Since 1979, President Obiang has been constrained only by a need to maintain a consensus among his advisers and political supporters, most of whom are drawn from the Nguema family in Mongomo, in the eastern part of Río Muni.

Akuffo, the new SMC chairman, promised publicly to hand over political power to a new government to be elected by 1 July 1979.

Thus in March 1979 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who kept absolute power ( until his overthrow in 2011 referred to as " Guide of the Revolution "), after ten years as combined Head of State and Head of government of the Libyan Jamahiriya (" state of the masses "), styled Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, formally transferred both qualities to the General secretaries of the General People's Congress ( comparable to a Speaker ) respectively to a Prime Minister, in political reality both were his creatures.

Herbert Marcuse (; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979 ) was a German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

In 1979, Falwell founded the Moral Majority, which became one of the largest political lobby groups for evangelical Christians in the United States during the 1980s.

* 2003 – Rachel Corrie, American political activist ( b. 1979 )

* Talossa, a political simulation founded in 1979, with more than 130 members (" citizens ") and an invented culture and language, recently split into three separate groups.

Robinson's early political career included election to Dublin City Council in 1979, where she served until 1983.

* 1902 – Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader ( d. 1979 )

Lipponen first came into the political limelight when he was secretary to Prime Minister Mauno Koivisto from 1979 to 1982.

Although badly injured, Dutschke returned to political activism with the German Green Party before his death in a bathtub in 1979, as a consequence of his injuries.

Later in October 1965 he was allowed to move to Najaf, Iraq, where he stayed until being forced to leave in 1978, after then-Vice President Saddam Hussein told him that it's better to leave ( the two countries would fight a bitter eight year war 1980 – 1988 only a year after the two reached power in 1979 ) after which he went to Neauphle-le-Château, suburb of Paris, France on a tourist visa, apparently not seeking political asylum, where he stayed for four months.

In 1979, mass anti-government demonstrations occurred nationwide, in the midst of this political turmoil, Park Chung-hee was assassinated by the director of the KCIA, Kim Jae-kyu, thus bringing the 18-year rule of military regime to an end.

The victory of the Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) in 1979 brought about major changes and gains for women, mainly in legislation, broad educational opportunities, training programs for working women, childcare programs to help women enter the work force and greatly increased participation and even leadership positions in a whole range of political activities.

Notable residents of Whitehorse include Audrey McLaughlin, the first woman to lead a represented political party ( NDP ) in Canadian federal politics, who has resided in Whitehorse since 1979, Robert W. Service, author of " The Cremation of Sam McGee ", who lived in Whitehorse from 1904 to 1908, and Pierre Berton, an author and television host, born in Whitehorse.

* January 27 – Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslav political leader and partisan ( d. 1979 )

From 1976 to 1978 he was chief political correspondent for the now-defunct Fairfax newspaper The National Times, then its deputy editor from 1978 to 1979.

She escaped from prison in 1979 and has been living in Cuba in political asylum since 1984.

In 1979 Foucault made two tours of Iran, undertaking extensive interviews with political protagonists in support of the new interim government established soon after the Iranian Revolution.

Although the WPA did not become an official political party until 1979, it evolved as an alternative to Burnham's PNC and Jagan's PPP.

In other words, the AFRC in 1979 attributed the national crisis to internal, primarily political, causes.

On May 1, 1979, in recognition of the evolving political status of the Marshall Islands, the United States recognized the constitution of the Marshall Islands and the establishment of the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Under Col. Houari Boumediène ( 1965 – 1979 ) state and army leadership was joined under his dominant and highly authoritarian presidency, but after his death, factionalization and rivalries within the military and political élites has been a major factor in Algerian politics.

After successful vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in December 1979.

He appointed Ivan Blot, an intellectual who would later join the National Front, as director of his campaigns for the 1979 European election.

Noted work included their campaign " Labour isn't working " on behalf of the Conservative Party before the 1979 UK general election and ongoing campaigns for British Airways, and Silk Cut with whom the agency had long relationships.

In 1977, the Tides Foundation began working with initiative campaigns, an arrangement that was formalized into the Projects Program in 1979.

In 1979 the first of many award winning TV ad campaigns was launched starring Donald Pleasence.

Because letter writing campaigns in favor of restoring canceled television programs were uncommon in 1979, it prompted ABC to re-think their reasons for canceling the show.

Mari has been excavated in annual campaigns published in Syria, 1933 – 39, 1951 – 75, and since 1979 ; a journal devoted to the site since 1982, is Mari: Annales de recherches interdisciplinaires.

A 1979 People magazine article recounts that the elder Brown's nine unsuccessful political races – for either governor or the U. S. Senate – took a toll on his family and left his mother resentful of all the money spent on campaigns.

He was vice-president of organization for the Ontario Liberal Party from 1979 to 1981, and chaired provincial campaigns for Jim Bradley and Harry Pelissero.

He was on the losing side in the 1979 final, and also played in a string of European campaigns during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In 1979, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition for " more than thirty years to community endeavours, particularly as president of fund-raising campaigns for the new hospital and its modern neuro-surgical equipment ".

For both the 1978 – 79 and 1979 – 80 campaigns, George Gervin and Free were number 1 and 2 in the league in scoring.

In 1979, Severin started Severin Aviles Associates to direct strategy and produce media for Republican candidates including campaigns for the U. S. House.

Marcuse defended the arrested East German dissident Rudolf Bahro ( author of Die Alternative: Zur Kritik des real existierenden Sozialismus The Alternative in Eastern Europe ), discussing in a 1979 essay Bahro's theories of " change from within ".

In October 1979, Brandt met with the East German dissident, Rudolf Bahro, who had written The Alternative.

Among the last inmates was dissident poet Nguyễn Chí Thiện, who was reimprisoned in 1979 after attempting to deliver his poems to the British Embassy, and spent the first further six years in Hỏa Lò till 1985 when he was transfered to a more modern prison.

It was in front of the same gates of this school that The Shah's army opened fire on dissident students, killing many and further triggering the 1979 revolution of Iran.

* August 18-Anatoly Kuznetsov, Russian dissident novelist ( died 1979 )

The Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng wrote in March 1979 a letter denouncing the inhumane conditions of the Chinese Qincheng Prison where the late Panchen Lama was imprisoned.

* 1979: A dissident faction of the ⇒ Colombian Liberal Party formed New Liberalism ( Nuevo Liberalismo ).

From 1979 – 1989 Scruton was an active supporter of dissidents in Eastern Europe under Communist Party rule, forging links between Czechoslovakia's dissident academics and their counterparts in Western universities.

Colombian politician Luis Carlos Galán founded the Nuevo Liberalismo ( New Liberalism ) in 1979, as a dissident force of the Colombian Liberal Party.

In 1979, a gun that Wilson had arranged to be delivered to the Libyan embassy in Bonn was used to assassinate a prominent dissident.

The Chinese dissident and former Red Guard Wei Jingsheng published in March 1979 a letter under his name but written by another anonymous author, denouncing the conditions at Qincheng Prison where the 10th Panchen Lama was imprisoned.

General Carlos Humberto Romero Mena ( born February 29, 1924 in Chalatenango ) is a former President of El Salvador, having served from 1977 until 1979 when he was deposed with a reformist coup d ' état by dissident, politically conservative and moderate military officers and civilians.