The August 30, 1973 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 241 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 52 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 19,034 days, or about 456,816 hours, or about 27,409,017 minutes, or about 1,644,541,020 seconds.
Date: 30 August 1973
5 Eur newsmen return from N Vietnamese zone north of Saigon in good health on Aug 29 after spending wk watching life and activities of N Vietnamese; S Vietnamese mil sources hold that West Ger TV correspondent P Scholl-Latour and J L Arnaud of Agence France-Presse, together with 3 cameramen and technicians, drove into Govt army post on Route 13
Date: 30 August 1973
W Cronkite will be 1st recipient of Natl Press Club of Washington's 4th Estate Award for distinguished service to journalism; will accept award at dinner on Oct 13
Date: 30 August 1973
By RONALD SULLIVAN
Ronald SULLIVAN
NJ Coalition for Fair Broadcasting, public interest group that includes some of state's governmental leaders, on Aug 29 accuses NYC TV stations of failing to live up to agreements 'binding' them to increase news and public affairs coverage of northern NJ; says it will attempt to compel stations to fulfill commitments, implying possible legal attack against FCC licenses to broadcast; FCC officials say that challenge represents 1st time in TV broadcasting history that group representing geographic region has attempted to force TV stations to provide it with increased TV news coverage; confrontation, involving flagship stations of 3 major TV networks, could have significant impact in determining TV indus' news and public affairs responsibilities to mkts it serves; NJ and Delaware are only states that do not have VHF commercial stations; northern NJ residents must rely on NYC stations for their broadcasting; Assembly Speaker T H Kean, who is co-chmn of coalition, contends that stations are providing northern NJ with 'dismal news coverage' that amounts to TV news blackout,' news conf; says during sample wk of July 2 to July 6, WCBS, WNBC, WABC and WNEW devoted only about 5% of their news coverage to NJ; coalition exec dir R Whitaker says NY coverage has become 'intolerable situation in NJ'; says coalition leaders plan to meet with station officials in Sept; Newark Mayor Gibson, another coalition co-chmn, and station officials comment; illus
Date: 31 August 1973
By THEODORE SHABADSpecial to The New York Times
Izvestia links A Solzhenitsyn to underground news bulletin 'The Chronical of Current Events' in account of Yakir-Krasin trial on Aug 30; also repts that 4 foreign newsmen, J Axelbank, R Leddington, D Bonavia and E Caretto, were said to have served as conduits between 2 accused men and 'anti-Soviet foreign centers'; witness I V Rudakov reptdly identified R Leddington as having passed unidentified 'anti-Soviet' publication to defendants for distribution; other 3 Western newsmen were accused of having sent unspecified anti-Soviet information abroad for defendants; unusual publicity given to alleged involvement of Solzhenitsyn and foreign newsmen seen as part of effort to both discredit the Nobel prize-winner and to discourage contact between Russians and foreigners; in related development, open lr published Aug 30 and signed by 30 prominent writers, including M Sholokhov, K Simonov, V Katayev, C Aitmatov and N Fedorenko, condemns Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn in latest attack of official campaign against them
Date: 30 August 1973
residents of Peking are out in streets on Aug 29 hailing announcement that 10th natl Chinese Communist party Cong had been held from Aug 24-28; numerous processions are led by traditional group of drums, tambourines and gongs mounted on platform of truck or tricycle; persons with loudspeakers lead crowd in shouting slogans praising Chmn Mao Tse-tung and Chinese Communist party
Date: 31 August 1973
Date: 30 August 1973
K Hill is named on Aug 29 as chmn of NYS Off-Track Pari-Mutuel Betting Comm
Date: 30 August 1973
By Nick DiSpoldo
Nick DiSpoldo
Excerpts from diary of prisoner N DiSpoldo, currently an inmate in Ariz State Prison, describing thoughts on prison and psychological effects of imprisonment; illus