Wire Service Guild Approves New U.P.I. Contract, 337 to 305
Date: 12 May 1978
Wire Service Guild votes to accept proposed 25-mo nation-wide contract with UPI (S)
Aaron Abrams Birthday, Date of Birth
Aaron Abrams is a Canadian actor and writer, who has worked in both film and television.
Aaron Abrams has appeared in several regular and recurring roles for television, including Children Ruin Everything, Masters of Sex, Rookie Blue, Slings & Arrows, Longmire, The Oath, Blindspot, Blue Bloods and Hannibal. He also has had supporting roles in dramas Amelia with Hilary Swank, Flash of Genius with Greg Kinnear and the Code 8 franchise. Aaron Abrams has also written and produced several films, most notably the Netflix hit comedy The Lovebirds starring Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae. He has also written and produced critically acclaimed comedies The Go-Getters and Young People Fucking, as well as the television series The L.A. Complex.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Friday, May 12, 1978
- Place of Birth
- 多伦多
- Age
- 47
- Star Sign
- ♉
The May 12, 1978 was a Friday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 131 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 Monday, May 12, 2025, 125 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in 239 days. You have lived for 17,292 days, or about 415,016 hours, or about 24,901,017 minutes, or about 1,494,061,020 seconds.
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12th of May 1978 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 12, 1978
U.S. LEFTIST EDITOR SAYS CAMBODIANS ARE THRIVING
Date: 12 May 1978
Daniel Burstein, ed of Chicago-based Marxist newspaper The Call, who led delegation of Western reporters on visit to Cambodia, says Govt indicated it would open borders to similar visits by 'unsympathetic' Amer reporters; says published repts of widespread atrocities were result of 'massive propaganda' effort by CIA (S)
Sale of Small News Service in Capital to Have a Big Effect; Reports for Back Home Coverage of Congressmen
Date: 12 May 1978
By DEIRDRE CARMODY Special to The New York Times
Deirdre Special
Comment on States News Service, Washington, DC, which has acquired its competitor Capitol Hill News Service for $1,300; combined news services have circulation of 3.7 million and write for 77 newspapers, which makes them biggest nationwide local wire out of Washington; Leland Schwartz, founder and dir of States News Service, and David Hoffman, head of Capitol News Service, comment; illus (M)
U.S. Labor Board Charges Guild With Coercion at The Daily News; Guild Charged 'Bad Faith'
Date: 12 May 1978
NLRB files charge of unfair labor practices against Newspaper Guild, based on what bd says is union's refusal to accept resignations from members at Daily News; case could have implications for unions and mgls across US, since many contracts require union membership as condition of continuing employment; 12 members at News, 68 at Times and about 35 at Post offered their resignations last Feb and March, before contracts between newspapers and 9 unions expired; guild sent preferred resignations back without comment, while enclosing copy of its const, which says that no resignation may be accepted 'when strike or lockout appears imminent' or is under way; guild atty Philip D Tobin says citywide exec com will meet to consider all resignation offers, in meeting that had been scheduled before NLRB complaint; NLRB office, with Winifred D Mono as dir, issued its complaint on basis of charges by News last April 6; NYC Publishers Assn exec dir H J Kracke says Times and News informed paperhandlcrs union that newspapers are setting July 4 weekend deadline for new contract agreement (M)
Around the Nation; Tornadoes Hit 4 States; 4 Missourians Injured North Carolina and H.E.W. Have Desegregation Plan California Senate Rejects Extension of 'Shield Law' F.B.I. Says a Black Judge Was Used Against Muslims
Date: 13 May 1978
Tornadoes hit various parts of Mo, Ill, Ark and Ky, injuring 4 in Mo, destroying or damaging homes and causing widespread power outages (S)