Further deterioration occurred as a result of the Sept. 1, 1983 Soviet shoot down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island carrying 269 people including a sitting US congressman, Larry McDonald, and over Reagan's stationing of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

( 1983 ) The Pulp Western: A Popular History of the Western Fiction Magazine in America.

The Stems were an alternative rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1983 and were heavily influenced by 1960s garage rock and 1970s power pop.

* Blue Max-( GDW, 1983 ) is a multi-player game of World War I aerial combat over the Western Front during 1917 and 1918 with an extremely easy to play mechanism but allow the development of complex strategies.

The Eastern Carpet in the Western World, From the 15th to the 17th century, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1983, ISBN 0-7287-0362-9

The 800 + Mashantucket Pequot or Western Pequot gained federal recognition in 1983 and have a reservation in Ledyard.

In 1981 Iran supported an attempt to overthrow the Bahraini government, in 1983 expressed political support for Shi ' ites who bombed Western embassies in Kuwait, and in 1987 Iranian pilgrims rioted at poor living conditions and treatment during the Hajj ( pilgrimage ) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and were consequently massacred.

Led by Mark Aguirre, original draft pick Brad Davis, Rolando Blackman, Derek Harper, Sam Perkins and Detlef Schrempf, the Mavericks made the playoffs six of seven times from 1983 to 90, winning the Midwest Division in 1986 – 87 and reaching the Western Conference Finals in 1988.

Despite their regular season success, the Spurs were unable to win any NBA championships, losing in the Western Conference playoffs to the Houston Rockets in the first round of the 1981 and the Los Angeles Lakers in in 4 games 1982 and in 6 games in the 1983 Western Finals despite getting both wins at the Forum in the 1983 series.

* John Michael O ' Flynn, Generalissimos of the Western Roman Empire, University of Alberta, 1983, ISBN 0-88864-031-5.

Bruno Nettl ( 1983 ) believes it is a product of Western thinking, proclaiming " ethnomusicology as western culture knows it is actually a western phenomenon.

" Generalissimos of the Western Roman Empire " The University of Alberta Press, 1983.

It was renamed as Danbury State College in 1959, then Western Connecticut State College in 1967, and finally, in 1983, Western Connecticut State University.

The Museum of Western Art ( founded 1983 ) features the work of living artists specializing in the themes of the American West.

The Western Pacific became part of the larger Union Pacific Railroad in 1983.

In 1983, Lost Springs became involved in a court battle with the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company.

The Eastern Carpet in the Western World, From the 15th to the 17th century, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1983, ISBN 0-7287-0362-9

Before entering state politics, Gallop worked as a tutor and lecturer at both Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia, and was a City Councillor at Fremantle from 1983 to 1986.

By 1983 Bevan was expressing a desire to join Black Sabbath permanently and Lynne and Tandy were recording tracks for the Electric Dreams soundtrack under Jeff Lynne's name.

Campbell-Lyons subsequently worked as a solo artist and issued further albums: Me And My Friend, 1973, The Electric Plough, 1981, and The Hero I Might Have Been, 1983, though these did not enjoy commercial success.

According to Dusted Magazine, Sakamoto's use of squelching bounce sounds and mechanical beats was later incorporated in early electro and hip hop music productions such as “ Message II ( Survival )” ( 1982 ) by Melle Mel and Duke Bootee, “ Magic ’ s Wand ” ( 1982 ) by Whodini and Thomas Dolby, Twilight 22 ’ s “ Electric Kingdom ” ( 1983 ), and Kurt Mantronik's Mantronix: The Album ( 1985 ).

* R. M. Black, The History of Electric Wires and Cables, Peter Pergrinus, London 1983 ISBN 0-86341-001-4

This tie, built by General Electric in 1983, can transfer a maximum power of 200 megawatts.

Jodrell Bank also featured heavily in the music video to Electric Light Orchestras 1983 single Secret Messages.

After the fully synthesized album Electric Universe was released in late 1983 to a poor critical and commercial reception, Maurice believed the band needed a break so he put EWF on hiatus.

On his 1983 release, Information, Edmunds collaborated on two songs with Jeff Lynne, the leader of Electric Light Orchestra.

Until 1983, Western Electric telephones and / or their inner mechanical components could only be leased by subscribers and never sold, and so had to be repaired at no charge if they failed.

Compared to " Rockit ", West Street Mob's " Break Dancin ' - Electric Boogie " ( 1983 ) was punk negation.

The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as just NEC.

In 1983 the import of liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) on Free on Board ( FOB ) conditions began as part of the diversification of Japan's energy resources, and MOL, NYK, Kawasaki Steamship, Chubu Electric Power Company, Incorporated and other Japanese electricity and gas companies jointly established two specialized companies, Badak LNG Transport Inc. and Arun, to transport LNG from Indonesia.

* Jimi Hendrix sings about himself escaping from a war torn world with his love Catherina and becoming a merman in the sea in his song " 1983 ... ( A Merman I Should Turn to Be )", from the psychedelic album Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Bev Bevan, the drummer for the Electric Light Orchestra also used rototoms, most notably on the albums Discovery ( 1979 ) and Secret Messages ( 1983 ).

Secret Messages is an album by Electric Light Orchestra, released in 1983 through Jet Records.

Pratt & Whitney and General Electric received contracts for the development and production of prototype engines in September 1983.

Lenkurt, a manufacturer of carrier equipment, was purchased by GT & E in 1959, and held separately from Automatic Electric until 1983, when GTE merged Automatic Electric and Lenkurt into GTE Network Systems, which was quickly renamed GTE Communication Systems when AT & T announced the renaming of Western Electric as AT & T Network Systems.

TEPCO ( Tokyo Electric Power Co .)/ NGK ( NGK Insulators Ltd .) consortium declared their interest in researching the NaS battery in 1983, and have become the primary drivers behind the development of this type ever since.

US West, Inc. was one of seven Regional Bell Operating Companies ( RBOC's, also referred to as " Baby Bells "), created in 1983 under the Modification of Final Judgement ( United States v. Western Electric Co., Inc. 552 Fed.

Kelly Groucutt ( 8 September 1945 – 19 February 2009 ), born Michael William Groucutt, was an English musician who was best known for being the bassist for the English rock band Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ), between 1974 and 1983.

He worked for the City of Calgary Electric System and for Alberta Government Telephones and then in 1983 started a small construction company.

In 1983, General Electric sold the KOA radio stations to A. H. Belo for $ 22 million.