In a note dated April 2, 1982 to Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini, Dalla Chiesa wrote that the Sicilian membership of Democrazia Cristiana linked with Andreotti were the most infiltrated by the Mafia.

In 1982, Nancy Reagan was asked by a schoolgirl what to do when offered drugs ; Nancy responded " Just say no ".

" He was also asked to musicalize Nathanael West's A Cool Million with James Lapine around 1982, but he refused.

In 1982, Susanna Hoffs asked long time friend, Patrick Hirtz, to manage the band until his departure in 1986 to pursue the culinary arts.

" Peter Gabriel liked the band so much that he asked them to open for him during his 1982 " Shock the Monkey " tour.

In episode 39, " The One Where Ross and Rachel ... You Know ", Chandler, when asked if a girl has ever laughed when he kissed her, says yes, but mentions that it was because " it was 1982, and my Flock of Seagulls haircut was tickling her chin.

By 1982, when IBM asked Microsoft to release a version of DOS that was compatible with a hard disk, PC DOS 2. 0 was an almost complete rewrite of DOS, so by March 1983, very little of QDOS remained.

He was asked to guest on albums by friends George Harrison ( Gone Troppo from 1982 ) and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour ( 1983's About Face ), Cozy Powell ( Octopus in 1983 ) and to play on an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic, Wind in the Willows.

Discouraged, he abandoned acting and returned to India, where he worked as an editor and journalist until the early 1980s, when Richard Attenborough asked Seth to play Jawaharlal Nehru in Gandhi ( 1982 ).

Many schools of psychological thought became influenced by Albert Ellis, including Rational Behavior Therapy created by a student of his, Maxie Clarence Maultsby, Jr .. Ellis had such an impact that in a 1982 survey, American and Canadian clinical psychologists and counsellors ranked him ahead of Freud when asked to name the figure who had exerted the greatest influence on their field.

In January 1982, Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald had asked President Patrick Hillery, a former government colleague of Lenihan's, to dissolve the Dáil, a request which Hillery granted.

However, Governor Romero saw the threat from Padilla and at a party assembly held in Ponce on November 14, 1982, he asked the assembled delegates if there was anyone who dared to challenge him ( Romero ) for the gubernatorial nomination.

In 1982, Headon was forced out of the band and Chimes was asked to rejoin for a U. S. tour, a brief tour supporting The Who, and the following UK tour.

India notified Canada that Parmar was a wanted terrorist in 1981 and asked for his extradition in 1982, which Canada denied in July 1982.

He was unable to write properly during his later life ; when asked by Andropov to write a letter of resignation in 1982, he was unable to do so.

In 1982, he was asked to produce a song for The Temptations ' upcoming album, Reunion, after former members Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin returned to the group for their ill-fated reunion.

* In 1982, when asked by TV talk show host Phil Donahue, " Does anybody get to heaven if he's not born again?

The phrase " Just Say No " first emerged when Nancy Reagan was visiting Longfellow Elementary School in Oakland, California, in 1982 and was asked by a schoolgirl what to do if she was offered drugs.

Back in Los Angeles, Australian singer Glenn Shorrock ( ex-Little River Band ) asked her to provide backing vocals on his solo album Villain of the Peace ( 1982 ) and to join him on his subsequent six week tour of Australia in 1983.

In 1982, the band asked McBrain to replace their previous drummer, Clive Burr, and, as news of Burr's departure had not yet been announced, made his first appearance with Iron Maiden on German TV disguised as Eddie.

Initially she started a philosophy degree with Genevieve Lloyd at ANU in Canberra and attending " Act 2 performance festival ", transferring to Canberra School of Art in 1982, where she was influenced by " Act 3 performance festival " which included Jill Orr & Aleks Danko ; Phillip Institute of Technology in Melbourne 1983 recalling classes with John Dunkley Smith ; completing her BFA at Southern Cross University in 1988 where she met Geoffrey Legge of Watters Gallery who asked her to come to Sydney and show her work to the new gallery Legge Gallery, who represented her work from 1989-94.

