The August 4, 1983 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 215 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 42 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, August 4, 2025, 43 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, in 321 days. You have lived for 15,384 days, or about 369,224 hours, or about 22,153,449 minutes, or about 1,329,206,940 seconds.
4th of August 1983 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 4, 1983
A PARAGON OF PROFESSIONALISM
Date: 05 August 1983
The tall, baldish man who glares challengingly at the world through owlish spectacles and today became the first Socialist to preside over an Italian Government represents the triumph of a cool political professionalism that is as new to his country as is his Socialist-led Government. So complete has been Bettino Craxi's triumph that hardly anyone in Italy seems to take exception at its exceptional nature or the break with tradition that the new Prime Minister represents. Mr. Craxi's professionalism has made Italy take for granted not only that he should head the Government, although his party holds only 11.4 percent of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies, but also that he should be many things that the heads of the 43 Cabinets that preceded his were not. For one thing, unlike his predecessors who came from the professions or Italy's sprawling administrative apparatus, Mr. Craxi (pronounced CRACK-see) has never been anything but a politician and party functionary. In a country in which men and women of the post-World War II era are made to feel naked without academic titles and in which ''dottore'' is the minimum form of address used for people of some professional standing, Mr. Craxi is a college dropout.
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CRAFT TRIAL DEPOSITION READ
Date: 05 August 1983
AP
A consultant warned Christine Craft before she started work as a television anchor that Kansas City was a conservative town and that she would have to take special care with her dress and appearance, according to testimony today. Defense attorneys at the sex-discrimination trial read from the deposition of Lynn Wilford, who worked for a consulting concern employed by KMBC-TV.
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U.S. WARSHIPS WILL MEET SOVIET VESSELS IN LATIN ZONE
Date: 05 August 1983
By Richard Halloran
Richard Halloran
Reagan Administration officials said today that every Soviet ship that enters waters off Central America in coming weeks would meet a United States Navy warship. The aim, they said, is to underscore to the Soviet Union the American military presence in the region. The officials said Navy warships had been instructed to show themselves to Soviet vessels much as the destroyer Lynde McCormick did last Saturday when she hailed and then trailed the Soviet freighter Aleksandr Ulyanov off the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. In some cases, the officials said, the American warships will hail Soviet vessels to make inquiries; in others the warships will only show themselves to the Soviet crews. The decision whether to make inquiries, it was said, would be up to the individual captain.
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A CONSULTANT TESTIFIES IN TV CO-ANCHOR CASE
Date: 04 August 1983
AP
A consultant whose viewer surveys helped lead to the demotion of Christine Craft as co-anchor at KMBC-TV here in 1981 testified today that comments he made were designed to draw out participants, not prejudice them against her. The consultant, Steve Meacham, testifying for the defense in Miss Craft's $1.2 million sex-discrimination trial, was heard on tapes played for the jury to say: ''Is she a mutt? Let's be honest about this.'' He was also heard to say, ''Let's spend 30 seconds destroying Christine Craft,'' and ''Move her back to California? If we all chip in, can we buy her a ticket?''
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TOP BOOSTER FOR BAR UNIT
Date: 04 August 1983
By David Margolick
David Margolick
Man in the News ATLANTA, Aug. 3 - Two and a half years ago, after he had been chosen ''president-elect nominee'' of the American Bar Association, Wallace D. Riley of Detroit rose to address the organization's house of delegates. He expressed his thanks for the opportunity to lead the big organization, vowed to do his best, and then made one final comment. ''I'd like you all to do me a favor,'' he said in a typically boosterish fashion. ''When you get back home, go out and buy an American-made car.''
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REAGAN POLICY'S FOCUS ON MISSILE REDUCTION
Date: 04 August 1983
To the Editor: Your July 11 editorial ''No Deal on Missiles, Yet'' contained some very valid points, including those which concern Soviet geopolitical motives and efforts to exploit I.N.F. issues. On one point, however, The Times is badly mistaken.
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News Analysis
Date: 05 August 1983
By Robert Pear
Robert Pear
President Reagan's recent expression of concern about hunger represents, at the very least, a dramatic change in emphasis for an Administration that has been voicing alarm about the ''explosive'' growth and abuse of food assistance programs. Democratic members of Congress, including the Speaker of the House, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., scoffed at the President's creation of a group to study hunger. They made three basic assertions: That Mr. Reagan's own budget-cutting policies had exacerbated hunger caused principally by unemployment and the recession; that hunger would be much worse if Congress had approved all his proposals, and that now was the time for action, not more studies. But spokesmen for antipoverty groups cautiously welcomed the plans for the Task Force on Food Assistance, announced Tuesday by White House officials. ''We've gotten them to stop and think about the consequences of their budget cuts,'' said Edward M. Cooney, an attorney for the Food Research and Action Center, a private nonprofit group.
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News Analysis
Date: 04 August 1983
By John T. McQuiston
John McQuiston
For weeks in contract talks with four of its unions, the Long Island Rail Road had insisted on two key points. It wanted the right to hire outside contractors to do some routine maintenance, and it wanted to change work rules so that members of one union could perform minor jobs normally done by members of another union. ''If we can do it cheaper and faster by contracting out, that's what we're going to do,'' Arthur G. Perfall, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, stated during the negotiations. But Tuesday night, as the talks remained deadlocked on the two points and as a midnight strike deadline drew nearer and nearer, the management gave in.
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CURRENCY INTERVENTION: A CALCULATED DECISION;
News Analysis
Date: 04 August 1983
By H. Erich Heinemann
H. Heinemann
The Reagan Administration appears to have taken a calculated political gamble in its decision to join other major industrial nations in substantial intervention in foreign-exchange trading to try to guide the value of the dollar. Senior officials in the Administration said they remained convinced that transactions of this sort, if they were effective at all, had only a momentary impact on prices in the currency markets. Currency values, they believe, are determined by such basic factors as differences in the rate of growth in the money supplies of nations and by inflation among nations - not by the vicissitudes of day-to-day trading in world financial markets.
Indeed, Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, went out of his way yesterday to emphasize that ''there is no change'' in Washington's policy of intervening only when currency trading is ''disorderly.''
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1983
Date: 04 August 1983
International An American-Soviet sea contact about 50 miles off the Pacific coast of Nicaragua Saturday was confirmed by a Pentagon spokesman. He said that a Navy destroyer came close to a Soviet freighter and inquired about her destination and cargo and that the Soviet captain said he was carrying trucks and other general merchandise. (Page A1, Column 1.) A rise in the U.S. contribution to the International Monetary Fund totaling $8.4 billion was narrowly approved by the House. The 217-211 vote ended weeks of doubt that House leaders would muster enough votes for passage. The Senate has approved a similar bill, and the legislation must go to a House-Senate conference to resolve the differences. (A1:4-5.)
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