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.

The first Soviet pocket battery-powered programmable calculator, Elektronika " B3-21 ", was developed by the end of 1977 and released at the beginning of 1978.

Most temples of the Alpha et Omega and Stella Matutina closed or went into abeyance by the end of the 1930s, with the exceptions of two Stella Matutina temples: Hermes Temple in Bristol, which operated sporadically until 1970, and the Whare Ra in Havelock North, New Zealand, which operated regularly until its closure in 1978.

By the end of his first season with Liverpool, Dalglish had played 62 times and scored 31 goals, including the winning goal in the 1978 European Cup Final final at Wembley against Bruges.

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

1992 proved to be the end of an era for the Brewers, as teammates Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, and Jim Gantner, who had been together since 1978 would go their separate ways, as Molitor left the Brewers for the Toronto Blue Jays, Gantner retired, and Yount would only last one more season before retiring in 1993.

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.

This event marked the end of Russia's first constitutional period, which was defined by the much-amended constitution adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1978.

It coincided with the end of the 10-year Arab subsidy to Syria and other front-line Arab countries pledged at Baghdad in 1978.

Pavel filed a patent for his Stereobelt in Italy in 1977, followed by patent applications in the U. S., Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan by the end of 1978.

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In 1978 Patrese very nearly won Arrows ' second race, the South African Grand Prix, until engine failure forced him to retire 15 laps from the end.

To this end, Demme drew inspiration from Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter ( 1978 ).

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.

Near the end of the decade, she starred in two films based on best-selling novels by her younger sister Jackie Collins: The Stud ( 1978 ) and its sequel The Bitch ( 1979 ).

In 1978, the International Commission of Jurists estimated that more than 100, 000 Ugandans had been murdered during Amin's reign of terror ; some authorities place the figure as high as 300, 000 — a statistic cited at the end of the 2006 movie The Last King of Scotland, which chronicled part of Amin's dictatorship.

An attachment designating the year was simply taken off the end of the revamped Match Game 78 sign and replaced with a new one numbered 79 on New Year's Eve 1978 ( aired January 2, 1979 ) becoming Match Game 79.

McLean Stevenson, who had done so once in September 1978 and twice near the end of the second year of this version, appeared in nearly all of Season Three ( 1981 – 1982 ) and became a regular from the eleventh taped week through the end of the run.

On August 8, 1978, an end was negotiated to an almost year-long standoff with police over orders to vacate the Powelton Village MOVE house.

Hans Filbinger ( centre ) had to resign in 1978 as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg after it became public via Hochhuth's novel A Love in Germany that he was responsible for death sentences as a Navy judge at the end of World War II

In 1978, his novel A Love in Germany about an affair between a Polish POW and a German woman in World War II stirred up a debate about the past of Hans Filbinger, Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg who had been a Navy lawyer and judge at the end of World War II.

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Guest made his first appearance as Tufnel on the 1978 sketch comedy program The TV Show.

* 1978 – The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.

Kurzweil's next major business venture began in 1978, when Kurzweil Computer Products began selling a commercial version of the optical character recognition computer program.

In 1978, the NASA SETI program was heavily criticized by Senator William Proxmire, and funding for SETI research was removed from the NASA budget by Congress in 1981, however, funding was restored in 1982, after Carl Sagan talked with Proxmire and convinced him of the program's value.

Following the conclusion of the ALT test flight program, on March 13, 1978, Enterprise was flown once again, but this time half way across the country to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ( MSFC ) in Alabama for the Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Testing ( MGVT ).

Following the MGVT program and with the decision to not use Enterprise for orbital missions, it was ferried on 10 April, 1978 to KSC.

The Steelman language requirements were a set of requirements which a high-level general-purpose programming language should meet, created by the United States Department of Defense in The Department of Defense Common High Order Language program in 1978.

He founded MicroPro International Corporation in September 1978 and hired John Robbins Barnaby as programmer, who wrote a word processor, WordMaster, and a sorting program, SuperSort, both in Intel 8080 assembly language.

The program has rarely been pre-empted since 1978.

In 1978 Kurzweil Computer Products began selling a commercial version of the optical character recognition computer program.

Since 1978, a systematic excavation has led Loud in the setting of a regional research program on the evolution of the churches during the Middle Ages.

Previously, he had held strong conservative or libertarian political views, desired a career in business, was a highly active member of Teenage Republicans, serving as the Youth Governor for Pennsylvania through the YMCA Youth and Government program in 1978 and almost pursued a Republican political career.

FERC also administered a program to foster new cogeneration and small power production under the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act of 1978.

In 1978, Bull patented the SPOM ( self-programmable one-chip microcomputer ) that defines the necessary architecture to program the chip.

A program to re-establish a nesting beach for Kemp's Ridley sea turtles on Padre Island was begun in 1978.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse ( NIDA ) contracts to the university the production of cannabis for the use in approved research studies on the plant as well as for distribution to the seven surviving medical cannabis patients grandfathered into the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program ( established in 1978 and canceled in 1991 ).

Some scholars have even considered that the FN's 1978 program may be regarded as " Reaganite before Reagan ".

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, Gibb performed on the Sesame Street Fever album for the Sesame Street children's TV program.

No vocals were recorded with Walker, but the new line-up appeared on the BBC Midlands TV program " Look Hear " on 6 January 1978, performing their hit " War Pigs " plus an early version of what would eventually become " Junior's Eyes ".

Another key difference between the 1978 and 1982 state constitutions is the latter's approach to outside help for the modernization program.

In 1978, Kravitz was accepted into the school's well-respected music program.

He went to the United States as an exchange student in 1978 through a Rotary International program.

In 1978, McNair was selected as one of thirty-five applicants from a pool of ten thousand for the NASA astronaut program.