* 1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.

Pace continued sponsoring racing events, and now sponsored all Aston Martin Owners Club events, taking a Tickford-engined Nimrod Group C car owned by AMOC President Viscount Downe, which came third in the Manufacturers Championship in both 1982 and 1983.

On January 8, 1982, just before the case was to be heard by the U. S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan authorized his Treasury and Justice Departments to ask that the BJU case be dropped and that the previous court decisions be vacated.

President Ronald Reagan in 1982

Features a 1982 conversation between Guattari and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former President of Brazil.

* 1885 – Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Harry S. Truman ( d. 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.

In August 1982 President Hussein stated to a visiting U. S. Congressman that " a secure state is necessary for both Israel and the Palestinians.

" Iraq did not oppose then President Reagan's September 1, 1982 Arab-Israeli peace initiative, and it supported the moderate Arab position at the Fez summit that same month.

Rau twice served as President of the Bundesrat in 1982 / 83 and 1994 / 95, and thus deputised for the Federal President.

* 1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U. S. President Ronald Reagan.

It emerged during the campaign that what Lenihan had told friends and insiders in private flatly contradicted his public statements on a controversial effort in 1982 by the then opposition Fianna Fáil to pressure President Hillery into refusing a parliamentary dissolution to then Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald ; Hillery had resolutely rejected the pressure.

* 1982 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.

However in 1982 Thatcher wrote to President Reagan to request the United Kingdom be allowed to procure the Trident II ( Trident D5 ) system, the procurement of which had been accelerated by the US Navy.

Other early critically received ( yet unbuilt ) projects included the Parc de la Villette, Paris ( 1982 ) and the residence for the President of Ireland ( 1981 ).

Columbia astronauts Ken Mattingly | Thomas K. Mattingly and Pilot Henry Hartsfield salute President Ronald Reagan, standing beside his wife, Nancy Reagan | Nancy, upon landing in 1982.

However in 1982 Thatcher wrote to President Reagan to request the United Kingdom be allowed to procure the Trident II system, the procurement of which had been accelerated by the US Navy.

Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (; 3 September 1900-31 August 1986 ), was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland ( 1950 – 1953, 1954 – 1956 ) and later as the eighth and longest-serving President of Finland ( 1956 – 1982 ).

The 80-year-old President then began to seriously consider resigning, most likely in early 1982.

* October 29 – Stanislaw Ostrowski, former President of Poland ( d. 1982 )

Before 1982, the excutive of a department was the prefect ( préfet ) who represents the Government of France in each department and is appointed by the President of France.

But on January 31, 1982, in his 80's, and after 63 years of service to his country under 13 presidents ( Woodrow Wilson through Ronald Reagan ), Rickover was forced to retire from the Navy as a full admiral by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, with the knowledge and consent of President Reagan.

Jaffe continued to explore the musical and technical possibilities of the algorithm in Silicon Valley Breakdown, for computer-generated plucked strings ( 1982 ), as well as in later works such as Telegram to the President, 1984 for string quartet and tape, and Grass for female chorus and tape ( 1987 ).

Senator Schmitt with then-President Ronald Reagan in Roswell, New Mexico, October 1982

The Frasers and Ronald Reagan | Reagans at the White House in 1982.

* 1982 – Ronald Pognon, French sprinter

* The Letter ( 1982 ) featuring Lee Remick, Jack Thompson and Ronald Pickup.

A later edition in English, " Zosimus: New History " a translation with commentary by Ronald T. Ridley, was published in 1982 by the Australian Association of Byzantine Studies.

The text of the first page of Ronald Reagan's first State of the Union Address, given January 26, 1982.

In 1982 President Ronald Reagan also saw that the Six Assurances were adopted, the fifth being that the United States would not formally recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan.

In addition to the many impressed critics, President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan were moved by the film after a screening at the White House on June 27, 1982.

by Ronald W. Pruessen ( 1982 ), The Free Press ISBN 0-02-925460-4

Howard did not publish an autobiography, although a compilation of his writings, Trivial Fond Records, edited and with occasional comments by his son Ronald, was published in 1982.

* Ronald Rice and William Paisley, " The Green Thumb videotex experiment ", Telecommunications Policy, September 1982 </ ref >

In 1982 the wildcats varsity football 1A team beat oakgrove the 2A state champs that year. Seniors that year was Edwin Martin Tim Sanford Keath Wyers Dewayne Barrentine and Ronald Ranes.

* Davis, Ronald L. F. Good and Faithful Labor: from Slavery to Sharecropping in the Natchez District 1860-1890, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.

* 1982: Philip Cadwallader, Jay Howell, Marlene Hultman, Ronald Siddell, Roland Stemmer, Monte Wolff, David Braathen

Founded in 1982, WCCN was originally called the " Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua " and was active in the US-Nicaragua " sister city " movement, which promoted people-to-people projects and locally based " municipal foreign policies " by individual U. S. cities as an alternative to the militaristic foreign policy of the U. S. government under President Ronald Reagan.

Donald Knuth and Ronald W. Moore refined the algorithm in 1975 and Judea Pearl proved its optimality in 1982.

The House of Representatives passed the Defense Appropriations Act 411-0 on December 8, 1982 and it was signed by President Ronald Reagan on December 21, 1982.

On 4 January 1982, Reagan signed the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 ( NSDD-17 ), giving the CIA the authority to recruit and support the contras with $ 19 million in military aid.

One of Kemp's more trying times as a congressman came in 1982 when Reagan decided to reverse the tax cuts and promote tax increases.

Reagan supported the reforms at Dole's request, causing Kemp to summon allies to meetings to stop the act, which eventually passed in 1982.

During the re-ignition of Cold War tensions in 1982, the U. S. Congress during Reagan Administration established the Baltic Freedom Day to be remembered every June 14 in the United States.

Nancy Reagan launched the " Just Say No " drug awareness campaign in 1982, which was her primary project and major initiative as first lady.

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

Reagan followed his 1981 tax cuts with the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which sought to eliminate deductions, lower marginal rates for the wealthy, and significantly raise taxes on those earning less than $ 50, 000 In 1982 Reagan agreed to a rollback of corporate tax cuts and a smaller rollback of individual income tax cuts.

Some sources incorrectly refer to the June 1982 speech before the British House of Commons as the " Evil Empire " speech, but while Reagan referred twice to totalitarianism in his London speech, the exact phrase " evil empire " did not appear in any speech until later in his Presidency.

The Reagan service, introduced in 1982, was modeled on Woodrow Wilson's and selected by Nancy Reagan.