This Day In 1970's History: Sunday November 9, 1980
- Iraq is engaged in an Islamic holy war with Iran, President Saddam Hussein said in an address marking the new Islamic year and the beginning of Islam's 15th century. Western and third world analysts in Baghdad said that his assertion that Iraq was waging a holy war was intended to legitimize the conflict and to portray Iraq as the true defender of Islam, thus challenging the authority of Ayatollah Khomeini, a Shiite, who has called for the overthrow of Iraq's President. [New York Times]
- Most of the thousands of illegal aliens who slip into the United States are bypassing the farms and ranches where they have usually found work for better jobs in the service, construction and manufacturing industries. The trend seems certain to intensify the debate over whether the aliens, who provide a pool of labor for jobs many Americans do not want, are an advantage economically or a threat to job-seeking Americans. [New York Times]
- A stronger Social Security System would possible if it were linked to the development of an investment-based economic growth policy, because a buoyant economy inevitably adds to retirement funds, the Joint Economic Committee of Congress said. Its staff report said that despite increases in the payroll tax the reserve levels of the old age and survivors' trust fund, which covers nine out of 10 employed Americans, could be entirely depleted by the end of 1981. [New York Times]
- The outcome of Puerto Rico's election for Governor apparently will not be known for weeks because of a breakdown of the new voting system on election night and a virtual tie between the incumbent, Gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo, and former Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon. A recount by hand of about 1.6 million paper ballots is necessary. Voters dealt a serious setback to the Governor's plans to start moving Puerto Rico toward statehood. [New York Times]
- Saturn's multi-hued world emerged as the spacecraft Voyager 1 continued to take photographs of the planet. The pictures showed contrasting bands of pale yellow, golden brown and reddish brown running parallel to the planet's equator, as well as high-speed jet streams coursing through the hydrogen-helium atmosphere. Saturn's rings continue to surprise and puzzle scientists. [New York Times]
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