1982 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt
On October 16, Georgia got past an up-and-coming Vanderbilt team (Vandy finished 8–4 in 1982) led by quarterback Whit Taylor, 27–13. Against the Commodores, Walker ran for 172 yards and a touchdown on 38 carries. He got help from safety Terry Hoage, who had 3 interceptions in the contest.


1982 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Florida
Georgia finished October by knocking off Kentucky (27–14) and Memphis State (34–3) to push its record to 8–0 going into the Florida game in Jacksonville. Walker maintained a heavy load, rushing 34 times against Kentucky for 152 yards. The Wildcats led 10–3 in the second quarter when Walker caught a John Lastinger touchdown pass. On a screen pass, Walker raced 64 yards to paydirt to cut the deficit to 14–10. Lastinger threw two more touchdowns in the second half as Georgia pulled away. Walker finished with 79 receiving yards on 3 catches. In Georgia's matchup with Memphis St., Walker shattered the Southeastern Conference career scoring record as his third-ranked Bulldogs swept past the Tigers by 31 points. He ran for a season-high 219 yards on 33 carries and 2 touchdowns, extending Memphis St.'s losing streak to 15 games.


1982 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Florida
Georgia took control against tough opposition during the month of November. They got past Florida, Auburn, and Georgia Tech to complete a perfect 11–0 regular season, and were the No. 1 ranked team in the country. Walker dismantled Florida by scoring on touchdown runs of 30, 1, and 1 yards as Georgia led 17–0 at the half. After another Walker touchdown in the third quarter, UGA led 27–0. He rushed 35 times for 219 yards during this signature win. "We were ready for this game," Walker said. "We were more fired up than Florida."


1982 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Auburn
Georgia faced the Auburn Tigers on November 13 at Jordan–Hare Stadium in a slugfest. Walker scored on a 3-yard touchdown run within the 4th quarter to give UGA a 19–14 lead. Georgia hung on to win and Walker finished with 31 rushes for 177 yards, including a 47-yard run, and 2 touchdowns.


1982 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Georgia Tech
In the last regular season game of Walker's career at the University of Georgia, the Yellow Jackets were no match as Georgia raced to a 38–18 win. Walker broke five tackles and sprinted 59 yards for a score in the first quarter. The Bulldogs scored 17 points in the 3rd quarter which included a 1-yard touchdown run by Walker. He finished with 27 rushes for 162 yards against the Rambling Wreck.


1982 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Postseason, Awards and honors
Walker led the way as Georgia wrapped up its third SEC Championship in as many seasons. On December 4, 1982, Walker was awarded the Heisman Trophy. He was accompanied to the ceremony by the University of Georgia's beloved English Bulldog mascot, Uga IV.


1982 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Postseason, Penn State
The Sugar Bowl pitted the No. 1 ranked Georgia Bulldogs against the No. 2 ranked Penn State Nittany Lions on January 1, 1983.


1982 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Postseason, Penn State
Walker scored one last time in his UGA career as he fell into the end zone from 1 yard out with 10:37 remaining in the third quarter. That touchdown cut the Penn State lead to three at 20–17. Penn State answered 21 seconds later as QB Todd Blackledge completed a 46-yard touchdown pass to wideout Gregg Garrity. Penn State held on to win 27–23, and won the national championship by a unanimous vote in both the AP and UPI polls. Walker rushed 28 times for 102 yards and caught a pass for 15 yards against the Mark Robinson-led PSU defense.


1982 Georgia Southern Eagles football team
The 1982 Georgia Southern Eagles football team represented the Georgia Southern Eagles of Georgia Southern College (now known as Georgia Southern University) during the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season. This was the Eagles' first season of football since the suspension of the program following the 1941 season. The Eagles played their home games at Womack Stadium in Statesboro, Georgia. The team was coached by Erk Russell, in his first year as head coach for the Eagles.


1982 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
The 1982 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by third-year head coach Bill Curry, and played their home games at Grant Field in Atlanta. It was their last year competing as football independents before joining the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1983.


1982 Georgia gubernatorial election
The 1982 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982. Joe Frank Harris was elected as the 78th Governor of Georgia.


1982 Georgia gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination
With 10 candidates running, Bo Ginn won the primary with 316,019 votes (35.11%) to 2nd place Joe Frank Harris and his 223,545 votes (24.84%), necessitating a runoff. In the runoff, Harris prevailed with 500,765 votes (54.97%) to Ginn's 410,259 votes (45.03%).


1982 Georgia gubernatorial election, Republican nomination
Robert H. Bell won the primary with 36,347 votes (59.19%) over Benjamin B. Blackburn and his 25,063 votes (40.81%).


1982 Georgia gubernatorial election, General election results
Though the Democrats once again won the election, Bell did win five counties (Cobb, Gwinnett, DeKalb, Fayette, Bulloch) and the GOP gained their most votes in an election since Howard Callaway in 1966.


1982 German Formula Three Championship
The 1982 German Formula Three Championship (German: 1982 Deutsche Formel-3-Meisterschaft) was a multi-event motor racing championship for single-seat open wheel formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship featured drivers competing in two-litre Formula Three racing cars which conformed to the technical regulations, or formula, for the championship. It commenced on 28 March at Nürburgring and ended at Kassel-Calden on 3 October after ten rounds.


1982 German Formula Three Championship
Volkswagen Motorsport driver John Nielsen became first Danish champion of the German Formula Three Championship. He dominated the championship, finishing ahead of all of his championship rivals in all seven races he was able to finish. His main title rival Bruno Eichmann had only won race at Salzburgring which wasn't attended by Nielsen. Gerhard Berger completed the top-three in the drivers standings. Franz Konrad was the only other driver who won race in the season.


1982 German Grand Prix
The 1982 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Hockenheimring on 8 August 1982. It was won by Patrick Tambay for Scuderia Ferrari.


1982 German Grand Prix, Race report
Hockenheim had been modified from the year before, with the first chicane being made slower and another chicane added to slow cars through the very fast Ostkurve. Didier Pironi set the fastest practice time, but was seriously injured in qualifying for this Grand Prix and never raced in Formula One again.


1982 German Grand Prix, Race report
With the track wet thanks to persistent showers, Pironi was on a quick lap when his Ferrari hit the back of Alain Prost's slow moving Renault at high speed, vaulting over the top of it before landing tail-first and cartwheeling to a stop in eerie similarity to Gilles Villeneuve's fatal accident earlier in the season. Pironi survived but suffered severe leg injuries that sidelined him for the rest of the year. He never managed to return to Formula One and died in 1987. Pironi's accident also had a profound effect on Prost who never forgot the sight of the Ferrari flying over his car, the crash firming his views on the danger of driving Formula One cars in the wet, where visibility was virtually zero when following behind another car.


1982 German Grand Prix, Race report
Thanks to Hockenheim's long straights, the turbocharged cars were overwhelmingly dominant in qualifying. Not only did turbocharged cars take up the first 6 grid positions, but the utmost proof of this was the slowest turbo qualifier Riccardo Patrese, placing 6th in a Brabham-BMW, was 2.9 seconds faster than the fastest non-turbo qualifier, Michele Alboreto in 7th driving a Ford-Cosworth powered Tyrrell.


1982 German Grand Prix, Race report
Since Ferrari never withdrew the injured Pironi, pole position was left empty at the start. Nelson Piquet led the race, but collided with Eliseo Salazar while lapping him at the new Ostkurve chicane. After the two cars came to a stop, an irate Piquet quickly climbed out of his Brabham, approached Salazar, and then punched and kicked Salazar in a rage, which continued for some time after the collision. It was later revealed that Piquet's BMW engine was suffering from mechanical issues and would have blown up anyway had he and Salazar not crashed. Patrick Tambay, driving the lone Ferrari, won his first Formula One race.


1982 German Open Championships
The 1982 German Open Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, West Germany that was part of the Super Series of the 1982 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 74th edition of the event and took place from 10 May until 16 May 1982. José Higueras, who was seeded 16th, won the singles title and earned $40,000 first-prize money. He had been affected by hepatitis for over two years and it was his first singles title since the 1979 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships. Higueras played with rackets lent to him by Ivan Lendl instead of his own wooden rackets.


1982 German Open Championships, Finals, Singles
José Higueras defeated  Peter McNamara, 4–6, 6–7, 7–6, 6–3, 7–6


1982 German Open Championships, Finals, Doubles
Tomáš Šmíd /  Pavel Složil defeated  Anders Järryd /  Hans Simonsson, 6–4, 6–3


1982 German motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1982 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 24–26 September 1982 at the Hockenheimring.


1982 Gilbey's Gin season
The 1982 Gilbey's Gin season was the 4th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


1982 Gilbey's Gin season, Imports
Gilbey's Gin has signed up former Presto import Lew Massey from last season as their reinforcement in the Reinforced Filipino Conference. Massey return in the Open Conference, together with new recruit Rickey Brown, a Portland Trail Blazers third round draft pick in 1977, who was replaced after three games by Larry McNeill, the Gins resident import for the past three years.


1982 Gilbey's Gin season, Scoring record
March 25: Lew Massey surpass the previous all-time one-game scoring record of 75 points set by Harry Rogers in 1976 while playing for 7-Up by tallying 85 points, converting 36-of-70 attempts from the field in Gilbey's 123-126 loss to Crispa. Massey scored 23, 16, 24 and 22 in each of four quarters.


1982 Gilbey's Gin season, Finals stint
In the Open (3rd) Conference, Gilbey's were tied with N-Rich Coffee on top of the standings with 13 wins and five losses for an outright berth to the semifinal round. The high-scoring duo of Massey and McNeill led Gilbey's to their first championship appearance in four years of participation.


