It followed a year long campaign first initiated by students who had worked together to block the appointment of former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to an endowed chair at the university in 1977.

The RAWA was first initiated in Kabul in 1977 as an independent social and political organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and social justice.

After promising land reforms and elected to power in West Bengal in 1977, the Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) ( CPI ( M )) kept their word and initiated gradual land reforms, such as Operation Barga.

From 1977 until the present there have been four governors, two from each party, each emulating Castle in essentially carrying out the program initiated by Pierre S. du Pont, IV.

The " cultural dialog ", initiated in 1977 by the de facto government but organized by UNESCO, was held in her home, Villa Ocampo, in San Isidro, Buenos Aires Province ; she eventually donated the house to UNESCO.

Former consultant Tom Peters co-authored, with less-flamboyant colleague Bob Waterman, the well-known book In Search of Excellence based on a project initiated by Ron Daniel in 1977.

In February 1977, the EPRP, a communist group, initiated terrorist attacks-known as the White Terror-against Derg members and their supporters ( another communist group ).

The program was initiated in 1977 when the Surface Warfare Commanders ( DCNO Surface Warfare, COMNAVSURFLANT and COMNAVSURFPAC ) gave their conceptual approval to the development of a Surface Enlisted Qualification Program.

In November 1977, Israeli initiated an exchange of fire that led to the death of several people from both sides of the border and finally Israeli bombing of the targets in South Lebanon during which 70 people, mainly Lebanese, were killed.

In Europe, two main approaches have surfaced, one initiated by Donald Broadbent ( 1977 ; see Berry & Broadbent, 1995 ) in the United Kingdom and the other one by Dietrich Dörner ( 1975, 1985 ; see Dörner & Wearing, 1995 ) in Germany.

In North America, initiated by the work of Herbert A. Simon on " learning by doing " in semantically rich domains ( e. g. Anzai & Simon, 1979 ; Bhaskar & Simon, 1977 ), researchers began to investigate problem solving separately in different natural knowledge domains – such as physics, writing, or chess playing – thus relinquishing their attempts to extract a global theory of problem solving ( e. g. Sternberg & Frensch, 1991 ).

After a great school reform initiated by Stipe Šuvar, from 1977 until 1983, the school worked as a Centre for the education of staff in social activities.

In 1977, merger discussions with the National Hockey League were first initiated.

The Royal Commission into Drug Trafficking ( 1977 – 1979 ) or Woodward Royal Commission was a royal commission initiated by the New South Wales Government to investigate drug trafficking in New South Wales, Australia, especially links between the Mafia and New South Wales Police and the disappearance of anti-marijuana campaigner Donald Mackay.

In July 1976, Edmund Dell, the then new UK Secretary of State for Trade, renounced the original Bermuda Agreement of 1946 and initiated bilateral negotiations with his US counterparts on a new air services agreement, which resulted in the Bermuda II treaty of 1977.

Ambo is also the location of a research station of the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research ; initiated in 1977, this station hosts research in protecting major crops in Ethiopia.

As part of a general policy of military and social reform, Pretoria initiated the establishment of local defence and police agencies for its protectorate beginning in 1977.

Smith is a brother of Kappa Kappa Psi, having been initiated into the Zeta Upsilon chapter at then Troy State University in April 1977.

These women were Patricia A. Childress, Lydia L. Lennon, Leslie A. Anderson, Mary L. Duffala, Mary M. Ketterer, Kristina M. Zipsnis, Clara M. Bertilson, and Toni Ryon, who were initiated into Beta Omicron on August 26, 1977.

The first woman to participate in the formal probationary membership process and become a member of Kappa Kappa Psi was Darragh Hill Young, who was initiated into the Beta Tau chapter at Wichita State University on September 1, 1977.

A successful turn-around strategy led to the recruitment of 360 new employees and, by 1977, a trading profit of £ 750, 000.

