The September 28, 1983 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♎. It was the 270 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 42 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, September 28, 2025, 244 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, September 28, 2026, in 120 days. You have lived for 15,585 days, or about 374,044 hours, or about 22,442,694 minutes, or about 1,346,561,640 seconds.
28th of September 1983 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on September 28, 1983
NO NEWS LIKE NO NEWS
Date: 28 September 1983
By Russell Baker
Russell Baker
During a single day in the 1680's William Penn, famous for giving us Pennsylvania, attended two public executions in London: a beheading at the Tower and a nasty business with rope and knives at Tyburn two miles away. Macaulay, writing ''The History of England,'' concluded from this and Penn's other eyewitness accounts of capital punishments that pacific Quakerism could not blunt his taste for the theater of scaffold and headsman's ax. Stomaching a double feature would surely take an aficionado, but - face it - all of us like a bit of diversion now and then. England today provides very little. It is, as somebody once said of Richmond, Va., ''a hotbed of social rest.''
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News Analysis
Date: 29 September 1983
By Leslie H. Gelb, Special To the New York Times
Leslie Gelb
The sharp criticism of the United States made yesterday by Yuri V. Andropov has raised the question whether Moscow has given up trying to work with the Reagan Administration because of what the Kremlin sees as intense hostility. ''Even if someone had any illusions as to the possible evolution for the better in the policy of the present American Administration,'' the Soviet leader said, ''the latest developments have finally dispelled them.'' A number of State Department officials have been voicing concern that the United States may have pressed its own attacks against the Soviet Union too far. Two officials, in particular, quoted Secretary of State George P. Shultz as having said that criticism of the Kremlin after the South Korean airliner incident might have brought unintended consequences.
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China's Grain Forecast
Date: 29 September 1983
Reuters
China's 1983 grain output is expected to top the 1982 record of 353.43 million tons, the New China News Agency said today. It cited reforms that reward peasants for higher output and a wider use of scientific farming.
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STOCK HALT BY TURNER HINTS BID
Date: 29 September 1983
By Sandra Salmans
Sandra Salmans
Turner Broadcasting System Inc., which has been negotiating with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation about a merger of the two companies' cable television 24-hour news services, suspended trading in its stock yesterday afternoon, pending an announcement today on the negotiations. Trading was halted on the over-the-counter market at 3:58 P.M., after the bid price had climbed 3 1/4, to 25 3/4. The halt came just two minutes before the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange, where Westinghouse is listed. Billie Brown, a spokesman for Westinghouse, said afterward: ''There's nothing to report today.'' Westinghouse closed at 47 1/8, down 3/8.
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Reagan's Conference With Reporters Is Off
Date: 28 September 1983
UPI
Upi
President Reagan will not hold a news conference this week, a White House spokesman said today. White House aides had indicated earlier that Mr. Reagan would meet formally with reporters Wednesday, after a two-month lapse.
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MX FUNDS BACKED BY A HOUSE PANEL
Date: 28 September 1983
By B. Drummond Ayres Jr
The Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee has tentatively approved funds for the next fiscal year for several of the Defense Department's most controversial weapon programs. They include the MX intercontinental missile, the Pershing 2 intermediate missile and the B-1 bomber. The approval was given over the last two weeks as the 12-member subcommittee worked in closed session on the Reagan Administration's request for an appropriation of almost $200 billion in military spending for the fiscal year 1984, which begins Oct. 1.
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GERMANS AGHAST AS G.I.'S SIMULATE MASS BURIALS
Date: 28 September 1983
By James M. Markham
James
For more than a year the Reagan Administration's international public relations specialists have been trying to persuade West Germans that Washington considers a limited nuclear war unthinkable. This carefully nurtured effort to undo the damaging impact of the Administration's early, casual talk about limiting a nuclear war to Europe took a jolt Friday in the pages of Stars and Stripes, a daily newspaper that calls itself an ''authorized unofficial publication of the U.S. armed forces.'' The story on page 9 by Bob Wood, a staff reporter, started innocently enough, ''There were no flowers, few mourners and little ceremony Tuesday as members of Hanau's 26th Supply and Services Co. trained for the task of burying American service members.'' The headline that ran across the top of the page was more arresting: ''Unit Practices Mass Burial Procedures.'' Two photographs showed American soldiers and the bulldozed grave containing ''the body of a simulated casualty.''
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Knight-Ridder Adds New Unit
Date: 28 September 1983
Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc. announced yesterday that it had formed a new operating group to be called Business Information Services. David K. Ray, a vice president of Knight-Ridder, was named president of the group, which will be responsible for the company's commodity news services, Unicom News, The Journal of Commerce and VU/ Test, the company's newly formed information retrieval system.
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REAGAN PROMISES HE WILL CONSULT ON MARINES' ROLE
Date: 28 September 1983
By Steven V. Roberts
Steven Roberts
President Reagan promised today that he would ''seek Congressional authorization'' for any ''substantial expansion'' in the size or mission of the Marine contingent in Lebanon. In a letter to Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., the Speaker of the House, Mr. Reagan also said that if he felt the Marines were still needed in Lebanon 18 months from now he would ''work together with Congress'' to find ''mutually acceptable terms'' for continuing the deployment. With the letter, the President was trying to put out a brush fire of criticism that was set last week when Secretary of State George P. Shultz testified on legislation now before Congress to put the War Powers Resolution into effect in Lebanon and authorize the Marine presence for an additional 18 months. Under repeated questioning, Mr. Shultz said the President would not acknowledge the right of Congress under the war powers legislation to limit his powers as Commander in Chief.
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Baltimore Paper Cut Back
Date: 29 September 1983
AP
The Evening Sun will stop publishing a Saturday issue next March, the publisher announced Tuesday. Gerry Smolinski, public affairs manager for the A. S. Abell Company, said ''a single Saturday newspaper with morning distribution'' would be produced on Saturday using the news staffs of both The Sun and The Evening Sun.
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