In 1976 the Mashantucket Pequot brought a successful lawsuit that contested the illegal appropriation of reservation lands by the state of Connecticut.

In March 1970 the ABA-NBA merger appeared close at hand under conditions that would have required the Washington Caps to relocate, but a subsequent lawsuit derailed the merger until June 1976.

In 1983, when GM reintroduced convertibles, 1976 Eldorado owners, who felt they had been deceived, launched an unsuccessful class action lawsuit.

:: After the release of the film Fort Apache, The Bronx, author Thomas Walker filed a lawsuit against one of the production companies, Time-Life Television Films ( legal owner of the script ), claiming that the producers infringed on his book Fort Apache ( New York: Crowell, 1976.

By 1976, Arden was embroiled in a lawsuit with the distraught singer over what she claimed was late payment of money owed to her.

The origins of the Compassionate Investigational New Drug Study program began in 1976 after Robert Randall brought a lawsuit ( Randall v. U. S ) against the Food and Drug Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Health, Education & Welfare.

In 1976, COYOTE, led by St. James, filed a lawsuit against Rhode Island.

At the time, precautions were not taken against this unintended side reaction, which caused also the Seveso disaster in Italy in 1976.

In two referendums, in December 1974 and February 1976, the population of Mayotte voted against independence from France ( by 63. 8 % and 99. 4 % respectively ).

During 1975 – 1976, Mobutu directed the FAZ to intervene in the Angolan Civil War assisting the National Liberation Front of Angola ( FNLA )' s fight against the Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ).

The team won the 1993 Grand Final against Carlton and that same year, Gavin Wanganeen won the Brownlow Medal, the first awarded to an Essendon player since 1976.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

Multiple Hugo-winning fan writer and professor of literature Susan Wood and others organized the " feminist panel " at the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention against considerable resistance.

However, he recovered in the 1976 National League Championship Series to hit for a. 385 batting average against the Philadelphia Phillies.

In 1976, Dalglish scored the winning goal for Scotland at Hampden Park against England, by nutmegging Ray Clemence.

Major League Baseball returned to the city in 1969 with the Royals, who have proven stable and became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs, in 1976, the World Series, in 1980 and to win the World Series, in 1985 against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the " Show-Me Series.

Gunsite, a US firearms training facility, decided against teaching machine pistol firing when it was founded in 1976.

In an October 3, 1976 home game against the Houston Oilers, Hank Stram used the Saints ' road uniforms, the white jerseys and black pants.

Syria was invited into Lebanon by that country's president in 1976, to intervene on the side of the Lebanese government against a rebellion of PLO and Lebanese forces.

The team took the field for the first time on August 1, 1976 in a pre-season game against the San Francisco 49ers in the then newly constructed Kingdome.

Highlights included Johnson earning his 300th career victory, becoming the twenty-fourth pitcher in Major League history to do so, as well as struggling starter Jonathan Sánchez tossing a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres on July 10, the first Giants no-hitter since 1976.

This is also the theme of Taxi Driver ( 1976 ) in which Robert De Niro plays Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle who wages a one man war against society whilst he makes plans to assassinate a presidential candidate.

In 1976, Algeria got involved directly in the conflict, but after a military confrontation at Amgala against the Moroccan Army, Algeria's role became indirect, through political and military support for the Polisario Front.

Humphrey also briefly considered mounting a campaign for the Democratic nomination from the Convention once again in 1976, when the primaries seemed likely to result in a deadlock, but ultimately decided against it.

In 1976, Thurmond appeared in a campaign commercial for incumbent U. S. President Gerald Ford in his race against Thurmond's fellow Southerner, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.

* In the 1976 film Network, the network programming executive played by Faye Dunaway refers to crusading reporter Howard Beale as a " a magnificent messianic figure, inveighing against the hypocrisies of our times, a strip Savonarola, Monday through Friday.

It is now officially claimed by the Communist Party of China that Mao in his last year turned against Jiang Qing and her associates, and that after his death on 9 September 1976, they attempted to seize power ( the same allegation made against Lin Biao in 1971 ).

In 1976, the U. S. Court of Appeals ordered a new trial for Mardian ; subsequently, all charges against him were dropped.

It is argued that Ford's pardon of Nixon played a major role in his defeat in the 1976 presidential election against Jimmy Carter.

Except for brief clashes with Morocco in 1976, the armed forces have not been involved in hostilities against a foreign power.

Lee took the team to the 1976 Football League Cup Final against Manchester City, but failed to bring the trophy back to Tyneside.

The Stylistics ' smooth sound also found an easier path onto adult contemporary airwaves than other soul artists, and the group made Billboard magazine's Easy Listening singles chart twelve times from 1971 to 1976, with three entries (" Betcha by Golly, Wow ", " You Make Me Feel Brand New ", and " You'll Never Get to Heaven ( If You Break My Heart )") reaching the Top 10.

