He gave the Democratic response to President Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address and served as Chair of the National Governors Association from 1986 to 1987, bringing him to an audience beyond Arkansas.

From 1973 to 1985, he served at SHAPE, NATO's headquarters in Belgium.

In 1985, Kelly served as executive producer and co-host of That's Dancing!

Ashcroft previously served as the 50th Governor of Missouri ( 1985 – 93 ) and as a U. S. Senator from Missouri ( 1995 – 2001 ).

In retirement Fraser served as Chairman of the UN Panel of Eminent Persons on the Role of Transnational Corporations in South Africa 1985, as Co-Chairman of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons on South Africa in 1985 – 86, and as Chairman of the UN Secretary-General's Expert Group on African Commodity Issues in 1989 – 90.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, or Gorbachov ( more accurately reflecting the pronunciation of his name ) (; born 2 March 1931 ), is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991.

" He also served as president of the Paleontological Society ( 1985 – 1986 ) and the Society for the Study of Evolution ( 1990 – 1991 ).

New manager Roger Craig served from 1985 to 1992.

Colorado Party leader Julio María Sanguinetti won the presidency and served from 1985 to 1990.

National elections were held in 1984 ; Colorado Party leader Julio María Sanguinetti won the presidency and, following the brief interim Presidency of Rafael Addiego Bruno, served from 1985 to 1990.

* Kim Dae Jung served one term ( 1976 – 1979 ) and in 1980 was exiled to the United States, but returned in 1985 and became President of South Korea in 1998.

Dave Lewis served until his retirement in 1985.

While leader of opposition, he parted domestic and international interests and served as special mediator of the United Nations in the Iran – Iraq War, but returned to power as Prime Minister after stunning electoral victories in 1982 and 1985.

In 1985, under the Reagan administration, Brzezinski served as a member of the President's Chemical Warfare Commission.

Edwin " Ed " Meese, III ( born December 2, 1931 ) is an attorney, law professor, and author who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration ( 1967 – 1974 ), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team ( 1980 ), and the Reagan White House ( 1981 – 1985 ), eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of the United States ( 1985 – 1988 ).

Car Wars also served as the inspiration for the 1985 video game Autoduel, published by Origin Systems.

Her daughter, Flora Miller Biddle, served as its president until 1985.

One of the most successful teams in Yeshiva University sports history is the fencing team, known as the " Taubermen ", named after the coach of the team, Professor Arthur Tauber, who served as the head coach of the team from 1949 through 1985.

On 13 April 2007, Persson also announced his resignation from the Riksdag ( where he had served 1979 – 1985 and from 1991 ) to be succeeded by Caroline Helmersson Olsson from his native Vingåker.

The Archivist served as a subordinate official to the GSA Administrator until the National Archives and Records Administration became an independent agency on April 1, 1985.

Marshal Lon Nol (; November 13, 1913 – November 17, 1985 ) was a Cambodian politician and general who served as Prime Minister of Cambodia twice, as well as serving repeatedly as Defense Minister.

He served as Minister for Education from 1969 to 1973, as Minister for Housing in 1973 and again from 1974 to 1976 and as Minister for the Environment from 1985 to 1986.

Gerard Schwarz, became music advisor of the orchestra in 1983 and principal conductor in 1984, before being named music director in 1985.

From 1977 to 1983 May worked at the Bank of England, and from 1985 to 1997, as a financial consultant and senior advisor in International Affairs at the Association for Payment Clearing Services.

Around the time of his second novel, he became a literary advisor for Les Editions de Minuit and occupied this position from 1955 until 1985.

In August 1985, Daniels became chief political advisor and liaison to President Ronald Reagan.

The group's association with Ken Livingstone goes back to 1985, when the group's leader, John Ross, became Livingstone's economic advisor.

He worked as a consultant and advisor to Kenny Dalglish for two years from his appointment as player-manager in June 1985, before being appointed as a director.

After retiring from public life in 1975, Allan Grossman served as chairman of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board ( Canada ) until 1984 and he worked on his son's campaigns for the Ontario PC leadership in 1985 and afterwards served as a volunteer advisor to Larry and the Ontario Tory caucus.

