The April 27, 1981 was a Monday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 116 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 44 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, April 27, 2025, 188 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, April 27, 2026, in 176 days. You have lived for 16,259 days, or about 390,220 hours, or about 23,413,247 minutes, or about 1,404,794,820 seconds.
Date: 28 April 1981
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Viewers of evening television news want it delivered by ''a soothing, comfortable'' person they can trust, according to a study described in the latest edition of TV Guide magazine.
Date: 27 April 1981
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The Nieman Foundation's award for conscience and integrity in journalism was awarded yesterday posthumously to Joe Alex Morris Jr., a Los Angeles Times reporter, who was shot in the chest and killed while covering the Iranian revolution. Mr. Morris, a longtime Middle East reporter who had worked for United Press, The New York Herald Tribune and Newsweek, died Feb. 10, 1979. The Louis M. Lyons Award was presented to Mr. Morris's widow, Ursula.
Date: 27 April 1981
To the Editor: The shameful behavior of the press in its treatment of Governor Carey and his new wife is an embarrassment. Even backfence gossips have the decency to whisper. How about it? Give them and the public a break and get back to writing news worth reading. KEVIN COONEY, Montrose, N.Y., April 20, 1981
Date: 28 April 1981
By Richard Eder
Richard Eder
Two phrases sum up the political battle that will be conducted over the next two weeks between President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Francois Mitterrand, the candidate of the French Socialist Party. One phrase is the slogan on a Socialist poster: ''Change? Or 14 Years of Giscard?'' The other was heard all over town today; for instance, in a statement by Roger Chinaud, an aide to Mr. Giscard d'Estaing: ''If Mitterrand is elected he will need the presence of Communists in his government.'' The two phrases suggest why the May 10 runoff election between the two largest vote-getters yesterday offers a crucial test of the French Fifth Republic. The institution erected by Charles de Gaulle - a presidency with a seven-year term and powers unequaled in any other democratic Western nation - was designed to give strong government to a France weakened by continual political crisis.
Date: 28 April 1981
By Martin Tolchin, Special To the New York Times
Martin Tolchin
The politics of the budget will dominate Congress in the next two weeks as the House and Senate choose from myriad politically tinged economic assumptions that have been translated into three budget proposals in an effort to effect a fundamental change in the nation's fiscal policy. Almost lost in the debate surrounding the three and a fourth, President Reagan's original budget, is the virtual certainty that with whichever plan is enacted Mr. Reagan will obtain at least 75 percent of the reductions he wants in budget proposals for the fiscal year 1982, which begins in October. One of the three Congressional budget proposals, the plan of Representatives Delbert L. Latta, Republican of Ohio, and Phil Gramm, Democrat of Texas, totally accepts the President's economic assumptions and hews closely to his budget. The second, by the Senate Budget Committee, accepts most, but not all, of the President's economic assumptions and his budget priorities.
Date: 28 April 1981
International A foreign-policy difference between President Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. was disclosed by White House officials. They said that Mr. Haig did not reflect the President's views when he said Saturday that Washington would impose a total trade embargo against the Soviet Union if it invaded Poland. A spokesman called an embargo ''one of many options'' that the President could choose. (Page A1, Column 1.) The Administration was rebuffed in an attempt to end Congressional restrictions on American military aid to insurgents in Angola. By a 7-to-0 vote, a House subcommittee backed retention of the restrictions. (A3:3-6.)
Date: 27 April 1981
International In the French election's first round, President Valery Giscard dEstaing took a slight lead over Francois Mitterrand, the Socialist leader. Jacques Chirac, the Gaullist candidate, and Georges Marchais, the Communist candidate, lagged far behind. The preliminary vote that eliminated eight other contenders from the May 10 runoff was so close that it was impossible to give either the President or Mr. Mitterrand a decisive lead. (Page A1, Column 6.) Israeli planes raided suspected Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon, while Syrian forces heavily shelled Christian villages and military positions in the strategic Bekaa Valley and around Jebel Sannin, a mountain east of Beirut. Lebanese authorities reported that 15 people were killed and 30 wounded in the Israeli attack. A Syrian military spokesman said that Syrian planes shot down two Israeli craft and that a Syrian plane was hit. Israel denied that there had been an air fight. (A1:5.)
Date: 27 April 1981
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Vince Ferragamo, the quarterback who led the Los Angeles Rams to the 1979 Super Bowl, is expected to sign with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League tomorrow. The club has called a news conference at 5 P.M. tomorrow.
Date: 28 April 1981
By Damon Steton
Damon Steton
The Daily News and The New York Times reached full agreements yesterday with the photoengravers union and two machinist unions, but talks with the Newspaper Guild were snagged on a critical issue of dual pay rates. The guild, which represents news, advertising and clerical employees, has threatened to strike at 12:01 A. M. tomorrow if there is no agreement. At The New York Post, with which the guild is bargaining separately, there were reports of some progress in talks that ended in the late afternoon. Negotiations with The News and The Times continued last night at the Doral Inn. The guild has not as yet designated the newspaper or newspapers that it would strike.
Date: 27 April 1981
Cynthia Elaine Green, regional editor of The Courier-News, a Gannett newspaper in Bridgewater, N.J., was married in Princeton, N.J., yesterday to Eliot Jay Kaplan, associate editor of Family Weekly magazine, the CBS-owned Sunday supplement. Superior Court Judge J. Wilson Noden performed the ceremony in the Prospect Gardens on the Princeton University campus.