In 1979, Parton hosted the NBC special The Seventies: An Explosion of Country Music, performed live at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D. C., and whose audience included President Jimmy Carter.

* 1979 – Lonnie Ford, American football player

The most famous adaptation is Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 motion picture Apocalypse Now, which moves the story from the Congo to Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

Sales of the Commodore also fell, with the effects of the 1979 energy crisis lessening, and for the first time the Commodore lost ground to the Ford Falcon.

* John Ford Noonan ( born 1943 ), American actor and writer for theater, film and television ; authored over 30 plays during 1970s, 1980s and 1990s ( A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, 1979 )

From 1979 to 2010, Mazda had a partnership with the Ford Motor Company, who acquired a 7 % stake in 1979 and by 1996, owned 33. 3 % of Mazda.

Starting in 1979 with a 7-percent financial stake, Ford began a partnership with Mazda resulting in various joint projects.

* After its initial release, Paramount bought the worldwide distribution rights to Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now ( on behalf of Coppola's company American Zoetrope ).

* Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) — winner of two Academy Awards, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Their daughter Clementine Ford was born in 1979 but the marriage ended in divorce in 1982.

After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation ( 1974 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ); in the latter film he played a smarmy officer named " G.

Ford has been in numerous other films, including Heroes ( 1977 ), Force 10 from Navarone ( 1978 ), and Hanover Street ( 1979 ).

Ford also co-starred alongside Gene Wilder in the buddy-Western The Frisco Kid ( 1979 ), playing a bank robber with a heart of gold.

Between 1979 and 1982, Ford had incurred $ 3 billion in losses.

McGeorge " Mac " Bundy ( March 30, 1919 – September 16, 1996 ) was United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961 through 1966, and president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979.

He left government in 1966 to take over as president of the Ford Foundation, a position he held until 1979.

* McGeorge Bundy headed the Ford Foundation from 1966 – 1979

The 1979 Mustang was based on the longer Fox platform ( initially developed for the 1978 Ford Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr ).

The facility was completed in 1979, and currently houses three pieces of fire apparatus: a 1996 Seagrave rescue / pumper, a 2005 Seagrave pumper, and a 2005 Ford 550 / Semo rescue truck.

Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy

Aguirre ’ s visual style and narrative elements had a strong influence on Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

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By 1979, Vauxhall had increased its market share substantially ; it was still some way behind Ford and British Leyland, but had overtaken Talbot ( the successor organisation to Rootes and Chrysler UK ).

Scriptor-Verlag, Kronberg im Taunus 1979 ( Reprint of the Hamburg edition from 1795 )

Ford Taunus TC2 ( 1976 – 1979 )

Ford Taunus TC3 ( 1979 – 1982 )

The major components of the European Taunus " TC2 "/" TC3 " and Cortina Mk 4 ( of the 1979-82 series often referred to as Mk 5 although that has never been the official term ) remained basically the same through the entire production run only receiving minor body changes with the biggest re-engineering in the 1979 model year, which involved a facelift ( identical to the Ford Cortina Mk 5 update ).

Asteroids is a video arcade game released in November 1979 by Atari Inc.

Asteroids Hyper 64 is an update to the 1979 arcade shooter Asteroids released for the Nintendo 64 on December 14, 1999.

# 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 ".

Caligula 1979 Agrippina is played by Lori Wagner

* 1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.

There is very little information available regarding Iran's use of its 79 F-14A Tomcats ( delivered prior to 1979 ) in most western outlets ; the exception being a book released by Osprey Publishing titled " Iranian F-14 Tomcats in Combat " by Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop.

The criteria for being charged with " caught stealing " were fine tuned in 1979, with a runner being charged with being caught if he is put out while trying to steal, oversliding a base ( otherwise successfully stolen ), or is picked off a base, and tries to advance to the next base.

Another teaching method is a bilingual approach by Div Yezh (" Two Languages ") in the State schools, created in 1979, and Dihun (" Awakening ") in the Catholic schools, created in 1990.

It is a compromise of material drawn from the proposed 1928 book, the 1979 ECUSA book, and the Roman Missal.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.

Population censuses have been taken in Estonia in 1881, 1897, 1922, 1934, 1959, 1970, 1979, 1989 and 2000, and is being taken in January 2012.

1979 — Sir Albert Henry is found guilty of electoral fraud and stripped of his premiership and his knighthood.

It is usually at the retreat where, isolated from their advisers, the heads resolve the most intransigent issues: leading to the Gleneagles Agreement in 1977, the Lusaka Declaration in 1979, the Langkawi Declaration in 1989, the Millbrook Programme in 1995, and the Aso Rock Declaration in 2003.

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

The contras ( some references use the capitalized form, " Contras ") is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua that were active from 1979 through to the early 1990s.

* 1979 – Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

* 1979 – The first European Ariane rocket is launched.

* 1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.

The last version of the Auto Union Combi / Pick-up ( DKW F1000 L ) launched in 1969, survives a few months and is bought out by IME which continued production until 1979.

He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979.

Just a Gigolo ( 1979 ), an Anglo-German co-production directed by David Hemmings, saw Bowie in the lead role as Prussian officer Paul von Przygodski, who, returning from World War I, is discovered by a Baroness ( Marlene Dietrich ) and put into her Gigolo Stable.