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1978: A Year in the Collections

Disco was still going strong after the release of Saturday Night Fever in 1977. The blockbuster exhibition, Treasures of Tutankhamun, continued to tour the country. In September, President Jimmy Carter invited Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, where dual peace accords were negotiated. In October, Pope John Paul II was inaugurated as Pope.


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Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat

Computer Society

Broncomania vs. Cowboy Cool

The Shah of Iran

Bedroom Painting #38

Cyrus Vance

Jimmy Carter

A New Era in the Air

Coal Miner

China's Great Leap Outward

Anatoli Borisovich Shcharansky

Pierre Trudeau and Rene Levesque

Test Tube Baby

Alligator Spring

King Fahd

Summit After Shocks

NATO: Getting Tough

Valery Giscard D'Estaing

Menachem Begin

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