A brief lull

May 1979 was pretty quiet, for our purposes. A few tidbits from that month…

• Elton John became the first western pop star to play both Israel and the USSR
• At the same time that Village People’s “In The Navy” was at the top of the charts here, Dan White was convicted of manslaughter in the death of SF Mayor George Moscone, and the ruling was marked by the White Night Riots.
• The following week, Pope John Paul ordains the virulently anti-gay Navy admiral John J O'Connor as a bishop
• Canada follows the UK and precedes the US by moving right politically to elect the conservative Joe Clark to succeed Pierre Trudeau as PM
• Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
• European Market accepts Greece as member
• The USSR conducts two nuclear test while Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II