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February 26, 1980

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Historical Context for February 26, 1980

In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people^[†]

Notable Births

1980Steve Blake, American basketball player^[†]

Steven Hanson Blake is an American professional basketball coach and former player. After winning the 2002 NCAA Championship with Maryland, Blake was selected by the Washington Wizards with the 38th overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft. Over his 13-year NBA career, Blake had stints with the Wizards, Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State Warriors, Detroit Pistons, and three stints with the Portland Trail Blazers.

Historical Events

1980Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.^[†]

Foreign relations between Egypt and Israel, which dated back to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War culminated in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, and was followed by the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty a year after the Camp David Accords, mediated by U.S. president Jimmy Carter. Full diplomatic relations were established on January 26, 1980, and the formal exchange of ambassadors took place one month later, on February 26, 1980, with Eliyahu Ben-Elissar serving as the first Israeli Ambassador to Egypt, and Saad Mortada as the first Egyptian Ambassador to Israel. Egypt has an embassy in Tel Aviv and a consulate in Eilat. Israel has an embassy in Cairo and a consulate in Alexandria. Their shared border has two official crossings, one at Taba and one at Nitzana. The crossing at Nitzana is for commercial and tourist traffic only. The two countries' borders also meet at the shoreline of the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea.

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Headlines from February 26, 1980

BUSINESS Digest; The Economy Markets Companies Today's Columns

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New Hampshire Hears the Final Vows; Beginnings in 1978 NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY History The State Delegates Candidates Turnout Eligible Voters Procedure Results Television

By Francis X. Clines Special To the New York Times

CONCORD, N.H., Feb. 25 Final pleas and promises were put to New Hampshire voters today by a weary field of candidates on the eve of the first major preference primary of the 1980 Presidential campaign.

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JAVITS A CANDIDATE IN SPITE OF ILLNESS; DECISION 'AGONIZING'; VIEWS 5TH-TERM RACE AS DUTY Nerve Disease Restricts Walking, Senator Says, but 'State of Nation' Persuaded Him Opposition Threatened Report on His Health Javits to Seek a Fifth Term in Senate in Spite of Illness Some Chilly Reactions Democrats Will Seek Seat Only Two Aides Knew

By Maurice Carroll

Senator Jacob K. Javits announced yesterday that he would seek a fifth term, an "agonizing decision" that he said he had reached only the night before.

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The Shrinking Power of Big Oil; OPEC Moves Turn Tables On '7 Sisters' 'Jam in the Sandwich' The Shrinking Power of the '7 Sisters' More Tankers for Majors

By Robert D. Hershey Jr. Special To the New York Times

LONDON, Feb. 25 As recently as eight years ago, when few people in the West had ever heard of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the major international oil companies had a near stranglehold on the business.

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News Summary; International National Metropolitan

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ABOUT EDUCATION Stanford Joins In Core Reform; About Education

By Fred M. Hechinger

STANFORD, CALIF. ALL eyes turned to Harvard last year when it an nounced the first major revision of its undergraduate curriculum since 1945. The news from Cambridge made it clear that the "core curriculum" a requirement that all undergraduates study certain topics had been rediscovered. And when Harvard speaks, academic people listen.

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Treasury Note Yields Pass 14%; Credit Markets Resume Decline; Issues Disrupted One-Year Bills Auction CREDIT MARKETS Treasury Note Issues To Yield More Than 14%

By John H. Allan

The Treasury sold short-term securities yesterday that will give investors yields higher than 14 percent, another record rate of return as the credit markets resumed their relentless decline.

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CORRECTION

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Carter Calls Inflation a 'Crisis'; Policy Under Review; Carter Calls Inflation a 'Crisis'

By Edward Cowan Special To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 President Carter declared today that inflation, which he linked with the failure of Congress to adopt a comprehensive energy policy, had "reached a crisis stage."

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Unarmed Guard Is Killed in Bronx Robbery; Two Others Wounded as Two Gunmen Steal Payroll of $53,353 Unarmed Guard Killed in Robbery

By Robert D. McFadden

An unarmed security guard was killed and two armored truck guards were critically wounded by two gunmen yesterday afternoon during a robbery in a Korvettes department store in the Bronx. The police said the killers escaped with a $53,353 payroll.

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Microwave Threat Stalls Trade Center TV Tower; 'Acceptable Level' Undefined Several Options Considered

By Edward Schumacher

The operation of powerful television transmitters on top of One World Trade Center has been delayed because of concern that the microwave transmissions might prove hazardous to sightseers and office workers on the top floors of the companion tower.

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SOVIET COMMANDER APPEARS IN CHARGE IN AFGHAN CAPITAL; STRIKES IN KABUL CONTINUING Government Is Virtually Paralyzed as Civil Servants Shun Appeal to Go Back to Their Jobs Troops Patrolling the City Soviet Army Seems to Take Reins From a Paralyzed Afghan Regime

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KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 25 With anti-Soviet strikes continuing, the Government of President Babrak Karmal was virtually paralyzed today, and the Soviet military commander appeared to have taken charge.

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