1982 Gilbey's Gin season, Finals stint
On December 7, Gilbey's escape with a 102-101 win over San Miguel Beermen to gain first entry in the title playoffs. N-Rich and Toyota dispute the second finals seat in a playoff match won by the Super Corollas.


1982 Gilbey's Gin season, Finals stint
Gilbey's got swept in three games by the powerhouse Toyota ballclub in the finals series.


1982 Girabola
The 1982 Girabola was the fourth season of top-tier football competition in Angola. Primeiro de Agosto were the defending champions.


1982 Girabola
The league ran from December 6, 1982 to June 2, 1983 and comprised 14 teams, the bottom three of which were relegated.


1982 Girabola
Petro de Luanda were crowned champions, winning their 1st title, while Desportivo da Chela, FC do Uíge, Ferroviário da Huíla and Petro do Huambo were relegated.


1982 Girabola
Osvaldo Saturnino aka Jesus of Petro de Luanda finished as the top scorer with 22 goals.


1982 Girabola, Changes from the 1981 season
Relegated: Desportivo da Chela, FC do Uíge, Ferroviário da Huíla, Petro do HuamboPromoted: Desportivo de Benguela, Inter da Huíla, Inter de Luanda, Sagrada Esperança


1982 Girabola, Legal claims
In round 14, Construtor do Uíge fielded ineligible player "Finda" (double yellow card) in its away match against Inter de Luanda. Although Construtor had originally won the match 1-0, on account of that, Construtor was awarded a 2-0 defeat.


1982 Giro d'Italia
The 1982 Giro d'Italia was the 65th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours races. The Giro started in Brescia, on 13 May, with a 16 km (9.9 mi) team time trial and concluded in Turin, on 6 June, with a 42.5 km (26.4 mi) individual time trial. A total of 162 riders from eighteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Frenchman Bernard Hinault of the Renault-Elf team. The second and third places were taken by Swede Tommy Prim and Italian Silvano Contini, respectively.


1982 Giro d'Italia
Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Famcucine's Francesco Moser won the points classification, Lucien Van Impe of Metauro Mobili won the mountains classification, and Metauro Mobili's Marco Groppo completed the Giro as the best neo-professional in the general classification, finishing ninth overall. Bianchi finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. In addition, Bianchi won the team points classification.


1982 Giro d'Italia, Teams
A total of eighteen teams were invited to participate in the 1982 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of nine riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 162 cyclists. From the riders that began this edition, 110 made it to the finish in Turin.


1982 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages
The route for the 1982 edition of the Giro d'Italia was revealed to the public by head organizer Vincenzo Torriani on 20 February 1982. Covering a total of 4,010.5 km (2,492.0 mi), it included three time trials (two individual and one for teams), and eleven stages with categorized climbs that awarded mountains classification points. Four of these eleven stages had summit finishes: stage 11, to Camigliatello Silano; stage 12, to Campitello Matese; stage 16, to San Martino di Castrozza; and stage 19, to Colli di San Fermo. The organizers chose to include two rest days. When compared to the previous year's race, the race was 114.9 km (71 mi) longer and contained one less time trial. In addition, this race contained one less set of split stages.


1982 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
Four different jerseys were worn during the 1982 Giro d'Italia. The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass-start stages – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.


1982 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
For the points classification, which awarded a purple (or cyclamen) jersey to its leader, cyclists were given points for finishing a stage in the top 15; additional points could also be won in intermediate sprints. The green jersey was awarded to the mountains classification leader. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Each climb was ranked as either first, second or third category, with more points available for higher category climbs. The Cima Coppi, the race's highest point of elevation, awarded more points than the other first category climbs.


1982 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
The Cima Coppi for this Giro was the Col d'Izoard. The first rider to cross the Col d'Izoard was Belgian rider Lucien Van Impe. The white jersey was worn by the leader of young rider classification, a ranking decided the same way as the general classification, but considering only neo-professional cyclists (in their first three years of professional racing).


1982 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
Although no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the stage finish times of the best three cyclists per team were added; the leading team was the one with the lowest total time. There was another team classification that awarded points to each team based on their riding's finishing position in every stage. The team with the highest total of points was the leader of the classification.


1982 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.


1982 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11
The 1982 Giro d'Italia was the 65th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in Milan, with a prologue team time trial on 13 May, and Stage 11 occurred on 25 May with a stage to Camigliatello Silano, followed by a rest day. The race finished in Turin on 6 June.


1982 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Prologue
13 May 1982 — Milan, 16 km (9.9 mi) (TTT)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 1
14 May 1982 — Parma to Viareggio, 174 km (108 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 2
15 May 1982 — Viareggio to Cortona, 233 km (145 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 3
16 May 1982 — Perugia to Assisi, 37 km (23 mi) (ITT)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 4
17 May 1982 — Assisi to Rome, 169 km (105 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 5
18 May 1982 — Rome to Caserta, 213 km (132 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 6
19 May 1982 — Caserta to Castellammare di Stabia, 130 km (81 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 7
20 May 1982 — Castellammare di Stabia to Diamante, 226 km (140 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 8
22 May 1982 — Taormina to Agrigento, 248 km (154 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 9
23 May 1982 — Agrigento to Palermo, 151 km (94 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 10
24 May 1982 — Cefalù to Messina, 197 km (122 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 11
25 May 1982 — Palmi to Camigliatello Silano, 229 km (142 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22
The 1982 Giro d'Italia was the 65th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in Milan, with a prologue team time trial on 13 May, and Stage 12 occurred on 27 May with a stage from Cava de' Tirreni. The race finished in Turin on 6 June.


1982 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 12
27 May 1982 — Cava de' Tirreni to Campitello Matese, 171 km (106 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 13
28 May 1982 — Campitello Matese to Pescara, 164 km (102 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 14
29 May 1982 — Pescara to Urbino, 248 km (154 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 15
30 May 1982 — Urbino to Comacchio, 190 km (120 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 16
31 May 1982 — Comacchio to San Martino di Castrozza, 243 km (151 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 17
1 June 1982 — Fiera di Primiero to Boario Terme, 235 km (146 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 18
2 June 1982 — Piancogno to Montecampione, 85 km (53 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 19
3 June 1982 — Boario Terme to Vigevano, 162 km (101 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 20
4 June 1982 — Vigevano to Cuneo, 177 km (110 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 21
5 June 1982 — Cuneo to Pinerolo, 254 km (158 mi)


1982 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 22
6 June 1982 — Pinerolo to Turin, 42.5 km (26.4 mi) (ITT)


1982 Giro del Trentino
The 1982 Giro del Trentino was the sixth edition of the Tour of the Alps cycle race and was held on 4 May to 6 May 1982. The race started in Arco and finished in Trento. The race was won by Giuseppe Saronni.


1982 Giro di Lombardia
The 1982 Giro di Lombardia was the 76th edition of the Giro di Lombardia cycle race and was held on 16 October 1982. The race started in Milan and finished in Como. The race was won by Giuseppe Saronni of the Del Tongo team.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election
A Glasgow Hillhead by-election was held on 25 March 1982. The by-election was caused by the death of the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Glasgow Hillhead Tam Galbraith on 2 January 1982.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election
Hillhead had been held by the Conservatives at every election since its creation in 1918. Galbraith, who was Scotland's longest serving MP at the time of his death, himself had first won the seat since at a 1948 by-election and had been elected as its representative on further nine occasions. However, his majority had been gradually reduced, and even in the 1979 election which the Conservatives won, the Labour Party had continued to gain ground.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
The Labour Party had suffered a split in 1981, with the Social Democratic Party (SDP) formed by the "Gang of Four" prominent figures: David Owen, Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins. The SDP had several Parliamentary seats held by defectors from Labour, and one by a defector from the Conservatives, while Williams had won the 1981 Crosby by-election for the party, leaving Jenkins as the final "Gang of Four" member without a seat in the House of Commons. He contested the 1981 Warrington by-election, coming a close second, and remained keen to fight a winnable seat. Within days of Galbraith's death, Denis Sullivan, the chairman of the SDP in Scotland, indicated that the majority of the party in Scotland wished Jenkins to be their candidate at the by-election.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
In early January 1982, The Evening Times speculated that the Conservatives may try to force an early contest. A poll before 15 February would use an old electoral register, and would potentially allow the Conservatives to capitalise on divisions with the Alliance as to which of its constitute parties would run a candidate.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
Labour's candidate for the seat in 1979, Richard Mowbray, had defected to the SDP. Coupled with a largely middle class electorate and a third place in 1979 for the Liberal Party, who had since agreed an electoral pact - termed the 'Alliance' - with the SDP, the party considered Hillhead to be a target seat. Sullivan stated while they regretted the death of Galbraith, the SDP welcomed the chance of giving Scots the opportunity to show support for the Alliance and indicated he thought the SDP could do well, comparing the situation to the previous year's Croydon North West by-election won by the Alliance.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
Jenkins was so unfamiliar with Glasgow as a parachute candidate, he later wrote, that on arrival its skyline was "as mysterious to me as the minarets of Constantinople" to Russian troops during the Russo-Turkish War. His candidacy was not immediately assured; the Hillhead Liberal association had already selected a candidate, Chic Brodie, and had been actively campaigning in the constituency since the last election. Brodie had previously been in dispute with the SDP when he refused to withdraw as a council candidate in an election to Kyle and Carrick District Council.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
He initially criticised the fact that the SDP and Liberals were 'haggling only hours' after Galbraith had died, but did say he would act in the best interests of the Alliance. The issue was further complicated by the fact that it was reported that some Liberals wanted to use the situation to force the SDP to let their candidate Alan Blair contest Greenock at the next election instead of Dickson Mabon, the sitting MP who had defected from Labour to the SDP.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
Although the Hillhead SDP declared on 5 January that they wanted Jenkins as their candidate, he was reported to be nervous about contesting a seat "a long way from his usual stomping grounds". The following day, an opinion poll by National Opinion Polls suggested that if Jenkins stood he would get 33% of the vote to Labour's 31% and the Conservatives' 22%, and thus win a narrow victory. However the same poll showed that if another Alliance candidate stood, Labour would win the seat.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
It was reported on 6 January that the 35 members of the north area executive of the SDP in Glasgow had unanimously backed Jenkins to stand as the Alliance candidate in the by-election and had informed the Liberals of their view. The north area SDP executive's chairman Ian McDonald stated that it was up to the Liberals to respond, but the executive anticipated "that they will agree with our decisions" and that a they would have "joint candidate".


