He served as deputy chairman of the SPD party of Wuppertal, and was elected later on to the City Council ( 1964 – 1978 ), where he served as chairman of the SPD Group ( 1964 – 1967 ) and later as Mayor ( 1969 – 1970 ).

Malaysia abolished appeals to the Privy Council in criminal and constitutional matters in 1978, and in civil matters in 1985.

The Council has recognized the Blue Line as valid for purposes of confirming Israel's withdrawal pursuant to resolution 425 ( 1978 ).

In April 1978 the PDPA took power in Afghanistan, with Najibullah a member of the ruling Revolutionary Council.

In 1970 Marangella appointed members to a " National Bureau of the Orthodox Bahá ' ís in New York ", which two years later was moved to New Mexico, and subsequently changed its name to " Mother Bahá ' í Council of the United States " ( 1978 ) and " Provisional National Bahá ' í Council " ( 2000 ), with all members appointed by Joel Marangella.

* 19-Pierre Graber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1970 – 1978 ).

The Time Lords are able to divert the TARDIS's flight path (" The Ribos Operation " ( 1978 )), or have the ability to totally override and recall any TARDIS by the order of the Council (" Arc of Infinity " ( 1983 )).

In 1978, Liechtenstein became member of the Council of Europe, and then joined the United Nations in 1990, the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) in 1991, and both the European Economic Area ( EEA ) and World Trade Organization in 1995.

A 1978 state law designed by Illinois Democrats gave the Mayor the power to appoint to fill vacancies in the City Council rather than holding special elections.

The division of property between residents and the Bürgergemeinde proved to be lengthy and could not be completed until 1978 and then only with the help of the Executive Council.

Therefore, between 1750 and 1978 Southwark had two persons ( the Alderman and the Recorder ) who were members of the City's Court of Aldermen and Common Council who were elected neither by the City freemen or by the Southwark electorate but appointed by the Court of Aldermen.

The WCG's efforts led to the presentation in 1978 of Security Council Resolution 435 for settling the Namibian problem.

* Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 435 U. S. 519 ( 1978 ), which held that courts could not impose additional procedural requirements on administrative agencies beyond that required by the agency's organic statute or the Administrative Procedure Act.

After university she became an administration trainee at the Home Office ( 1976 to 1978 ), and then a Race Relations Officer at the National Council for Civil Liberties ( 1978 to 1980 ).

He won the Canada Council Molson Prize in 1971, and the Royal Bank Award in 1978.

The Council absorbed the Central Connecticut Council in 1978.

June 1978: City Council approves annexation of the area that wasn't annexed in 1976.

However, after the 1976 U. S. presidential election of Jimmy Carter, Albright's former professor Brzezinski was named National Security Advisor, and recruited Albright from Muskie in 1978 to work in the West Wing as the National Security Council ’ s congressional liaison.

Council meetings were held in homes until 1978, when several residents built the current town hall at 400 Woodland Drive.

In 1978, the Bremerton City Council passed an ordinance declaring the entire downtown a " blighted area.

This school, and the building, closed completely in 1978, then reopened as a museum and cultural center in 1994, administered jointly by UNAM, the National Council for Culture and Arts and the government of the Federal District of Mexico City.

Terry Waite returned to the U. K. in 1978, where he took a job with the British Council of Churches.

In 1978 as member of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, he campaigned to help delay the anticipated assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and represented the British Council of Churches at the funeral in El Salvador in 1980 when 14 people died around him.

From 1978 to 1983, Ilia II was Co-President of the World Council of Churches ( WCC ), an ecumenical organization the Georgian Orthodox Church had joined with other Soviet churches in 1962.

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, Greenpeace launched the original Rainbow Warrior, a, former fishing trawler named for the Cree legend that inspired early activist Robert Hunter on the first voyage to Amchitka.

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

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.