Although initially willing to stand in the 1984 elections, the UNO, headed by Arturo Cruz ( a former Sandinista ) declined participation in the elections based on their own objections to the restrictions placed on the electoral process by the State of Emergency and the official advisement of President Ronald Reagan's State Department, who feared that their participation would legitimize the election process.

In 1984 Seal flew from Nicaragua to Homestead Air Force Base in Florida with a shipment of cocaine that had been allegedly brokered through the Sandinista government.

Nonetheless, Wilson, Clines and Theodore Shackley ( another former CIA officer ) were all working together with Secord in the summer of 1984 when Oliver North approached Secord to ask for help in buying arms for the " Contras ", a group of armed rebels then trying to overturn the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua.

Thus, the Jesuit priest Fernando Cardenal ( a brother of the poet priest Ernesto Cardenal ), who refused to resign from his position as Minister of Education in the Sandinista government, was expelled from his order in 1984.

In 1984, Greytown was bombarded and destroyed again in a Sandinista – Contra conflict in which the United States, while supporting the Contras, attacked the town on 9 April 1984.

NJA sponsored a 1984 delegation of national Jewish leaders to Nicaragua to examine human rights conditions and investigate U. S. Government allegations of anti-Semitic policies pursued by the Sandinista government.

* 1984 – Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.

Rebel commando groups ( Codos ) in southern Chad were broken up by government massacres in 1984.

Pressure from the U. S. government and critical sectors of Colombian society was met with further violence, as the Medellín Cartel and its hitmen, bribed or murdered numerous public officials, politicians and others who stood in its way by supporting the implementation of extradition of Colombian nationals to the U. S. Victims of cartel violence included Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara, assassinated in 1984, an event which made the Betancur administration begin to directly oppose the drug lords.

1984 — The country's first coalition government, between Sir Thomas and Geoffrey Henry, is signed in the lead up to hosting regional Mini Games in 1985.

In October 1984, it was amended to forbid action by not only the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency but all U. S. government agencies.

" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.

* 1989 – Union Carbide agrees to pay $ 470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.

In early 1984, the PNDC government complained that Côte d ' Ivoire was allowing Ghanaian dissidents to use its territory as a base from which to carry out acts of sabotage against Ghana.

On 3 April 1984, following Toure's death, Lansana Conté, assistant chief of staff of the army, led a military coup which toppled the interim head of government.

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

In 1984, GCHQ was the centre of a political row when the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher prohibited its employees from belonging to a trade union.

Starting in 1984, the government launched a scorched-earth campaign to drive a wedge between the villagers and the guerrillas in the remote areas of two provinces of Kurdistan in which Kurdish guerrillas were active.

Direct funding of the Contras insurgency had been made illegal through the Boland Amendment, the name given to three U. S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984 aimed at limiting US government assistance to the Contras militants.

These implementations included tax reform ; a policy to limit government growth ; the establishment, in 1984, of the Management and Coordination Agency to replace the Administrative Management Agency in the Office of the Prime Minister ; and privatization of the state-owned railroad and telephone systems.

* 1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar.

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.

Meanwhile, on the political front, Prime Minister Rashid Karami, head of a government of national unity set up after the failed peace efforts of 1984, was assassinated on June 1, 1987.

Although no longer a member of the OAU ( Organisation of African Unity ) since November 12, 1984 — following the admission of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as the government of Western Sahara — Morocco remains involved in developing the regional economy, as the city of Casablanca contains North Africa's busiest port and serves as the country's economic center.

In 1984, the OAU seated a delegation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ), the shadow government of the Polisario ; Morocco, consequently, withdrew from the OAU.

In 1984, Mozambique negotiated the Nkomati Accord with P. W. Botha and the South African government, in which Mozambique was to expel the African National Congress in exchange for South Africa stopping support of Renamo.

The primary opposition candidate was the U. S .- backed Arturo Cruz, who succumbed to pressure from the United States government not to take part in the 1984 elections ; later US officials were quoted as saying, " the ( Reagan ) Administration never contemplated letting Cruz stay in the race, because then the Sandinistas could justifiably claim that the elections were legitimate.

American pressure against the government escalated throughout 1983 and 1984, including attacks on Nicaraguan ports and oil installations and the laying of magnetic mines outside Nicaraguan harbours, actions condemned as illegal in 1986 by the International Court of Justice.

An armed conflict between the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party and the Turkish government over this issue has been ongoing since 1984.