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
However the general secretary of the Liberal Party in Scotland was tight lipped about any agreement saying that his party felt it was "improper to get involved in speculation about plans for a by-election before Sir Thomas Galbraith has had a decent burial", adding that the party would meet to consider the matter on Friday 8 January and hoped to speak to the SDP on the same day.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
While Liberal leader David Steel was reported to be prepared to back Jenkins if he wanted to stand for the SDP, he also believed that if Brodie stood, he had a good chance of winning. It was only after a "tense and uncomfortable" discussion at Jenkins' house, involving various Liberal and SDP figures, that a resolution was agreed which safeguarded the nomination of Jenkins as the Alliance candidate.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
The Conservatives hoped to hold the seat, but were behind in the polls. Mooted candidates for the party included the early favourite, Len Turpie, a lawyer and leader of the Conservative Group on Strathclyde Regional Council. Turpie was also the husband of the chair of the local Conservative Association. Another name mentioned as potential Conservative candidate was Anna McCurley. Ultimately the Conservatives ran Gerry Malone, a local lawyer. Malone called for cuts in welfare and the reintroduction of hanging.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
Labour faced a struggle to win the seat, but hoped their lead in the polls would translate to a by-election victory. They stood David Wiseman, a local councillor and community worker who had previously been known for his research into the Loch Ness Monster. He was also known as a Bennite.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
The Scottish National Party (SNP) had contested the seat for many years, and in recent elections had won around 10% of the vote. They stood George Leslie, a local vet, and campaigned for Scottish independence, with a particular focus on Jenkins' background in England and Wales. The Ecology Party, then little-known, stood Nicolette Carlaw, who focused her campaign on nuclear disarmament and stated that, if she was not standing, she would call on her supporters to vote for Leslie, as he looked after her cats.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
An organisation named the "Social Democratic Party", founded by Donald Kean in Manchester in 1979 and unconnected with the organisation Jenkins represented, stood Douglas Parkin. As a dummy candidate, Parkin changed his name by deed poll to "Roy Harold Jenkins" in an attempt to confuse voters who wished to vote for the better-known candidate, whose full name was "Roy Harris Jenkins".


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Candidates
Jack Glass, a Protestant pastor and founder of the local Zion Sovereign Grace Baptist Church, stood in opposition to a planned visit to Scotland by the Pope, whom he described as the antichrist, while veteran by-election candidate Bill Boaks stood as "Public Safety Democratic Monarchist White Resident".


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Campaign
Within days of Galbraith's death, The Glasgow Herald predicted that the by-election contest to succeed him would be 'one of the most fiercely contested in Scotland this century'. The campaign was lively and closely fought. Some newspapers initially thought that Jenkins was not keen to represent a Scottish constituency and would struggle to win the seat. Polls consistently showed Jenkins with a narrow lead of around 1% over Malone, leaving Wiseman in third position.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Campaign
During the campaign, Wiseman stated that a vote for any candidate other than him was "a vote for the Tories and a signal of support for high unemployment, inflation and policies of 'poverty' and 'despair'". He argued that the SDP's policies were similar to those of the Conservative Wets and when asked if he was sorry that Jenkins had left Labour replied that "His views are not are not those of a Socialist party... his views and policies are those of a Tory party."


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Campaign
Labour sent big name politicians, including Tony Benn and party leader Michael Foot, to address large public meetings in the constituency. During the campaign, a meeting at the main hall of Victoria Park School in Scotstoun that was addressed by Benn attracted an audience of over 1500 people and two overspill halls were also packed. Foot meanwhile attracted an audience of 1000 at a meeting in Hillhead just before the poll where he mocked his former cabinet colleage Jenkins.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Campaign
Foot stated that while Jenkins now backed devolution he could had known him "over a long period as a strong opponent of devolution and especially a Scottish Assembly". Foot also claimed that Jenkins had been "such a poor MP" for Stetchford that Labour had lost the seat in the by-election in 1977 following Jenkins' departure from parliament.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Campaign
Labour also persuaded Wiseman to remove the earring he always wore. Jenkins brought the other members of the Gang of Four to campaign, Williams describing the by-election as "the last chance for Britain to find a democratic, moderate but radical alternative to revolution." Jenkins was absent from the final weekend of campaigning, prompting questions about his health.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Campaign
Malone argued that the trade union movement was to blame for "the country's economic decline" as it had evolved away from its human origins into "a political monster". He linked Jenkins to this development via his role in the Wilson Government's failure to implement the trade union reform plans advanced in the In Place of Strife white paper in 1969. Malone was supported by John Nott, Geoffrey Howe and Ted Heath, and the Conservative government announced a major investment into Glasgow's Queen's Dock. Malone later said that Jenkins' supporters used the issue of his Roman Catholic faith to dissuade the mostly Protestant voters from supporting him.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Campaign
The SDP took "Roy Harold Jenkins" to court, claiming that his attempt to confuse voters constituted a corrupt practice under the Representation of the People Act. They failed to convince the court. However, the SDP was permitted to draw attention to the position of their candidate on the ballot paper, and did so in a wide variety of ways. Among these was placing volunteers near polling stations on the day of the election, wearing sandwich boards reading "The real Roy Jenkins is number 5". One of these volunteers was Charles Kennedy, who in 1999 became leader of the Liberal Democrats.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Campaign
On 20 March, a new Scottish opinion poll by System Three suggested that Labour's support in Scotland was increasing, while the Conservatives and the Alliance were falling back. This was thought to be particularly unhelpful to the Conservatives, who had fallen into fourth place in Scotland, in their bid to retain Hillhead. However it was noted in The Glasgow Herald that the poll was based on research at the end of February and early March, and crucially before the budget which was thought to have increased support for the Conservative Government.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Campaign
A System Three poll of voting intentions for the by-election appeared in The Glasgow Herald two days before the election and predicted that the SDP would win the contest with 31% of the vote, followed by the Conservatives on 27%, Labour on 26% and the SNP on 13%. The SDP lead in this poll was larger than other polls had suggested, but at 4% it was thought to be within the margin of error. Labour, the Conservatives and the SNP all rejected the poll's findings, with the Conservatives saying that their canvas returns "showed them to be well ahead".


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Campaign
However, the day before the election the Evening Times reported that a Gallup poll showed Wiseman in a winning position on a predicted vote share of 33.5%, ahead of Malone on 27% and Jenkins on 26%. This was reflected in bookmakers odds which now made Labour the favourite to win the seat. This poll, which went against the findings of the earlier polls, was rejected by David Reid, the Conservative agent who did not believe it possible Labour were so far ahead.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Campaign
Reid predicted that anyone of the three main candidates would win in what would be a close contest and stated he would be "a very surprised man" if the result was not so close as to produce a recount. The SDP also stated the poll was at odds with their canvassing, while the SNP claimed that their predicted 12.5% vote share was wrong and they would "do a lot better than that" in the actual vote. Wiseman's agent Jimmy Allison stated the poll was significant, but even he doubted that Labour was that far ahead.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Result
The final result proved to be almost identical to the System Three opinion poll that had been carried out for The Glasgow Herald, and published on 23 March, with the SDP polling around 2% more than predicted and the SNP about 2% less than the poll suggested (with the figures for the Conservatives and Labour being almost exactly as the poll suggested). Jenkins won with just over one third of the votes cast. Malone took second place, just ahead of Wiseman, the share of the vote for both parties falling, while Leslie slightly increased the SNP share.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Result
The other candidates won less than a thousand votes between them, Roy Harold Jenkins' intervention not influencing the final result. Boaks took only five votes, the lowest total ever recorded for a candidate in a by-election who had not withdrawn. Such was the public attention that turnout was actually up from the general election.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Result
An editorial in The Glasgow Herald the morning after the election praised the conduct of both voters and candidates in the contest, noting that personal insults had been "largely avoided" and "public meetings well attended" with "thoughtful" questions being asked. It claimed that "the eyes of Britain" had been on Hillhead, and that the constituency "did not let its city down."


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Aftermath
The SDP now had 29 members of parliament, and the party had won three of four by-elections since its formation one year earlier. The Glasgow Herald argued that the Conservatives, despite losing the seat, would be able to claim that they had done well to finish second, while stating that the result "humiliates Mr Foot". The newspaper also predicted that the result threatened the Conservatives' hold on the vacant seat of Beaconsfield, where a by-election was pending. The Herald also stated that while the SNP had hoped the result would "put them back on the political map", its candidate had lost his deposit while the SDP had potentially become Scotland's third party.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Aftermath
Jenkins denied that the result was due to his personality and predicted it would see "a very strong revival in support for the SDP-Liberal alliance." He expressed surprise that Labour finished third, while Wiseman claimed that while he had not expected to win he had expected to come second. Labour's leader Michael Foot was disappointed with the result, but noted that the SDP support Alliance had taken more support from the Conservatives than his party. Cecil Parkinson, the Chairman of the Conservative Party, admitted the result was "a blow", but argued it also showed that voters were beginning to switch their support back to the Government.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Aftermath
Jenkins received "a hero's reception"  when he joined David Steel at the Scottish Liberal Party's conference at St Andrews the day after his victory, with delegates standing on chairs to acclaim him. Both argued that the Alliance now needed to take the votes of the SNP, with Steel calling on SNP supporters disillusioned with that party to back the Alliance to achieve Scottish home rule. Jenkins indicated that he thought the Alliance could form a government after the next election, but appealed to the Liberal delegates to show unity in the issue of deciding which party should fight which constituency. The same day Jenkins told a celebration dinner in Edinburgh "that the SDP had a great opportunity to become the majority party."


