In May 1979, while at the album release party for her second album, My Father's Eyes, Grant met Gary Chapman, writer of the title track ( and future husband ).

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

The decree lifting the ban on party politics went into effect on 1 January 1979, as planned.

It was the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan.

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

Following Labour's 1979 general election defeat by Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan remained party leader for the next 18 months before he resigned and Foot was elected Labour leader on 4 November 1980, beating Denis Healey in the second round of the leadership election ( the last leadership contest to involve only Labour MPs ).

Jimmy Carter to that year's Democratic National Convention. On October 23, 1979, the first primary of a party affiliated to the Democratic National Committee was held in Puerto Rico.

After two years in power, Yhombi-Opango was accused of corruption and deviation from party directives, and removed from office on February 5, 1979, by the Central Committee of the PCT, which then simultaneously designated Vice President and Defense Minister Col. Denis Sassou-Nguesso as interim President.

On 22 November 1979 Jenkins delivered the annual Dimbleby Lecture which he called " Home Thoughts from Abroad ", detailing what he saw as the reasons for Britain's persistent underperformance as a failure of adaptability and problems associated with the two party system.

With the development of a more conservative Black middle class, however, the party began to steadily lose support, until it collapsed after a rout in the 1979 elections.

There were further ideological and internal struggles after 1979 with the 79 Group attempting to move the SNP further to the left, away from being what could be described a ' social-democratic ' party, to an expressly ' socialist ' party.

Shortly afterwards, he convened an assembly of Ba ' ath party leaders on 22 July 1979.

By 1 August 1979, hundreds of high-ranking Ba ' ath party members had been executed.

Notable residents of Whitehorse include Audrey McLaughlin, the first woman to lead a represented political party ( NDP ) in Canadian federal politics, who has resided in Whitehorse since 1979, Robert W. Service, author of " The Cremation of Sam McGee ", who lived in Whitehorse from 1904 to 1908, and Pierre Berton, an author and television host, born in Whitehorse.

* Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative party rise to power in the United Kingdom in 1979, initiating a neoliberal economic policy of reducing government spending, weakening the power of trade unions, and promoting economic and trade liberalization.

He continued as a central figure on the left of the party and, at the 1981 Conservative Party conference, openly criticised the government's economic policies – namely monetarism, which had seen inflation cut from 27 % in 1979 to 4 % by 1983, but had seen unemployment double from around 1, 500, 000 to a postwar high of more than 3, 000, 000 during that time.

Electoral defeats in 1976 and 1979 marked the end of Social Democratic hegemony in Swedish politics, which had seen 40 years of unbroken rule by the party.

Although the WPA did not become an official political party until 1979, it evolved as an alternative to Burnham's PNC and Jagan's PPP.

For example, in the lead-up to the 1979 election when Clark's riding was merged into the riding of another Tory MP during a redistribution of ridings, the other MP refused to step aside ( even though Clark was now party leader ), forcing Clark to run in nearby Yellowhead.

Trudeau commented in his memoirs, published in 1993, that Clark was much more tough and aggressive than past Tory leader Robert Stanfield, noting that those qualities served Clark well in his party winning the 1979 election victory.

Integrating François Mitterrand's circle, he became the second highest-ranking member of the party in 1979, then its First Secretary when Mitterrand was elected President of France in 1981.

It merged with The Beezer on 24 February 1979.

Also in 1979, the European offices of Arthur Young merged with several large local European firms, which became member firms of Arthur Young International.

As one of the most stable WHA teams, the Whalers, along with the Edmonton Oilers, Quebec Nordiques, and Winnipeg Jets, were admitted to the NHL when the rival leagues merged in 1979.

In 1979, it merged with the neighboring town of Pickleville.

" Jackson's work focused on smooth balladry or disco-influenced dance music ; as an artist, he " pulled dance music out of the disco doldrums with his 1979 solo debut, Off the Wall, merged R & B with rock on Thriller, and introduced stylized steps such as the robot and moonwalk over the course of his career.

* Plug ( comics ), a short-lived British comic that ran from 1977 until 1979, when it merged with The Beezer, which featured a character from The Bash Street Kids called Plug as its main star

The UDC sued, as it had funded one third of the cost in 1935 when the building was constructed by Peabody College, which merged with Vanderbilt in 1979.

Comics that merged into The Beezer during its 37 year run were Cracker in 1976, and Plug in 1979.

( In 1979, Schweitzer licensed Brittany, France-based company Dufour Wing, which was later merged with Tabur Marine-the precursor of Bic Sport.

In 1979, the Francophone liberals of the capital merged into the PRLW, which took the new name of Liberal Reformist Party ( PRL ).

DRI was bought by McGraw-Hill in 1979, and merged with WEFA ( formerly Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates ) in 2001 to form Global Insight.

Wilson again established the Ministry in 1974, but later merged it into the Foreign Office once again: from 10 June 1975 to 8 October 1979 the Foreign Secretary served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Minister for Overseas Development in the cabinet, while the Minister for Overseas Development held the rank of Minister of State within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

North Central merged with Southern Airways to form Republic Airlines in 1979 ; Republic then merged with Northwest in 1986.

Southern Airways became an important regional carrier at Memphis in the 1960s ; it merged into Republic Airlines in 1979.

As the New England Whalers were one of the most stable WHA teams, it was one of the four franchises admitted to the National Hockey League when the rival leagues merged in 1979.

She is a graduate of the Coventry College of Education ( merged with the University of Warwick in 1979 to become the Warwick Institute of Education ), where she gained a BEd in 1974.

Southern Airways was a regional airline operating in the United States from its founding by Frank Hulse in 1949 until 1979 when it merged with North Central Airlines to become Republic Airlines, which on October 1, 1986, became part of Northwest Airlines, which in 2008 became a part of Delta Air Lines.

On July 1, 1979, Southern merged with North Central Airlines to form Republic Airlines and the " Route of the Aristocrats " came to an end.

Bringing about the largest addition to the UFCW since its creation in 1979, on October 1, 1993, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, and their 100, 000 members, merged with the UFCW, becoming the RWDSU District Council of the UFCW.

In 1979 it merged with the Services Electronic Research Laboratory ( SERL ) formerly at Baldock and the Signals Research and Development Establishment ( SRDE ) formerly at Christchurch.

Hoogkarspel was a separate municipality until 1979, when it was merged into the new municipality of Bangert, which has been renamed to Drechterland in 1980.

In 1979, Ilford and Leytonstone merged to become Leytonstone / Ilford, and in 1988 they absorbed the struggling Walthamstow Avenue to become Redbridge Forest ( although the name change was made only in the summer of 1989 ).

The two entities merged in 1979, with four of the six remaining teams — the Edmonton Oilers, Hartford Whalers, Quebec Nordiques and the Winnipeg Jets — joining the NHL.