The April 5, 1979 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 94 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
If you were born on this day, you are 47 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, April 5, 2026, 94 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, April 5, 2027, in 270 days. You have lived for 17,261 days, or about 414,280 hours, or about 24,856,856 minutes, or about 1,491,411,360 seconds.
Date: 06 April 1979
By ROBERT TRUMBULL Special to The New York Times
Robert Special
Reptd ban on air travel by foreign correspondents to prov centers seen reflecting Govt concern over unrest following hanging of ex-Prime Min Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (S)
Date: 05 April 1979
NY Yankee players decide to have their clubhouse open to all writers and broadcasters, male and female alike (S)
Date: 06 April 1979
By ALFRED E. CLARK
Alfred CLARK
Inez Robb, nationally syndicated columnist, dies; was 78; career revd; por (M)
Date: 06 April 1979
Carter Adm has quietly approved sale of Amer computer system to USSR for press agency Tass, reversing decision made by Carter last July; Carter had ordered that license be withheld for natl security reasons and to express US displeasure with trials of Soviet dissidents and Amer journalists; Sens Henry M Jackson and Daniel P Moynihan score shift; hold Tass has 'close ties' with KGB; sale may not be completed because Tass reptdly will buy computer system from French concern, CIT-Honeywell Bull, to help in its handling of 1980 Olympics (S)
Date: 06 April 1979
By RICHARD BURT
Richard BURT
analysis of Carter Adm's campaign to sell proposed accord to Senate; notes adm aides have begun publicly to maintain that treaty will neither transform basic character of Soviet-Amer relations nor make significant improvements to Amer strategic arsenal unnecessary; notes adm's contention that agreement will enable US to deploy several new weapons in '80's; notes possible key theme in adm's campaign will be military and political dangers from failure to impose some constraints of future growth of strategic arsenals
Date: 06 April 1979
By CAREY WINFREY Special to The New York Times
Carey Special
Date: 05 April 1979
By BERNARD WEINRAUB Special to The New York Times
Bernard Special
analysis of Bhutto's pol career; various illus of Bhutto alone and with several other pol figures (L)