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Aftermath
Now in Parliament, Jenkins contested the SDP leadership election in July, winning narrowly. Following a disappointing result for the party in the 1983 general election, in which Jenkins retained the seat, he resigned the post. The 1983 contest saw the seat fought on new boundaries. According to notional results produced by the BBC and ITN, had these boundaries been in use in 1979 the seat would have returned a Labour candidate by a majority of just over 2,000 votes rather than result in a Conservative victory. Jenkins was challenged by Neil Carmichael, the sitting Labour MP for the abolished Glasgow Kelvingrove constituency and a former ministerial colleague of Jenkins.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Aftermath
Jenkins eventually lost Hillhead at the 1987 general election to the Labour candidate, George Galloway on a 5.3% swing.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Aftermath
Malone won the Aberdeen South seat in 1983, and later sat for Winchester. Labour largely blamed their poor result on infighting within the party, and in particular its far-left members. Leslie stood again for the SNP in Hillhead in 1983 but saw his vote halve.


1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, Aftermath
Despite the success of the Alliance in Hillhead, the next Scottish by-election, that at Coatbridge and Airdrie in June, saw their candidate, a Liberal, finish in last place and lose their deposit. The Glasgow Herald described that result as "a disastrous blow" for the Alliance and predicted it showed that it showed that the Liberals and SDP faced "an uphill struggle" in Scotland.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election
The Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, 1982 was a parliamentary by-election held on 2 December 1982 for the House of Commons constituency of Glasgow Queen's Park.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Previous MP
The seat fell vacant when the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP), Francis Patrick "Frank" McElhone (5 April 1929 – 22 September 1982) died.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Previous MP
McElhone was elected Member of Parliament for Glasgow Gorbals at a 1969 by-election, serving until the constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the February 1974 general election.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Previous MP
He was then elected as MP for Glasgow Queen's Park, and held that seat until he died in office in 1982 at the age of 53. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1975 to 1979.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Candidates
Seven candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Candidates
1. Representing the Labour Party was Helen McElhone, born Helen Margaret Brown in 1933.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Candidates
Following the death of her husband Frank McElhone MP in 1982, Helen McElhone was elected as his successor in the resulting by-election. However, she served for only six months as the seat was abolished by boundary changes before the 1983 general election.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Candidates
After her brief term as MP, she was a Strathclyde Regional Councillor for a number of years until 1995 for the Scottish Labour Party, on whose Selection Panel she served to approve candidates for the 1999 Scottish Parliament elections.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Candidates
2. The Scottish National Party candidate was Peter Mallan (1934–2014)gn. He worked as a teacher and broadcaster. He also contested Glasgow Central in the 1983 general election.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Candidates
3. The Conservative nominee was 23-year-old Jackson Carlaw. Margaret Thatcher personally helped campaign for Carlaw during the by-election. He later became an MSP and one-time leader of the Scottish Conservative Party.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Candidates
4. The Liberal Party candidate, representing the SDP-Liberal Alliance, was Graham Watson. He had, as an Independent Liberal candidate, stood in the Glasgow Central constituency, in a by-election on 29 June 1980.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Candidates
He subsequently became a prominent figure in the politics of the European Union.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Candidates
5. John R. Kay, a draughtsman who had become the full-time Glasgow secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, was born in June 1926. He was the Communist nominee in the last two elections in the Glasgow Gorbals constituency (a 1969 by-election and the 1970 general election) and all the contests in Glasgow Queen's Park (the two 1974 and the 1979 general elections, as well as the 1982 by-election).


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Candidates
6. John Connell was an Independent, using the ballot paper label "Peace and Socialist". He later contested the 1983 Penrith and The Border by-election, the 1984 Chesterfield by-election, and the 1985 Tyne Bridge by-election.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Candidates
7. A. H. Tennent represented the Scottish Republican Socialist Party.


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Aftermath
Writing of the result of the by-election in the next day's edition of The Glasgow Herald, political correspondent called the result "a reasonable one for the Labour Party" adding that Labour's leader Michael Foot would be perfectly pleased with it. On the other hand he argued that it was "a bad result for the Conservatives", but noted that the party "could really have expected little more in an area like Queen's Park." He considered the result a good one for the SNP, which "could not have come at a better time with their internal problems once again in the news." He also speculated that the SNP's performance could "revive thoughts of devolution in the minds of some Labour politicians who have been keeping conspicuously quiet on the subject as of late." another Glasgow newspaper, the Evening Times, reported that Labour's "majority was substantially bigger than party analysts had predicted."


1982 Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, Aftermath
Helen McElhone's election meant that the number of female MP's in Scotland was increased to two, as Judith Hart had been the only woman returned in Scotland at the 1979 general election"


1982 Gloucester City Council election
The 1982 Gloucester City Council election took place on 5 May 1982 to elect members of Gloucester City Council in England.


1982 Gloweave Indoor Championships
The 1982 Gloweave Indoor Championships, also known as the Melbourne Indoor Championships,  was an Association of Tennis Professionals men's tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Festival Hall in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was the third edition of the tournament, which was part of the  1982 Grand Prix tennis circuit, and was held from 4 October until 10 October 1982. First-seeded Vitas Gerulaitis won the singles title, his second at the event after 1982, and earned $20,000 first-prize money.


1982 Gloweave Indoor Championships, Finals, Doubles
Francisco González /  Matt Mitchell defeated  Syd Ball /  Rod Frawley 7–6, 7–6


1982 Gonda Encounter
The 1982 Gonda Encounter  is an ongoing criminal case involving the murder of 13 people including the Deputy Superintendent of police in Gonda district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. On 5 March 2013 three police personnel were given capital punishment and five others were given life-time imprisonment by the special CBI court in Lucknow. The case has been described as the "Rarest of rare cases" and also for the slow process of the Indian judicial system since the verdict was announced after 31 years.


1982 Gonda Encounter, Alleged encounter and killing
An alleged group clash had occurred on the night of 12 March 1982 in Madhavpur village located within the Katrabazar police station area in Gonda district. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Krishna Pratap Singh (K P Singh), on getting the information about the criminals Ram Bhulawan and Arjun Pasi, went to the village with the police. K P Singh was later taken to the hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. 12 other people also died who were later declared dacoits by R B Saroj (who was head of police station) and his partners. The police later submitted a report saying the DSP was killed by dacoits in a bomb attack and the policemen killed the dacoits in an encounter. They also showed the bodies of 12 people as evidence.


1982 Gonda Encounter, Allegations and investigation
The reason for the alleged killing is said to be the enmity between Deputy Superintendent of police, K P Singh, and his subordinates, whom he suspected of having close co-operation with the local criminals. K P Singh had ordered inquiry against the then sub-inspector R B Saroj. Yashpal Singh, then SP of Gonda (later DGP of UP Police from Jan 2005 to Apr 2006), started the investigation. After the inquiry, he was removed. The police initially maintained that Singh was killed by criminals.


1982 Gonda Encounter, Allegations and investigation
The SHO of Katra Bazar Police Station Tirath Rajpal investigated the incident and gave the cops a clean chit, however K P Singh's wife, Vibha Singh (then PCS Officer) and state president of People's Union for Civil Liberties Chitranjan Singh, alleged that K P Singh's subordinates had conspired to kill him. On her complaint, the local officers refused to take action. Vibha Singh then approached the High Court and a CBI investigation was ordered on Supreme Court's intervention. The CBI registered an FIR on 24 February 1984, accusing the cops of killing the DSP and villagers in a fake encounter, finally a charge sheet was filed against 19 policemen by the CBI on 28 February 1989, and 7 September 2001.


1982 Gonda Encounter, Allegations and investigation
Preliminary investigation had found encounter as doubtful as the CBI found the death of the DSP as mysterious and had found evidence that K P Singh was probing a number of inquires pending against R B Saroj related to allegations of corruption, bribery and human rights violations. The encounter though told by the police to have lasted for hours, but there were no signs of bullets on any house and no villager was injured. The statement of witnesses, villagers and doctors contradicted the statement by the police., also the investigating agency found most of the firearms shown recovered from the villagers in alleged encounter were not in working condition.


1982 Gonda Encounter, Verdict
After 24 long years of investigation, the special CBI court convicted eight policemen on 29 March 2013. In the trial period of 19 policemen who were charge sheeted, 10 had died and seven had retired. On 5 April 2013, the CBI court judge Rajendra Singh announced death penalty for three policemen and life imprisonment for the five remaining accused.


1982 Gonda Encounter, Verdict
The CBI's special public prosecutor Sanjai Kumar mentioned that the encounter took place on the night of 12 March 1982, when the chief conspirator R B Saroj executed the plan to kill the then DSP K P Singh with other police men. The charge sheet says that R B Saroj, against whom investigations were going on by Mr. Singh, made a story of movement of criminals in the Madhavpur area and decided to take on the criminals when Singh and other cops joined him. The prosecutor also said that 12 villagers were killed.


1982 Gonda Encounter, Verdict
The accused later told that the dacoits killed the DSP whom they killed in firing. "All evidence shows... RB Saroj killed the DSP, who was then a 25-year-old. No doubt he (Saroj) had the support of those persons whom the CBI did not chargesheet for reasons known to it," the court observed. The court also said pointing the evidence of killing them in cold blood, "The motive...was to commit the murder of CO and 12 persons.


