* Hunter, Robert and McTaggart, David, Greenpeace III: Journey into the Bomb ( London: William Collins Sons & Co., 1978 ).

* Rainbow Warrior ( 1955 ), former fishing trawler Sir William Hardy, acquired by Greenpeace in 1978.

In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand.

Relative peace and stability prevailed until 1977 and 1978 when Katangan rebels, based in Angola, launched a series of invasions ( Shaba I and II ) into the Shaba ( Katanga ) region.

Between 1978 and 1986 the Derg launched eight unsuccessful major offensives against the independence movement.

In 1978 an experimental broadcast satellite with two color television channels was launched.

1978: EPI was launched

* 1978 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.

In 1978 IPC launched Starlord, a short-lived companion title for 2000 AD.

* Pioneer Venus Orbiter ( Pioneer Venus 1, Pioneer 12 ) – launched December 1978

* Pioneer Venus Multiprobe ( Pioneer Venus 2, Pioneer 13 ) – launched August 1978

In 1978, the Council of Churches launched a protest which scotched the idea.

A new Spanish edition, Investigación y Ciencia was launched in Spain in 1976, followed by a French edition, Pour la Science, in France in 1977, and a German edition, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, in Germany in 1978.

In 1978 he had a significant impact upon IBM's thinking when he outlined his vision of the potential of personal computing to the team that three years later launched the IBM PC.

Following Vietnam's December 1978 invasion of Cambodia, China launched a retaliatory invasion of Vietnam's northern border region.

* Starlord was a weekly title ( originally intended to be monthly ) launched in 1978 following much the same format as 2000 AD and included Strontium Dog and Ro-Busters which introduced characters that would later reappear in ABC Warriors.

The United Nations launched Development Business in 1978 with the support of the World Bank, and other major development banks from around the world.

In June 1978 Science of Cambridge launched a microcomputer kit, the MK14, based on the National SC / MP chip.

Color television broadcasting, however, was not widely available until after 1978, when the government launched Argentina Televisora Color ( ATC ), now Channel 7 ( Argentina's principal public television station ).

Pioneer Venus 1 or Pioneer Venus Orbiter was launched in 1978, and studied the planet for more than a decade after orbital insertion in 1978.

* GOES 3, launched on June 16, 1978, used as a communications relay for the South Pole research station.

The system was publicly launched as Telidon on August 15, 1978.

He launched unsuccessful congressional campaigns in the 1976 general election against the Democrat George H. Mahon and in the 1978 Republican primary against George W. Bush.

Giacconi's pioneering research continued in 1978 with the Einstein Observatory, the first fully imaging X-ray telescope put into space, and later with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched in 1999 and is still in operation.

In August 1978 the Canadian Department of Communications publicly launched it as Telidon, a " second generation " videotex / teletext service, and committed to a four year development plan to encourage rollout.

The original design concepts of the DVG came out of Atari's off-campus research lab in Grass Valley, California, in 1978.

Atari decided to re-enter the games market with a design that closely matched their original 1978 specifications.

Zarah Leander played Madame Armfeldt in the original Austrian staging ( in 1975 ) as well as in the original Swedish staging in Stockholm in 1978 ( here with Jan Malmsjö as Fredrik Egerman ), performing Send In The Clowns and Liaisons in both stagings.

More than half of the footage filmed for Superman II by the originally credited director ( Richard Lester ) has been removed from the film and replaced with Donner footage shot during the original principal photography from 1977 – 1978.

The original Gamma World boxed set ( containing a 56-page rulebook, a map of a devastated North America, and dice ) was released in 1978.

Among the DVDs offered was the 1978 10th anniversary special that hadn't been seen since its original airing.

After he became pope in 1978, John Paul II continued on the Catholic Theology of the Body of his predecessors with a series of lectures, entitled Theology of the Body, in which he talked about an original unity between man and women, purity of heart ( on the Sermon on the Mount ), marriage and celibacy and reflections on Humane Vitae, focusing largely on responsible parenthood and marital chastity.

Following the same tradition, modern 64-bit x86 processors are able to run most programs written for older chips, all the way back to the original 16-bit 8086 of 1978.

It represents a fourth generation of binary compatible CPUs since the original 8086 of 1978.

AvtoVAZ designers proved that they had some original ideas when the VAZ-2121 Niva was introduced in 1978.

Although the brand originates from the original 1947 model, Land Rover as a company has only existed since 1978, prior to this it was a product line of the Rover Company which was subsequently absorbed into the Rover-Triumph division of the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BL ) following Leyland Motor Corporation ’ s takeover of Rover in 1967.

The 1978 film version of Grease was a smash hit ; its songs were original compositions done in a 1950s pop style.

* The 1978 film adaptation of Death on the Nile is now owned by StudioCanal ( the successor company to original producer EMI Films )-- StudioCanal has licensed DVD rights to Lionsgate, after some years of being distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment.

In the original Omaha poker game, players were only dealt two hole cards and had to use both to make a hand combined with community cards .< ref name =" Super System "> Doyle Brunson, < cite > Super System: A course in Power Poker </ cite >, Cardoza Publishing ( 1978 ), ISBN 1-58042-081-8 This version of Omaha is defined in the glossary of Super / System ( under Omaha ) as being interchangeable with " Tight Holdem ".

This photo, taken from inside the " Nipper Tower ", shows the 2003 replacement of the 1978 replacement of the 1915 original glass.

The original structure was invented in 1972 by Rudolf Bayer and named " symmetric binary B-tree ," but acquired its modern name in a paper in 1978 by Leonidas J. Guibas and Robert Sedgewick.

Slasher films of the 1970s and 80s such as John Carpenter's Halloween ( 1978 ), Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th ( 1980 ), and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) " owe much to the original Night of the Living Dead ", according to author Barry Keith Grant.

In 1978, Waits also appeared in his first film role, in Paradise Alley as Mumbles the pianist, and contributed the original compositions "( Meet Me in ) Paradise Alley " and " Annie's Back in Town " to the film's soundtrack.

In 1978, Congress extended the previously-agreed-upon seven-year limit on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by more than three years from a March 22, 1979, original deadline to a June 30, 1982, revised deadline.

* April – The last section ( wise – wyze ) of the original Oxford English Dictionary is completed and ready for publication ( OED ( 1933, 1978 vol.

The original version was also featured in the 1978 film Superman, heard playing on a car radio just prior to Glenn Ford's final scene in the film ; Ford, as noted earlier, had starred in Blackboard Jungle.

In 1978, Topeka attorneys Richard Jones, Joseph Johnson and Charles Scott Jr. ( son of the original Brown team member ), with assistance from the American Civil Liberties Union, persuaded Linda Brown Smith — who now had her own children in Topeka schools — to be a plaintiff in reopening Brown.

Lois Roden, whom the original Branch Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist Church acknowledged as their teacher / prophet from 1978 to 1986, laid heavy emphasis on women's spirituality and the feminine aspect of God.