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Read more...The April 29, 1981 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 118 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 Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 138 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in 226 days. You have lived for 16,209 days, or about 389,023 hours, or about 23,341,432 minutes, or about 1,400,485,920 seconds.
Date: 30 April 1981
Ford to Raise Prices, By 2.1% Tomorrow, Ap
The Ford Motor Company said today that it planned to raise the price of its average equipped 1981-model car by 2.1 percent, or $178, effective Friday. The increase lifts the average price of a Ford car to $8,817, up $456 during the 1981 model year, a company spokesman said.
Date: 29 April 1981
By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times
Hedrick Smith
With a flair for the dramatic moment, President Reagan sought tonight to provide irresistible momentum for his budget package by capitalizing on what his lieutenants regard as a rare ''second honeymoon'' with the American public after the attempt on his life 29 days ago. Even before Mr. Reagan made his appearance in the crowded Capitol chamber and uttered his emotional thanks to the nation for its outpouring of sympathy, the prospects were reckoned good for the Reagan-backed bipartisan budget bill to pass the Democraticcontrolled House of Representatives. That most crucial test will come in the next several days. Looking fit and ruddy, walking easily and grinning broadly, the President turned the standing ovations that greeted his quick recovery into repeated applause and cheers for his political refrain: ''Our Government is too big and it spends too much.'' He was later applauded for his rejection of the Democratic approach: ''Isn't it time that we tried something new?''
Date: 29 April 1981
By Michael Goodwin
Michael Goodwin
The decision by the City Council this week to reduce some of the benefits available to real-estate developers in Manhattan marked the biggest step taken by New York City in its efforts to redesign an array of often-criticized tax incentive programs. The complexity of the bills that were approved on Monday caused some confusion and led one city official to quip: ''What we've really done is create job opportunities for lawyers who can understand all this.'' At stake are the many millions of tax dollars that the moneystrapped city forgives each year in return for having developers upgrade or convert existing buildings or construct new ones. The benefits are available under several programs, depending on what work is done, the location and the kind of building.
Date: 30 April 1981
By Michael T. Kaufman, Special To the New York Times
Michael Kaufman
The simmering suspicions dividing India and Pakistan are again becoming inflamed, this time raising the prospect of the first nuclear arms race between countries that are not superpowers. It is almost exactly seven years since India demonstrated its nuclear muscle with an underground blast in the Rajasthan Desert. Now, as evidence mounts that Pakistan is striving to build an atomic weapon, voices are being raised here calling for quick and open pursuit of the nuclear option. Over the last few weeks there has been a steady stream of articles by military strategists and technicians, some of them close to the Government, urging a nuclear arms program for India to counter Pakistan's presumed atomic ambitions.
Date: 30 April 1981
By Elizabeth Bailey, Special To the New York Times
Elizabeth Bailey
The arrival of Now!, a lavishly printed news magazine, stirred the British publishing scene 18 months ago, although it had little effect on advertisers. Reporters' salaries at Now! averaged more than $35,000 a year, much higher than the going rate at London newspapers. This week Sir James Goldsmith, owner of the magazine, surprised its staff of 80 by announcing that he was closing Now! The issue currently on newsstands is the last one.
Date: 30 April 1981
By Gene I. Maeroff
Gene Maeroff
There may be a bittersweet message in a report released yesterday showing improvement in reading skills in the early grades of school and a worsening in the high school years: Learning to read is very different from reading to learn. The report by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federally sponsored project for monitoring the nation's elementary and secondary schools, found varying achievement, depending on grade level, for students tested on general reading skills and on inferential comprehension. The results of the assessment, which examined and compared reading achievement in 1970-71, l974-75 and 1979-80, indicate considerable progress in teaching the fundamental skills that enable youngsters in the lower elementary grades to sound out words and phrases. The stories they read in school are simple and straightforward, with few nuances, and once a student can master the mechanics, he is reading.
Date: 30 April 1981
International Concern about the fighting in Lebanon was expressed by Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. The Reagan Administration did not criticize Israel for its shooting down of two Syrian helicopters Tuesday, but it sought to dissociate the United States from the Israeli action, apparently in an effort to maintain some leverage as a possible intermediary. (Page A1, Column 6.) Syria moved antiaircraft missiles into eastern Lebanon in apparent response to Israel's downing of the two Syrian helicopters there. But the Syrians were said to have suspended helicopter attacks on Christian positions near the tacks on Christian positions near the town of Zahle. (A3:1.)
Date: 29 April 1981
International Israeli jets moved against Syrians in central Lebanon for the first time in the recent heavy fighting. The jet fighters shot down two Syrian helicopters in what was described as an official warning that Israel would not allow the Syrians to defeat the Lebanese Christians. (Page A1, Column 3.) No sale of Bonn arms to Saudi Arabia is possible now, according to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. He told Saudi leaders in Riyadh that differences among West Germans over the issue of exporting weapons to the Middle East were intense. (A13:1-3.)
Date: 30 April 1981
By Bernard Holland
Bernard Holland
AMERICA'S musical community has been straining its collective imagination to figure out new and different ways to honor Aaron Copland, celebrating his 80th year. Queens College came up with a particularly original and enduring one this week when it renamed its music department the Aaron Copland School of Music. ''Aaron Copland symbolizes a coming of age in American music,'' Raymond Erickson, the school's head, said, ''and this action symbolizes the development of music at Queens College over the last 10 years. This is also the first time a school has ever been named after a living composer.''
Date: 30 April 1981
The LTV Corporation announced yesterday that it would spin off its Wilson Foods unit through a distribution of the latter's stock to holders of LTV. Under terms of the separation, which has been approved by LTV directors, holders of LTV common stock would receive one share of a new Wilson common for every 10 shares they hold in LTV. The announcement came after the 4 P.M. market close. LTV shares closed at 22 5/8 on the New York Stock Exchange, down 5/8. Wilson is the nation's fourth-largest meatpacker, with annual revenues of $2 billion. In Oklahoma City, Kenneth J. Griggy, president of Wilson Foods, said that Wilson was ''ready and prepared to stand alone as an independent company.'' Mr. Griggy said that Wilson had significantly improved its competitive position in recent years by consolidating production and improving efficiency. The program, he said, involved closing several plants and expansion of capacity in strategic business areas.