In a joint address in the Canadian parliament, the Queen was asked to amend the constitution and she, as Queen of the United Kingdom, granted Royal Assent to the Canada Act on March 29, 1982, 115 years to the day since Queen Victoria gave assent to the British North America Act 1867.

After the 1982 season, Williams asked for a $ 600, 000 contract that would pay him among the league's top quarterbacks.

In July 1982, in a visit to Philadelphia, Clearwater city officials and the president of the Florida State League again asked the Philadelphia Phillies about affiliating with a team to be based in Clearwater.

In May 1982, the Italian government sent Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, a general of the Italian Carabinieri, to Sicily with orders to crush the Mafia.

In 1982, the post of Chairman was abolished, and the General Secretary, at this time held by the same man as the post of Chairman, once again became the supreme office of the Party.

* Hu Yaobang, General Secretary 1982 – 1987

Andropov was elected the party's General Secretary on 12 November 1982 by a decision of the Central Committee.

He is a graduate of the Amphibious Warfare School ( 1968 ); the Army Command and General Staff College ( 1976 ); and the National War College ( 1982 ).

* Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy-First Book: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology, 1982.

On March 23, 1982, army troops commanded by junior officers staged a coup d ' état to prevent the assumption of power by General Ángel Aníbal Guevara, the hand-picked candidate of outgoing President and General Romeo Lucas García.

He sought a second term in 1982, but due to a deep recession and concerns that he wasn't paying attention to local matters, he was defeated in a re-election bid by the state Attorney General Jeff Bingaman by a 54 % to 46 % margin.

After Brezhnev's death in November 1982, there was speculation the position of General Secretary would fall to Chernenko, however he was unable to rally enough popular support for his candidacy within the Party, and the posting fell to former KGB chief Yuri Andropov.

* 1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.

In 2003, the Brewers hired Doug Melvin as General Manager, who in turn brought in Ned Yost, coach with the Atlanta Braves and a former member of the 1982 American League Champion Brewers, as manager.

* 1982 – Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.

During Yuri Andropov's tenure as General Secretary ( 1982 – 1984 ), Gorbachev became one of the Politburo's most visible and active members.

After the return of democracy following the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain's foreign policy priorities were to break out of the diplomatic isolation of the Franco years and expand diplomatic relations, enter the European Community, and define security relations with NATO, later joining the organisation in 1982.

Elections have been cleaner, without the rampant impersonation and vote-rigging which characterised the 1982 Presidential Election, the notorious Referendum of the same year, the Presidential Election of 1988 and the General Election of 1989.

Per the Constitution Act, 1982, any constitutional amendment that affects the Crown, including the Office of the Governor General, requires the unanimous consent of each provincial legislature as well as the federal parliament.

However, not long after arriving, on 3 September 1982, the General was gunned down in the city centre, his young wife by his side.

In 1982, at a special session of General Assembly of United Nations, the USSR pledged not to use nuclear weapons first, regardless of whether its opponents possessed nuclear weapons or not.

The 1982 work by Thomas L. Connolly and Barbara L. Bellows, God and General Longstreet, provided a " further upgrading of Longstreet through an attack on Lee, the Lost Cause, and the Virginia revisionists.

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (; – 9 February 1984 ) was a Soviet politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death fifteen months later.

Two days after Leonid Brezhnev's death, on 12 November 1982, Andropov was elected General Secretary of the CPSU, the first former head of the KGB to become General Secretary.

GD purchased Chrysler's defense divisions in 1982, renaming them General Dynamics Land Systems.

In 1982 through the merger of the Insurance Company of North America ( INA ) founded in 1792 and Connecticut General ( CG ) founded in 1865 came together to become CIGNA.

In 1982, 15 Middle Eastern investors bought Financial General Bankshares, a large bank holding company headquartered in Washington, D. C. All the investors were BCCI clients, but the Fed received assurances that BCCI would be in no way involved in the management of the company, which was renamed First American Bankshares.