The October 29, 1984 was a Monday under the star sign of ♏. It was the 302 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 40 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 346 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, in 18 days. You have lived for 14,956 days, or about 358,959 hours, or about 21,537,581 minutes, or about 1,292,254,860 seconds.
29th of October 1984 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on October 29, 1984
NBC NEWS PLANNING VISIT TO VIETNAM
Date: 29 October 1984
By Sally Bedell Smith
Sally Smith
Buoyed by the recognition it achieved for a series of programs from Moscow last month, NBC News has begun discussions with Vietnamese officials about originating some of its broadcasts from Vietnam for a week next April in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the American withdrawal from Vietnam and the fall of Saigon to Communist forces. If all goes according to plan, there would be a weeklong visit by the ''Today'' show to Vietnam, as well as a news special, reports on the ''NBC Nightly News'' and ''NBC News at Sunrise,'' and a special installment of ''Meet the Press.'' ''There is no question we are exploring constructing a week of programs around the anniversary'' said Lawrence K. Grossman, president of NBC News. ''We are working on it as one of our full-court press efforts.''
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NEW LEADER IN DETROIT WHO FOCUSES ON DESIGN
Date: 30 October 1984
By John Holusha
John Holusha
Donald E. Petersen vividly remembers the day in 1949 when he and a slightly senior executive of the Ford Motor Company met with the company's chief engineer to suggest that the product planning department they were establishing should get involved in designing future car models. ''Well, after I picked myself up off the curb and brushed myself off, I told my boss that we had some convincing to do,'' he said, recalling the incident. ''At that time most of the engineers were master mechanics up from the shop floor,'' he went on. ''They decided what was needed for the next year, did it, and told the sales department, 'this is the new model.' ''
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CANADA BANS ELECTION NEWS WHERE POLLS ARE OPEN
Date: 30 October 1984
To the Editor: I read that the Presidential candidates have announced they will withhold comment on voting trends on Election Day until the polls close, and that Representative Ron Wyden of Oregon hopes ''the networks get the messages.'' Do the media pollsters know that precedent was set in Canada, as far back as 1938?
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CHARGES AGAINST A REPORTER IN PUNJAB STIR PROTEST
Date: 30 October 1984
By William K. Stevens
William Stevens
An effort to prosecute an Associated Press reporter here has set off protests by representatives of Western news organizations, some of whom see the case as a gross violation of the principle of freedom of the press, a principle officially subscribed to by the Indian Government. The reporter, a 27-year-old Indian national named Brahma Chellaney, surrendered voluntarily to a magistrate 10 days ago on charges that he falsely reported certain facts about the Indian Army raid on the Golden Temple in the northern state of Punjab last June, and that his reports inflamed sectarian passions. Mr. Chellaney, who upon surrendering was temporarily relieved of the obligation to turn himself over to the police and released on bail, could be jailed for up to six years if convicted.
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Newspapers Now Seek 3 Spots in Combat Pool
Date: 30 October 1984
The American Newspaper Publishers Association has recommended to Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger that newspapers be allotted three positions in the pool of reporters that would cover military actions such as the invasion of Grenada. In a letter to Mr. Weinberger, Richard J.V. Johnson, president of the association, which represents most of the nation's daily newspapers, said the reporters should be drawn from a list of 24 newspaper organizations ''that involve more than half of U.S. daily newspaper circulation.''
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Reagan Leads Mondale In Three Opinion Polls
Date: 29 October 1984
President Reagan shows a decisive lead over Walter F. Mondale in three polls made public over the weekend. A survey taken for Newsweek magazine of 1,000 registered voters across the country had Mr. Reagan leading Mr. Mondale, 57 to 40 percent.
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ABOUT BOSTON
Date: 29 October 1984
By Fox Butterfield
Fox Butterfield
The ''Mammoth.'' That is what The Boston Globe is called in a new novel about Boston politics, ''A Saving Grace,'' by Ken Hartnett, a crusty former reporter and editor for both The Globe and The Boston Herald. ''The 'Mammoth' was more than just a newspaper,'' Mr. Hartnett says. ''It was also a social gyroscope that kept Boston from teetering into the wrong hands. It had kept its leverage, despite the changing tides of population, by the prudent exercise of power. The Irish could take control of City Hall; the Jews could dominate the city's commerce; but the 'Mammoth' held the city's soul in its grip.''
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C.I.A. MANUAL IS LINKED TO VIETNAM WAR GUIDE
Date: 29 October 1984
By Philip Taubman
Philip Taubman
A manual on guerrilla warfare prepared for Nicaraguan rebels by the Central Intelligence Agency was drawn from material used to train United States Special Forces troops during the Vietnam War, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said today. The New York Democrat, who is deputy chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said that the manual included ''word for word'' passages from guerrilla warfare instructions developed by the United States Army in 1968. Mr. Moynihan said the instructions, used to train the Special Forces troops also known as Green Berets, at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, were provided to the intelligence committee last week by the C.I.A. and had been located in the agency's library. The C.I.A. manual has come under intense scrutiny and criticism since its existence was disclosed two weeks ago, with most attention focused on the booklet's comments on how to ''neutralize'' Nicaraguan leaders.
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PANELISTS SAY JOINT ADVENTURES IN SPACE ARE CRUCIAL TO PEACE
Date: 30 October 1984
By Philip M. Boffey
Philip
While the presidential candidates argue over the militarization of space, pressures are building to turn space activities back toward peaceful and cooperative ventures with the United States and the Soviet Union working in harness. Congress has unanimously passed a resolution, now awaiting President Reagan's approval or rejection, that would commit the country to seek cooperation in a broad range of space activities with the Soviet Union, ranging from joint space rescue programs to manned exploration of the solar system. Today, at a symposium on long- range proposals to build a permanent base on the moon, Government and private speakers portrayed space as the last and best hope for achieving peace between adversarial nations. James M. Beggs, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the sponsor of the three-day symposium, said that a manned lunar base ''would be an enormous challenge'' requiring new technologies and large economic resources, all of which implied, he said, the need for ''international sharing of risks and benefits.''
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Extra! Extra!
Date: 30 October 1984
By Susan Heller Anderson and Maurice Carroll
Susan Anderson
''Find a fact inside and win $3 billion,'' challenges the teaser on page one of The Post New York Post. The parody on The New York Post began hitting the streets yesterday with coverage of World War III.
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