The April 27, 1976 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 117 day of the year. President of the United States was Gerald R. Ford.
If you were born on this day, you are 49 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, April 27, 2025, 140 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, April 27, 2026, in 224 days. You have lived for 18,037 days, or about 432,911 hours, or about 25,974,688 minutes, or about 1,558,481,280 seconds.
Date: 28 April 1976
By BEN A. FRANKLIN Special to The New York Times
Ben FRANKLIN
financially distressed Washington Star and 10 unions agree to eliminate 200 jobs, impose 8-mo wage freeze and save about $6-million a yr; publisher Joe L Albritton says he will inject $6-million in new capital in paper (M)
Date: 27 April 1976
London News of the World to raise price to 9 pence and London Observer to raise price to 15 pence (S)
Date: 27 April 1976
Rhodesian Govt on Apr 26 announces immediate censorship of press, radio and TV to combat what it says are intense psychological pressures directed against country; sets up natl security com to control news reaching Rhodesian public; bans can be served on Rhodesia Broadcasting Corp, local publications and on Rhodesia TV (S)
Date: 27 April 1976
By Russell Baker
Russell Baker
R Baker humorous comment on Barbara Walters breaking the million-dollar-a-yr salary barrier which has kept journalists economically depressed for so long
Date: 27 April 1976
By DAVID E.ROSENBAUM Special to The New York Times
David ROSENBAUM
Sen Select Com on Apr 26 discloses that CIA plans to continue to employ as agents more than 25 journalists or other reprs of Amer news orgns; says those persons are not covered by public pledge made in Feb by CIA Dir George Bush that agency would stop hiring correspondents 'accredited' by Amer publications and other news orgns; com staff member repts that many of individuals were in exec positions at Amer news orgns; panel recommends enactment of law precluding agency's 'operational use' of any person regularly involved in writing, editing or setting policy for US news orgns; says it is concerned that use of Amer journalists and media orgns for clandestine operations is threat to press integrity; rept cites instances in which efforts of CIA agents acting abroad as journalists were printed in domestic publications; says it is aware other countries made use of 'internatl media' for propaganda and that US public is not insulated from such efforts (M)
Date: 28 April 1976
By James Reston
James Reston
J Reston article on rept by Sen Select Com on Intelligence Activities on CIA activities; says rept casts doubt on operations of all media, religious and acad reprs abroad, without giving their insts opportunity of defending themselves against corruption of their work; says distinction should be made between normal contacts by reporters with CIA agents and using reporters as paid CIA agents; says it is troubling that Pres Ford does not issue order to CIA to stop this practice (M)
Date: 27 April 1976
By A.H. Raskin
A. Raskin
A H Raskin scores as 'fiction' idea that munic labor relations are private game to be played in closed rooms by a 'little cabal of city officials, union leaders and professional experts'; notes NYC legis being drawn up that would require that after next Jan 1 the full terms of all new collective bargaining agreements be published in City Record
Date: 27 April 1976
article on Grechko focuses on his contribution to Soviet mil system; illus (L)