He was subsequently appointed to the Central Committee's Secretariat for Agriculture in 1978, replacing Fyodor Kulakov, who had supported Gorbachev's appointment, after Kulakov died of a heart attack.

After nine political parties blindly supported Kekkonen's candidacy in the 1978 Presidential election, including the Social Democratic, Centre and National Coalition parties, no serious rivals remained.

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan can also be considered a Soviet satellite ; from 1978 until 1992 the central government in Kabul was aligned with the Communist bloc, and was directly supported by Soviet military power between 1979 and 1989.

In 1978, after the United Nations protested against Pinochet's régime, the country's military government held a national consultation, which asked if people supported Pinochet's rule.

The same happened in 1978, when he supported a " national solidarity " government with the backing of the Italian Communist Party.

Hu tacitly supported the 1978 Democracy Wall protesters, and invited two of the activists to his home in Beijing.

In 1978 the two performed a stage version of the show at the London Palladium ; lasting for three months, it followed the same format as the show, with old sketches and some new material, supported by variety acts.

Benn was overwhelmingly popular with Labour activists: a survey of delegates at the Labour Party Conference in 1978 found that by large margins they supported Benn for the leadership and many Bennite policies.

The Congress supported the candidates backed by Bhindranwale in the 1978 SGPC elections.

They had similarities to The Human League, whom they supported in 1978.

Henry V's will, rediscovered at Eton College in 1978, actually supported Humphrey's claims.

However, even though the party supported Kekkonen for president in 1978 and became the second biggest party in the country in the 1979 parliamentary election, a place in the government continued to elude it until the end of Kekkonen's time in office.

Prior to 1978 the Prime Minister held the portfolio of Minister of Defence and External Affairs, and was supported by a Parliamentary Secretary for Defence and External Affairs.

In the referendum of 1978, PSOE supported the Spanish Constitution, which was approved.

Blue Öyster Cult also used laser shows on tours that supported their album Spectres, which shows a staged portrait of the band members seated among the laser beams, and Electric Light Orchestra made use of lasers during their 1978 Out of the Blue Tour which also featured the famous " Flying Saucer ".

At the time of the presidential and legislative elections 1978 UDV-RDA had one list for legislative but the different factions supported different presidential candidates.

She supported ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, presenting the amendment to the delegates of the National Women's Conference, held in Houston ( 1978 ).

In 1976, Baltimore City residents supported the aquarium by voting for it on a bond referendum, and the groundbreaking for the facility took place on Pier 3 in the city ’ s Inner Harbor on August 8, 1978.

In the 1970s, Sino-Soviet ideological rivalry extended to Africa and the Middle East, where the Soviet Union and Red China funded and supported opposed political parties, militias, and states, notably the Ogaden War ( 1977 – 1978 ) between Ethiopia and Somalia, the Rhodesian Bush War ( 1964 – 1979 ), the Zimbabwean Gukurahundi ( 1980 – 1987 ), the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ), the Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 ), and factions of the Palestinian people.

The Institute was renamed the Bunting Institute in 1978 in honor of Dr. Bunting and also supported women wishing to pursue advanced degrees on a part-time basis.

They made their first tour there in 1978, where they spotted rising Australian band The Sports, who subsequently supported Parker and the Rumour on their early 1979 UK tour.

From 1975 to 1978, Brown supported the Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, while it was being investigated for alleged criminal wrongdoing.

Ye supported Hua Guofeng, so he was confirmed as vice-chairman at the Eleventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1977 as well as appointed Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in 1978, i. e. head of State, filling a post left unoccupied for two years since Zhu De's death.

However, in 1978, 75 seats in the House of Representatives had changed hands, producing a much more conservative body than the one that had supported Carter's use of the Antiquities Act.

Harsha was neutral in the eight-man primary that McEwen won but supported McEwen in the general election where he defeated psychologist and minister Ted Strickland, Harsha's opponent in 1976 and 1978, who went on to become Governor of Ohio.

In the U. S., public library users have borrowed on average roughly 15 books per user per year from 1856 to 1978.

From 1978 to 2004, book circulation per user declined approximately 50 %.

