INPUT 1978

Setting the scene for 1978:

• Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes into the ocean near Bombay, killing 213;
• Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada's Northwest Territories;
• Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a Boeing 737-200, crashes in Cranbrook, British Columbia, killing 44 of the 50 people onboard;
• Serial killer Ted Bundy is captured in Pensacola, Florida;
• Electrical workers in Mexico City find the remains of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in the middle of the city;
• Charlie Chaplin's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland;
• Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Red Brigades; 5 bodyguards are killed and Moro's body is later found in a parked car;
• The tanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two off Brittany, spilling 50,000 metric tons of crude oil;
• The FIFA World Cup is held in Argentina;
• A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, killing 45 people;
• The bombing by Breton nationalists causes destruction in Versailles;
• More than 200 tourists die in an explosion of a tanker-truck at a campsite in Costa Daurada, Spain;
• Louise Brown becomes the first human born from in vitro fertilization, in the United Kingdom;
• Pope Paul VI dies at age 80;
• PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California; 144 are killed;
• Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy;
• Vietnam attacks Cambodia;
• Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin win the Nobel Peace Prize;
• In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all
• Six men rob a Lufthansa cargo facility in New York City's Kennedy airport.
• A collision near Yangzhuang railway station in China kills 106 and injurs 218.
• The Spanish Constitution is approved in a referendum, officially ending 40 years of military dictatorship.

	1978 - Issue 1 Output- Editorial Intercom - Letters to the editor EGATS Technical Committee Say again your type Restrictions? Traffic information - How essential? SAVVAN - The right direction Controllers Opinion Poll SCOPS visits Budapest Duty rosters Problems of RTF communication Failure OPS Room Personalities - No. I Braking action good - what does it mean? Membership list
	1978 - Issue 2 Output - editorial Intercom What was that callsign again? The tragic lack of controller solidarity... Copenhagen '78 - A summary Nepal II Roger Wilco News from Philips Raquel Welch's private life
	1978 - Issue 3 Output - Editorial Intercom Who is moving in next-door? A total system for aviation security The Sports Column OPS Room Personalities No 2 - The supervisor Maastricht UAC - Decisions still postponed Roger Wilco Aviation Corner IACA Protests increased Eurocontrol Charges Raquel Welch Unveiled A visit to Malmö Demande et Réponse Emergency - What happens now ?
	1978 - Issue 4 Output- Editorial EGATS members visit Suriname Landing Cats ? The Hoop's Column Convex '78 - Some reflections The shape of things to come Roger Wilco Nulli Secundus The Input Film Guide TMAC Thoughts of a WEC IACA forms EURACA The first of the Elephants