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The Federal Government yesterday suspended all futures trading in wheat, corn, oats, soybeans, soybean oil and soybean meal today and tomorrow.
ATLANTA, Ga.--Those large, white, parabolic antenna dishes anchored so incongruously out on the lawn in front of Scientific Atlanta's headquarters are perhaps the most arrestingly appropriate symbol of the recent change that has taken place in the company's fortunes.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6--A survey of Federal prosecutors shows that most of them refuse to prosecute certain crimes because of secret written criteria that vary substantially from one prosecutor's office to another.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 6--In a bid for third world and especially Islamic support, the chief American representative here warned today that all ...
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 2, 1980, covering January 7, 1980.
Donna Summer
Bee Gees
Styx
Stevie Wonder
Eagles
1980Reece Simmonds, Australian rugby league player[†]
Reece Simmonds is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He was born in Sydney, and played in the National Rugby League (NRL) for the St George Illawarra Dragons and the South Sydney Rabbitohs (2007).
1980U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.[†]
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia and from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate. He was the longest-lived president in U.S. history and the first to reach the age of 100.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]