* 1979, Barbara Chase-Riboud's novel Sally Hemings became a bestseller.

She became well known for her novel, Sally Hemings ( 1979 ), which earned critical acclaim and became a bestseller.

* Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer ( published 1979 ), reaches # 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Immanuel Velikovsky () ( 17 November 1979 ) was a Russian-Jewish psychiatrist and independent scholar, best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, published in 1950.

Beverly LaHaye is best known for The Act of Marriage, a Christian sex self-help bestseller she co-authored in 1976 with her husband Tim LaHaye, and for founding Concerned Women for America ( CWA ) in 1979 in San Diego, California, an organization of which she has served as president.

These books include the classic studies, The Future of Muslim Civilisation ( 1979 ) and Islamic Futures: The Shape of Ideas to Come ( 1985 ), a vigorous intellectual assault on postmodern thought, Postmodernism and the Other ( 1998 ) and Orientalism ( 1999 ), and the international bestseller Why Do People Hate America?

O ' Rourke was a proponent of Gonzo journalism ; one of his earliest and best-regarded pieces was " How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink ", a National Lampoon article in March 1979.

* 1979: Getting in the Swing of Things — MPS / BASF

* Feathers 791104-Blue Suede Shoes / We're Getting Closer ( 1979 )

* Pummeling, Falling and Getting Up-Sometimes ( 1979 )

Soon after the EP's release, the Australian arm of Festival Records took over distribution of Regular Records and released a remix of " The Nips Are Getting Bigger " as a single in July 1979.

* Getting Into Pro Football ( 1979 )

He is a prolific and fluent writer, with more than twenty books of poems to his credit, including My Dark Fathers ( 1964 ), Collection One: Getting Up Early ( 1966 ), Good Souls to Survive ( 1967 ), Dream of a Black Fox ( 1968 ), Love Cry ( 1972 ), The Voices ( 1973 ), Shelley in Dublin ( 1974 ), A Kind of Trust ( 1975 ), Islandman ( 1977 ), A Small Light ( 1979 ) and The House That Jack Didn ’ t Build ( 1982 ).

In Scotland's first referendum on devolution, held in March 1979, he campaigned for a " Yes " vote alongside the Conservative Alick Buchanan-Smith and the Liberal Russell Johnston.

The Dangerhouse session version of " Los Angeles " was also featured in a Dangerhouse compilation in 1979 called " Yes L. A ." ( a play on the now-famous No Wave compilation No New York ), a picture disc that featured other early-punk-era LA bands like the Weirdos and Black Randy.

The band also had in its ranks, for two years ( 1977 / 1979 ), Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz, then fresh from Yes.

Baron Livsey had been a keen supporter and activist during the 1979 St David's Day referendum on a Welsh Assembly on behalf of the Yes Campaign.

Gwynfor Evans had led Plaid Cymru since 1945, but resigned after the devastating defeat of the Yes Campaign in the devolution referendum of 1979.

In 1974, Vangelis was considered as a replacement for Rick Wakeman as keyboardist in Yes, and although the job went to Patrick Moraz, it led to several collaborations with Anderson, who contributed vocals to Vangelis ' Heaven and Hell ( 1975 ), harp to Opera Sauvage ( 1979 ), and vocals to See You Later ( 1980 ).

* 1979: Yes, Yes Nonet ( Steeple Chase )

* Yes — September 27, 1978, June 6, 1979 and March 12, 1984

In 1979 he directed the SNP's campaign for a Yes vote in the referendum on Scottish devolution.

* Yes to Halakhah Means No to Women Rabbis, Vol. 9 / no. 166 1979

* Yes: Golden Age Sessions ( 1979 )

In the U. S. Teri DeSario is mainly known for her duet with KC, lead singer of the phenomenal R & B and funk group KC and the Sunshine Band of the popular Barbara Mason cover, ( Pop # 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and certified gold, Adult Contemporary # 1 for 2 weeks ) " Yes, I'm Ready " from 1980, from her second album Moonlight Madness, released in 1979.

