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Show Page 22—THE HERALD, Provo. Utah, Thursday, January 3, 1980 Chronological List of 1979 Major Events — Continued April 12 — South Africa ousts three U.S. embassyaides charging use of ambassador's plane for aerial spying. April plant. March 31 — Federal experts say Three Mile Island plant slowly cooling downbutstill in “‘crisis'’. Eighteen Arab countries and PLO, meeting in Baghdad. agree tocutall ties with Egypt because of Israeli treaty. April 1 — Cartervisits Three Mile Island, is told conditions stable Brotherhood of Teamsters calls strike against selected comapnies nationwide. April 2 — Officials say nuclear plant hazards abating. Trucking industry say lockout of 300,000 drivers in response to strike is proceeding April 3 — Three Mile plant faces shutdownas long as four years. Jane M. Byrne sweeps into office as Chicago mayor. April 4 — Former Pakistani PrimeMinister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanged at Rawalpindi for murder lot on political opponent in 1974 Navestigators say human and machine errors helped cause Three Mile trouble. April 5 — Carter tells nation he will lift price controls on crude oil and ask Congressfor tax on windfall profits of producers, warns Americans must chaiige living and working habits. April 6 — Reports that Pakistan is acquiring ability to make nuclear weapons cause U.S. to cut off economic and military aid. April 7 — Former Iranian Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida executed in pies where 1,300 figures from Shah’s fallen regime await trial. April 8 — Pakistan denies trying to develop nuclear weapons, denounces U.S. aid cutoff. Thousandsof rural residents near Crestview, Fla., evacuated after railroad cars carrying acetone explode and burn in deraillment. April 9 — Government expert declares Three Mile crisis over; governor says it safe for pregnant women and young children to return. Pope, in letter to priests, reaffirms celibacy rule. “The Deer Hunter” wins best picture Oscar, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda best actor and actress in ‘‘Coming Home.” April 10 — Teamsters and industry settle contract dispute that shut down much ofnation’s truck traffic for 10 days. April 11 — Invading force of Tanzanian soldiers and Ugandan exiles captures Kampala, capital of Uganda, after 5-2 months of war, toppling President Idi Amin and ending eight years of murderous mule. 13 — New provisional governmenttakes office in Uganda Amin’s whereabouts unknown. April 15 — Pearl River floods Jackson, Miss. leaving businesses in capital abandoned; 15.000 leave homes. Yugoslav earthquakelevels villages, kills and injures hundreds. April 18 — Actor Lee Marvin ordered to pay $104 000 “rehabilitation” to singer Michelle Triola Marvin, with whom helived six years; court rejects her claim to half the $3.6 million he earned May5 — British Prime Minister Thatcher names cabinet balanced between rightwingers and moderates. May 6 — More than 65.000 march guilty of voluntary manslaughter in 1978 killings of Mayor George Moscone and Superviser Harvey Milk; was charged withfirst-degree murder and prosecutor asked death in Washington in largest demonstra- penalty tion nation has seen against nuclear power. May 9 — U.S. and Soviet reach basic agreement on strategic arms treaty; Carter faces Senate fight over approvai May 10 — House votes down Carter's standby plan for gasoline rationing in stunning defeat May 11 — Off-shore oil-drilling Lebanon in reprisal for guerrilla raid on Israel apartmentbuilding. April 24 — Bishop Abel Muzorewa’s party winnerin Rhodesian election, has bare majority in country’s first black-dominated Parliament. April 25 — Carter in New Hampshire town meeting warns of gasoline shortages starting in summerandof continued inflation. April 26 — Truce between Israel and Palestinian guerrillas ends four days of bombardmentthatkilled 57 in Lebanon. April 27 — White House announces exchangeof twoSovietspiesforfive dissidents released from Soviet risons. April 29 — Jaime Roldos Aguilera, Populist leader, wins Ecuador presidential elections by wide margin; pledged to lead country back to democratic government after nine years of dictatorships. April 30 Carter says Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's charge that his energyplanis surrenderto oilinterests is ‘‘a lot of boloney.”” May 1 — George Bush, former Central Intelligence director, declares presidental candidacy as Republican. May 2 — Energy department accuses seven large oil companies of overcharging refiners by $1.7 billion in six years; companies denyit. May 3 — Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party win British generalelection; first woman prime minister of major European nation. May4 — California Gov. Edmund Brown proposes emergency oddeven plan to deal with long motorist gasclinelines. Announcing Our Annual Winter SALE San Francisco policemen. Management and Budget Director, May 13 — Khomeini decrees Ira- and three associates in 33-count bank conspiracy that indictmentalleges continued after