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The Federal Reserve has eased its credit restraints, but for the most part, consumer loans are not yet flowing. Lenders say that, when they do, it will be only gradually.
SEOUL, South Korea, Saturday, May 24 Kim Jae Kyu, the former director of the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency, was executed today for the assassination of President Park Chung Hee, according to police sources here.
The Vatican issued an order yesterday seeking to suppress what it called abuses in Roman Catholic worship.
They hugged each other as only a reunited mother and son can, squeezing tightly and rocking from side to side. "Mama, mama," he repeated over and over again, a 32-year-old man ...
WASHINGTON, May 23 The rate of inflation in consumer prices declined sharply to nine-tenths of 1 percent last month as price increases moderated in a broad variety of items, the Government reported today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 21, 1980, covering May 24, 1980.
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Billy Joel
Pink Floyd
Linda Ronstadt
Eric Clapton
1980Jason Babin, American football player[†]
Jason Thomas Babin is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end and linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Houston Texans in the first round of the 2004 NFL draft. He played college football at Western Michigan, where he was twice recognized as the conference defensive player of the year.
1980Anthony Minichiello, Australian rugby league player[†]
Anthony Minichiello is a former professional rugby league footballer who captained the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League, and retired having set records for most games and most tries in the club's history. An Australia and Italy international as well as a New South Wales State of Origin representative wing turned fullback, he played his entire career with the Roosters, with whom he won the 2002 and 2013 NRL Premierships, before retiring at the conclusion of the club's 2014 campaign. Minichiello also won the Golden Boot Award for international player of the year in 2005, and is the brother of fellow Italian international, Mark Minichiello.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]