The April 2, 1978 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 91 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
If you were born on this day, you are 47 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 166 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, April 2, 2026, in 198 days. You have lived for 17,333 days, or about 415,998 hours, or about 24,959,933 minutes, or about 1,497,595,980 seconds.
Date: 02 April 1978
Pay disputes that have stopped publication of London's newspapers are settled; return to normal working conditions was agreed upon in separate dispute involving maintenance engineers employed by Times Newspapers group (S)
Date: 03 April 1978
By PETER KIHSS
Peter KIHSS
LaChance says agreement with NY Daily News and NY Times would mean wage increase of $68 a wk over 3 yrs; Newspaper Guild exec vp Harry Fisdell says union will have to set strike deadline unless some progress is made soon in its negotiations; Morton Malis has challenged LaChance in his re-election (M)
Date: 02 April 1978
Newspaper delivery drivers end short strike after Fed Judge John F Nangle orders them to resume distribution of St Louis Post Dispatch (S)
Date: 02 April 1978
By PETER KIHSS
Peter KIHSS
nearly 47 hrs of continuous bargaining ends with recess but still no final agreement between newspaper deliverers and reprs of Daily News and NY Times; leaders of 9 others unions whose contracts have terminated are awaiting outcome of driver negotiations; News spokesman Jonathan Thompson comments; Herbert L Haber is currently impartial arbitration chmn (M)
Date: 03 April 1978
Special to The New York Times
strike continues; only news being disseminated is on defense forces radio station (S)
Date: 02 April 1978
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker comment on career of Walter Spearman, teacher of journalism at Univ of N Carolina, on occasion of his retirment (M)
Date: 02 April 1978
State-controlled TV network is shut down by journalists strike (S)
Date: 03 April 1978
By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN Special to The New York Times
Michael KAUFMAN
Pres Carter holds impromptu news conf with Nigerian journalists, Lagos; illus (M)
Date: 02 April 1978
By INA LEE SELDEN Special to The New York Times
Ina SELDEN
article on Moro kidnapping focuses on media's right to inform public in light of aid terrorists might get from pub of their statements; Nobel laureate Eugenio Moniale and Canadian communications expert Marshall McLuhan comment (M)
Date: 02 April 1978
Soviet TV shows films and photographs about alleged espionage that repeats charges against 5 former correspondents in Moscow, including Christopher S Wren (NY Times)