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Given the fact--as pointed out in this section recently--that every first-line American orchestra and many below that level are led by foreign-born conductors, what chance is there for the aspiring young American conductor? Right now, one is forced to conclude, the obstacles seem severe.
THE Power Authority of the State of New York agreed informally last week to notify Westchester County authori ties through a standard warning system of any "seismic event" at the Indian Point nuclear power facility, rather than limit such notification to serious tremors or those having an adverse affect on the plant.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26--The United States expressed concern today that Vietnamese forces may be planning a military operation within a week to disperse the hundreds of thousands of Cambodian refugees in camps just inside the Thailand border.
BRIDGEPORT VALERIE LOMAX, a working mother with six young children, sews most of her own clothing and does without movies and dining out. These and other modest sacrifices that have become a part of her daily routine reflect Mrs. Lomax's determination to educate her oldest daughter at Kolbe-Cathedral, a small and unusual Roman Catholic high school in this industrial city.
When top officers of Santa Fe Industries journeyed from Chicago last week to address financial analysts in New York, same executives who routinely made the trip in years past had to stay home. And the five who did come--including the chairman and president of the $2.6 billion conglomerate--flew economy class.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 23, 1980, covering January 27, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Eagles
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Donna Summer
Bee Gees
1980Chanda Gunn, American ice hockey player and coach[â ]
Chanda Leigh Gunn is an American ice hockey player. She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. At the games in Turin, she played close to 250 minutes and had 50 saves with a save percentage of 89.3%.
1980Marat Safin, Russian tennis player and politician[â ]
Marat Mubinovich Safin is a Russian former professional tennis player and former politician. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for nine weeks. Safin won 15 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including two majors at the 2000 US Open and 2005 Australian Open, and helped lead Russia to Davis Cup titles in 2002 and 2006.
1980JiĆĂ Welsch, Czech basketball player[â ]
JiĆĂ Welsch is a Czech former professional basketball player for BK Pardubice of the Czech Republic National Basketball League. He has also represented the senior Czech Republic national basketball team. Welsch has played in the National Basketball Association in the United States, having been drafted in 2002 by the Philadelphia 76ers.
1980Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.[â ]
The Iran hostage crisis began on November 4, 1979, when 66 Americans, including diplomats and other civilian personnel, were taken hostage at the Embassy of the United States in Tehran, with 52 of them being held until January 20, 1981. The incident occurred after the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line stormed and occupied the building in the months following the Iranian Revolution. With support from Ruhollah Khomeini, who had led the Iranian Revolution and would eventually establish the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, the hostage-takers demanded that the United States extradite Iranian king Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who had been granted asylum by the Carter administration for cancer treatment. Notable among the assailants were Hossein Dehghan, Mohammad Ali Jafari, and Mohammad Bagheri. The hostage crisis was a pivotal episode in the history of IranâUnited States relations, formally sparking the ongoing IranâUnited States conflict. After 444 days, it came to an end with the signing of the Algiers Accords between the Iranian and American governments; Iran's king had died in Cairo, Egypt, on July 27, 1980.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[â ]