On 19 October 1978 the PDPA government introduced a new flag, a red flag with a yellow seal, and it was similar to the flags of the Soviet Central Asian republics.

Furthermore, the experiences of the East Asian Tigers and the Deng Xiaoping reforms after 1978 suggest that Mao's economic policy led to far poorer economic outcomes than a more decentralized approach.

* December – 1978 Asian Games held at Bangkok, Thailand

Israel was excluded from the 1978 Asian Games due to Arab pressure on the organizers.

Kim began garnering attention in 1978 when he won the flyweight (- 51 kg ) gold medal at the Asian Junior Amateur Boxing Championships in Karachi, Pakistan.

Pakistan is the only Asian champion, with three titles to its name including the first two in 1978 and 1980.

* The Thai Resistance Movement During The Second World War, John B. Haseman, Northern Illinois Center for Southeast Asian Studies, np, 1978.

In 1978, Manfred Wimmer became the first Westerner to receive a professional player's certificate from an Asian professional Go association.

The unit also produced the first BBC Television drama with a predominantly black and Asian cast, Empire Road ( 1978 – 79 ) also shown on BBC2.

Due to his excellent drive and contribution to the country ’ s economy, and his strong economics and finance background, he was entrusted to manage the country ’ s finance and was made the Finance Minister in 1976, Chairman of Asian Development Bank in 1976, Islamic Development Bank in 1978, IBRD ( World Bank ) and IMF in 1977.

* 1978 Visiting Professor, Asian Studies Program, University of Hawaii

* Finding aid for the Roberta Uno Asian American Women Playwrights Scripts Collection, 1924 – 2002, featuring Mango Tango ( 1978 ), Where the Mississippi Meets the Amazon ( with Ntozake Shange and Thulani Davis ) ( 1978 ), Holy Food ( 1988 ), and Airport Music ( with Han Ong ( 1993 ) at the Special Collections and University Archives, W. E. B.

An Asian Hills Bank located at the Poblacion and established in 1978, is owned by a private corporation.

In January 1977 Armacost was selected as a member of the National Security Council to handle East Asian and Chinese affairs under the Carter administration until July 1978, when he was replaced by Nicholas Platt.

From 1974 to 1978, he was Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.

Vernon Corea soon climbed the management ladder at the BBC-he was appointed Local Radio Asian Programmes Officer in 1978.

Zutshi won the women's 800 m gold metal in the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok and won silver medals for the 800 m in 1982, and for the 1500 m in both 1978 and 1982.

Tension between the political forces in Moscow and Beijing would greatly influence Asian politics during the 1960s and 1970s, and a microcosm of the Sino-Soviet split emerged when the by-then late-Ho Chi Minh's Soviet-aligned Vietnam invaded Pol Pot's pro-Chinese Cambodia in 1978.

Pacific Asian Enterprises, a California corporation, was incorporated in 1978.

* Culture and healing in Asian societies: anthropological, psychiatric, and public health studies / edited by Arthur Kleinman ... al ..-- G. K. Hall, 1978

The project is based on the success of restoration of native forest land in Japan and results of some field surveys conducted in the forests of South East Asian countries since 1978.

* Liddle, R. William, The 1977 Indonesian and New Order Legitimacy, South East Asian Affairs 1978, Translation published in Pemilu-Pemilu Orde Baru, LP3ES, Jakarta, ISBN 979-8015-88-6

Amateur radio operators began experimenting with packet radio in 1978, when-after obtaining authorization from the Canadian government-Robert Rouleau, VE2PY and The Western Quebec VHF / UHF Amateur Radio Club

In the USA, the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 required that each Olympic or potential Olympic sport must have its own national governing body by November 1980.

* 1978 World Amateur Championships-IFBB, HeavyWeight, 1st

# An Amateur Corpse ( 1978 )

He was also known for his sponsorship of the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, which resulted in the establishment of the United States Olympic Committee.

In addition, the USA Track & Field plays a role in selecting representatives for certain international competitions under the Amateur Sports Act of 1978.

Congress provided a special charter for the Committee as well as due process rights for athletes in the Amateur Sports Act of 1978.

After the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, the AAU focuses on providing sports programs for all participants of all ages beginning at the local and regional levels.

Winner of the 1977 Canadian Women's Amateur and 1978 U. S. Women's Amateur

John Munro was appointed to Cabinet by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and served variously as Minister of Amateur Sport, Minister of Health and Welfare and Minister of Labour from 1968 to 1978 when he resigned after calling an Ontario judge in 1978 to offer a character reference for a constituent facing sentencing on an assault conviction.

In the United States, the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 prohibits national governing bodies from having more stringent standards of amateur status than required by international governing bodies of respective sports.

The UEFA Amateur Cup, a previous attempt of awarding amateurs with continental competition, had run from 1966 to 1978, but was cancelled due to lack of interest both by the public and amateur teams themselves.

Johnson reached the final of the World Amateur Snooker Championship in 1978, losing to Cliff Wilson.

A former postman, insurance salesman, miner and bus conductor, he had a long amateur career, winning the Welsh Amateur Championship in 1975 and the English Amateur Championship in 1977 and 1978 before turning professional.

Wilson's interest in the game rekindled in the early 1970s and, after winning the IBSF World Amateur Championship in 1978, he finally turned professional the following year at the age of 45.