1982 Gonda Encounter, Verdict
The Forensic Science Laboratory report shows that the ammunitions recovered were not of corresponding arms and the post-mortem report of 12 persons showed that they were shot dead while in standing position at a very close range." The CBI judge also said, "The manner of the killing of DSP KP Singh and 12 villagers and thereafter creating false encounter memo and fake recovery memos makes it rarest of rare case," and turned down the appeal from the accused side to deliver a lighter punishment.


1982 Gonda Encounter, Verdict
The main accused RB Saroj who was posted as a sub-inspector in Gonda in 1982 claimed to have been implicated by the CBI in the case only because the investigators had wanted to give a clean chit to the senior officers. The court after the judgement took the guilty accused into custody and sent them to jail.


1982 Gonda Encounter, Verdict
Following the judgement of CBI Court, the Allahabad High Court acquitted all 6 cops stating the encounter was genuine.


1982 Gonda Encounter, Impact and eyewitness accounts
The case and the outcome is seen as the very slow process of the Indian judicial system since it took 31 years after the murder and 27 years after the charge sheet to deliver the first verdict. The CBI judge Rajendra Singh stated it as the "rarest of the rare cases. The case is also marked for holding total of eight policemen guilty." But the case is also noted for its slow judgement and the failure of the agency to solve the case and deliver the result in time. The court criticized the CBI for the pace of investigation.


1982 Gonda Encounter, Impact and eyewitness accounts
The court on pronouncing the verdict said, "The evidence on record indicated conspiracy at a high level but the CBI kept its eyes closed,". The deceased DSP's daughter Kinjal Singh, who is an IAS officer and district magistrate of Lakhimpur Kheri district, broke down during the judgement and recalled her father as honest and her mother's consistent fight against the accused. Her sister Pranjal Singh is an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer. She and her relatives, who were present in the court appreciated the court decision. Scores of eyewitnesses also told the media how they saw their dear ones were killed in front of them by the accused, but they could do nothing.


1982 Governor General's Awards
Each winner of the 1982 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.


1982 Gower by-election
The Gower by-election of 16 September 1982 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Ifor Davies on 6 June 1982. The seat was held by Labour in the by-election.


1982 Gower by-election
Amongst the candidates was David Burns who at the time was being held on remand over charges relating to the bombing of a British Army recruitment office in Pontypridd. A self-declared member of the 'Worker's Army for a Welsh Republic', Burns was ultimately released in 1983 after neither of the two charges were made to stand up.


1982 Grampian Regional Council election
The 1982 Grampian Regional Council election, the third election to the Grampian Regional Council, was held on Thursday 6 May 1982 as part of the wider 1982 Scottish regional elections. The election saw the Conservatives maintaining their dominance of the 54 seat Council, albeit with a reduced presence.


1982 Grand National
BBC Commentator Peter O'Sullevan describes the climax of the 1982 National


1982 Grand National
The 1982 Grand National (officially known as The Sun Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 136th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 3 April 1982.


1982 Grand National
The race was won by 7/1 favourite Grittar, ridden by amateur Dick Saunders, who at the age of 48 became, and remains, the oldest jockey to have won the Grand National.


1982 Grand National
Saunders retired after the race and became chairman of the Aintree stewards. Grittar finished fifth in the next year's National and 10th in 1984. The horse retired to his owner's Rutland base and died aged 25.


1982 Grand National
The race was also notable for being the first in which a female jockey, Geraldine Rees, completed the course. She rode Cheers to be the eighth and last of the finishers.


1982 Grand National, Leading contenders
Grittar was installed as a 7/1 favourite on the day of the race, due mostly to the Cheltenham and Liverpool Foxhunter Chase double in 1981  The victory at Liverpool was enough for him to get the support of BBC Radio Two commentator, Peter Bromley though several newspaper pundits expressed concern at the horse being a hunter chaser. Forty-eight-year-old amateur rider Dick Saunders told trainer Frank Gilman to employ the services of a professional rider, Peter Scudamore for the big race, but Gilman insisted Saunders take the ride if fit.


1982 Grand National, Leading contenders
His age and amateur status did little to deter the betting public although leading professional gambler, Alex Bird exclaimed "I immediately pencilled him in for the '82 National, but I'm not happy about the jockey - I'll be keeping my money in my pocket." In preparation for the National, he won at a canter at Leicester before finishing a creditable sixth in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.


1982 Grand National, Media coverage
BBC Grandstand covered the race with David Coleman fronting the coverage live from Aintree.


1982 Grand Prix (tennis)
The 1982 Volvo Grand Prix was a professional tennis circuit held that year. It incorporated the four grand slam tournaments, the Grand Prix tournaments. The circuit was administered by the Men's International Professional Tennis Council (MIPTC). On 30 April 1981 World Championship Tennis (WCT) announced its withdrawal from the Grand Prix circuit, which it had been incorporated into since 1978, and the re-establishment of its own tour calendar for the 1982 season. To counter the threat of player leaving the Grand Prix tour for the WCT the MIPTC introduced a mandatory commitment to play at least 10 Grand Prix Super Series tournaments.


1982 Grand Prix (tennis), Schedule
The table below shows the 1982 Volvo Grand Prix schedule (a precursor to the ATP Tour).


1982 Grand Prix (tennis), Schedule
Total prize money amount for all tournaments comes from ATP.


1982 Grand Prix (tennis), ATP rankings
*The official ATP year-end rankings were listed from January 3rd, 1983.


1982 Grand Prix (tennis), List of tournament winners
The list of winners and number of singles titles won, alphabetically by last name:


1982 Grand Prix d'Automne
The 1982 Grand Prix d'Automne was the 76th edition of the Paris–Tours cycle race and was held on 10 October 1982. The race started in Blois and finished in Chaville. The race was won by Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke.


1982 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse
The 1982 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor Carpet courts in Toulouse, France that was part of the Grand Prix series of the 1982 Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the first edition of the tournament and was held from 6 December until 12 December 1982. First-seeded Yannick Noah won the singles title.


1982 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse, Finals, Doubles
Pavel Složil /  Tomáš Šmíd defeated  Jean-Louis Haillet /  Yannick Noah, 6–4, 6–4


1982 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse – Doubles
The 1982 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse was a men's tennis tournament played on Indoor Carpet in Toulouse, France that was part of the Grand Prix series of the 1982 Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the first edition of the tournament and was held from 6 December – 12 December.


1982 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1982 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse – Singles
The 1982 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Toulouse, France that was part of the Grand Prix series of the 1982 Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the first edition of the tournament and was held from 6 December – 12 December.


1982 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse – Singles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1982 Grand Prix la Serenisima
The 1982 Grand Prix la Serenisima, also known as the Buenos Aires Grand Prix, was an Association of Tennis Professionals men's tennis tournament held in Buenos Aires, Argentina and took place from 1 February through 7 February 1982. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and first-seeded Guillermo Vilas won the singles title.


1982 Grand Prix la Serenisima, Finals, Doubles
Hans Kary /  Zoltan Kuharszky defeated  Ángel Giménez /  Manuel Orantes 7–5, 6–2


1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
The 1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 34th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.


1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
Italian Franco Uncini on the Roberto Gallina backed Suzuki took a well-earned championship for Roberto Gallina's Italian Suzuki team in the 500cc class.


1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
Yamaha introduced a new motorcycle with a V4 engine for Kenny Roberts but, suffered from having to develop a new bike during the season. Roberts was also now using Dunlop tires after Goodyear withdrew from motorcycle racing. Honda abandoned its NR500 four-stroke in favor of a V3 two-stroke NS500 piloted by American newcomer, Freddie Spencer, defending champion Marco Lucchinelli and veteran Takazumi Katayama. Spencer would give Honda its first 500cc win since the 1967 season and its first with a two-stroke.


1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
Roberts injured a finger and a knee at the British Grand Prix and would miss the remainder of the season. Barry Sheene was lying third in the championship, tied on points with Roberts after eight rounds however, his season was brought to a premature end while testing the new Yamaha V4. He hit the obscured fallen machine of Frenchman Patrick Igoa during practice at Silverstone and badly broke both legs and an arm. Most of the factory sponsored riders boycotted the French round at Nogaro in protest of the unsafe track conditions.


1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
Anton Mang successfully defended his 350 title for Kawasaki despite winning only one race. He would be the final 350 world champion as the class would be discontinued after 1982. Mang lost his 250 crown to Jean-Louis Tournadre by one point despite winning five races. Tournadre's only victory would be at the boycotted French round. The Frenchman would become France's first world champion. Angel Nieto clinched his eleventh title in the 125 class on a Garelli. In the 50cc class, Eugenio Lazzarini and Stefan Dörflinger traded wins, each rider winning three races, but Dörflinger took the title because of his three second-place finishes.


1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, 1982 Grand Prix season calendar
The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 1982:


1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Results and standings, 500cc riders' standings
Points are awarded to the top ten finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.


1982 Green Bay Packers season
The 1982 Green Bay Packers season was their 64th season overall and their 62nd season in the National Football League, and was shortened due to a players' strike. The team posted a 5–3–1 record under coach Bart Starr. Due to the strike, the NFL ignored division standing and placed eight teams from each conference into the playoffs. The Packers finished the season in third place, which earned them a playoff berth. The Packers beat the Cardinals 41–16 in the first round, but lost to the Dallas Cowboys 37–26 in the second. Their playoff berth was the first for the Packers in ten seasons, their first playoff win in the post-Vince Lombardi era, and their only playoff win from 1968 to 1992.


