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Wednesday January 16, 1980
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This Day In 1970's History: Wednesday January 16, 1980
  • The threat of a halt in Iranian oil supplies led Japan to indicate it was opposed to joining the United States in im-posing economic sanctions against Teheran. It was also said that Japan would not take part in imposing sanctions against Moscow in retaliation for its military intervention in Afghanistan. [New York Times]

  • The U.S. sought to ease India's concern over newly pledged military aid to Pakistan. President Carter, in a letter, told Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that Washington wanted to improve the security of both India and Pakistan fol-lowing the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

    India criticized Moscow in a shift from previous statements. Prime Minister Gandhi said in response to a reporter's question that there was no justification for the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. [New York Times]

  • Soviet military aims remain puzzling to Western diplomats and military analysts in Afghanistan. One analyst said there were more Russians than needed to secure the Soviet-installed regime in major cities and that the Russians were improperly equipped with heavy arms to fight rebels in the rugged mountain terrain.

    A veiled Afghan threat to Iran not to try to counter the Soviet military buildup in Afghanistan was seen by some Asian diplomats in a message from President Babrak Karmal to Ayatollah Khomeini. Military analysts in Kabul believe that more than 30,000 Soviet troops are now in western Afghanistan near the Iranian frontier. [New York Times]

  • A virus-fighting breakthrough was announced by scientists, who said that human interferon, now scarce and prohibitively expensive, has been made successfully in a laboratory by gene-splicing techniques that give promise of economical commercial production. Interferon is believed to have great potential for curing a wide variety of virus diseases including colds and might also be used in the treatment of some forms of cancer. [New York Times]

  • Protecting workers from carcinogens is the aim of the first comprehensive rules announced by the Labor Department. The government has been criticized by unions and others for moving too slowly to begin regulating exposure to cancer-causing substances in the workplace after years of study and exhaustive hearings. Industries assailed the new rules as being unclear and excessively rigid and costly. [New York Times]
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