His other numerous television credits included Danger Man ( 1965 ), The Avengers ( 1964 & 1966 ), The Prisoner ( 1967 ), Owen MD ( 1971 – 73 ), Quiller ( 1975 ), Van der Valk ( 1977 ), Doctor Who ( 1982 ), Yes Minister ( 1982 ), Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ( 1979 ) and for the BBC A Tale of Two Cities 1980 television series as well as The Pickwick Papers ( 1985 ) as Mr. Pickwick.

It is usually at the retreat where, isolated from their advisers, the heads resolve the most intransigent issues: leading to the Gleneagles Agreement in 1977, the Lusaka Declaration in 1979, the Langkawi Declaration in 1989, the Millbrook Programme in 1995, and the Aso Rock Declaration in 2003.

This new order also failed to gain legitimacy in the eyes of the world, and British control returned to the country in December 1979, following the Lancaster House Agreement.

By the time of the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979 Rhodesia only had representative offices in London, Bonn, Pretoria, Washington, D. C. and Tokyo.

In accordance with the provisions of the Military Bases Agreement as revised in 1979, the flagpole became the only one upon which the American flag could be displayed.

This letter caused a rift with the Zimbabwean government, which asserted that the Lancaster House Agreement of 1979 had contained a continuing pledge from the United Kingdom government to assist in land reform.

This still did not lead to international recognition for the country, however, and it was only in 1980, after the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement, the British-supervised election of Robert Mugabe as prime minister in April 1980 and the adoption of the name Zimbabwe that international acceptance came.

As Foreign Secretary, Owen was identified with the Anglo-American plan for then-Rhodesia, which formed the basis for the Lancaster House Agreement, negotiated by his Tory successor, Lord Carrington in December 1979.

In 1979, Spain signed the ' Agreement and Protocol of Cooperation in Astrophysics ' with Denmark, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, which brought modern telescopes to the observatories.

Land reform in Zimbabwe officially began in 1979 with the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement, an effort to more equitably distribute land between the historically disenfranchised blacks and the minority-whites who ruled Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1979.

Agreement on the nomenclature and symbols for genes emerged in 1979.

He was created a life peer in 1978 as Baron Soames, of Fletching in the County of East Sussex, and served as the interim Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1979 to 1980 between the Lancaster House Agreement and that country gaining independence as Zimbabwe.

Under the 1979 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) Government Procurement Code, the U. S .- Israel Free Trade Agreement, the U. S .- Canada Free Trade Agreement, and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) 1996 Agreement on Government Procurement ( GPA ), the United States provides access to the government procurement of certain U. S. agencies for goods from the other parties to those agreements.

This is a possible explanation of the failure of all attempts by the minority white government of Rhodesia to reach a negotiated settlement and the substantial success of the British initiated negotiations, which culminated in the Lancaster House Constitutional Agreement in 1979.

Finally, in 1979 a Memorandum of Agreement with the University of Toronto made it possible for the member schools to grant conjoint basic and advanced degrees in theology.

The Agreement ( signed in December 1979 ) covered the Independence Constitution, pre-independence arrangements, and a ceasefire.

As Secretary of the Monday Club Northern Ireland Policy Committee, he backed calls from Ulster Unionist MPs for Mrs Thatcher to implement her 1979 Conservative General Manifesto commitment to " establish one or more elected regional councils in Northern Ireland with a wide range of powers over local services " in place of the 1982-86 Northern Ireland Assembly, and opposed the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which earned him the admiration and support of the then Ulster Unionist Party Leader Jim ( now Lord ) Molyneaux and the then Ulster Unionist Chief Whip and MP for East Londonderry, Willie Ross.

At the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979, Tongogara was a crucial " moderating " force, according to Lord Carrington, the then British Foreign Secretary, who chaired the talks.

Six days after the Lancaster House Agreement was signed Robert Mugabe, on the Voice of Zimbabwe radio station, conveyed " an extremely sad message " to " all the fighting people of Zimbabwe ": the forty one year old Tongogara was dead, killed in a car accident in Mozambique on December 26, 1979.

None of these acts were recognised internationally, and under the Lancaster House Agreement the country's government agreed to revert to colonial status in 1979 in order to facilitate the introduction of majority rule and the creation of the independent state of Zimbabwe in 1980.

* The 1979 Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies ( the " Moon Treaty ").

* Southern Rhodesia — Lancaster House Agreement, temporary British colonial rule — 1979 – 1980 ;