1982 Green Bay Packers season
The strike prevented both games of the Bears–Packers rivalry from being played this year, making the Lions–Packers rivalry the longest-running annual series in the league. It also led to Milwaukee becoming the Packers primary home by happenstance, as three of their four regular-season home games were played at Milwaukee County Stadium, although the playoff game vs. the Cardinals was at Lambeau.


1982 Green Bay Packers season, Playoffs, NFC First Round
Green Bay quarterback Lynn Dickey threw for 260 yards and 4 touchdowns en route to a 41–16 win. The Packers scored four touchdowns on four consecutive possessions. It was their first playoff victory since Super Bowl II.


1982 Green Bay Packers season, Playoffs, NFC Second Round
The Cowboys scored touchdowns on two 80-yard drives while cornerback Dennis Thurman had 3 interceptions, including a 39-yard touchdown and one to clinch the victory. Packers quarterback Lynn Dickey threw for a franchise postseason record 332 yards and a touchdown, but his 3 interceptions were too costly to overcome. Receiver James Lofton caught 5 passes for 109 yards and a touchdown, and also had a 71-yard touchdown run on a reverse play, which tied the record for longest running play in a playoff game at the time.


1982 Green Bay Packers season, Playoffs, NFC Second Round
Green Bay finished the game with a franchise playoff record 466 total yards.


1982 Greenlandic European Communities membership referendum
The 1982 Greenlandic European Communities membership referendum was a referendum that took place on 23 February 1982, over whether Greenland should continue to be a member of the European Communities (EC).


1982 Greenlandic European Communities membership referendum
Greenland had joined the EC in 1973 when Denmark joined, even though a majority of 70% of the Greenlandic votes  in the Danish EC referendum held in 1972 had been against membership. In the spring of 1981, after Greenlandic home rule had been established in 1979 and the eurosceptic party Siumut won the 1979 election, the Parliament of Greenland agreed to hold a referendum on its continued membership. The result of the referendum was a majority in favour of leaving the EC, and this was enacted by the Greenland Treaty, which allowed the EC to keep its fishing rights. Greenland continues to be considered an Overseas Countries and Territory of the EU, giving it a special relationship with the Union.


1982 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship
The 1982 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship was the 12th edition of the Greenlandic Men's Football Championship. The final round was held in Nuuk. It was won by Nagdlunguaq-48 for the fourth time in its history.


1982 Greenwich London Borough Council election
The 1982 Greenwich Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Greenwich London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1982 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
The 1982 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens was the 18th edition of the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens cycle race and was held on 19 September 1982. The race started and finished in Leuven. The race was won by Rudy Matthijs.


1982 Guamanian legislative election
The 1982 Guam legislative election was held in Guam on November 2, 1982. The Democratic Party won fourteen of the twenty-one seats in the Legislature.


1982 Guamanian legislative election, Primary Election
The primary election is scheduled for the first Saturday in September. For the 1982 election, the primary was held on Saturday, September 4, 1982 for both the Democratic Party of Guam and the Republican Party of Guam. The 21 at-large candidates from each party who receive the most votes go on to the general election.


1982 Guamanian legislative election, General election
The general election is scheduled for the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November. For the 1982 election, the general election was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1982. The 21 at-large candidates who receive the most votes would be certified and then inaugurated as members of the 17th Guam Legislature on January 3, 1983.


1982 Guamanian legislative election, Incoming Senators to the 17th Guam Legislature
There were 21 senators elected on November 2, 1982 to serve in the 17th Guam Legislature:


1982 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup
Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup 1981–82 is the fourth staging of this two-leg competition between Hong Kong and Guangdong.


1982 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup
The first leg was played in Hong Kong Stadium on 3 January 1982 while the second leg was played in Guangzhou on 12 January 1982.


1982 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup
Hong Kong won the Cup by winning 3–2 after extra time.


1982 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup, Squads, Hong Kong
General Manager：  Cheung Chi Wai 張志威、  Wong Chong San 黃創山Manager：  Chan Fai Hung 陳輝洪Assistant Manager：  Leung Tak Shing 梁德成Physio：  Leung Chung Wai 梁仲偉Some of the players in the squad:


1982 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup, Squads, Guangdong
General Manager：  Zhang Riyang 張日揚Manager:  Xian Dixiong 冼迪雄Physio：  Ye Wang 葉旺Some of the players in the squad:


1982 Guatemalan general election
General elections were held in Guatemala on 7 March 1982. Ángel Aníbal Guevara, hand-picked successor of previous president Romeo Lucas García, was declared the winner of the presidential election and was scheduled to take office on 1 July. However, the elections were widely denounced as fraudulent by elements on both sides of the political spectrum and an army-led coup d'état on 23 March instead installed the three-man junta of General Efraín Ríos Montt, General Horacio Maldonado Schaad, and Colonel Francisco Luis Gordillo Martínez.


1982 Guatemalan general election, Results, President
Ángel Aníbal Guevara was the candidate of the Popular Democratic Front, an alliance of the Institutional Democratic Party, the Revolutionary Party and the National Unity Front. Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre was the candidate of the National Opposition Union, an alliance of Guatemalan Christian Democracy and the National Renewal Party.


1982 Guatemalan general election, Results, Congress
Of the nine seats won by the National Opposition Union, seven were taken by Guatemalan Christian Democracy and two by the National Renewal Party.


1982 Guinean presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Guinea on 9 May 1982. Incumbent Ahmed Sékou Touré was the only candidate (as the country as a one-party state with his Democratic Party of Guinea as the sole legal party at the time), and was re-elected unopposed. Voter turnout was reported to be 98.8%.


1982 Gulf Club Champions Cup
The Gulf Club Champions Cup (Arabic: كأس الأندية الخليجية), is a football league tournament for the Arabian Peninsula clubs. The 1982 edition was known as the Gulf Cooperation Council Club Tournament. This was the first edition of the competition and featured five nations  from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Al-Wasl of the United Arab Emirates withdrew without playing any matches, as many players were selected for the Asian youth championship.


1982 Gulf Club Champions Cup
The competition was played between December 1982 and February 1983 on a home and away league format. Al-Arabi of Kuwait were crowned the inaugural champions.


1982 Hackney London Borough Council election
The 1982 Hackney Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Hackney London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1982 Hall of Fame Classic
The 1982 Hall of Fame Classic, part of the 1982 bowl game season, was the sixth annual contest and took place on December 31, 1982, at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. The competing teams were the Vanderbilt Commodores, representing the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and the Air Force Falcons, representing the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). Down 28–17 entering the fourth quarter, 19 unanswered points gave Air Force the 36–28 come-from-behind victory.


1982 Hall of Fame Classic, Background
The 1982 squad finished the regular season 7–5. The Falcons lost to Tulsa, Texas Tech, New Mexico, Colorado State and Hawaii. They accepted an invitation to play in the Hall of Fame Classic Bowl against Vanderbilt following their upset victory over Notre Dame November 21. The appearance was the fourth overall bowl appearance and the first in the Hall of Fame Classic Bowl for Air Force. Stanford was the original selection, but became ineligible for bowl participation following their loss to Cal.


1982 Hall of Fame Classic, Background
The 1982 Vanderbilt squad finished the regular season 8–3. The Commodores lost to North Carolina, Alabama and Georgia. They accepted an invitation to play in the Hall of Fame Classic Bowl following their 27–16 victory over Tennessee–Chattanooga November 20. The appearance was the third overall bowl appearance and the first in the Hall of Fame Classic Bowl for Vanderbilt.


1982 Hall of Fame Classic, Game summary
Vanderbilt got on the scoreboard first after Whit Taylor threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to Norman Jordan to give the Commodores a 7–0 lead. Air Force responded with a one-yard Marty Louthan touchdown later in the first and then on a 19-yard Mike Brown run early in the second to take a 14–7 lead. The Commodores then scored a pair of second-quarter touchdown passes by Taylor to take a 21–14 halftime lead.


1982 Hall of Fame Classic, Game summary
In the third, the Falcons scored on a 21-yard Sean Pavlich field goal and the Commodores on Jordan's third touchdown reception of the evening to give Vanderbilt a 28–17 lead entering the fourth quarter. In the fourth, Air Force scored 19 unanswered points on a trio of touchdown runs to secure the 36–28 victory. For their performances, Vanderbilt quarterback Whit Taylor and Air Force defensive end Carl Dieudonne were named co-MVPs of the game.


1982 Hama massacre
The Hama Massacre (Arabic: مجزرة حماة), or Hama Uprising, occurred in February 1982, when the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies, under the orders of the country's president Hafez al-Assad, besieged the town of Hama for 27 days in order to quell an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood against al-Assad's government. The massacre, carried out by the Syrian Army under commanding General Rifaat al-Assad, effectively ended the campaign begun in 1976 by Sunni Muslim groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, against the government.


1982 Hama massacre
Initial diplomatic reports from Western countries stated that 1,000 were killed. Subsequent estimates vary, with the lower estimates claiming that at least 2,000 Syrian citizens were killed, while others put the number at 20,000 (Robert Fisk) or 40,000 (Syrian Human Rights Committee). About 1,000 Syrian soldiers were killed during the operation, and large parts of the old city were destroyed. The attack has been described as one of the "deadliest acts by any Arab government against its own people in the modern Middle East". According to Syrian opposition, the vast majority of the victims were civilians.


1982 Hama massacre, Background
The Ba'ath Party of Syria, which advocated the ideologies of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism had clashed with the Muslim Brotherhood, a group with a Sunni Islamist ideology, since 1940. The two groups were opposed in important ways. The Ba'ath party was nominally secular, nationalist. The Muslim Brotherhood, like other Islamist groups, saw nationalism as un-Islamic and religion as inseparable from politics and government.


