* 1978 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is signed.

France and Comoros signed a mutual security treaty in 1978 ; following the mercenary coup against Abdallah in 1989, French troops restored order and took responsibility for reorganizing and training the Comorian army.

In December 1978 the PDPA leadership signed an agreement with the Soviet Union which would allow military support for the PDPA in Afghanistan if needed.

* 1978 – Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethiopian-Somali War.

Hunt was dropped at the end of 1978 in favour of Lotus's Ronnie Peterson, but when Peterson was killed by a crash at the Italian Grand Prix, John Watson was signed instead.

Palau, the westernmost cluster of the Caroline Islands, instead opted for independent status in 1978, approved a new constitution and became the Republic of Palau in 1981, and signed a Compact of Free Association with the United States in 1982.

President Jimmy Carter subsequently signed the " Alternative Futures and Self Determination Executive Order " on July 25, 1978 guaranteeing the right of self determination to the People of Puerto Rico.

' Staatsolie ', the state-owned oil company, is actively seeking international joint venture partners owned by the Sabajo family since 1978 the company CEO L. G. Sabajo will exchange places with the current C. E. O Marchela Grace once it has been signed over in 2014.

* 1978 – The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.

Plunkett was signed by Oakland to be their backup quarterback, and thus he did not see much playing time, throwing no passes in 1978 and just 15 passes in 1979.

On 2 October 1978, Bradley and Sharkey agreed to an increased advance fee of £ 10, 000 offered by Stein upon the recording contract and signed to Sire Records on a five-year contract.

After moving to London, Vangelis signed with RCA Records, set up his own studio, Nemo Studios, and began recording a string of electronic albums, such as Heaven and Hell ( 1975 ), Albedo 0. 39 ( 1976 ), Spiral ( 1977 ), Beaubourg ( 1978 ), and China ( 1979 ).

In 1978, Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel at Camp David in the United States, ending outstanding disputes between the two countries.

* On 17 September 1978 the Camp David Accords are signed between Israel and Egypt.

The agreement was an important step towards the Camp David Accords of 1978 and the peace treaty with Egypt signed in 1979.

After recording an album's worth of punk-influenced demo tapes ( released in 1984 asThe Plan ), he was signed by Beggars Banquet Records in 1978 and quickly released two singles, " That's Too Bad " and " Bombers ", neither of which charted.

* Environmental Modification Convention, signed 1977, entered into force 1978

* 1978, Franklin Library ISBN 0-8124-1717-8, signed limited edition Leather Bound

It was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 27, 1978, and codified as 15 USC § 3101.

He produced a series of ironic political posters signed “ The Last International ”, first in Ann Arbor, Michigan, then in San Francisco where he moved in 1978.

More recent failed amendments included attempts in 1978 to permit triple backpay awards and union collective bargaining certification based on signed union authorization cards, a provision that is similar to one of the proposed amendments in the Employee Free Choice Act.

Tuvalu became fully independent in 1978 and in 1979 signed a treaty of friendship with the United States, which recognized Tuvalu's possession of four small islands formerly claimed by the United States.

The demo found its way to Polydor Records scout Chris Parry, who signed The Cure to his newly formed Fiction label — distributed by Polydor — in September 1978.

In 1978, he signed professionally for HFC Haarlem under coach and former West Bromwich Albion F. C.

Peter Ustinov played Poirot a total of six times, starting with Death on the Nile ( 1978 ).

* G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright 1978, 2000 ( with general index ) An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers: 5th Edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford UK, ISBN 0-19-853171-0

It mostly uses seaports in eastern Argentina and Uruguay for international trade because its diplomatic relations with Chile have been suspended since 1978.

In 1978, Blank co-founded Home Depot with Bernie Marcus.

In October 1978, Yale presented a " chamber version " adapted and directed by Keith Hack, with John Glover as Jimmy and June Gable as Begbick.

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.

Lerner's autobiography The Street Where I Live ( 1978 ), was an account of three of his and Loewe's successful collaborations, My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot along with personal information.

* Marschall, Rick, Cartoonist PROfiles # 37 ( March 1978 ) interview with Al Capp

Clinton, as the newly elected Governor of Arkansas, meeting with President Jimmy Carter in 1978

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

* The C Programming Language (' K & R ') ( 1978, 1988 with Dennis M. Ritchie )

* The Elements of Programming Style ( 1974, 1978 with PJ Plauger )

His two Stanford teams went 9 – 3 in 1977 with a win in the Sun Bowl, and 8 – 4 in 1978 with a win in the Bluebonnet Bowl ; his notable players at Stanford included quarterbacks Guy Benjamin and Steve Dils, wide receivers James Lofton and Ken Margerum, and running back Darrin Nelson.

The station has previously carried the team from their arrival in Baltimore in 1954 through 1978 ; in the first four seasons, WJZ-TV shared coverage with WMAR-TV and WBAL-TV.

To cite one example, in 1978 Genentech developed synthetic humanized insulin by joining its gene with a plasmid vector inserted into the bacterium Escherichia coli.

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).

It was rekindled once, in 1978, for the Hawklords spin-off, but otherwise continued only with design commissions for projects involving the band's saxophonist Nik Turner.

Its success ( coupled with some theatrical releases of the film in Europe ) convinced CBS to turn it into a weekly series, which began airing in the Spring of 1978.

2nd Edition 1972 and 1978 reprint, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences ( Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved ), Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A., ISBN 0-933346-01-8 oversize folio softcover spiral bound, with transparency overlay coordinate grid ruler.

Malloum proved himself unable to cope with the FROLINAT and at the end decided his only chance was in coopting some of the rebels: in 1978 he allied himself with the insurgent leader Hissène Habré, who entered the government as prime minister.

Due to problems with Pinochet, Leigh was expelled from the junta in 1978 and replaced by General Fernando Matthei.

Problems with Argentina coming from the 19th century reached a high in 1978, with disagreements over the Beagle Canal.