In 1981, Hassan Gouled Aptidon was elected as President of Djibouti.

Kranzberg served as president of the society from 1983 to 1984, and edited the society's journal from 1959 to 1981, when he turned it over to Robert C. Post of the Smithsonian Institution.

She acted infrequently during the 1980s and turned down the role of Alexis Carrington in 1981 for the TV series Dynasty.

In 1981, when the federal government withdrew its funding, CTW turned to, and expanded, other revenue sources, including its magazine division, book royalties, product licensing, and foreign broadcast income.

McNamara served as head of the World Bank from April 1968 to June 1981, when he turned 65.

Das Boot was turned into a film in 1981, featuring Jürgen Prochnow as the captain and the debut of Herbert Grönemeyer as " Leutnant Werner ".

The " air play " album turned out so well that in 1981 CBS decided to release it commercially under the unwieldy title Highlights from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.

One such extension was delivermail, which in 1981 turned into sendmail.

In 1981, United Artists Classics, which had formerly been a division of the company that re-released library titles, was turned into a first run art film distributor by Nathaniel T. Kwit Jr. Tom Bernard was hired as the division's head of sales, and Ira Deutchman as its head of marketing.

Åbo Akademi was a private institution until 1981, when it was turned into a public institution.

Miller ( 1987: 647 ) criticized Benedict for overlooking Old Japanese " worö ' tail ' + suffix-ti — as well as an obvious Tungus etymology, * xürgü-či ' the tailed one '", and notes " this apparently well-traveled orochi has now turned up in the speculation of the folklorists ( Littleton 1981 ).

In 1981, the federal government withdrew its funding, so the CTW turned to other sources, such as its magazine division, book royalties, product licensing, and foreign income.

This was soon followed by Rage in Eden ( 1981 ), with the band returning to Conny Plank's studio for what turned out to be a difficult recording session.

Kreisky turned 70 in 1981, and by this time the voters had become increasingly uncomfortable they saw as his complacency and preoccupation with international issues.

Opus was originally introduced in June, 1981, as a one-time gag about hapless Mike Binkley bringing home what he thought was a German Shepherd, which turned out to be a penguin, much to the disappointment of his father.

In 1981, after the release of the Made in America album ( which turned out to be their last ), the Carpenters returned to the stage and did some tour dates, including their final live performance in Brazil.

in 1981, which turned out to be purely a name change for Margate.

Between 1981 and 1983 the Pennsylvanians equipment was turned every night to operate a second state-supported train, the Fort Pitt, which ran from Pittsburgh to Altoona.

Finally, the Orange Freeway was extended south from SR 91 to I-5 in the mid-1970s, allowing Route 250 to be turned back to local governments, though the subsequent deletion from the Streets and Highways Code did not take place until 1981.

In 1981, Barazoku began selling gay videos and it turned out to be another success.

The greatest challenge to Sir Dawda ’ s rule ( other than the coup that ended his power in 1994 ) was a putsch in 1981, headed by a disgruntled ex-politician turned Marxist, Kukoi Samba Sanyang, and some members of the Field Force ( Saine, 1989 ).

His first book was published in 1980, and then turned full time to freelance photography, writing and journalism in 1981.

Bishop won pre-selection for the Liberal Party for the seat of Curtin, Western Australia in 1998, and went on to win the seat at the federal election later that year against the sitting member and former Liberal turned independent, Allan Rocher, who had held the seat since 1981.

JAMMA began as a rights group in January 1981, but turned into an organization in June 1989.

In 1980, and 1981, Sauber and Wietl turned their attentions to developing BMW M1 sportscars, in the latter year it won the 1000km Nürburgring.

Between the census of 1981 and 1991, the city had one of the fastest-increasing populations in the country.

Parton's commercial success continued to grow during 1980, with three number-one hits in a row: the Donna Summer-written " Starting Over Again ", " Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You ", and " 9 to 5 ", which topped the country and pop charts in early 1981.

" 9 to 5 ", the theme song to the feature film 9 to 5 ( 1980 ) Parton starred in along with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, not only reached number one on the country charts, but also, in February 1981, reached number one on the pop and the adult-contemporary charts, giving her a triple-number-one hit.

Parton's singles continued to appear consistently in the country Top 10: between 1981 and 1985, she had 12 Top 10 hits ; half of those were number-one singles.

Like its neighboring country, Australia, sources in New Zealand, including the country's labour statistics, locates Generation X between 1965 and 1981.

After hearing Unwound, George Strait's debut single, in 1981, Brooks decided that he was more interested in playing country music.

The second edition, published in 1981, also included numeric country codes, with the third and fourth editions published in 1988 and 1993 respectively.

His written works include The totalitarian nightmare ( 1975 ), The lunacy of the Superman ( 1977 ), Adventures in the country of the monoliths ( 1981 ) and Freedom: my dream ( 1986 ).

When the Army discharged Dahmer in 1981, he was provided with a plane ticket to anywhere in the country.

In 1981, " Green Eyed Girl " charted on the Billboard Magazine country chart, peaking at # 95.

Slavery is still said to exist in Mauritania, some 100 years after slavery officially ended in the West and since it was officially abolished in the country in 1981.

She returned to the studio in 1981 to record a country album with Mel Tillis called Mel & Nancy.

Nonetheless his function as commander in chief and his role of the symbol of national unity have been exercised, most notably in the military coup of 23 February 1981, where king Juan Carlos I addressed the country on national television in military uniform, denouncing the coup and urging the maintenance of the law and the continuance of the democratically elected government, thus defusing the uprising.

In Mauritania, the last country to abolish slavery ( in 1981 ), it is estimated that up to 600, 000 men, women and children, or 20 % of the population, are enslaved with many used as bonded labour.

Several strikes hit the country in 1981.

The last country to abolish legal slavery was Mauritania, where it was officially abolished by presidential decree in 1981.

In 1981 Furth became the director at PPPL and led the laboratory until 1990 during record setting magnetic fusion energy experiments on the largest tokamak in the country, the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor ( TFTR ).

Karmal had first mentioned the possibility of establishing a " broad national front " in March 1980, but given the situation the country was in, the campaign for the establishment of such an organisation began only in January 1981.

Meanwhile in 1981, the Tour de France was revived by the Automobile-Club de Nice as a different kind of rally, based primarily on a series of races at circuits and hillclimbs around the country.

It was established in its modern form in 1981 and is located in the northwestern part of the country, respectively the southeastern part of the Alpine massif.

After the turmoil of the Amin period, the country began a program of economic recovery in 1981 that received considerable foreign assistance.

In 1981, Calvi was tried, given a four-year suspended sentence and fined $ 19. 8 million for tranferring $ 27 million out of the country in violation of Italian currency laws.

On March 17, 1981, a list composed by Licio Gelli was found in his country house ( Villa Wanda ).

Nguza fled the country in 1981 only to return in 1985, first serving as Zaire's ambassador to the U. S. and later as foreign minister.