The USATF was known for a number of years as The Athletics Congress ( TAC ) after its spin off from the Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU ), which governed the sport in the US through most of the 20th century until the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 dissolved its responsibility.

The AAU governed the sport of track and field in the United States until 1979, when the first Amateur Sports Act of 1978 decreed that the AAU could no longer hold international franchises for more than one sport.

Sax starred at James Marshall High school ( now known as River City High School ) in West Sacramento from 1975 to 1978 before being drafted by the Dodgers on June 6, 1978 in the ninth round of the 1978 Amateur Draft.

The national teams competition organized by the International Korfball Federation has been played roughly every four years since 1978.

185 of the 1978 Constitution ( Basic Law ) of the Russian Federation ).

She was President of the Victorian Federation of States School Parents ' Clubs, an influential education lobby from 1971 to 1977 and its executive officer from 1978 to 1982.

Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.

Deutsch served as President of FISITA, the International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies, from 1975 to 1978.

* Socialist Democratic Federation ( Japan ), a former political party in Japan ( 1978 – 1994 )

In 1978, John Tanton, former Chairman of the National Sierra Club Population Committee and former President of Zero Population Growth, founded the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

In 1978, the International Tennis Federation launched the world junior rankings, and Mandlíková became the first ever female World No. 1 junior player.

They include Executive Committee Member of Mambili Party, Accra ( 1935 – 37 ); General Secretary of National Council of Nigerian and the Cameroons ( 1944 – 45 ); President of the NCNC ( 1946 – 60 ); Vice-President of the Nigerian National Democratic Party ( 1947 – 60 ); Member for Lagos in the Legislative Council of Nigeria ( 1947 – 51 ); Member for Lagos and Leader of the Opposition in the Western House of Assembly ( 1952 – 53 ) Member for Onitsha in the Eastern House of Assembly ( 1954 – 60 ); Minister of Internal Affairs ( Jan .– September 1954 ); Minister of Internal Affairs, Eastern Region ( 1954 ); Member of His Excellency Privy Council, Eastern Nigeria ( 1954 – 59 ); Primer of Eastern Nigeria ( 1954 – 59 ); President of the Senate of the Federation ( Jan .- November 1960 ); Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria ( 1960 – 63 ); President of the Republic of Nigeria ( 1963 – 1966 ); and Chairman and Presidential candidate of the Nigeria People ’ s Party ( 1978 – 83 ).

WFLRY was dissolved in 1978, and EFLRY renamed itself IFLRY, the International Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth.

The constitution was first amended by constitutional laws 110 / 1967 ( status of Prague local councils to be set by special law ), 28 / 1968 ( similar for Bratislava ), the Constitutional Law of Federation 143 / 1968 and accompanying 144 / 1968 on ethnic minorities, and further by constitutional laws 57 / 1969 ( local councils put into the authority of national republics ), 155 / 1969 ( court reform ), 43 / 1971 ( elected bodies term of office prolonged to 5 years from 4 ), 50 / 1975 ( this actually affected only the Constitutional Law of Federation, into which the Presidency had been moved: President unable to carry out his duties over a year can be replaced, i. e. ill Ludvík Svoboda with Gustáv Husák ), 62 / 1978 ( a minor change about schooling, see below ), 135 / 1989 ( leading role of the KSČ abolished etc.

La Fédération Française de Bicrossing, which in English translates to The French Federation of Bicrossing ( FFB ) was created on March 1, 1978 by Marcelle Seurat, a motorcycle importer and distributor.

A winner of the British Chess Championship in 1978, 1985 and 1986, Speelman has been a regular member of the English team for the Chess Olympiad, an international biennial chess tournament organized by FIDE, the World Chess Federation.

The Hockey Champions Trophy is an event held annually by the International Hockey Federation ( since 1978 ).

The Pakistan Hockey Federation started the competition as a men's tournament in 1978.

Faye Wattleton was the first woman named president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1978 and served till 1992.

In 1978 a Puli called Cinko Duda Csebi won the world exposition organized by the Federation Cynologique Internationale.

He received the Johnson Space Center Certificate of Commendation ( 1970 ), the NASA Distinguished Service Medal ( presented by President Richard M. Nixon in 1974 ) and the NASA Space Flight Medal, the City of New York Gold Medal ( 1974 ), the Robert J. Collier Trophy for 1973 ( 1974 ), the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy for 1975 ( 1975 ), the Federation Aeronautique Internationale ’ s De La Vaulx Medal and V. M. Komarov Diploma for 1974 ( 1975 ), the American Astronautical Society ’ s 1975 Flight Achievement Award ( 1976 ), the AIAA Haley Astronautics Award for 1975 ( 1976 ), a Senior U. S. Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ( 1976 ), and a JSC Special Achievement Award ( 1978 ).

Among his numerous awards are Stalin Prize ( 1946, 1950 ), Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1968, 1978 ), State Prize of the Russian Federation, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Bruce Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, National Hero of Armenia.

Next, on April 29, 1978, Urquidez faced his fourth Japanese opponent Shinobu Onuki in Tokyo ; the event was co-promoted by the AJKBA and Shin-Kakuktojutsu Federation.

Tokarev was awarded the " Hero of the Russian Federation " medal in 2000, Pilot Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation title in 1999, the Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Russian Federation, Order for Service to Motherland in the USSR Air Forces Third Class in 1978, RF Medals and the NASA Space flight Medal in 1999.