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BONN, April 8 The West German Finance Ministry has reached an agreement with American officials for the United States to invest one billion marks in West German Government financial instruments, Finance Ministry sources said today.
It was a good year for the oil business last year in the paycheck as well as at the pump. Raises for the top executives of Big Oil are running well ahead of those being reported for their counterparts in other industries.
WASHINGTON, April 8 The United States urged its allies today to follow the American lead and take strong economic and political measures against Iran to persuade that country to release its American hostages.
New York City's striking transit unions were fined a total of $1 million yesterday for the first eight days of the walkout and were ordered to return to work at once by a justice in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
The tradition of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Circus is to keep smiling through tornadoes, snowstorms and even transit strikes, but there is a grimace under the greasepaint at Madison Square Garden this week.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 9, 1980, covering April 9, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Linda Ronstadt
Billy Joel
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
1980Sarah Ayton, English sailor[†]
Sarah Lianne Ayton is an English former professional sailor.
1980Luciano Galletti, Argentinian footballer[†]
Luciano Martín Galletti is an Argentine retired professional footballer who played as a right winger.
1980Albert Hammond Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Albert Louis Hammond Jr. is an American musician who is a member of the rock band The Strokes. He is best known for his role as rhythm and lead guitarist, as well as occasionally a keyboard player and backing vocalist for the band. Hammond has released extensive solo work, including five solo albums.
1980Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric and philosopher (born 1935)[†]
Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, also known as al-Shahid al-Khamis, was an Iraqi Islamic scholar, philosopher, and the ideological founder of the Islamic Dawa Party. He was the father-in-law to Muqtada al-Sadr, a cousin of Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr and Musa al-Sadr. His father Haydar al-Sadr was a well-respected high-ranking Shi'a cleric. His lineage can be traced back to Muhammad through the seventh Shia Imam Musa al-Kazim. Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was executed in 1980 by the regime of Saddam Hussein along with his sister, Amina Sadr bint al-Huda.
1980The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.[†]
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south, Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Jordan to the southwest, and Syria to the west. The country covers an area of 438,317 square kilometres (169,235 sq mi) and has a population of over 46 million, making it the 58th largest country by area and the 31st most populous in the world. Baghdad, home to over 8 million people, is the capital city and the largest in the country.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]