He also directed Social Communications for the Archdiocese of Durango, was the diocesan advisor to the Christian Family Movement, and taught ecclesiology at the Pontifical University of Mexico from 1982 to 1985.

Korb served as advisor to the Reagan-Bush election committee in 1980 and was then appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense ( Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and Logistics ) from 1981 to 1985.

Dietz was an outspoken critic of creationism, and was the faculty advisor of two student groups at Arizona State University in 1985, Americans Promoting Evolution Science ( APES ) and the Phoenix Skeptics.

John William Harden ( 1903 – 1985 ) of Greensboro, N. C., journalist, newspaper editor, author, and advisor to North Carolina governors and textile executives, had this to say of the Devil's Tramping Ground:

He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1990, and was later an advisor to the government of Bob Rae.

He was a special advisor to the Secretary of Defense ( 1985 – 1987 ) and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans ( 1993 – 1994 ), where he coordinated strategy and policy towards the states of the former Soviet Union.

She is a member, worker, and advisor of the German Buddhist Union since 1984 and served as spokesperson for the group from 1985 until 1993.

Landry served as president of the New Brunswick Liberal Association and became a trusted advisor, along with her husband, to Frank McKenna upon his election as leader of the party in 1985.

Cradock remained a trusted advisor to then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who appointed him as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee in 1985.

From March 1985 until 1991, he was on the architecture team for OS / 2, development manager for file systems and device drivers, and technical advisor to Paul Maritz.

The group consist of two young instrumentalists, Zael and Brett ( Ryan Kruger ) ( both born in 1985 ), rapper Revren ( born in 1978 ), female lead singer Geneviève Marchesseau ( born in 1975 ) and spiritual advisor Yahoo.

* 2003 – U. S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the in 1985.

Published in Nature in 1985, the study found that predictions based on natal astrology were no better than chance, and that the testing " clearly refutes the astrological hypothesis ".

* 1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord ( CSAL ) in Arkansas

* 1985 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.

A 1973 Yorkshire Television documentary and " A Kind of Alaska ", a 1985 play by Harold Pinter, were also based on Sacks ' book.

In Texas, for example, blue laws prohibited selling housewares such as pots, pans, and washing machines on Sunday until 1985.

The Lord's Day Act, which since 1906 had prohibited business transactions from taking place on Sundays, was struck down as unconstitutional in the 1985 case R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. Calgary police officers witnessed several transactions at the Big M Drug Mart, all of which occurred on a Sunday.

These ex-Libyan Air Force MiG-21 ' Fishbed ' fighters were based in Ouagadougou, although they were actually operated by the Libyan Air Force on loan by Libya, and were removed in 1985 without seeing combat.

" Calvin and Hobbes was first published on November 18, 1985.

* " Burroughs B 5000 Conference, OH 98 ", Oral history on 6 September 1985, Marina del Ray, California.

They were married on Pearl Harbor Day, 1985.

The band played in this style on their first four albums: Bathory ( 1984 ), The Return of the Darkness and Evil ( 1985 ), Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987 ) and Blood Fire Death ( 1988 ).

In 1985, he was honoured with his image on a postage stamp of the United Kingdom, and in 1994 he appeared on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.

It launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 29 July 1985, and landed just under eight days later on 6 August.

STS-51-F's first launch attempt on 12 July 1985 was halted with the countdown at T-3 seconds after main engine ignition, when a malfunction of the number two Space Shuttle Main Engine ( SSME ) coolant valve caused the shutdown of all three main engines.

Challenger launched successfully on its second attempt at 29 July 1985, 17: 00 EDT, after a delay of one hour and 37 minutes due to a problem with the table maintenance block update uplink.

Challenger landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on 6 August 1985, at 12: 45: 26 pm PDT.

The orbiter arrived back at Kennedy Space Center on 11 August 1985.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

Until their win over Occidental on February 22, 2011 the team had not won a game in conference play since 1985.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".