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Like a great ship moving into a Sargasso Sea, housing activity appears to be heading for the stagnant waters of a decline that may eventually exceed that of the recessionary period of the middle 1970's.
OYSTER BAY SABRINA, a tiny Flicka class sloop, has been bobbing gently in the frigid water of Oyster Bay Marina since last fall. She has weathered the northerlies that have howled across Center Island and ice that has bumped against her sleek hull. Temperatures have dropped occasionally to zero there.
Two recent events have clearly demonstrated that music, traditionally regarded as the least tendentious of the arts, is still subject to severe political control in the Soviet Union.
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.--Since the early 1970's, census estimates have been showing a spreading out of the American population from the cities and suburbs to the countryside, a trend so widespread that authorities now view it as a major ...
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 19, 1980, covering March 23, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Linda Ronstadt
Rush
Heart
1980Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist and academic (born 1928)[†]
Arthur Melvin "Art" Okun was an American economist.
1980Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.[†]
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the Titular Bishop of Tambeae, as Bishop of Santiago de María, and finally as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. As archbishop, Romero spoke out against social injustice and violence amid the escalating conflict between the military government and left-wing insurgents that led to the Salvadoran Civil War. In 1980, Romero was shot by an assassin while celebrating Mass. Though no one was ever convicted for the crime, investigations by the UN-created Truth Commission for El Salvador concluded that Major Roberto D'Aubuisson, a death squad leader and later founder of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) political party, had ordered the killing.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]