1982 Hama massacre, Background
Most Ba'ath party members were from humble, obscure backgrounds and favored radical economic policies, while Sunni Muslims had dominated the souqs and landed power of Syria, and tended to view government intervention in the economy as threatening. Not all Sunni notables believed in fundamentalism, but even those who did not often saw the Brotherhood as a useful tool against the Ba'ath.


1982 Hama massacre, Background
The town of Hama in particular was a "stronghold of landed conservatism and of the Muslim Brothers," and "had long been a redoubtable opponent of the Ba'athist state." The first full-scale clash between the two occurred shortly after the 1963 coup, in which the Ba'ath party first gained power in Syria. In April 1964 riots broke out in Hama, where Muslim insurgents put up "roadblocks, stockpiled food and weapons, ransacked wine shops." After an Ismaili Ba'ath militiaman was killed, riots intensified and rebels attacked "every vestige" of the Ba'ath party in Hama. Tanks were brought in to crush the rebellion and 70 members of the Muslim Brotherhood died, with many others wounded or captured, and still more disappearing underground.


1982 Hama massacre, Background
After the clashes in Hama, the situation periodically erupted into clashes between the government and various Islamic sections. However, a more serious challenge occurred after the Syrian invasion of Lebanon in 1976. In October 1980, Muhammad al-Bayanuni, a respected member of the religious hierarchy of Aleppo, became the Islamic Front's Secretary-General, but its leading light remained 'Adnan Sa'd al-Din, the General Supervisor of the Muslim Brothers. The chief ideologue of the Islamic Front was a prominent religious scholar from Hama, Sa'id Hawwa, who along with Sa'd al-Din had been a leader of the northern militants during the mid-1970s. Anti -regime activists such as Marwan Hadid and Muhammad al-Hamid were also carefully listened to.


1982 Hama massacre, Background
From 1976 to 1982, Sunni Islamists fought the Ba'ath Party-controlled government of Syria in what has been called a "long campaign of terror". In 1979 the Brotherhood undertook guerrilla activities in multiple cities within the country targeting military officers and government officials. The resulting government repression included abusive tactics, torture, mass arrests, and a number of selective assassinations, particularly of prominent mosque preachers. In July 1980, the ratification of Law No. 49 made membership in the Muslim Brotherhood a capital offense.


1982 Hama massacre, Background
Throughout the first years of the 1980s, the Muslim Brotherhood and various other Islamist factions staged hit-and-run and bomb attacks against the government and its officials, including a nearly successful attempt to assassinate President Hafez al-Assad on 26 June 1980, during an official state reception for the president of Mali. When a machine-gun salvo missed him, al-Assad allegedly ran to kick a hand grenade aside, and his bodyguard (who survived and was later promoted to a much higher position) smothered the explosion of another one. Surviving with only light injuries, al-Assad's revenge was swift and merciless: only hours later a large number of imprisoned Islamists (reports say from 600 to 1000 prisoners) were executed in their cells in Tadmor Prison (near Palmyra), by units loyal to the President's brother Rifaat al-Assad.


1982 Hama massacre, Background
In an earlier massacre in 1981, over 300 residents of Hama were killed by security forces, in a revenge attack for an Islamist terror incident.


1982 Hama massacre, Attack by insurgents in Hama
The events of the Hama massacre began at 2 am on 3 February 1982. An army unit searching the old city "stumbled on the hideout of the local guerilla commander, Omar Jawwad (aka Abu Bakr) and were ambushed. Other insurgent cells were alerted by radio and "roof-top snipers killed perhaps a score" of Syrian soldiers. Reinforcements were rushed to besiege Abu Bakr who then "gave the order for a general uprising" in Hama.


1982 Hama massacre, Attack by insurgents in Hama
Mosque loudspeakers used for the call to prayer called for jihad against the Ba'ath, and hundreds of Islamic insurgents rose to attack the homes of government officials and Baath Party leaders, overrun police posts and ransack armouries. By daybreak of the morning of 3 February, some 70 leading Ba'athists had been killed and the Islamist insurgents and other opposition activists proclaimed Hama a "liberated city", urging Syrians to rise up against the "infidel".


1982 Hama massacre, Counter-attack by government forces
According to author Patrick Seale, "every party worker, every paratrooper sent to Hama knew that this time Islamic militancy had to be torn out of the city, whatever the cost." The military was mobilized, and president Hafez al-Assad sent Rifaat's special forces (the Defense companies), elite army units and Mukhabarat agents to the city. Before the attack, the Syrian government called for the city's surrender and warned that anyone remaining in the city would be considered a rebel. Hama was besieged by 12,000 troops for three weeks – the first week spent "in regaining control of the town," and the last two "in hunting down the insurgents." Robert Fisk, a journalist who was in Hama midway through the battle, described civilians fleeing pervasive destruction.


1982 Hama massacre, Counter-attack by government forces
According to Amnesty International, the Syrian military bombed the old city center from the air to facilitate the entry of infantry and tanks through the narrow streets; buildings were demolished by tanks during the first four days of fighting. Large parts of the old city were destroyed. There were also unsubstantiated reports of use of hydrogen cyanide by the government forces.


1982 Hama massacre, Counter-attack by government forces
Rifaat's forces ringed the city with artillery, shelled it, then combed the rubble for surviving Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters. Suspecting that rebels were still hiding in tunnels under the old city, he had diesel fuel pumped into them and stationed tanks at their entrances to shell fleeing militants.


1982 Hama massacre, Fatality estimates
Initial diplomatic reports from western governments in 1982 had stated that 1,000 were killed in the fighting. Subsequent estimates of casualties varied from 2,000 to 40,000 people killed, including about 1,000 soldiers. Robert Fisk, who was in Hama shortly after the massacre, originally estimated fatalities at 10,000, but has since doubled the estimate to 20,000. Syrian general and brother to the president Rifaat al-Assad reportedly boasted of killing 38,000 people. Amnesty International initially estimated the death toll was between 10,000 and 25,000.


1982 Hama massacre, Fatality estimates
Reports by Syrian Human Rights Committee claimed "over 25,000" or between 30,000 and 40,000 people were killed. Twenty years later, Syrian journalist Subhi Hadidi, wrote that forces "under the command of General Ali Haydar, besieged the city for 27 days, bombarding it with heavy artillery and tank [fire], before invading it and killing 30,000 or 40,000 of the city's citizens – in addition to the 15,000 missing who have not been found to this day, and the 100,000 expelled."


1982 Hama massacre, Aftermath
After the Hama uprising, the Islamist insurrection was broken, and the Brotherhood has since operated in exile while other factions surrendered or slipped into hiding. Government attitudes in Syria hardened considerably during the uprising, and Assad would rely more on repression than on political tactics for the remainder of his rule, although an economic liberalization began in the 1990s.


1982 Hama massacre, Aftermath
After the massacre, the already evident disarray in the insurgents' ranks increased, and the rebel factions experienced acrimonious internal splits. Particularly damaging to their cause was the deterrent effect of the massacre, as well as the realization that no Sunni uprisings had occurred in the rest of the country in support of the Hama rebels. Most members of the rebel groups fled the country or remained in exile, mainly in Iran, while others would make their way to the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.


1982 Hama massacre, Aftermath
The Muslim Brotherhood—the largest opposition group—split into two factions, after giving up on armed struggle. One, more moderate and recognized by the international Muslim Brotherhood, eventually headquartered itself in the UK where it remains, while another for several years retained a military structure in Iran, with backing from the government, before rejoining the London-based mainstream.


1982 Hama massacre, Aftermath
The Hama massacre is often raised in indictment of the al-Assad government's poor human rights record. Within Syria, mention of the massacre has been strictly suppressed, although the general contours of the events—and various partisan versions, on all sides—are well known throughout the country. When the massacre is publicly referenced, it is only as the "events" or "incident" at Hama.


1982 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season
The 1982 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 25th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 33rd overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 2nd place in the East Division with an 8–7–1 record. They lost to the Ottawa Rough Riders in the East Semi-Final.


1982 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election
The 1982 Hammersmith and Fulham Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the council stayed in no overall control.


1982 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
Both Labour and the Conservatives fielded a full slate of 50 candidates.


1982 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
The SDP Liberal Alliance also ran a full 50 candidates - an increase from the 20 candidates they fielded in 1978. On the ballot paper the candidates were listed alternatively as 'SDP-Liberal Alliance' and 'Liberal Alliance-SDP'.


1982 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
The Ecology Party ran a single candidate in four wards - Brook Green, Coningham, Grove and Walham.


1982 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
A single candidate in seven wards declared themselves to be representing the Residents' Association - Addison, Broadway, Coningham, Eel Brook, Gibbs Green, Margravine and Sands End.


1982 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
Three candidates in Addison ward, two in Brook Green ward and one each in Grove and Margravine wards listed themselves as Independents.


1982 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
Two candidates in Broadway ward and one in Sherbrooke ward used the 'Save London Action Group' banner. This compared to 18 candidates in the 1978 election who listed themselves as part of the 'Save London Alliance'. Across London at this election a further 46 candidates used the SLAG banner.


1982 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
The Workers Revolutionary Party fielded two candidate - one each in Margravine and White City & Shepherds Bush wards. This was up from the single candidate at the previous election. Across London the party fielded a further 13 candidates at this election.


1982 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
The National Front fielded 2 candidates in the Wormholt ward - down from the 14 candidates they ran at the 1978 election in Hammersmith. Across London the National Front fielded a further 55 candidates at this election.


1982 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
A total of 175 candidates put themselves forward for the 50 available seats - an increase from the 159 candidates who contested the previous election.


1982 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Election result
The Labour Party won 25 seats (a gain of one seat), the Conservative Party 23 seats (a loss of one seat), and the SDP Liberal Alliance two seats (unchanged from the Liberal Party result in 1978). No party had overall control.


