Although Japan eventually recognized the People's Republic in 1972, shortly after Kakuei Tanaka succeeded Sato as Prime Minister of Japan, the memory of this relationship was strong enough to be reported by The New York Times ( April 15, 1978 ) as a significant factor inhibiting trade between Japan and the mainland.

Despite these difficulties, over the summer of 1978 ( shortly after the end of the Lib-Lab pact ) most opinion polls showed Labour ahead, and the expectation grew that Callaghan would call an autumn election that would have given him a second term in office until autumn 1983.

The Tāna script was reinstated by President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom shortly after he took power in 1978.

After more than a decade of denials, he confessed shortly before his execution to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978 ; the true total remains unknown, and could be much higher.

According to one account by Piers Paul Read ( 1978 ), in January 1963, shortly after the furore over the Airport Job had died down, Brian Field called Gordon Goody to a meeting at the Old Bailey and asked him whether he was interested in a large sum of money that only a large gang could steal.

In 1962, shortly after beginning her career in politics, Feinstein married neurosurgeon Bertram Feinstein ; her second husband died of colon cancer in 1978.

His later application to join the Labour Party was accepted in Hornsey in 1978, shortly before he moved to a council flat in Bermondsey, south-east London.

His first biography, published in 1978, is titled Only Here For The Beer and a tribute edition was re-issued shortly after his death and his new biography ( published by Haynes and written by Jeremy Walton and Gregor Marshall ) was released in April 2010.

The band's keyboardist, Jim " Daryl " Gilmour, joined Saga in December 1979 after Greg Chadd left the band in August 1979 ( Chadd joined Saga in December 1978 after original member Peter Rochon left the band to become a full-time music equipment company executive shortly after the band's first album was released ).

Richard " Dick " Obenshain of Virginia died in a plane crash in 1978 shortly after receiving the Republican nomination.

In 1979, he won a special election to finish the term of the late U. S. Congressman William A. Steiger, who had died shortly after being re-elected in 1978.

In 1978, shortly before the general election, Crane announced that he would be a candidate for the Republican nomination for president.

The family fled back to England in 1978, shortly after her ex-husband Richard Turner, a prominent anti-apartheid activist, was assassinated.

Juanita Craft became a towering historic figure in the Civil Rights Movement in Texas and was given many awards for her efforts, including the NAACP Golden Heritage Life Membership Award in 1978, the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award in 1984, and she was recognized by the NAACP for her fifty years of service shortly before her death at the age of 83 on August 6, 1985.

On June 22, 1978 while working at the United States Naval Observatory, he discovered that Pluto had a moon, which he named Charon shortly afterwards.

In 1972 a private donor had it restored and topped with a cement cap ; shortly afterward, a group of Boy Scouts restored it once again ; and finally in 1978, the eastern corner disintegrated and the tower completely collapsed, leaving the plaque in the ruins.

He chose to continue acting despite being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, and died in New York City on March 12, 1978 shortly after completing his role in The Deer Hunter.

Marvel Comics ' then-publisher Stan Lee said in 1978, shortly after Spider-Woman's debut in Marvel Spotlight # 32 ( Feb. 1977 ) and the start of the character's 50-issue self-titled series ( cover-dated April 1978-June 1983 ), that the character originated because,

Hunt tracked down her father's father Blair Hunt shortly before he died in 1978 to find him living sedately in a seedy part of town with his companion of 60 years.

He was shortly afterwards cast in a number of minor Argentine cinema roles, notable among them a part in Adolfo Aristarain's 1978 crime thriller, La parte del león ( The Lion's Share ).

In 1978, shortly after his rule began, Taraki started a purge of the government and party which led to several high-ranking Parchamite members being sent into de-facto exile by being assigned to serve overseas as ambassadors.

In an interview with Larry Miller in 1978 shortly before his death, Maciunas estimated spending ' about $ 50, 000 ' on fluxus projects over the years that would never recoup their investment.

In September 1978, shortly after the first anniversary of Presley's death, Parker arranged a fan festival, Always Elvis, where he, Vernon, and Presley's ex-wife Priscilla, dedicated a bronze statue of him in the lobby of the Las Vegas Hilton.

ABC also abandoned wiping under Silverman's watch, ending the practice in 1978, shortly before his departure.

McClanahan was selected forty-ninth overall in the 1978 NHL Entry Draft by the Buffalo Sabres but did not begin playing with the Sabres until 1980, shortly after the Olympics.

* 1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.

* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

It was composed of Khmer Communists who had remained in Vietnam after 1975 and officials from the eastern sector — like Heng Samrin and Hun Sen — who had fled to Vietnam from Cambodia in 1978.

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

There is speculation that a clash between Communist forces and a Japanese warship in 1978 was caused by Chinese anger after Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda attended Chiang's funeral.

Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in 1979 during his first trip ever to the United States after being elected to the Papacy in 1978.

Dead Kennedys formed in June 1978 in San Francisco, California, when East Bay Ray ( Raymond Pepperell ) advertised for bandmates in the newspaper The Recycler, after seeing a ska-punk show at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco.

In 1978 the DFLP temporarily switched sides and joined the Rejectionist Front after clashing with Arafat on several issues, but it would continue to serve as a mediator in the factional disputes of the PLO.

* 1978 – Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.

On October 14, 1978, Devo gained national exposure with an appearance on Saturday Night Live, a week after the Rolling Stones, performing " Satisfaction " and " Jocko Homo.

The asteroid 6433 Enya, discovered on 18 November 1978 by A. Mrkos at Klet, is named after her.

* 1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Some notable operations include: the Chadian – Libyan conflict in 1969 – 72 ( the first time that the Foreign Legion was sent in operations after the Algerian War ), 1978 – 79, and 1983 – 87 ; Kolwezi in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 1978 ; Rwanda in 1990 – 94 ; and the Côte d ' Ivoire ( the Ivory Coast ) in 2002 to the present.

Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield ( named after Davis's grandfather ); his owner, Jon Arbuckle ; and Arbuckle's dog, Odie.

United Feature Syndicate accepted the retooled strip in 1978 and debuted it in 41 newspapers on June 19 of that year ( however after a test run, the Chicago Sun-Times dropped it, only to reinstate it after readers ' complaints ).

John Atkinson ( editor ), current editor of Stereophile, stated ( in a 2005 July editorial named Blind Tests & Bus Stops ) that he once purchased a solid-state amplifier, the Quad 405, in 1978 after blind tests, but came to realize months later that " the magic was gone " until he replaced it with a tube amp.

Outside the Presidential Palace in Kabul, a day after the Saur Revolution | Marxist revolution on April 28, 1978.

The day after the Marxist revolution on April 28, 1978.

China cut off aid in 1978 when Albania attacked its policies after the death of Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

In 1978, after giving a series of lectures of architecture in China, Pei was asked to imagine a project for his home country.

Development of the console began in 1978, less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the Atari 2600.

* 1978 – The Crown of St. Stephen ( also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary ) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.