ELO had become successful in the United States at this point and the group was a star attraction on the stadium and arena circuit, as well as regularly appearing on The Midnight Special ( 1973, 1975, 1976 & 1977 ) more than any other band in that show's history with four appearances.

In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, and in 1978 Minister President of the state, were he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995.

The party was less successful in the 1977 elections, in which it won 4, 396 votes, and in 1980 Kahane was sentenced to six months in prison for his involvement in a plan to commit an " act of provocation " on the Temple Mount.

Gaddafi contended that it was the People's Militia that met the Egyptian incursions during the border clash of 1977, although the Egyptians insisted that their successful raids had been contested by regular army units.

He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell ( 1977 – 2012 ) as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons ( 1989 – present ) and Futurama ( 1999 – 2003, 2008 – present )

These efforts proved successful ; a standard was complete by 1974, and was approved, on September 15, 1977, as ANSI standard, X11. 1-1977.

The party was even less successful in the 1977 elections, winning 4, 836 votes.

After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra ( YMO ) in 1978.

Late that year they were replaced by such successful new shows as the Crawfords Produced Cop Shop ( 1977 – 1984 ) on Channel Seven, which was a meld of soap opera and police drama, and The Restless Years ( 1977 – 1981 ) on Channel Ten, which was another teen soap produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation.

From 1975 to 1977, Skyhooks were — alongside Sherbet — the most commercially successful group in Australia, but over the next few years, Skyhooks rapidly faded from the public eye with the departure of key members, and in 1980 the band announced its break-up in controversial circumstances.

* April 25 – St. Paul, Minnesota becomes the second U. S. city to repeal its gay rights ordinance after Anita Bryant's successful 1977 anti-gay campaign in Dade County, Florida.

In 1977 the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory ( PMEL ) deployed the first successful moored equatorial current meter – the beginning of the Tropical Atmosphere / Ocean ( TAO ) array.

These were moderately successful, as the fiscal measures introduced after 1977, with reductions in income and wealth taxes and an increase in the medium-term public investment programme, was estimated to have created 160, 000 additional jobs in 1978 – 79, or 300, 000 if additional public sector employment was included in the figure ).

Their most successful self-composed hit was the country rock styled ballad " Baby I Know ", which reached number 10 in the UK and Germany in 1977.

After a series of successful test flights beginning in 1977, the Air force awarded Skunk Works the contract to build the F-117 stealth fighter on November 1, 1978.

Under the direction of Livingstone and Jackson, Games Workshop expanded from being a bedroom mail order company to a successful gaming manufacturer and retail chain, with the first Games Workshop store opening in Hammersmith in 1977.

This operation was remarkably successful, and by 1977 the Afghan government of Mohammed Daoud Khan was willing to settle all outstanding issues in exchange for a lifting of the ban on the National Awami Party and a commitment towards provincial autonomy for Pashtuns, which was already guaranteed by Pakistan's Constitution, but stripped by the Bhutto government when the One Unit scheme was introduced.

* 1977, Chess 4. 6 becomes the first chess computer to be successful at a major chess tournament.

From 1974 to 1977, the Centaur-D-1T was used as the third stage on seven Titan IIIE launches, six of which were successful.

A successful economist and financier he served as Minister of Finance from 11 May 1973 until 19 December 1977, he later served as President of the Central Bank of the Netherlands.

The directors ' power lessened considerably as seen in the less successful films as Friedkin's Sorcerer ( 1977 ), and Cruising ( 1980 ), and culminating in Coppola's One from the Heart and Cimino's Heaven's Gate, among other money-losers.

Using Atlas-Centaur launch vehicles, highly successful missions were started in August 1977 ( HEAO 1 ), November 1978 ( HEAO 2, also called the Einstein Observatory ), and September 1979 ( HEAO 3 ).

He had formed a successful comedy act called the Minitones with entertainer Jack Purvis when George Lucas hired him to be the man inside R2-D2 in Star Wars in 1977.