The August 30, 1981 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 241 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 44 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, August 30, 2025, 41 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, August 30, 2026, in 323 days. You have lived for 16,112 days, or about 386,703 hours, or about 23,202,229 minutes, or about 1,392,133,740 seconds.
30th of August 1981 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 30, 1981
THE NEWARK NEWS: IN MEMORIAM
Date: 30 August 1981
By Tom MacKin
Tom MacKin
IT WAS late afternoon, Aug. 31, 1972, when the telephone rang in my office in Munich. The secretary said it was my wife calling from New Jersey. My first thought: It must be a death in the family. In a way, it was. As I picked up the receiver with trembling hand, she said: ''I thought you should know. The Newark News died today.'' The Newark News dead! It did not seem possible. I could not remember a time that it was not a part of my life. As a schoolboy I had carried it door-to-door in my neighborhood in Kearny, an enclave stretching from West Hudson Park to the Passaic River.
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Major News in Summary; Bad News With A Long Fuse
Date: 30 August 1981
Though he has been accused of many things, no one is likely to charge Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr. with failing to put a good face on bad news. Convicted in court of bribery and conspiracy, the New Jersey Democrat was condemned by his peers last week for conduct ''ethically repugnant to the point of warranting his expulsion from the United States Senate.'' Nevertheless, Mr. Williams pronounced himself ''gratified'' that in recommending the harshest possible punishment, the Select Committee on Ethics asked the Senate to postpone its imposition until a Federal judge ruled on his appeal.
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Reality News
Date: 30 August 1981
By Christopher Wellisz
Christopher Wellisz
Most property owners whose holdings would be taken over to make way for the proposed 42nd Street Redevelopment Project are not expected to be among the developers included in the plan sponsored by the city and the New York State Urban Development Corporation. They simply do not have the financial resources to carry out the ambitious plans envisioned by the U.D.C. One possible exception is the Brandt Organization, the owner of eight theaters in the project area, which includes the two blocks on 42d Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. According to Robert Brandt, a vice president, the organization will submit a bid by the Sept. 4 deadline to restore some of its theaters, among them the Victory, Lyric and the Selwyn, to their original condition.
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News Analysis
Date: 31 August 1981
By Joseph Lelyveld, Special To the New York Times
Joseph Lelyveld
The crux of the Reagan Administration's policy on southern Africa, as it was expounded yesterday by Assistant Secretary of State Chester A. Crocker, is that the United States will not allow itself ''to be forced to align ourselves with one side or another'' in the region's disputes. But, coming as it did in a week that saw South Africa mount its largest military operation in Angola since the civil war there six years ago, this assertion of the Administration's intention to look after American interests in the region and stay out of its blackwhite conflict was apt to strike neighboring black countries as a step toward a tacit alignment with the white Government in Pretoria. In defining southern Africa's economic importance to the United States, Mr. Crocker stressed its output of various key minerals and its industrial production. As a matter of fact, he did not point out that this production is overwhelmingly in the white republic and not in the neighboring black countries.
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News Analysis
Date: 31 August 1981
By E. R. Shipp
E. Shipp
The case of Mark David Chapman, the confessed killer of John Lennon, illustrated the degree to which the courts and district attorneys have come to rely on plea bargaining to dispose of cases - even those in which the basic facts about a crime are never really in dispute. The prison term of 20 years to life imposed on Mr. Chapman in State Supreme Court in Manhattan last Monday - five years less than the maximum allowed under the law - was a classic example of a bargained plea: The defendant gets a lighter sentence, or in some instances is allowed to admit guilt to a less serious crime than the one with which he is charged, in return for voluntarily waiving his right to stand trial. To emphasize their detachment and the judge's responsibility, prosecutors actually prefer the term ''sentence bargaining'' for situations like the Chapman case, in which the defendant pleads guilty to the crime with which he is charged but is granted leniency in the punishment. But the judge, Acting Justice Dennis Edwards Jr., referred to it as plea bargaining.
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News Analysis
Date: 31 August 1981
By Robert Pear, Special To the New York Times
Robert Pear
Civil rights advocates see the Reagan Administration's move to relax antidiscrimination rules for Federal contractors as a sharp departure from a trend that has developed with bipartisan support over the last 40 years. At the same time, it is an example of how the Administration has done what Ronald Reagan promised as a Presidential candidate: To reduce the ''burden'' of Federal regulation and eliminate paperwork requirements in an effort to save businesses millions of dollars. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order in 1941 barring discrimination by military contractors, seven Presidents have extended and strengthened the ''contract compliance'' program, designed to root out employment bias by companies doing business with the Federal Government. Authority to Punish President Eisenhower named his Vice President, Richard M. Nixon, chairman of a Government contract committee that monitored enforcement of the antidiscrimination rules and recommended ways to strengthen them. Since the Kennedy Administration, the Government has had, though not often used, the authority to punish violators by terminating their contracts or declaring them ineligible for further contracts.
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Reality News; Studio 54
Date: 30 August 1981
The 17-story office building and adjoining two-story theater building at 246-256 West 54th Street that houses ''Studio 54,'' the discotheque, has been sold by JISA Associates, of which Steven Rubell was a principal, to Philip Pilevsky, one of the more active purchasers of Manhattan properties in recent years.
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News Summary; SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1981
Date: 30 August 1981
International A policy statement on South Africa by the Reagan Administration said that despite the Administration's opposition to South African apartheid policies it would not take sides between South African blacks and whites or try to undermine the Government ''in order to curry favor elsewhere.'' Chester A. Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, said the United States wished to remain neutral in order to be in a better position to pursue diplomatic solutions and to protect Western strategic and economic interests in Africa. (Page 1, Col. 6.)
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Reality News; Church Street
Date: 30 August 1981
By Carter Horesley
Carter Horesley
The 22-story office building at 100 Church Street has been sold by the Prudential Insurance Company of America to the Mackenzie Hill 100 Church Corporation for $42 million. The purchaser is a European-based company that is a client of Jones Lang Wootton, the real estate consultants who will serve as leasing and managing agents for the building. The building occupies the block bounded by Church and Barclay Streets, West Broadway and Park Place. CARTER B. HORSLEY
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Major News in Summary; To Saturn And Beyond
Date: 30 August 1981
Voyager 2 traversed 1.24 billion miles in four years to reach Saturn last week, somewhat the worse for wear but nevertheless able to reveal the largest, deepest crater in the Saturnian moon system - a rift 250 miles wide and 10 miles deep on Tethys. The space probe also reconnoitered the relatively uncratered moon Enceladus and measured starlight flashing through the planet's rings in an effort to calculate their widths and count what may be thousands of ringlet subdivisions. Damage to the vehicle included a jammed camera swivel platform, exact cause unknown as of late yesterday, which meant some missed pictures. Aside from that, scientists rejoiced in a mission that may explain, among other things, the anomalous behavior of the moon Hyperion and dismiss a popular explanation of wide gaps in Saturn's ring structure.
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Follow-Up on the News; 'Park It in Tokyo'
Date: 30 August 1981
By Charles Klaveness
Charles Klaveness
As winter approached last year in the car-building centers of the Middle West, months of unemployment were taking their toll at the headquarters of the United Automobile Workers union. In a campaign to educate its members and the public to the perils of imported cars - the economic perils, that is - the union banned them from the parking lot at Solidarity House, its headquarters in Detroit.
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