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SAN DIEGO TO Bill Walton, basketball is a form of improvisational theater-- live, unrehearsed, with a unique finish each time the lights are turned on. There is no script, just a schedule. At 7:05 on those nights that the San Diego Clippers are home, the ball is tossed into the air in the center of the Sports Arena and the show begins. Walton loves the moment.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2--President Carter said tonight that conditions approved by Iran early today for the release of the American hostages appeared to offer "a positive basis" for resolving the yearlong crisis and maintaining American honor.
TOKYO, Nov. 2--When Takuji Matsuzawa, the chairman of the Fuji Bank, visits his leading American clients later this month, he will not merely invite them to join in the bank's centenary celebration.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2--President Carter probably lacks legal authority to comply immediately with the Iranian Parliament's demands that all frozen Iranian assets, as well as the assets of the late Shah, be returned to Iran and that all claims by United States companies against Iran be canceled, according to legal experts inside and outside the Government.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 29, 1980, covering November 3, 1980.
Barbra Streisand
Queen
The Doobie Brothers
Bruce Springsteen
Pat Benatar
1980Hans Andersen, Danish motorcycle racer[†]
Hans Nørgaard Andersen is a former motorcycle speedway rider, who captained the Denmark national speedway team that won the Speedway World Cup in 2006 and 2008.
1980Caroline Mytinger, American painter and author (born 1897)[†]
Caroline Mytinger, was an American portrait painter born in Sacramento, California, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She is best known for her paintings of indigenous people in the South Seas during the late 1920s. These paintings are in the custody of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology on UC Berkeley's campus in Berkeley, CA. Her work was featured in the museum's 2008 exhibition "Face to Face: Looking at Objects That Look at You."
1980A Latin Carga Convair CV-880 crashes at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Venezuela, killing four.[†]
Latin Carga was a Venezuelan cargo airline that operated from 1963 to 1980. It operated different types of aircraft, from turboprops to jetliners.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]