The July 17, 1985 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 197 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 40 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, July 17, 2025, 88 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, July 17, 2026, in 276 days. You have lived for 14,698 days, or about 352,771 hours, or about 21,166,309 minutes, or about 1,269,978,540 seconds.
17th of July 1985 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on July 17, 1985
FILIPINO NEWS HUNTERS FIND THEY ARE ALSO PREY
Date: 17 July 1985
Special to the New York Times
Severino Arcones, the star commentator and manager of radio station DYFM, is ready to leave the office on an afternoon reporting foray. He stands up, yanks a .45-caliber pistol out of his desk drawer, stuffs it into his belt and says, ''O.K., let's go hunting for news.'' For additional firepower, Mr. Arcones has an M-16 rifle. Two bodyguards are his shadows. Death threats, he says, are part of the daily routine.
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KEY STATE DEPARTMENT AIDE: ROZANNE LEJEANNE RIDGWAY
Date: 18 July 1985
By James M. Markham, Special To the New York Times
James
In 1957, when Rozanne LeJeanne Ridgway joined the United States Foreign Service, women were not particularly welcome, she recalls. ''There was real doubt about whether a woman was serious about a career,'' the diplomat said recently. ''One was asked whether one was engaged, did one intend to marry soon. In those days, you had to retire if you got married.''
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Comings and Goings
Date: 17 July 1985
Herschel Walker, the Generals' running back, was named United States Football League player of the year by the editors of The Sporting News . . . Jama Ada of Tarrytown, N.Y., the flagbearer for Somalia in the Los Angeles Olympics, won the Manufacturers Hanover Corporate Challenge 3.5-mile run last night in Central Park in 16 minutes 15 seconds.
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Weekly Folds
Date: 17 July 1985
By William N. Wallace
William Wallace
The coming N.F.L. season will apparently have to make do without Pro Football Weekly.
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U.S. Experts May Examine 2 Soviet Copters in Pakistan
Date: 18 July 1985
Reuters
Military experts from the United States may soon be allowed to inspect two top-secret Soviet helicopter gunships flown to Pakistan last week by defecting Afghan military pilots, Western diplomats said today.
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Sixth Suspect Arrested In Weapon Smuggling
Date: 18 July 1985
AP
A sixth suspect has been arrested in an investigation of a group suspected of sending stolen military parts and equipment to Iran, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says. The suspect, Julie Roque Agustin, 46 years old, the wife of Franklin Agustin, 47, who was among five men arrested Friday, was arrested Tuesday at the couple's San Diego home, the F.B.I. said.
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FRANCE DENOUNCES U.S. AMBASSADOR
Date: 18 July 1985
By Richard Bernstein, Special To the New York Times
Richard Bernstein
The French Foreign Ministry today protested what it called the ''unacceptable character'' of comments on French politics made to a newspaper by the departing United States Ambassador, Evan Galbraith. The protest, which was made to the American charge d'affairs, John Maresca, followed the publication today in the rightist daily Figaro of an interview given by Mr. Galbraith on July 8. Mr. Galbraith, who left Monday, was quoted as having said that the governing Socialists were likely to lose their parliamentary majority in the elections next year and that the Communist Party was ''sort of outside the law'' and should not be allowed to participate in the Government, as it did from 1981 to 1984.
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PENTAGON SAYS EUROPEAN FORCES HAVE PLAN TO AID TERROR VICTIMS
Date: 18 July 1985
By Richard Halloran, Special To the New York Times
Richard Halloran
The Defense Department said today that the United States military command in Europe had initiated a medical plan to handle casualties of terrorist attacks in that region. The disclosure followed a report in today's issue of The New York Times citing an Army memorandum that described the handling of the victims of the truck bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 as indefensible ''medically, morally or ethically.'' The European Command ''now has an operational plan for these contingencies,'' the Pentagon said in a statement. The plan identifies medical teams, hospitals and specific equipment to care for those wounded in terrorist attacks, the Pentagon said.
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COAST MAN REPORTED FACING MORE SPYING CHARGES
Date: 17 July 1985
By Philip Shenon, Special To the New York Times
Philip Shenon
A California man who is one of four charged with selling Navy secrets to the Soviet Union may be indicted late this month on additional espionage charges, according to a high-ranking law-enforcement official and to his attorney. A San Francisco grand jury will probably accuse the man, Jerry A. Whitworth, of new counts of selling secret military documents to the Soviet Union, said the official, who asked not to be identified. Jim Larson, one of Mr. Whitworth's lawyers, confirmed that the new espionage charges were expected. He said Mr. Whitworth would plead not guilty to the new charges, as he had the earlier one. Mr. Whitworth, a retired Navy communications specialist, has been indicted on one count of conspiracy to commit espionage.
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SHULTZ, IN HONOLULU, DENOUNCES NEW ZEALAND
Date: 18 July 1985
By Shirley Christian, Special To the New York Times
Shirley Christian
Secretary of State George P. Shultz renewed criticism of New Zealand today, accusing it of undermining the United States nuclear deterrent and weakening its own security. He referred to New Zealand's refusal in February to allow an American warship to make a port call on the ground that the vessel might be carrying nuclear weapons. ''If New Zealand's objective was to enhance specific security and reduce the nuclear danger, it has acted against its own interests,'' Mr. Shultz said in a speech at the East-West Center on the campus of the University of Hawaii. He spoke at the end of a two-week tour that took him to Southeast Asia, Australia and the South Pacific.
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