* Bornat, Richard, Understanding and Writing Compilers: A Do It Yourself Guide, Macmillan Publishing, 1979.

Sakamoto was the songwriter and composer for a number of the band's hit songs, including " Yellow Magic ( Tong Poo )" ( 1978 ), " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), " Nice Age " ( 1980 ), " Ongaku " ( 1983 ), and " You've Got to Help Yourself " ( 1983 ), while playing the keyboards for many of their other songs, including international hits such as " Computer Game / Firecracker " ( 1978 ) and " Rydeen " ( 1979 ), and singing in several songs such as " Kimi ni Mune Kyun " ( 1983 ).

* 1979 " Darlin ' Take Care of Yourself "-Tammy Wynette

Both the F-14 Tomcat and AIM-54 Phoenix missile continue in the service of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, although the operational abilities of these aircraft and the missiles are questionable, since the US refused to supply spare parts and maintenance after the 1979 revolution ; except for a brief period during the Iran-Contra Affair.

He appeared as an opening act for The Clash in their 1979 US tour ; in Legends of Guitar ( filmed live in Spain, 1991 ) with B. B.

Progressive rock group Pink Floyd, when creating their rock opera The Wall, used disco-style components in their song, " Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 " ( 1979 )— which became the group's only # 1 hit single ( in both the US and UK ).

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

* 1979: I Have a Right ( Polydor )-US Pop # 58, US R & B # 56

* Herman Brood & His Wild Romance ( 1979, Shpritsz re-release for US market, contains an edited version of Saturday Night )

His open endorsement of terrorism led to the Reagan administration declaring Libya a " state sponsor of terrorism " on 29 December 1979, and eventually culminated in the 1986 US Bombing of Libya.

US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, known for his hardline policies on the Soviet Union, initiated in 1979 a campaign supporting mujaheddin in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which was run by Pakistani security services with financial support from the Central Intelligence Agency and Britain's MI6.

The console was test marketed in Fresno, California, in 1979 with a total of four games available, and was released nationwide in 1980 with a price tag of US $ 299 and a pack-in game: Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack.

The US Guano Islands Act claim was formally ceded by the Treaty of Tarawa between the U. S. and Kiribati, signed in 1979 and ratified in 1983.

In 1979, Fayed bought The Ritz hotel in Paris, France for US $ 30 million.

* 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

* 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: in response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.

* 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.

* 1979 – Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians, mostly students, invades the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages ( 53 of whom are American ).

* 1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.

Panama City was enriched by the past century of American influences in terms of additions to the country's Latin culture, economics ( the US was involved in development of roads, schools and medical care ), and international trade by the nearby Panama Canal, once was under US jurisdiction: the Canal Zone territory from 1903 to 1979.

* 1979 – The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U. S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.

In 1979 Edward Teller contributed to a Hoover Institution publication where he claimed that the US would be facing an emboldened USSR due to their work on civil defense.

The original Walkman was marketed in 1979 as the Walkman in Japan and, from 1980, the Soundabout in many other countries including the US, Freestyle in Sweden and the Stowaway in the UK.

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# The Primates ' Meeting ( first met in 1979 ) is the most recent manifestation of international consultation and deliberation, having been first convened by Archbishop Donald Coggan as a forum for " leisurely thought, prayer and deep consultation ".

The first issue was published by GDW in 1979 and the last of the first run was # 24 in 1985.

# Chang Pao-shu ( 張寶樹 ) ( 1968 – 1979 )

# Chiang Yen-si ( 蔣彥士 ) ( 1979 – 1985 )

# Nowak, R. M. ( 1979 ).

The complexity class # P was first defined by Leslie Valiant in a 1979 paper on the computation of the permanent, in which he proved that permanent is # P-complete.

The perfect matching counting problem was the first counting problem corresponding to an easy P problem shown to be # P-complete, in a 1979 paper by Leslie Valiant which also defined the classes # P and # P-complete for the first time.

# The Kingdom of Ansteorra was created in 1979 from the Kingdom of Atenveldt.

I did some research ( I had no idea ), and I eventually found ... the strip " Back to Pinhead, the Punks and the Monks " from Yow # 2 in 1979 ... That's the first time he said, " Are we having fun yet?

# Janez Strnad, Stogodišnjica Stefanovega zakona ( Hundred years of Stefan's law ), ( Dijalektika, Belgrade 1979 3-4 ).

# Clark I, 1979, Practical Geostatistics, Applied Science Publishers, London

# Explorers of Gor ( 1979 ) ISBN 0-7592-1167-1

# May 10, 1979: Public Law 96-10, attached to H. R.

# John William Ward, 1971 — 1979

# Julian Gibbs, 1979 — 1983

CBS and Hallden later retitled the series as The Dennis the Menace Big Bonus Series, which it ran through issue # 194 in October 1979.

# The United States did not explicitly state the sovereign status of Taiwan in the three US-PRC Joint Communiques of 1972, 1979, and 1982.

# Dolores Costello ( 1903 – 1979 ), actress and model best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) and The Magnificent Ambersons ( 1941 ); they married on November 24, 1928 and divorced in 1935.

Ashford was ranked # 1 in the world by Track & Field News over 100 metres in 1979 and 1981, and over 200 metres in 1981.