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HAVANA, April 13 Peruvian diplomats continued to meet today with officials from other Latin American countries here, seeking help in placing the more than 10,000 Cubans who sought asylum in Peru's Embassy.
WASHINGTON, April 13 The signs are that an economic recession has begun or soon will begin. The Administration denies that it has deliberately courted a general slump in spending, production and jobs, but that seems to ...
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., April 13 The Cosmos scored a 2-1 shootout victory over the Minnesota Kicks today in a game that lacked excitement and drew 51,225 fans to Giants Stadium, about 20,000 fewer than at last season's home opener.
PHOENIX Many of the growing cities in the Southwest, whose sizes, shapes and characters have been determined largely by the easy mobility of the automobile, have begun to think about a future without cheap gasoline.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 9, 1980, covering April 14, 1980.
Pink Floyd
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Linda Ronstadt
Billy Joel
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
1980Win Butler, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Edwin Farnham Butler III is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. He co-founded the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire with Josh Deu and his wife Régine Chassagne.
1980Jeremy Smith, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Jeremy Smith is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. A New Zealand international representative, he played as a second-row and lock. He played for the Melbourne Storm, the St. George Illawarra Dragons, with whom he won the 2010 NRL Grand Final with, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and the Newcastle Knights, who he co-captained, in the NRL.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]