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CANAL TREATY RATIFIED
9-7-78. The hotly-debated Panama Canal Treaty is finally ratified by President Carter at the Pan American Union in Washington. He was joined by Panama's President Omar Torrijos and officials from the Organization of American States
PAYING THEIR LAST RESPECTS
10-3-78. Among the 400 people attending memorial services for the famed ventriloquist Edgar Bergen were
his widow, Frances, and daughter, actress Candice Bergen.
ROYAL WEDDING
6-15-78. King Hussein of Jordan and Queen Nur el Hussein greet friends following their marriage in Amman. The bride is the former Lisa Halaby, a 26-year-old American architect.
THREE IN A ROW AT WIMBLEDON
7-8-78. Bjorn Borg of Sweden holds his trophy aloft after winning the Wimbledon Men’s Singles championship for the third consecutive time. Borg defeated Jimmy Connors of the United States and became only the second man ever to wear the crown three straight years.
AN ERA ENDS IN ISRAEL
12-11-78. An honor guard carries the flag-draped coffin of former Israeli Prime Minister
Golda Meir to the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, where the body was to lie in state.