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Subject(s)

• Nineteen eighty-one, A.D.—Sources [Browse]
• History, Modern—20th century—Sources [Browse]
• World politics—1945-1989—Sources [Browse]

Editor

• CQ Press [Browse]

Issuing body

• CQ Press [Browse]

Summary note

Each volume in this series begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each documents or set of documents begins with an essay that discusses background history and context of the event covered and the document chosen.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 1982.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 16, 2014).

Contents

• January
• Surgeon General's report on 'the changing cigarette': January 12, 1981
• Global future report: January 14, 1981
• Carter's farewell address: January 14, 1981
• National agenda for the 1980s: January 16, 1981
• State of the Union message: January 16, 1981
• President's economic report: economic advisers' report: January 17, 1981
• Reagan's inaugural address: January 20, 1981
• Iranian release of U.S. hostages: January 20, 1981
• Court on televised trials: January 26, 1981.
• February
• State department report on human rights: February 2, 1981
• Chief Justice on crime: February 8, 1981
• Conviction of Garwood as collaborator with enemy: February 5-16, 1981
• Pope's journey to the Far East: February 15-26, 1981
• Reagan on economic plan: February 18, 1981
• Brezhnev at 26th party congress: February 23, 1981
• White paper on El Salvador: February 23, 1981.
• March
• Report on immigration: March 1, 1981
• 'To breathe clean air': March 2, 1981
• Joint economic report: March 2, 1981
• Reagan budget revisions: March 10, 1981
• Mormon church on succession: March 18, 1981
• Supreme Court on statutory rape: March 23, 1981
• Attempted assassination of President Reagan: March 30, 1981.
• April
• Pardon of Miller and Felt: April 15, 1981
• Maxim Shostakovich defection: April 15, 16, 1981
• Commemoration of the Holocaust: April 30, 1981.
• May
• Freedom of information: May 4, 9, 1981
• Death of IRA hunger striker: May 5, 1981
• Space shuttle mission report: May 12, 1981
• Shooting of the pope: May 13, 1981
• Supreme Court on rights of criminals: May 18, 1981
• U.S. vote against infant formula code: May 21, 1981.
• June
• CIA on international terrorism: June 15, 1981
• Court on double celling of prisoners: June 15, 1981
• Court of worker health: June 17, 1981
• U.N. condemnation of Israeli raid on Iraq: June 19, 1981
• Court on all-male draft: June 25, 1981
• Court on revocation of passports: June 29, 1981.
• July
• Court on Iranian claims: July 2, 1981
• First woman appointed to Supreme Court: July 7, 1981
• Ottawa economic summit: July 19-21, 1981
• Royal wedding: July 29, 1981
• Reagan immigration policy: July 30, 1981.
• August
• Air controllers strike: August 3, 1981
• Saudi peace plan: August 7, 1981
• Reagan budget and tax package signed: August 13, 1981
• Report on violent crime: August 17, 1981.
• September
• Senate report on Williams: September 3, 1981
• State department on chemical warfare: September 13, 14, November 11, 1981
• Papal encyclical on work: September 15, 1981
• Defense report on Soviet power: September 29, 1981.
• October
• Sadat assassination: October 6, 1981
• Sakharov hunger strike: October 9, 1981
• 'Project truth': October 15, 1981
• Mexican summit meeting: October 22-23, 1981
• Memo on human rights: October 27, 1981
• Senate approval of AWACS sale to Saudi Arabia: October 28, 1981
• OPEC price cut: October 29, 1981
• Attorney general on judicial activism: October 29, 1981.
• November
• New Canadian constitution: November 5, 1981
• Reagan on nuclear arms in Europe: November 18, 1981
• Brief government shutdown: November 23, 1981
• Saturn science summary: November 25, 1981.
• December
• Richard v. Allen investigation: December 1, 1981
• Senate report on Casey: December 1, 1981
• Executive order on intelligence agencies: December 4, 1981
• Court on free speech: December 8, 1981
• Martial law in Poland: December 13, 1981
• Israeli annexation of Golan Heights: December 14, 1981
• UNICEF report on children: December 18, 1981
• Federal judge on ERA ratifying procedure: December 23, 1981.

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ISBN

1-4833-0238-5

OCLC

875379794

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