The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

The Glock 18 is a selective-fire variant of the Glock 17, developed in 1987 at the request of the Austrian counter-terrorist unit EKO Cobra.

• In 1987, at the request of John Lydon, British designer and illustrator Richard Evans produced a homage to Hundertwasser for the cover of Public Image Limited's album Happy ?.

A year later, 1987 Defensive Player of the Year winner Michael Cooper decided to play in Europe and was waived at his request.

Between 1987 and 1989 Bryan Talbot completed the story, which was published as a series of nine standard comic books by Valkyrie Press, followed, at readers ' request, by a tenth issue containing articles about the history and production of the comic and some extended back story and character information.

In 1987, at the request of devotees, Amritanandamayi began to conduct programs in countries throughout the world.

President Reagan agreed to the Kuwaiti request on 10 March 1987, hoping it would deter Iranian attacks.

In June 2002, the bodies of both Lavoe and his son ( who died in 1987 ) were exhumed per his family's request.

Newhouse forced Shawn out in February 1987, and — after reportedly telling Shawn that he would honor his request to name his deputy Charles McGrath to succeed him — replaced Shawn with Robert Gottlieb, the editor-in-chief at the well-regarded book publisher Alfred A. Knopf.

The THAAD missile defense concept was proposed in 1987, with a formal request for proposals submitted to industry in 1990.

In 1987 after a formal request of its chairman Omar Fontana, Brazilian government took over Transbrasil management.

The current high-definition video standards in North America were developed during the course of the advanced television process initiated by the Federal Communications Commission in 1987 at the request of American broadcasters.

Suzi Lovegrove ( 1955 – 1987 ) was an HIV-positive American-born woman whose battle with AIDS was chronicled in a landmark television documentary made at her request, entitled Suzi's Story, which premiered on Australian television in 1987.

The request was removed when Kids ' Writes ceased production in 1983 ; reruns were aired on Nickelodeon until 1987.

In 1987, the Indian government agreed to a Sri Lankan request and the Indian Peace Keeping Force was sent to Jaffna to disarm the LTTE.

* 4. 50 from Paddington ( 1987 )

The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

* 1987 – The U. S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.

Morita received the International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award from the University of Manitoba in 1987.

Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.

She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010.

* Telecom New Zealand — Operated an AMPS / TDMA network in New Zealand from 1987 until 2007 throughout the whole country and the network was renowned for its superb coverage, In 2000 Telecom announced that they would discontinue the AMPS network within 5 years ( 2005 ) to give customers an opportunity to transition to the CDMA2000 and later 1XRTT technologies that replaced it.

* Telstra ( formerly Telecom Australia )-operated an AMPS network in Australia from February 1987 until the end of 2000.

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.

His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won the Palme D ' or, Academy Award and Golden Globe.

One of the other songs from the project called " European Boy " was recorded in 1987 by disco group Splash.

In 1987, an internal report from Dubna indicated that the team had been able to detect the spontaneous fission of < sup > 261 </ sup > Bh directly.

Previous radio flagships for the Orioles have been WCBM from 1954 to 1956, and again for the 1987 season ; and the now-defunct WFBR from 1979 through 1986.

The comic also ran A4-sized Beano Specials in 1987 with full coloured pages, which later were replaced by Beano Superstars which ran for 121 issues from 1992-2002.

Retaining their Argentine interests ( 44 companies, by the 1980s ), the families continued to suffer from ongoing disputes, and in 1987, CEO Mario Hirsch died suddenly.

in Environmental Sciences and a 1987 Ph. D. in Climatology from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.

* Capital Airlines ( UK ), an airline operating from the UK from 1987 to 1992

A cease-fire between Chad and Libya held from 1987 to 1988, and negotiations over the next several years led to the 1994 International Court of Justice decision granting Chad sovereignty over the Aouzou strip, effectively ending Libyan occupation.

The percentage of Chileans with household incomes below the poverty line – defined as twice the cost of satisfying a person's minimal nutritional needs – fell from 45. 1 % in 1987 to 13. 7 % in 2006, according to government polls.

( The government constructs the poverty line based on an outdated 1987 household consumption poll, instead of more recent polls from 1997 or 2007 ).

Love briefly played bass in Bjelland's group Babes In Toyland in 1987 before being ejected from the band.

In 1987, Charles provided the poem track used for the opening credits of the BBC series The Marksman, which he also acted in, and the track is included on the album " The Marksman: Music from the BBC TV series ".

* 1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U. S .- funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.

After years of extensive lobbying for federal dollars, a 1987 public works bill appropriating funding for the Big Dig was passed by U. S. Congress, but it was subsequently vetoed by President Ronald Reagan as being too expensive.

( 1987 ) Uranometria 2000. 0, Willmann-Bell, Inc., Richmond, Virginia, U. S. A., 3 volumes, hardcover.

Released in October 1987, it became a breakthrough hit for Eric B & Rakim outside the U. S., reaching # 15 in the UK and the top 20 in a number of European countries.

The American version was released on VHS by GoodTimes Entertainment ( which acquired the license of some of Universal's film catalogue ) in 1987, and then on DVD to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the film's U. S release in 1998.

* 1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U. S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

* Wolff, John U. 1987.

He graduated on May 27, 1987, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force.

Tourist arrivals and foreign exchange earnings derived from tourism have steadily increased since the 1987 watershed, in which there was growth from the previous year of, respectively, 30 % and 63 % ( increase in terms of U. S. dollars ).

Classical studies were Making news – A study in the construction of reality by Gaye Tuchman ( 1978 ), Deciding what ’ s news ( at CBS & NBC, Time and Newsweek ) by Herbert J. Gans ( 1979 ) in the U. S., and Putting ‘ reality ’ together – BBC news by Philip Schlesinger ( 1987 ).

* 1987 – An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U. S. Navy warship, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.

Visiting the U. S. for the first time in 1987, Raisa irked Reagan with lectures on subjects ranging from architecture to socialism, reportedly prompting the American President's wife to quip, " Who does that dame think she is?

* 1987 – Iran-Contra Affair: the U. S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra Affair.

* 1900 – Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni, American humanitarian, co-founder of U. S. Committee for UNICEF ( d. 1987 )

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

Then-Delaware Senator and presidential candidate-and future U. S. Vice President-Joe Biden plagiarized lines from the speech for his own campaign speeches in the summer of 1987.

After the 1986 Reykjavik summit between U. S. President Ronald Reagan and the new Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the United States and the Soviet Union concluded two important nuclear arms reduction treaties: the INF Treaty ( 1987 ) and START I ( 1991 ).

" Birth of the U. S. biological warfare program " Scientific American 256: 116 – 121, 1987.

The United States froze economic and military assistance to Panama in the summer of 1987 in response to the domestic political crisis and an attack on the U. S. embassy.

* 1987: "( I've Had ) The Time of My Life " with Jennifer Warnes — # 1 U. S. ( Pop and AC ) ( Gold ), # 6 UK

Entertainment Publishing released an eleven issue series of one-and two-part stories from January 1987 to September 1988 that updated U. N. C. L. E.

The film also had impact outside the U. S. In 1987, during the era of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, the film was shown on Soviet television.

See e. g. South Dakota v. Dole, 483 U. S. 203 ( 1987 ).