Evert was voted the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year on four occasions and was the first female athlete to be Sports Illustrated magazine's sole recipient of " Sportswoman of the Year " award in 1976.

David Moberg has reported on labor and political economy for In These Times since the magazine's inception in 1976.

The magazine's tagline has evolved over the years from " The Independent Socialist Newspaper " in 1976, to " The Alternative News Magazine " in the early 1990s, to " With liberty and justice for all ..." today.

She was one of the first Indians to be featured on Time magazine's cover, in July 1976, much to the consternation of her contemporaries.

He has won numerous popular and professional awards, including Billboard magazine's Star of the Year trophy in 1976, and has been honoured for lifetime achievement with the German ECHO prize in 1994.

The trio's first single, " Queen of the Silver Dollar " ( written by Shel Silverstein, and originally recorded by Dr. Hook in 1972, and also included on Emmylou Harris ' debut solo album earlier in 1975 ) broke into the Top 25 of Billboard magazine's country singles chart in early 1976.

When Jenette Kahn became DC's publisher in late 1976, she commissioned graphic designer Milton Glaser to design a new logo.

He served as research assistant for libertarian Republican Congressman Ron Paul in Paul's first term ( 1976 ), and he shared a small office with the staunchly Calvinistic political philosopher, John W. Robbins, who later became a noted anti-Van Til, pro-Clark presuppositional apologist, author, and publisher.

On 1 September 1976, David Kraiselburd, the 2-year-old son of Argentine newspaper publisher Paul Kraiselburd, was kidnapped and killed.

* June 7 – Roy Thomson, Canadian publisher ( d. 1976 )

Outraged by a derogatory cartoon published in Hustler in 1976, Kathy Keeton, then girlfriend of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, filed a libel suit against Flynt in Ohio.

* Max Tau ( 1897 – 1976 ), Jewish-German-Norwegian writer, editor and publisher

The Butler Bulletin, serving eastern DeKalb County, Ind., was purchased by KPC Media Group Inc. in December 2005, from publisher Joe Shelton, who founded the newspaper in 1976.

In August 1976 at the Personal Computing show in Atlantic City, Bob Marsh of Processor Technology approached Bob Jones, the publisher of Interface Age magazine, about pressing software onto vinyl records.

In 1970 he also requested and participated in a high level meeting of Chilean businessman and publisher Augustin Edwards Eastman with high Nixon administration officials, after which President Nixon met with then-National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and CIA Director Richard Helms and, in the words of a 1976 New York Times article, said " that Chile was to be saved from Allende and he didn't care much how.

In 1976, Hellman's publisher, Little Brown, canceled its contract to publish a book of Diana Trilling's essays because Trilling refused to delete four passages critical of Hellman.

* Memoirs of a Slave ( 1976 ) by Rene Michel Desergy ( Janus Publications: London ) – a typical example of the many books and magazines fetish publisher Janus produced in the 1970s.

The magazine was launched by Marvin R. Shanken's M. Shanken Communications, the publisher since 1976 of Wine Spectator magazine.

He was the editor of the publisher Móra Ferenc könyvkiadó from 1976.

In its 5th edition it published an article on December 27, 1976 titled “ Two States of Mind — An Evening Discussion with Fou Cong and Professor Liou ” which resulted in the revocation of the publisher ’ s license.

1976 ), publisher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

In 1975 and 1976, obscenity charges were brought against the publisher by prosecutors in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Toronto, Canada.

The organization, founded in 1947 by late West Virginia historian and publisher Jim Comstock, voted to move its offices to the A – B campus in 1976 where it has met annually ever since.

This was to be published in 1976 in Eldritch Tales, but the publisher was unable to publish color photos.

The whole work was finished in 1976, and published in 1981 by the small Scottish publisher Canongate Press.

In 1976 he travelled to Greece where he met James Watt, who was working for a Greek publisher, and who commissioned Korky to illustrate a series of educational books teaching Greek children to speak the ' Queen's English '.

George Reavey ( May 1, 1907 – August 11, 1976 ) was a Russian-born Irish surrealist poet, publisher, translator and art collector.

In early January 1976, the Evening Star Broadcasting Company ’ s WMAL, WMAL-FM and WMAL-TV and majority control of the ailing newspaper were acquired from the Kauffman, Noyes and Adams families by publisher Joseph L. Albritton ’ s Perpetual Corporation and Albritton became board chairman and chief owner of WMAL ’ s license.

Leighton had three husbands: publisher Max Reinhardt ( married 1947-divorced 1955 ); actor Laurence Harvey ( married 1957-divorced 1961 ); and actor Michael Wilding ( married 1964-her death 1976 ).

The term " videophile " was popularised, if not coined, by Tallahasee, Florida-based attorney and writer Jim Lowe, editor and publisher of " The Videophile's Newsletter ," the first issue of which appeared in the summer of 1976.