The April 29, 1985 was a Monday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 118 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 41 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 26 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, April 29, 2027, in 338 days. You have lived for 15,001 days, or about 360,030 hours, or about 21,601,846 minutes, or about 1,296,110,760 seconds.
29th of April 1985 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 29, 1985
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 30 April 1985
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1985 International The President said it's morally right to visit a German war cemetery and said the purpose of his visit to Bitburg was to symbolize ''the great reconciliation'' between the United States and Germany. On the eve of his departure for a 10-day European trip, Mr. Reagan declared firmly that he would visit the cemetery where the dead include 49 Waffen SS soldiers. [Page A1, Column 2.] West Germany rejected warnings that its plans for President Reagan's state visit would profoundly damage relations with Washington and said that Mr. Reagan would lay a wreath at the war cemetery in Bitburg on Sunday as scheduled. [A10:3-6.]
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NEWS STORY INSPIRED BANKS'S 'DRIFT'
Date: 29 April 1985
By Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
Russell Banks was at work on a historical novel about Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne when he read a newspaper clipping that altered his course. The article, which appeared in October 1981, was an account of a tragedy involving the Coast Guard, a smuggler and a boatload of Haitians off the Palm Beach, Fla., coastline. ''You read things backward in your imagination sometimes,'' the author recalled. ''I instantly knew how the Haitians got there in some way, and I also knew how the smuggler got there - God only knows how he did, but I knew how one could get there.'' Mr. Banks envisioned tracing two stories, those of a woman from Haiti and a man from New England, which could be interspersed and set on a collision course. The result was ''Continental Drift,'' his highly acclaimed new novel.
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NEWS SUMMARY MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1985
Date: 29 April 1985
International
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AROUND THE WORLD;Journalists in Italy Strike Over Wages
Date: 29 April 1985
Reuters
Italian journalists working for newspapers and the Government broadcasting network went on strike today, creating a news blackout in the country. Journalists have stopped work several times, but today was the first time in several years that the country was simultaneously without news from newspapers, radio and television.
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'HELLO, SWEETHEART, GET ME THE PEPTO-BISMOL'
Date: 30 April 1985
Special to the New York Times
What with all the eggs and bacon, quiche and chicken salad that journalists, political officials and lobbyists must consume in a week in order to gather, trade or disclose information, even the gourmand must occasionally pale at the thought of another ''working'' breakfast or lunch. ''It's just carrying things much too far,'' said Paul Duke, host of the public television program ''Washington Week in Review.'' ''The meal has almost become an art form in Washington,'' he said. ''You have to resist the temptation of the cycle: breakfast with one news source, lunch with another. I mean, when do you ever stop?''
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TWO HAWKS AND A DOVE: HOW THEY LOOK AT THE INDOCHINA WAR NOW
Date: 30 April 1985
By Malcolm W. Browne
Malcolm Browne
The passage of time has not dulled the bitterness that the former United States Ambassador to South Vietnam, Graham A. Martin, feels over the loss of the Vietnam War. Now retired and living in Winston-Salem, N.C., the 72-year-old career diplomat remains sharply critical of the roles played by peace activists, American news organizations and the Central Intelligence Agency in the days before an evacuation helicopter lifted him off the roof of his embassy in Saigon on April 30, 1975. ''In the end,'' he said in a recent telephone interview, ''we simply cut and ran. The American national will had collapsed and we made it plain we would no longer provide aid to the South Vietnamese.''
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USING INFLATABLE WHALES TO ELUCIDATE ECONOMICS
Date: 29 April 1985
By Sally Bedell Smith
Sally Smith
The problem: How to explain to the television audience how junk bonds - high-risk, high-yield securities -- are used in corporate takeover bids. The solution required two inflatable plastic beluga whales, a small pressurized oxygen tank, a hose and a bowie knife. That was the delightfully idiosyncratic - and memorable - approach of Robert Krulwich, for the past seven months the business and economics reporter for the CBS Morning News.
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Harassment of Press Is Seen
Date: 29 April 1985
AP
The White House Correspondents Association asserted today that security measures set up around President Reagan are used by the White House staff to limit press access to the President. ''Ever since March 1981, when President Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Presidential security has increased dramatically and much of it focused on restraining the men and women of the press corps,'' the report said. ''As a result press access to the President has been diminished dramatically.''
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BRIEFING;Say What?
Date: 29 April 1985
By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr
James Clarity
Sometimes memorandums written by members of Congress pay more attention to touching all the political and bureaucratic bases than to saying what the lawmaker really has to say. A sterling example is a press memo issued the other day on Capitol Hill that opened with this: ''Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar (D-Oh), chair of the House Administration Committee's Task Force on Libraries and Memorials, and member of the Joint Committee on the Library, representing the Honorable Frank Annunzio, chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, will join Senator Charles McC. Mathias, vice chairman of the Joint Committee, in announcing the recipient of a $50,000 commission ($25,000 from the joint committee and $25,000 from a matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts), to create the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial sculpture for placement in the United States Capitol.''
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13 Resign From Paris Paper
Date: 30 April 1985
Reuters
Thirteen senior journalists, including the two chief editors, have resigned from the leftist daily newspaper Le Matin after Max Gallo, a former spokesman for the Socialist Government, was named chief editorial writer. The journalists said the appointment jeopardized the paper's independence.
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