back in the days - 10/02/1978

Four decades ago,

the original Star Wars movie was released in theaters, Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the 40th president of the United States, the Trans-Alaska pipeline pumped its first barrels of oil, the cold war was was still going on and much more...

Take a brief look 40 years ago.

• The so-called Federal Government's decision on extremism in January 1972 is once again being discussed in an interview conducted by Hamburg's mayor Hans-Ulrich Klose (SPD) with the news magazine Der Spiegel. Klose explains, inter alia, "I prefer to hire 20 communists than to make 20 0000 young people unsafe".