The August 30, 1984 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 242 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
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30th of August 1984 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 30, 1984
AT MUNICH'S U.S. RADIO STATIONS, WHAT'S NEWS?
Date: 30 August 1984
By James M. Markham
James
Never exactly a center of calm, Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe in Munich are going through a new phase of unrest, agitation and dissent. In the early 1970's, the stations were shaken and demoralized by revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency had been financing their broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. New statutes severed the ties to the C.I.A., putting the stations under the aegis of the semiautonomous Board for International Broadcasting in Washington. Infusions of cash and confidence from the Reagan Administration lifted morale among many of the stations' 1,674 staff members - a lively and disputatious group of Poles, Uzbeks, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Bulgarians and many others. But lately a malaise has seized some veteran employees, who fear that an activist, vigorously anti-Communist management may be jeopardizing the stations' hard-won credibility in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
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HOW TO TELL THE GOVERNMENT STORY
Date: 30 August 1984
By Richard Halloran
Richard Halloran
After a two-year study of press officers in Government, Stephen Hess says one of the best he found was Linda Gosden, who worked in 1982 for Drew Lewis, then Secretary of Transportation. ''She was an absolute natural,'' Mr. Hess, a specialist on government- press relations, said of his findings. ''She had perfect pitch; it was an instinct.'' Among other talents, he added, Miss Gosden had an understanding of the news even though she lacked journalistic experience.
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FLAWS AT AIR BASE HELD NO PROBLEM FOR SHUTTLE
Date: 31 August 1984
A high- level investigation of construction flaws at the military's space shuttle complex at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., found no problems that would prevent safely launching a shuttle by 1985, the Air Force announced today. An inspection team led by Edward C. Aldridge, Under Secretary of the Air Force, went to the base on the Pacific coast last week after allegations of quality control problems in contruction work on the launching site, valued at more than $2 billion. ''While we have identified deficiencies in the construction that could, if not corrected, cause significant safety problems, there is no fundamental problem of safety or quality assurance which would prohibit us from successfully and safely launching the shuttle,'' Mr. Aldridge said.
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VICTIMS OF IGNORANCE, TOO
Date: 31 August 1984
By Randall Robinson
Randall Robinson
After his 22 years behind bars, his wife says that at the age of 66 ''he is as upright and proud as the day he was arrested.'' He has spent most of his life defying the most repressive Government on earth. Doing much the same, his wife, an exile in her own country and labeled a threat to public order, has enjoyed only 11 months of qualified freedom in two decades. The Democratic Party platform demands their release, and a bill in Congress calls upon President Reagan to secure it.
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REAGAN BRINGS UP TAX ISSUE IN TALK TO SPACE SCIENTISTS
Date: 31 August 1984
By Francis X. Clines
Francis Clines
President Reagan campaigned gently in the wake of the space shuttle launching today, telling a group of space scientists that he supported ''high tech, not high taxes.'' Mr. Reagan, on a tour of the Goddard Space Flight Center here where he thanked workers for their role in the space program, spoke optimistically of the country having the power to ''create a bounty of new jobs, technologies, and medical breakthroughs surpassing anything we have ever dreamed or imagined.'' High technology spurred by capital investment is the key, he emphasized, turning briefly to the tax question that has been an issue in his re-election campaign.
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EDITOR ANGERS FELLOW SINHALESE IN SRI LANKA
Date: 30 August 1984
By Sanjoy Hazarika
Sanjoy Hazarika
A story about Gamani Navaratna going the rounds of this capital of the Tamil-dominated Northern Province goes like this: An army officer, a member of the country's Sinhalese majority, telephoned Mr. Navaratna, also a Sinhalese, and asked, ''Are you a Tamil or a Sinhalese?'' Mr. Navaratna, a spare, wiry man who edits the city's only English-language newspaper, The Saturday Review, replied, ''I am a Sri Lankan.'' The army officer is said to have angrily slammed down the phone. His anger was apparently touched off by the fact that the editor had taken a rare stand, unpopular among Sinhalese, by reporting on what have been described as assaults by Sri Lanka troops on Tamil civilians and property. He also criticized the Government of President J. R. Jayewardene and strongly defended the movement for Tamil rights in the region.
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ATOMIZING BASES
Date: 30 August 1984
By Mark Kirk
Mark Kirk
The Defense Department is bullish on nuclear power. This is, to say the least, a curious stance, given that the civilian nuclear power industry is virtually dead in the water because of financial and safety problems.
In cooperation with the Energy Department, the Pentagon is considering a plan to build nuclear reactors on many major military bases. Since the program is classified, details about its breadth are sketchy and speculative. But to equip the 39 major domestic military bases with a reactor similar to that which powers nuclear submarines (a logical candidate) would cost almost $4 billion.
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WALESA IS HARSH AND HOPEFUL ON POLISH SITUATION
Date: 30 August 1984
By Michael T. Kaufman, Special To the New York Times
Michael Kaufman
Lech Walesa, the founder of the banned Solidarity union, assailed Poland's leaders today for what he called their failure to abide by the accords on free speech, free press and independent unions that were signed here nearly four years ago. In his apartment in this port city, beneath a large portrait of Pope John Paul II, Mr. Walesa read a prepared statement that said ''continuing to ignore the will of the nation brings on the threat of conflict.'' He accused Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish leader, of ''betraying the trust of the Polish people'' by declaring martial law in 1981 and by paying only lip service to the 21 points of the Gdansk agreement of Aug. 31, 1980, under which Solidarity became the only independent union in the Soviet bloc. Winner of Nobel Prize Mr. Walesa, the winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, said he hoped to read the statement here to mark the Aug. 31 anniversary, ''if I am not surrounded by a sea of blue,'' an allusion to the riot police.
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SOVIET IS PRESSING CASE ON K.A.I. 007
Date: 31 August 1984
By Serge Schmemann
Serge Schmemann
The approach of the first anniversary of the Soviet downing of a South Korean jetliner has prompted a barrage of articles in the Soviet press arguing and rearguing Moscow's fundamental defense, that the jumbo jet was on a spying mission for the United States. Most of these articles have been drawn from the Western press, probably because that is where most investigations into the incident have been pursued, but also because the Kremlin often tries to give its more controversial positions an aura of universality and credibility by citing compatible opinions from abroad. Thus in recent weeks Za Rubezhom, a weekly of the Union of Writers, has carried entire articles from the British publication Defense Attache and the American weekly magazine The Nation arguing that the jetliner could have been on a probing mission into Soviet airspace for American intelligence. Pravda reported on similar articles in West Germany. Literaturnaya Gazeta cited one in Japan, and the Moscow radio carried a report from Brazil of an interview in an Italian newspaper with a former American diplomat who, the radio said, asserted that the jetliner had actually been blown up by an American bomb detonated by remote control.
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SPACE PHOTOS SHOW NEW SOVIET ROCKETS
Date: 30 August 1984
By William J. Broad
William Broad
Air Force satellite photographs of launching pads in central Asia show that the Soviet Union is developing a booster rocket for a Russian version of the space shuttle and a new family of big rockets similar to those used by the United States for the Apollo moon program, according to space industry experts and Government intelligence officials. The novel feature of all the new rockets is that they are meant to use liquid hydrogen, a cryogenic, or supercooled, type of fuel technology that has long eluded space experts in the Soviet Union but was mastered by the United States nearly 20 years ago. New evidence of Soviet progress in space technology is a part of a continuing series of disclosures over the past year. The Pentagon, for instance, described the Soviet development of new booster rockets and a space shuttle in April. The new disclosures give added detail of the Soviet program, including checkouts on the launching pad and the development of cryogenic fuels.
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