MISCELLANEOUS

On the map on the right the legend shows an option for female presidents. A bit in vain, as you can see. Anyway, it is the era of the Cold War, Iran is still a monarchy, and Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are already lead by women.

In Albania Enver Hoxha was party leader and the head of government was Mehmet Shehu. | The two co-princes of Andorra were at this time Joan Martí Alanís and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. | Austria was lead by Rudolf Kirsch-schläger and chancellor Bru-no Kreisky. | Belgium was lead by king Baudouin and PM Léo Tindemans. | In Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov was party leader, Stanko Todorov lead the government. | The northern part of Cyprus had Rauf Denktaş as its president and Nejat Konuk as its prime minister. | Cyprus's southern part had president Spyros Kyprianou. | Czechoslovakia was lead by Gustáv Husák and Lubomír Strougal. | Queen of Denmark was already Margarethe II; her government was lead by Anker Jørgensen. | Finland's president was the very long serving Urho Kekkonen, PM was Kalevi Sorsa. | France was lead by president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and PM Raymond Barre. | Eastern Germany was lead by Erich Honecker, and government leader Willi Stoph. | In Western Germany Walter Scheel was federal president, chancellor was Helmut Schmidt. | Greece by president Konstantinos Tsatsos and PM Konstantinos Karamanlis. | Hungary had party leader János Kádár and head of government György Lázár. | Iceland's president was Kristján Eldjárn, its prime minister was Geir Hallgrímsson. | Ireland was lead by president Patrick J. Hillery and taoiseach John Lynch. | Giovanni Leone was the president of Italy; Giulio Andreotti was its prime minister. | Franz Joseph II was the prince of Liechtenstein, its prime minister was called Walter Kieber. | Jean was the grand-duke of Luxembourg and his government was lead by prime minister Gaston Thorn. | Malta was lead by president Anton Buttigeig and PM Dom Mintoff. | Monaco was having prince Rainier III as head of state, its government was chaired by André Saint-Mleux. | Queen Juliana was heading the Netherlands; the Dutch government was lead by Dries van Agt. | Norway still had king Olav V as head of state, Odvar Nordli was PM. | In Poland Edward Gierek was party leader; Piotr Jaroszewicz lead the government. | António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes was the president of Portugal, Mário Soares was prime minister. | The infamous Nicolae Ceausescu was leading Romania, Manea Manescu headed its government. | Giordano Bruno Reffi and Tito Masi were the captains regent of San Marino; Giancarlo Ghironzi was the secretary of political and foreign affairs. | The Soviet Union was lead by party leader Leonid Brezhnev and a certain Aleksey Kosygin. | Juan Carlos was already king of Spain; his government was chaired by PM Adolfo Suárez González. | Sweden was already lead by king Carl XVI Gustav, and by PM Thorbjörn Fälldin. | Willi Ritschard was president of Switzerland. | In Turkey Fahri Korutürk was president, Bülent Eçevit was PM. | Elizabeth II had been queen of the United Kingdom for some years, James Callaghan was prime minister. | In Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito was still in power, his government being lead by Veselin Đuranović. | Grand-Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta was Fra' Angelo di Mojana di Cologna.

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