Syria has been allied with Tehran since the outset of the war between Iran and Iraq in 1980.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

Weibrecht was born six years after the 1980 Lake Placid games in New York.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

"I expect him to address the German situation as he did the Irish and I'll bet you that you'll see some kind of language that will - using very papal rhetoric, acknowledge that the way the bishops were dealing with it in 1980 or thereabouts, when he was in that role, was we now know, not the best way."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01