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WASHINGTON, March 12 The House of Representatives today narrowly rejected a symbolic gesture to recommend that revenues from the tax on "windfall" oil company profits be spent on energy production and related matters.
WILL Duncan Phyfe's Federal furniture nose out Chippendale in the decade ahead, reclaiming the place it held a half century ago as the most popular American style among antiques collectors?
WASHINGTON, March 12 President Carter is asking American companies to withhold voluntarily $20 million to $30 million of exports to the Soviet Union related to the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, the Commerce Department said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 12, 1980, covering March 13, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Dan Fogelberg
Rush
Linda Ronstadt
1980Caron Butler, American basketball player[†]
James Caron Butler is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. During his 14-year NBA career, he played for the Miami Heat, Los Angeles Lakers, Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Clippers, Milwaukee Bucks, Oklahoma City Thunder, Detroit Pistons, and Sacramento Kings. Butler is a two-time NBA All-Star. He was the 2002 Big East Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year while playing for the Connecticut Huskies.
1980Brad Watts, Australian rugby league player[†]
Brad Watts is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who competed in the National Rugby League. He played for the Melbourne Storm from 1999 to 2001, then for the South Sydney Rabbitohs from 2002 to 2005. Watts also played with the Widnes Vikings club in the then Super League in 2005. He usually played fullback, but later moved to halfback.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]