1982 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservatives maintained control of the Council with the support of the two Liberal Alliance councillors - Kim Howe was elected Council Leader.


1982 Hardy Cup
The 1982 Hardy Cup was the 1982 edition of the Canadian intermediate senior ice hockey championship.


1982 Haringey London Borough Council election
The 1982 Haringey Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Haringey London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1982 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Crouch End
Terence O'Sullivan was a sitting councillor for Noel Park ward.


1982 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, South Tottenham
Donald Billingsley was a sitting councillor for Bruce Grove ward.


1982 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Tottenham Central
George Meehan was a sitting councillor for Green Lanes ward.


1982 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Woodside
Frederick Neuner was a sitting councillor for Bowes Park ward.


1982 Harlow District Council election
The 1982 Harlow District Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained control of the council.


1982 Harlow District Council election, Election result
All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1978 election.


1982 Harpoon missile misfire incident
The 1982 Harpoon Missile Misfire Incident, in Danish dubbed 'Hovsa-Missilet' (or 'The Whoops Missile'), was an unintentional discharge of a live harpoon missile by Danish frigate HDMS Peder Skram during a training maneuver in the Kattegat on 6 September 1982. The missile traveled 34 kilometers at low altitude, severing several power lines before eventually striking a group of trees and exploding. The fireball and subsequent shockwave destroyed four nearby unoccupied summer cottages and damaged a further 130 buildings in the immediate vicinity. No human injury was reported.


1982 Harpoon missile misfire incident, Cause
A navy investigation into the matter concluded that a technical malfunction was the cause of the launch as it happened without the launch key being activated. The missile system had undergone maintenance and was in the process of being checked by an expert from the Navy Material Command (abolished in 1985, prior to the Packard Commission), who was later charged and convicted for negligence, though most charges were later dropped following a second investigation. McDonnell Douglas, the manufacturer of the missile later paid the Danish government compensation, which covered all the damage made by the missile. It was applied a termination clause like the ones which in 1999 become a recommended standard for contracts valued at less than $100K.


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1982 Harrow London Borough Council election
The 1982 Harrow Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Harrow London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


1982 Harvard Crimson football team
The 1982 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Crimson were one of three co-champions of the Ivy League.


1982 Harvard Crimson football team
In their 12th year under head coach Joe Restic, the Crimson compiled a 7–3 record and outscored opponents 259 to 136. Greg Brown was the team captain.


1982 Harvard Crimson football team
Harvard's 5–2 conference record put it in a three-way tie atop the Ivy League standings. The Crimson outscored Ivy opponents 191 to 88. Despite having the best in-conference and overall point differentials of the three, Harvard lost its head-to-head matchups against both of its co-champions, Dartmouth and Penn.


1982 Harvard Crimson football team
This was Harvard's first year in Division I-AA, after having competed in the top-level Division I-A and its predecessors since 1873.


1982 Harvard Crimson football team
Harvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.


1982 Haryana Legislative Assembly election
Elections to the Haryana Legislative Assembly were held in May 1982. No party gained a majority of seats.


1982 Haryana Legislative Assembly election, Controversy
In 1982 election, the INC emerged as a single largest party with 36 seats but INLD and BJP has pre poll alliance and got 37 seats in total. As no party has clear cut majority, it resulted in a hung assembly and was left to governor's discretion to whom to call upon to form government.


1982 Haryana Legislative Assembly election, Controversy
G.D. Tapase (Governor of Haryana) first called on Devi Lal on 22 May 1982 (leader of INLD or LKD + BJP alliance) to prove his majority by morning of 24 May. But in mean time, Bhajan Lal fresh from his re election as leader of the INC+Individuals(36+16=52) met the governor and was sworn in as Chief Minister.


1982 Haryana Legislative Assembly election, Controversy
But in election of 1987, haryana people gave a clear cut majority to LKD or INLD and BJP alliance with overwhelming majority of 76(60+16) out of 90 assembly seats whereas INC suffers a humiliating defeat and won just 5 out of 90 seats as compared 36 seats in last assemble election.


1982 Havering London Borough Council election
The 1982 Havering Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Havering London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


1982 Havering London Borough Council election, Background
The 1982 local elections included all London boroughs, several English boroughs and a handful of Scottish regional elections. The previous London Borough elections were in 1978.


1982 Havering London Borough Council election, Election result
Havering London Borough is formed of three parliamentary constituencies: Hornchurch, Romford and Upminster. The Conservative party received the highest proportion of votes across all three boroughs, retaining overall control of the council.


1982 Havering London Borough Council election, Ward results
There were 25 wards within Havering Borough, all of which held an election. Fourteen wards elected a Conservative party candidate, four a Labour party candidate, two a Liberal and Social Democratic Party Alliance candidate, two a candidate from the Residents' Association, two an Independent Ratepayer, and one a candidate from the Ratepayer's Association.


1982 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team
The 1982 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in the Western Athletic Conference during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their sixth season under head coach Dick Tomey, the Rainbow Warriors compiled a 6–5 record.


1982 Hawaii gubernatorial election
The 1982 Hawaii gubernatorial election was Hawaii's seventh gubernatorial election. The election was held on November 2, 1982, and resulted in a victory for the Democratic candidate, Governor George Ariyoshi over Frank Fasi, running as an Independent Democrat, and the Republican candidate, State Senator D. G. Anderson. Ariyoshi received more votes than any other candidate in every county in the state.


1982 Hawthorn Football Club season
The 1982 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 58th season in the Victorian Football League and 81st overall. This was the first time since 1978 Hawthorn qualified for finals. Hawthorn were eliminated by Carlton in the Preliminary final 63–94.


1982 Highland Masters
The 1982 Highland Masters was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which took place in April 1982 at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, Scotland.


1982 Highland Masters
Ray Reardon won the tournament beating John Spencer 11–4 in the final.


1982 Highland Regional Council election
An election to the Highland Regional Council was held on 6 May 1982 as part of the wider 1982 Scottish regional elections. The election saw Independents win control of 42 of the council's 52 seats.


1982 Hillingdon London Borough Council election
The 1982 Hillingdon Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Hillingdon London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


1982 Holiday Bowl
The 1982 Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played December 17, 1982, in San Diego, California. It was part of the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. It featured the 17th ranked Ohio State Buckeyes, and the unranked BYU Cougars.


1982 Holiday Bowl, Scoring summary
Ohio State scored first on a 47-yard field goal by Rich Spangler, giving the Buckeyes a 3–0 first quarter lead. In the second quarter, BYU quarterback Steve Young threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Neil Balholm giving BYU a 7–3 lead. Ohio State running back Tim Spencer scored on a 61-yard touchdown run, giving the Buckeyes a 10–7 lead. Buckeye quarterback Mike Tomczak later scored on a 3-yard run making it 17–7 in favor of the Buckeyes. BYU's Kurt Gunther kicked a 39-yard field goal before halftime to make it 17–10 Ohio State.


1982 Holiday Bowl, Scoring summary
In the third quarter, Ohio State's Vaughn Broadnax scored on a 1-yard touchdown run giving OSU a 24–10 lead. Tim Spencer added an 18-yard touchdown run, and Rich Spangler a 37-yard field goal to give Ohio State a 34–10 lead at the end of the third quarter.


1982 Holiday Bowl, Scoring summary
In the fourth quarter, Ohio State scored a 1-yard touchdown run going up 41–10. Steve Young fired a 13-yard touchdown pass to Gordon Hudson narrowing the lead to 41–17. However, Gayle scored on a 5-yard touchdown run to respond for the Buckeyes. The Buckeyes had 329 rushing yards, 132 passing yards, while also having 196 yards on return yards, possessing the ball for 34:33 with 24 first downs. BYU had 19 rushing yards, 352 passing yards, 124 return yards, with possession time being 25:27. Both teams lost a fumble, while BYU had a pass intercepted. BYU had 9 penalties for 75 yards; Ohio State had 12 penalties for 109 yards.


1982 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
The 1981 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season.


1982 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
In their second year under head coach Rick E. Carter, the Crusaders compiled an 8–3 record. Terry Malone and Doug O'Donnell were the team captains.


1982 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
This was the Crusaders' first year in Division I-AA, after having competed in the top-level Division I-A and its predecessors since 1896.


1982 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
A four-game winning streak to open the campaign put Holy Cross in the weekly national rankings in its first year in Division I-AA, rising as high as No. 4 . The Crusaders ended the year ranked No. 13, following a rivalry loss to Tangerine Bowl-bound Boston College of Division I-A.


1982 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
Holy Cross played its home games at Fitton Field on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.


1982 Honduran Segunda División
The 1982 Honduran Segunda División was the 16th season of the Honduran Segunda División. Under the management of Néstor Matamala, C.D. Platense won the tournament after finishing first in the final round (or Cuadrangular) and obtained promotion to the 1983–84 Honduran Liga Nacional.


1982 Hong Kong local elections
The 1982 Hong Kong local elections, commonly known as 1982 Hong Kong District Board elections, were the first ever local elections under the new creation of 18 district boards.


1982 Hong Kong local elections
Under the governorship of Murray MacLehose, the Hong Kong Government published a Green Paper proposal entitled A Pattern of District Administration in Hong Kong in June 1980. It involved the setting up of 18 district boards to be partially directly elected on the universal franchise and partially appointed.


1982 Hong Kong local elections
Among a total of 490 members in the 18 District Boards, 132 (around one-third) were directly elected by the general public. A further 134 members were appointed, and the rest were ex officio. The election for the district boards in New Territories was held on 4 March 1982 while the district boards in the urban areas was held on 23 September in the same year.


1982 Hounslow London Borough Council election
The 1982 Hounslow Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Hounslow London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.