The October 12, 1983 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♎. It was the 284 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 41 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, October 12, 2024, 360 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, October 12, 2025, in 4 days. You have lived for 15,336 days, or about 368,077 hours, or about 22,084,656 minutes, or about 1,325,079,360 seconds.
12th of October 1983 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on October 12, 1983
TURNER BUYS SOLE RIVAL IN CABLE NEWS MARKET
Date: 13 October 1983
By Sally Bedell Smith
Sally Smith
Ted Turner, the Atlanta-based cable entrepreneur, announced yesterday that he had bought out his only challenger in the cable news business, The Satellite News Channels. The 24-hour headline service will shut down on Oct. 27 after little more than a year in operation and an estimated loss of more than $40 million. The two owners of Satellite News, the American Broadcasting Companies and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, will receive $25 million for the venture. ''It's a tremendous coup,'' said Paul Kagan, a cable analyst. ''Ted Turner has become the leader of cable news, so that when two companies with even greater resources came along they couldn't beat him.''
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COURT EXTENDS REPORTERS' PROTECTION AGAINST LIBEL
Date: 12 October 1983
By Arnold H. Lubasch
Arnold Lubasch
A Federal appeals court decided yesterday that journalists were protected from libel for accurately reporting newsworthy accusations, even if the accusations involved secret grand-jury proceedings. Under the First Amendment's guarantee against laws abridging freedom of the press, the court said, it would be ''incongruous indeed'' if a Federal or state law could punish journalists for accurately reporting accusations in ''a matter of public interest.'' The 18-page decision, issued in Manhattan by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, was written by Judge Irving R. Kaufman with the concurrence of Judge Thomas J. Meskill and Judge Lawrence W. Pierce.
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FEMINIST'S MURDER TRIAL IS POSTPONED
Date: 12 October 1983
A state district judge today postponed the murder trial of Ginny Foat, former president of the California chapter of the National Organization for Women, because of a front-page newspaper article that appeared Monday. The trial had been scheduled to begin in nearby Gretna, La., this morning with jury selection. Prosecuting attorneys are attempting to prove that Mrs. Foat murdered Moises Chayo, an Argentine businessman whose decomposed body was found in a suburban ditch near New Orleans 18 years ago.
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TV: 'INSIDE STORY,' A HOUSE DIVIDED BY NICARAGUA
Date: 13 October 1983
By John Corry
John Corry
''INSIDE STORY,'' the public television series that examines the press, looks tonight at a Nicaraguan publishing family, and, by extension, at a revolutionary society as well. The program will be seen on Channel 13 at 9 o'clock. The family was headed by Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, who, until his assassination on Jan. 10, 1978, was the editor of La Prensa and a bitter enemy of the dictator Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The newspaper, now edited by Mr. Chamorro's eldest son, is still published, although the son, who is also named Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, is a critic of the Sandinista regime.
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WEINBERGER IS REPORTED TO REBUKE TOP AIDE
Date: 12 October 1983
Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger called in the Secretary of the Navy today to rebuke him for making public his differences with the Deputy Secretary of Defense over the Navy's proposed 1985 budget, according to Pentagon officials. The officials said Mr. Weinberger was displeased with efforts by John Lehman, the Navy Secretary, to overturn Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Thayer's budgetary decisions by urging key members of Congress to put into the budget funds that Mr. Thayer had cut out in Pentagon deliberations. Attempts to reach a spokesman for Mr. Lehman by telephone were unsuccessful. This is the latest round in a disagreement between Mr. Thayer and Mr. Lehman over the size of the Navy, the composition of the fleet and its missions. It also appears to have turned into a personal struggle between Mr. Thayer, who came to the Pentagon from business in January, and Mr. Lehman, an adept political infighter.
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PENTAGON CITES SHIFT IN FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS
Date: 12 October 1983
Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger today cited a military contractor's plea of guilty to 25 counts of fraud as a milestone in the Pentagon's campaign against such fraud. Many of the Pentagon's investigations have been into relatively small suppliers, but officials said current investigations included nationally known companies. They declined to name them, however, until the cases are ready to go to court.
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KISSINGER, IN SALVADOR, URGES BROADER RIGHTS
Date: 13 October 1983
By Lydia Chavez
Lydia Chavez
Henry A. Kissinger said today that it was ''absolutely imperative'' that the principles of democracy and human rights be ''preserved and extended'' in El Salvador. Mr. Kissinger, the head of a presidential commission to develop a long- range Central American policy, stressed the rights theme on his arrival and again after his meeting with President Alvaro Magana. ''Americans should not be asked to chose between security and human rights and it is precisely those areas that are in the front line of the confrontation between totalitarianism and democracy,'' Mr. Kissinger said after his meeting with Mr. Magana.
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REAGAN SIGNS BILL ALLOWING MARINES TO STAY IN BEIRUT
Date: 13 October 1983
By Steven R. Weisman
Steven Weisman
Text of Reagan statement, page A7. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 - President Reagan signed legislation today authorizing American marines to remain in Lebanon for 18 more months, but he insisted obliquely that he already had the authority to keep the Marines there without Congressional approval. Mr. Reagan's approval of the legislation came as Administration officials said they would soon undertake the first high-level review in six months of overall Middle East policies. The review is to coincide with the return to Washington today of Robert C. McFarlane, the special Middle East envoy.
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...AND RECRUIT FOR THE GOVERNMENT
Date: 12 October 1983
By David Shribman
David Shribman
President Reagan's most enduring impact here may not be his budget cuts or his vigilance against the Russians. His greatest legacy may be Steve Britt, Lennie L. Pickard, Robert W. Whitaker and Charles Kupperman. These four, all but anonymous figures in the Federal bureaucracy, were given appointments in the Reagan Administration and today toil away with titles such as executive assistant, personal assistant, special assistant and, in the case of Mr. Kupperman, executive director of the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control. They are, moreover, among the earliest links in a network of young conservatives that is only now emerging in Washington.
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AFTER THE ARMS TALKS
Date: 13 October 1983
By John Vinocur, Special To the New York Times
John Vinocur
NewsAnalysis GENEVA, Oct. 12 - Many NATO governments are assuming that the Soviet Union will withdraw from arms negotiations in Geneva, leaving Moscow with few tactics in dealing with the West other than making threats and creating the appearance of crisis. Officials in the foreign ministries of the larger European countries are considering what kind of pressure the Soviet Union might exert in a harder, more tense international climate and the range of potential Soviet actions once new NATO missiles are deployed in Europe. They are also considering possible Western responses. The wide acceptance of the idea that the talks will be halted is essentially based on statements of Soviet officials who have insisted that the negotiations will be robbed of sense once the stationing of Pershing 2 and cruise missiles begins at the end of the year.
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