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It rises like a vision out of the sea, beautiful, white and centuries-old, as the Arab dhow hurries across the strait that separates the island and town of Lamu from the northeast coast of Kenya. The Somalia border is not far away.
A rainstorm caused widespread power failures and floods and at least one death yesterday in the New York metropolitan region, but left barely two inches of rain. The amount was scarcely noticeable in the reservoirs of the drought-stricken states of New Jersey and New York.
BEDFORD has joined other northern Westchester towns in attempting to alert residents that their privacy can work against them.
HARTFORD WHETHER work can proceed legally on the design of the Connecticut section of a four-lane highway linking this city with Providence, R.I., is scheduled to be argued Tuesday in Federal District Court here.
"We don't have much of a choice. They're all a bunch of idiots," said Clare Conte of Floral Park, L.I. "I don't know who to vote for. They're all horrible," said Barbara Smith of Shaker Heights, Ohio. "Probably Carter. We know what he's not capable of," said her neighbor, Arnold Reisman. "I won't vote. They are all telling the same lies," said Mildred Alford of Pittsburgh.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 22, 1980, covering October 26, 1980.
Barbra Streisand
Queen
The Doobie Brothers
Diana Ross
Pat Benatar
1980Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer[†]
Cristian Eugen Chivu is a Romanian professional football coach and former player who is the current head coach of Serie A club Inter Milan.
1980Nick Collison, American basketball player[†]
Nicholas John Collison is an American former professional basketball player who is a special assistant for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He spent his entire career with the organization originally known as the Seattle SuperSonics, which became the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008. Collison was drafted by the SuperSonics in the first round of the 2003 NBA draft and retired as a member of the Thunder in 2018. As a college player, he went to two Final Fours as a member of the Kansas Jayhawks.
1980Claire Cooper, English actress[†]
Claire Elizabeth Cooper is a British actress and former gymnast from Wakefield, England, best known for portraying Jacqui McQueen in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, a character she played full time from 2006 to 2013 and returned to for one episode in 2023.
1980Koichi Watanabe, Japanese kick-boxer[†]
Koichi Watanabe, better known as Koichi Pettas or simply KOICHI, was a Japanese heavyweight kickboxer competing in K-1, It's Showtime and GLORY.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]