A new Constitution was approved by plebiscite characterized by the absence of registration lists, on September 11, 1980, and General Pinochet became president of the republic for an 8-year term.

General elections were held in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2012.

* 1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.

In 1980, he was appointed the head of KHAD, the Afghan equivalent to the Soviet KGB, and was promoted to the rank of Major General.

In 1980 the Ninth Organization of American States General Assembly, meeting in La Paz, Bolivia, condemned human rights violations in Paraguay, describing torture and disappearances as " an affront to the hemisphere's conscience ".

* 1980 – Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.

This statement of beliefs was originally adopted by the General Conference in 1980, with an additional belief ( number 11 ) being added in 2005.

One of the most significant ( and the most remembered ) measures to deal with the confronting economic problems at that time came under General Prem Tinsulanonda's Government ( s )-in power from 1980 to 1988.

Thereafter, by Resolution 35 / 55 of 5 December 1980, the UN General Assembly approved the establishment of the University for Peace by adopting the International Agreement for the Establishment of the University for Peace ( UPEACE ) along with the Charter of the University for Peace.

General Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan Qizilbash, ( Urdu: آغا محمد یحیی خان قزلباش ; February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980 ), was the senior Army Commander who was the third President of Pakistan, and the military dictator from 1969 until the dissolution of East-Pakistan, in December 16, 1971.

Khan was finally released after Bhutto's death in 1979, by General Fazle Haq, and died on August 10, 1980 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Shortly thereafter, in early September 1980, Gierek was replaced as by Stanisław Kania as General Secretary of the party by the Central Committee, amidst much social and economic unrest.

* General Orazio Giannini, commander of the Guardia di Finanza ( 1980 – 1981 ).

Prior to the reunification of the city, the Land Use Plan of 1988 and General Development Plan of 1980 defined the spatial planning criteria for West and East Berlin, respectively.

Edwin " Ed " Meese, III ( born December 2, 1931 ) is an attorney, law professor, and author who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration ( 1967 – 1974 ), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team ( 1980 ), and the Reagan White House ( 1981 – 1985 ), eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of the United States ( 1985 – 1988 ).

In 1980 Hu became Party General Secretary, and was elected to the powerful Politburo Standing Committee.

The departure of these players for various reasons symbolized the franchise's futility during this period, as head coach Al Attles would move up into the front office to become the team's General Manager in 1980, and the team would go through several coaching changes.

After an unsuccessful bid for the U. S. House of Representatives in 1980, he served as state Attorney General from 1983 to 1989.

The work at Data General in 1980 used these same devices to design a then modern system, the Data General Eclipse MV / 8000, and commercial need began to grow for a language that could map to well to them.

When they regained power in February, 1980, Chrétien was appointed Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.

Produced from 1977 through 1981, these engines had the distinction of being the last V-8s produced by Pontiac ; GM merged its various brand's engines into one collectively shared group in 1980, entitled General Motors Powertrain.

On November 10, 1980, the Indonesian Directorate General of Posts and Telecommunications issued another decree establishing RAPI ( Radio Antar Penduduk Indonesia ) as the official citizens ' band radio organization in Indonesia.

The pilot was produced in 1979 but not transmitted until 1980 in fear that it could influence the results of the 1979 UK General Election.

Won the Alberta Governor General Award in Art 1980, and the World Culture Prize in Research Arts & Letters from Milan Italy in 1983.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

The Shura Council is the 264-member upper house of Parliament created in 1980.

Other legislation included National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ), signed into law in 1970, which established a United States Environmental Protection Agency and a Council on Environmental Quality ; the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 ; the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 1974 ), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( 1976 ), the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977, which became known as the Clean Water Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, commonly known as the Superfund Act ( 1980 ).

From November 1980 to May 1984, power was held by a provisional government responsible to a Revolutionary Council headed by President João Bernardo Vieira.

IONA ( Islands of the North Atlantic ) is an acronym suggested in 1980 by Sir John Biggs-Davison to refer to a loose linkage of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Channel Islands, similar to the present day British-Irish Council.

By 1980, a number of national computer facilities ( ULCC London, UMRCC Manchester, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory serving the Science and Engineering Research Council community ), each with their own star network had developed.

After a bloody overthrow of the Americo-Liberian régime by indigenous Liberians in 1980, a ‘ Redemption Council ’ took control of Liberia.

Oman has developed close ties to its neighbors ; it joined the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council when it was established in 1980.

In October 1980, the SRSP was disbanded, and the Supreme Revolutionary Council was re-established in its place.

The release in 1980 of A Secular Humanist Declaration by the newly formed Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism ( CODESH, now the Council for Secular Humanism ) gave secular humanism an organisational identity within the United States.

A Secular Humanist Declaration was issued in 1980 by the Council for Secular Humanism's predecessor, CODESH.

Due to the rules governing the Council of State, in 1980 both non-FSLN junta members resigned.

The first of these, the Hsinchu Science Park was established in 1980 by the National Science Council with a focus on research and development in information technology and biotechnology.

He was president of the Scientific Council of the State Institute of Mathematics ( 1968 – 1980 ).

* Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation — founded in 1980 as a sister organization to the Council for a Livable World.

* 1979-Courte-Queue, book design and illustrations by François Olivier, was awarded the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize ( translated by Alan Brown in 1980 as Cliptail ).

Since about 1980, the Christian right has been associated with several institutions including the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council.

Israel's 1980 unilateral annexation of East Jerusalem was condemned as a violation of international law and ruled null and void by the UN Security Council in UNSC Resolution 478.

The Vietnamese Council of Ministers was entrusted by the 1980 Constitution with managing and implementing the governmental activities of the state.

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 ).

After the group disbanded in 1980, Mick Talbot went on to play with Dexys Midnight Runners, The Bureau, and The Style Council.

Norman and Mangano severed their business association, with Norman selling his interest in Street Level Artists Agency to Mangano, who subsequently resigned in October 1980 to start a new career in working to help the homeless, and becoming the Executive Director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness for seven years from March 2002,

In 1980 during the re-ordering works carried out in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, the caen stone side altars, marble altar rails, carved pulpit, original high altar and Telford Pipe Organ were removed.

* Greater Boston Council # 227 ( Boston, 1980 – 1993 )