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TRENTON NINE months after explosions ripped through drums of hazardous waste at the Chemical Control Corporation in Elizabeth and set them ablaze, New Jersey remains so heavily burdened with dump sites that officials do not know in what area a fire might erupt next.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 13--The families of the American hostages in Iran met here this weekend, but, because there was little news on the progress of negotiations, it was mostly an occasion to bolster themselves for another Christmas with a loved one still in captivity.
Transit officials last night suspended indefinitely the operation of their entire fleet of 637 new Grumman Flxible buses, following a weekend inspection. They said almost 100 of the buses were found to have developed conditions that made safe travel doubtful.
SAN SALVADOR, Dec. 13--After a week of intense negotiations between the armed forces and the Christian Democrats, the country's major political party, Jose Napoleon Duarte has been named the first civilian President of the country...
NEWARK DORA W. sits in the Adolescent Clinic at College Hospital here, bluejeans rolled up smartly over her cowboy boots and a plaid shirt stretched over her bulging belly.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 10, 1980, covering December 14, 1980.
Kenny Rogers
Barbra Streisand
Stevie Wonder
Bruce Springsteen
AC/DC
1980Thed Björk, Swedish race car driver[†]
Thed Björk Bang-Melchior is a Swedish racing driver, and 2017 World Touring Car Champion. Other notable titles include the 2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship and the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship. He also finished second in 2005 and 2009, and third in the 2008 STCC and the 2012 TTA – Racing Elite League.
1980Gordon Greer, Scottish footballer[†]
Gordon Greer is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a defender. Greer played for Clyde, Blackburn Rovers, Stockport County, Kilmarnock, Doncaster Rovers, Swindon Town and Brighton & Hove Albion during his career. He also played in 11 full international matches for Scotland between 2013 and 2016.
1980Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer[†]
Déguy Alain Didier Zokora is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He represented the Ivory Coast national team for 14 years, beginning in 2000, and is currently the nation's most capped player. He now serves as an assistant manager at AFAD Djékanou.
1980Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach (born 1929)[†]
Elston Gene Howard was an American professional baseball player who was a catcher and a left fielder. During a 14-year baseball career, he played in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball from 1948 through 1968, primarily for the New York Yankees. A 12-time All-Star, he also played for the Kansas City Monarchs and the Boston Red Sox. Howard served on the Yankees' coaching staff from 1969 to 1979.
In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]