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BY upholding a New Jersey regulation that requires bilingual-education teachers to demonstrate their proficiency in both English and Spanish, a Federal court in Trenton may have put the spotlight on one of the more controversial issues in public education today.
Franklin A. Thomas, who will soon complete his first year as president of the Ford Foundation, has an implicit distaste for studies that lead to more studies.
WASHINGTON, May 19--The United States sought to avoid further public strains in the Western alliance today by stifling its irritation over the FrenchSoviet meeting in Warsaw and by reluctantly accepting the limited economic sanctions adopted yesterday against Iran by Western Europe's Common Market as the best that could be achieved.
TRENTON, May 19--The Legislature gave final approval today to a long-delayed proposal to revamp the Casino Control Commission and to measures to impose strict ethical standards on legislators and state officials to prohibit their working for the casino industry for two years after leaving government service.
WARSAW, May 19--President Valery Giscard d'Estaing of France met for five hours here today with Leonid I. Breahnev, the Soviet leader, and then left having made little if any progress on ways to solve the Afghanistan crisis.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 14, 1980, covering May 20, 1980.
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Pink Floyd
Billy Joel
Linda Ronstadt
Eric Clapton
1980Austin Kearns, American baseball player[â ]
Austin Ryan Kearns is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2002 through 2013 for the Cincinnati Reds, Washington Nationals, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, and Miami Marlins.
1980Kassim Osgood, American football player[â ]
Kassim Alexandre Osgood is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver and special teamer in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for San Diego State University and Cal Poly, and was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2003. He also played for the San Diego Chargers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions, and San Francisco 49ers.
1980In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, with 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.[â ]
The 1980 Quebec independence referendum was the first referendum in Quebec on the place of Quebec within Canada and whether Quebec should pursue a path toward sovereignty. The referendum was called by Quebec's Parti Québécois (PQ) government, which advocated secession from Canada.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[â ]