# Decides that in adjudicating the dispute brought before it by the Application filed by the Republic of Nicaragua on 9 April 1984, the Court is required to apply the " multilateral treaty reservation " contained in proviso ( c ) to the declaration of acceptance of jurisdiction made under Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Court by the Government of the United States of America deposited on 26 August 1946 ;

Eastwood filed for divorce in 1979 after another long separation, but the $ 25 million divorce settlement was not finalized until May 1984.

In October 1984, Fred L. Worth, author of The Trivia Encyclopedia, Super Trivia, and Super Trivia II, filed a $ 300 million lawsuit against the distributors of Trivial Pursuit.

Their case was ultimately dismissed on May 30, 1984, by which time the owners had already established the Tampa Bay Bandits in the next professional league, the United States Football League ( which incidentally filed their own, more famous antitrust suit against the NFL in 1986 ).

After a lawsuit was filed in 1984, these regulations had to be abandoned, but as a result of collaboration between sheriffs and brothel owners, they remain in effect unofficially.

In 1984 they filed for a divorce, but remained friends.

On June 7, 1984, Victor L. Sayyah filed a lawsuit against the Doumani brothers, their lawyer David Hurwitz, Evans and Orion Pictures for fraud and breach of contract.

Their work resulted in US Patent 4, 548, 082, " Hearing aids, signal supplying apparatus, systems for compensating hearing deficiencies, and methods " by A Maynard Engebretson, Robert E Morley, Jr. and Gerald R Popelka, filed in 1984.

In 1988, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) granted ( filed Jun 22, 1984, issued Apr 12, 1988, expired April 12, 2005 ) to Harvard College claiming “ a transgenic non-human mammal whose germ cells and somatic cells contain a re-combinant activated oncogene sequence introduced into said mammal …” The claim explicitly excluded humans, apparently reflecting moral and legal concerns about patents on human beings, and about modification of the human genome.

* First trial ( filed by Ienaga on January 1, 1984, ruled on October 3, 1989, at Tokyo District Court ): Judge Kato ruled that while the authorization system itself was constitutional, there was a certain abuse of discretion on the part of the Ministry regarding the unconstitutional censoring of the description of soumoutai ( 草莽隊 ), and ordered the state to compensate Ienaga 100, 000 yen.

In March 1984 Norman filed a 15 million dollar lawsuit ( in Manhattan Supreme Court ) against two Manhattan record stores, Mr. Tape and Town Records Store, for distributing unauthorized recordings on both cassette tape and vinyl LP of her performances over the previous 13 years.

In 1984, he filed candidacy papers to oppose U. S. Senator Bennett Johnston, but quickly withdrew from the race, apparently when polls showed the popular Johnston unbeatable even in a potentially national Republican year.

In 1992, Fon Gorji-Dinka, on behalf of the state of Republic of Ambazonia filed a lawsuit against the Republic of Cameroon and President Paul Biya on the main charge of the Republic of Cameroon's illegal and forcible occupation since the 1984 dissolution of the United Republic of Cameroon and the declaration of the Republic of Ambazonia.

* by Alan Adler, filed May 10, 1984, issued December 24, 1985.

This episode ( because of a lawsuit filed by someone claiming they had the idea for the story first ) was not included in the Twilight Zone syndication package until 1984.

Maneka filed her own nomination from her husband ’ s seat, Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, and the election campaign of 1984 was in full swing when her mother in law, Indira was assassinated by her own bodyguards.

However, financing for Tucker fell through when Coppola's production company, American Zoetrope, filed for bankruptcy after the box office failures of One from the Heart ( 1982 ) and The Cotton Club ( 1984 ).

On March 15, 1984, Brown filed as a candidate for the U. S. Senate seat held by Walter " Dee " Huddleston just hours before the filing deadline.

In 1984, he filed a $ 300 million lawsuit against the distributors of the board game Trivial Pursuit, claiming that they had stolen their questions from his books.

In 1984, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed suit against state Commissioner of Education William Kirby on behalf of the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, citing discrimination against students in poor school districts.

The hotel / casino filed bankruptcy in 1984 and then again in 1991, at which time Riklis lost ownership.

Arbogast & Bastian filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on May 11, 1984, citing cash flow issues brought about by " two years of turbulent market conditions in the pork industry ," a labor dispute with the Teamsters labor union and the recent shutdown of A & B's slaughtering operations.

Category: Companies that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1984

* Motobécane, established in 1923, filed for bankruptcy in 1981, ceased manufacturing bicycles after 1984.