8 december 1979 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♐. Het was de 341e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Jimmy Carter.
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Date: 09 December 1979
Special to The New York Times
Venezuelan journalist Olmedo Lugo (El Nacional) has been jailed following publication of article he wrote charging Government officials with corrupt practices (S)
Date: 09 December 1979
David and Cathy Mitchell, publishers of Point Reyes, Claif, Light, which won Pultizer Prize for articles about Synanon, interviewed on paper's future (M)
Date: 09 December 1979
Names Martin F Turchin executive vice president (S)
Date: 08 December 1979
Signal Companies to buy from Schlumberger Ltd all 496,425 shares of Unitrode Corp owned by Schlumberger, which entered consent order with FTC in July to sell all its Unitrode shares in order to promptly complete its acquisition of Fairchild Camera (S)
Date: 08 December 1979
By RONALD SULLIVAN
Ronald SULLIVAN
analysis of problems confronting NYC municipal hospitals (M)
Date: 09 December 1979
Date: 09 December 1979
Special Middle East envoy Sol M Linowitz arrives in Cairo on his first trip to area for talks on Palestinian autonomy; will meet with Egyptian Pres Sadat and then go to Israel (S)