.

With such business implications in mind, David Liddle ( General Manager, Xerox Office Systems ) and Metcalfe ( 3Com ) strongly supported a proposal of Fritz Röscheisen ( Siemens Private Networks ) for an alliance in the emerging office communication market, including Siemens ' support for the international standardization of Ethernet ( April 10, 1981 ).

Escape from New York grossed $ 25. 2 million in American theaters in summer 1981 with a comparable gross in the international market, resulting in a $ 50 million box office, a revenue-production ratio of almost 7: 1.

His starring and award-winning role in István Szabó's Mephisto ( 1981 ) playing a self-absorbed actor, launched his international career.

In August 1981, in the first incident of the Gulf of Sidra, two Libyan jets fired on U. S. aircraft participating in a routine naval exercise over international waters of the Mediterranean Sea claimed by Libya.

As Romania's foreign debt sharply increased between 1977 and 1981 ( from 3 to 10 billion US dollars ), the influence of international financial organisations such as the IMF and the World Bank grew, conflicting with Nicolae Ceauşescu's autarchic policies.

* Left-Handed Dream ( 1981 ) ( Tracklistings differ between Japanese and international issues )

The establishment of the Iran-US Claims Tribunal ( 1981 ), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( 1993 ) and the International Criminal Court ( 2002 ) in the city further consolidated the role of The Hague as a center for international legal arbitration.

Hattestad made her international debut at the European Junior Championships in 1981 with a fifth place.

Other international policy frameworks produced by WHO include the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes ( adopted in 1981 ), Framework Convention on Tobacco Control ( adopted in 2003 ) and the Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel ( adopted in 2010 ).

The World Games, first held in 1981, are an international multi-sport event, meant for sports, or disciplines or events within a sport, that are not contested in the Olympic Games.

The March of Dimes sponsored five international conferences in June 1974, November 1977, May 1981, June 1984, and June 1989 and published articles from the conferences in book form in 1979, 1982, 1986, and 1991 from seven longitudinal prospective cohort studies on the development of over 300 children and young adults with sex chromosome abnormalities identified in the screening of almost 200, 000 consecutive births in hospitals in Denver, Edinburgh, New Haven, Toronto, Aarhus, Winnipeg, and Boston from 1964 to 1975.

Today, awareness of the Rastafari movement has spread throughout much of the world, largely through interest generated by reggae music, especially the major international success of Jamaican singer / songwriter Bob Marley ( 1945 – 1981 ).

Weir scored a major Australian hit and further international praise with his next film Gallipoli ( 1981 ).

The collider started running in 1981 and, in early 1983, an international team of more than 100 physicists headed by Rubbia and known as the UA1 Collaboration, detected the intermediate vector bosons, the W and Z bosons, which had become a cornerstone of modern theories of elementary particle physics long before this direct observation.

Bertolucci increased his fame with his next few films, from Novecento ( 1976 ), an epic depiction of the struggles of farmers in Emilia-Romagna from the beginning of the 20th century up to World War II with an impressive international cast ( Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Donald Sutherland, Sterling Hayden, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda ) to La Luna, set in Rome and in Emilia-Romagna, in which Bertolucci deals with the thorny issue of drugs and incest, and finally La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo ( 1981 ), with Ugo Tognazzi.

Nickelodeon originally aired a handful of episodes in edited half-hour form during 1981 as a test run, since producer Roger Price and director Geoffrey Darby had edited the entire 1981 season of You Can't Do That on Television episodes into a half-hour format similar to Whatever Turns You On for national and international syndication.

In 1981, on his 19th birthday, Gullit made his international debut as a substitute for the Netherlands national team against Switzerland, a game the Dutch lost 2 – 1.

In 1981, the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, an international athletics event, were established.

He is best known for his novel Das Boot ( 1973 ), which became an international bestseller and was adapted in 1981 as an Oscar-nominated film.

In 1981 Western Airlines began international flights from Anchorage and Denver to London Gatwick Airport with a single DC-10-30.

His winter international tour was then followed up with a prolific performance during the 1981 season, which including the 1981 Ashes series.

In 1981, she released the album Season of Glass with the striking cover photo of Lennon's bloody spectacles next to a half-filled glass of water, with a window overlooking Central Park in the background.

Bananarama's only previous experience in a recording studio at the time was as background vocalists on the Department S b-side, " Solid Gold Easy Action ," a T. Rex cover in early 1981.

After the Vandellas ' split, Reeves ' sister Lois sang with the group Quiet Elegance and also sang background for Al Green, while Tilley retired from show business in the late 1970s, suddenly dying of a brain aneurysm in 1981 at the age of thirty-nine.

A flag bearing the emblem of its Olympic Committee against a white background as the Chinese Taipei Olympic flag was confirmed in January 1981.

* Blondie & Dagwood's America ( 1981 ) Harper & Row ISBN 0-06-090908-0 ( Dean Young and Rick Marschall's collaboration, providing an historical background of the strip )

Boyd's novels include: A Good Man in Africa, a study of a disaster-prone British diplomat operating in West Africa, for which he won the Whitbread Book award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1981 ; An Ice-Cream War, set against the background of the World War I campaigns in colonial East Africa, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982 ; Brazzaville Beach, published in 1991, which follows a female scientist researching chimpanzee behaviour in Africa ; and Any Human Heart, written in the form of the journals of a fictitious twentieth century British writer, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2002.

" Portrait of a Mutant ", a flashback story in 1981, filled in the background of the series and Johnny's role in the Mutant Army ; it introduced Kreelman and the Kreelers, his quasi-official anti-mutant police.

The set used by the bulletin was designed to differentiate from the day's bulletins, for example in the 7 September 1981, the Nine O ' Clock bulletin had a wooden effect whereas bulletins used a plain blue background instead.

Gilbert's voice can be heard on several New Order tracks: the 1981 single " Procession "; the 1983 single " Confusion "; " Avalanche " from the album Republic on which she sang a single word, " faith "; and " Doubts Even Here " from their first album, Movement, on which she provided a spoken-word background vocal.

His interest for role-playing games and H. P. Lovecraft were fused when he became principal author of Chaosium's game Call of Cthulhu, published 1981, and many scenarios and background pieces thereafter.

From 1978 until 1981, Kayak was augmented by two female background singers.

Up to at least 1981, the colours appeared only as the background to the badge on the school cap.

A 1981 article based on the Dutch branch of the Divine Light Mission stated that the DLM had little philosophical background and that the all its central creeds and tenets were described in the song associated with the Hindu ritual called aarti.

* Arthur ( 1981, starring Liza Minnelli and Dudley Moore-The Cooper-Hewitt Museum played the role of Arthur's family mansion, and there is a good view of Spence in the background.

Virtually the same montage from 1981, with a few minor changes: Don Pardo returned to do the voiceover ; the opening shot changes from a woman lighting a cigarette, to a construction worker lighting his cigarette with an acetylene torch ; further, the cast photos are different from the previous year, with a chalkboard NYC skyline background.

Society is a vague, amorphous background that can be disregarded in one's efforts to fathom the laws of behavior " ( Sarason 1981 ).

This version lasted until 1981, when it was again changed, the colours changed to a green globe with dark blue background, with a double striped BBC1 legend.

Reunion featured the hit single " Standing on the Top ", produced by and featuring Motown funk star Rick James, who had previously used the Temptations as the background vocalists for his 1981 hit " Super Freak ".