SALVADOR'S CIVILIAN CHIEF
Date: 19 December 1980
Special to the New York Times

Neil Fingleton (18 December 1980 – 25 February 2017) was an English actor and basketball player. Neil became the tallest living British-born man and the tallest man in the European Union at 7 ft 7.56 in (232.6 cm) and among the 25 tallest men in the world.
This title has been confirmed by the Guinness World Records in the summer of 2007; Fingleton took over from Christopher Greener who stood at 7 ft 6 ¼ in (229.2 cm) in height.
더 알아보기...1980년 12월 18일은(는) 목요일의 별 기호 아래에 있는 **♐**입니다. 올해의 352일이었습니다. 미국 대통령은 Jimmy Carter입니다.
이 날에 태어났다면 당신은 45살입니다. 마지막 생일은 2025년 12월 18일 목요일, 165일 전이었습니다. 다음 생일은 2026년 12월 18일 금요일일 후 199입니다. 당신은 16,601일, 약 398,435시간, 약 23,906,112분 또는 약 1,434,366,720초 동안 살았습니다.
Date: 18 December 1980
Special to The New York Times
Wish to protect privacy of individual has led 24 states in past 2 years to pass laws that restrict access by public and news organizations to official records of arrests, indictments, trials, acquittals, convictions and sentences; such restrictions are now in effect, in 1 form or another, in 47 states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with only Dakotas and Vermont having no prohibitions of any kind; some FBI officials have complained that newly enacted privacy laws are hampering their law-enforcement efforts; twin issues of personal privacy and access to records have even served to pit groups championing press freedom against those pushing for greater civil freedom; ACLU's monitoring of case in which Government is being sued in effort to have FBI rap sheets made public noted; suit was filed 2 years ago by Reporters Committee for Press Freedom and Robert Scnakne, CBS News correspondent (M)
Date: 19 December 1980
Israeli TV reports that Iran has executed Simon Farzami, Iranian-Jew who was editor of Teheran Journal, English-language paper, on charges of espionage for US (S)
Date: 18 December 1980
By JAMES FERON Special to The New York Times
James Special
school names Charles McKinley Saltzman 2d as headmaster to replace Harris (S)
Date: 18 December 1980
NYS Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal by NY Daily News and NY Times of court decision barring them from pretrial hearing involving 2 alleged gun runners, Frank Terpil and George Korkala; unanimously denies permission to newspapers to appeal decision by Justice Thomas Galligan to close doors of his courtroom to press and public (S)