Many people were involved in the production, most notably: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Architecture Machine Group, who found support for the project from the Cybernetics Technology Office of DARPA ; Andrew Lippman, principal investigator ; Bob Mohl, who designed the map overlay system and ran user studies of the efficacy of the system for his PhD thesis ; Richard Leacock ( Ricky ), who headed the MIT Film / Video section and shot along with MS student Marek Zalewski the Cinéma vérité interviews placed behind the facades of key buildings ; John Borden, of Peace River Films in Cambridge, MA, who designed the stabilization rig ; Kristina Hooper of UCSC ; Rebecca Allen ; Scott Fisher, who matched the photos of Aspen in the silver-mining days from the historical society to the same scenes in Aspen in 1978 and who experiment with anamorphic imaging of the city ( using a Volpe lens ); Walter Bender, who designed and built the interface, the client / server model, and the animation system ; Steve Gregory ; Stan Sasaki, who built much of the electronics ; Steve Yelick, who worked on the laserdisc interface and anamorphic rendering ; Eric " Smokehouse " Brown, who built the metadata encoder / decoder ; Paul Heckbert worked on the animation system ; Mark Shirley and Paul Trevithick, who also worked on the animation ; Ken Carson ; Howard Eglowstein ; and Michael Naimark, who was at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and was responsible for the cinematography design and production.

In 1978, Billings Computer Corporation hired BYU professor Alan Ashton to help develop the Billings Word Processor which was an award winning program offered for the Billings MicroSystem which provided a user friendly and intuitive interface.

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 ".

An autonomous community (, ) is the first-level political division of the Kingdom of Spain, established in accordance with the current Spanish Constitution of 1978.

The peaceful resolution of this territorial dispute was praised by the international community, as it fulfilled the provisions of the UNSCR 432 ( 1978 ), which declared Walvis Bay to be an integral part of Namibia.

The city of Madrid ( Spanish: ) was designated as the capital of the community as well as has been explicitly designated as the capital of the country by the 1978 Constitution.

An alternative program which provided 1, 400 hours of training at the community college level prior to commencing employment was then tried, and made mandatory in 1977, with formal certification examinations being introduced in 1978.

In 1978, he moved to California and took a job as assistant to the Dodgers ' director of community relations, Campanella's former teammate and longtime friend Don Newcombe.

The Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach, of Quebec, is the only Quebec First Nations community that has signed a comprehensive land claims settlement, the Northeastern Quebec Agreement ; they did so in 1978.

Between 1978 and 1980, technical and socio-economic studies of the potential sites for the permanent Naskapi community were carried out.

By 1971, the road was completed between the Garden State Parkway and I-80, at which time it received the Route 20 designation ; the rest was cancelled in 1978 due to feared community disruption.

The community center, town hall, and park facility was built in 1978.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Center, a community health center, was opened in 1968, and moved into a new building in 1978.

A community center — built by the town's residents with no outside help or outside funding — was completed in 1978.

In 1978, members of Fremantle's Portuguese Australian community founded Benfica United, now known as the Fremantle Spirit.

" Each autonomous community is governed by a Statute of Autonomy ( Estatuto de Autonomía ) under the Spanish Constitution of 1978.

He worked on a kibbutz – an Israeli collective community – in the Negev desert in Israel in 1978, and then returned to England to study drama at the University of Birmingham before meeting the fledgling band Duran Duran in 1980.

It became widely known in Russia, and the West outside the narrow confines of the intelligence community, during perestroika, in part thanks to the writings of " Viktor Suvorov " ( Vladimir Rezun ), a GRU agent who defected to Britain in 1978, and wrote about his experiences in the Soviet military and intelligence services.

Demand for the seminars spread to community leaders and pastors they were opened to the public in 1978.

Because Navarre, during the events surrounding Spain's 1978 Constitution, ended up with the status of Autonomous Community and was not lumped in with the Basque autonomous community and its police force ( Policía Foral ) remains independent of the Ertzaintza.

In 1978 Robinson left acting professionally for five years, and concentrated on raising his family in the small mountain community of Idyllwild, California, located about from Los Angeles.

During this period, in 1978, he lived for six months at The Farm, Stephen Gaskin's intentional community in Tennessee.

In 1978, Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff's The Network Nation explicitly built on Wellman's community analysis, taking the book's title from Craven and Wellman's " The Network City ".

The McGibbon Hotel was sold to Isaac Sitzer Investments and in 1967 to Gladbar Hotels Ltd. George and Nick Markou purchased the hotel in 1978 and have run business to the present day under the McGibbon name, returning its connection to the downtown Georgetown business community since 1895.

In 1978, these three provinces of the region of León were included along with six provinces of the historic region of Old Castile to create the autonomous community of Castile and León.

In 1978, the community received satellite communications with the mainland.

The Secular Franciscan Order, known as the Third Order Secular of St. Francis prior to 1978, is an order founded by St. Francis in 1212 for brothers and sisters who do not live in a religious community.