Carter's close friend went to Washington May 24 — Cautious Memorial Holiday travel begins with some nian death sentences belimited to those ‘‘proven to have killed States suffering extreme gasoline shortages. Eaton, 9. dies May 12 — BarbaraHutton, 66. oftmarried heiress dies in Los Angeles merely because sie lives with man not her husband. April 22 — Israel ships shell Palestinian guerrilla bases in minister. May 23 — Federal grand juryin Atlanta charges Bert Lance, former main missing. not morally unfit to practice law prime demonstrations over Dan White verdict injure 140, including 60 near Galveston with 34 aboard; 8 re- Supreme Court rules journalists in Court rules an unmarried womanis 11 yearsas leader for Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; Joe Clark, 39, will become youngest Canadian platform collapses in Gulf of Mexico libel suits can be required to disclose opinion held in preparing material. April 20 — Virginia Supreme May 22 — Progressive Conservative Partyvictory in Canada ends Industrialist Cyrus People.’ May14 — Senator Kennedy otfers broad health care plan and challenges Carter to support it. Sen. Robert Dole, RKan., announces presidential candidacy. May 15 — Carter says public refuses ‘‘to face the inevitable prospect of fuel shortages."’ May 16 — House approvesbill to protect 125 million acres of federal landsin Alaska. A. Philip Randolph, 90, labor chief and a founderofcivil rights movement. dies. May 18 — Federal jury in Oklahoma City awards $10.5 million damages to estate of Karen Silkwood, iaboratory technician con- taminated by radiation in 1974 in plutonium plant. May 21 — Jury finds former San Francisco superviser Dan White May 25 — American Airlines DC10 crashes shortly after takeoff in Chicago killing 271 aboard and two on ground; worstair disasterinside U.S May 27 — Sadat and Begin announce borders are open between Egypt and Israel. May 28 — Greece becomes 10th member of Western Europe's Common Market. May 29 — FAAorders temporary grounding pending inspection ofall DC-10 airliners owned by American companies. Mary Pickford, 86. “‘America’s Sweetheart” of silent film era, dies of stroke. May 31 — Federal judge in Washington rules Carter's efforts to enforce wage-price guidelines through government purchasing powerare unlawful; White House to Carryon with voluntary standards. June 1 — Nicaraguan Sandista guerrilla movement opens major drive to overthrow Somoza regime June 2 in PaulIl. in first visit by a pope to a Communist country returns home to Poland to tumultuous welcome. National Democratic Front in Iran accuses Khomeini of dictatorship. June 3 — Pope, in Poland. pledges his solidarity with Christians of Poland's Sovietbloc neighbers. June 4 — South African President John Vorster resigns as report is released accusing him of giving false information on government Spending of secret funds June 5 — Roof of $13.4 million award-winning Kemper Arena in Kansas City. Mo. collapses in heavy rain and high winds; was empty ex- cept for few maintenance men and no one injured. Pope calls on Poland's Communist governmentto Guarantee religious liberty. June 6 — Governmentorders immediate halt to flights of ali 138 American DC-10 jets in response to May 25 Chicago crash; travel disrupted for 60.000. June 7 — Pope prays for peace at Auschwitz concentration campfrom altar overtrain tracks that bore millions to their deaths. June 8 — Mexican oil well off Yucatan peninsula blew out and has been pouring 45.000 barrels a day into gulf for five days. Iranian government takes control of nation's private banks. June 9 — Pope assails Polish leaders for treating people ‘‘merely as a means of production.”’ June 10 — Popeends ninedayvisit to Poland with mass before a million people, calling pilgrimage ‘‘an act of courage on both sides.” June 11 — Actor John Wayne. 72, dies of cancer in Los Angeles. June 12 — Carter proposes national health program paying average family’s illness bills above $2.500 a year costing $18.2 in federal funds and $6.1 billion in employeremployee contributions. American Bryan Allen pedals flying machine across English channel. June 13 — Carter asks for $1.6 fund to fight chemical waste hazards. June 14 — Independent truckers effect stoppagesin 37 states in campaign ‘or help on diesel fuel and other problems, claim halting of 60 percentof national non-fleet. long- ul trucks. June 17 — LeverettSaltonstall. 86, dies — three-time governor of Massachusetts and for 22 years a U.S. Senator June 18 — Carter and Soviei leader Leonid 1. Brezhnev sign strategic arms control treaty in Viennaafter six years of U.S.Soviet Negotiations; leaders embrace and kiss Russianstyle; Carter urges Congress support. June 19 — Billy Martin gets twominute ovation on return to New York Yankees for second managerial tenure. June 20 — Odd-evengasoline sales system, in effect since May 9 in California, spreads to East Coast, Texas, other states; panic buying and tanktopping widespread. To be continued in Friday’sedition of The Daily Herald. New KentIII 1005. 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