Committed the greatest moral and geopolitical travesty of the past half-century, chiefly amongst many, many failings. HP.
You should watch this ABC News clip from December 1979:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9COJXrrHHQ
Living through the 1979-80 era would have been absolutely insane. Can you imagine if this forum existed back then, simultaneously juggling discussion on the hostage crisis, stagflation, Thatcherism, Iraq-Iran, USSR-Afghanistan, Vietnam-Cambodia, Northern Ireland, Olympic boycott, the 1980 campaign, and Update?
Can you imagine Snowstalker in 1979??