The August 2, 1979 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 213 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
If you were born on this day, you are 46 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, August 2, 2025, 337 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, August 2, 2026, in 27 days. You have lived for 17,139 days, or about 411,352 hours, or about 24,681,157 minutes, or about 1,480,869,420 seconds.
Date: 02 August 1979
Correction on July 31 article which incorrectly identified lawyer handling appeal of Pamela O'Shaughnessy, reporter convicted of contempt for refusing to identify confidential source; lawyers who represented O'Shaughnessy were Vincent Ferrell and Herald Price Fahringer (S)
Date: 02 August 1979
By TERENCE SMITH Special to The New York Times
Terence Special
Analysis of apparent conclusion reached by Carter Administration that Washington press corps is more hindrance than help in getting Carter's message across; variety of means devised for Carter to 'get with the people' noted, including regional news conferences and back-porch conversations with citizens; George E Reedy, onetime press secretary to Pres Johnson, comments (M)
Date: 02 August 1979
Barbara Basler Albin Krebs
Barbara Albin
Larry Swindell, book editor of Philadelphia Inquirer, is forced to resign 2 weeks ago after admitting he had sold several cartons of books, all free review copies, to Strand Book Store; sales were disclosed to Swindell's superiors by Michael Cordts, reporter for Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, who was working on forthcoming series about how newspapers handle review copies; Strand president Fred Bass, calls firing harsh (S)
Date: 02 August 1979
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN Special to The New York Times
Bernard Special
Analysis of former State Sec Kissinger's revival of 'linkage' as political and foreign policy issue by proposing that future strategic arms negotiations with USSR be halted if Russians do not practice military restraint around world (M)
Date: 03 August 1979
By JAMES M. MARKHAM Special to The New York Times
Analysis of recent terror bombings in Madrid, Spain, by ETA--Basque separatist organization; says bombings could well be turning point for ETA, which appears to have 'lost its bearings'; sees continuing terror arising from Govt pact with moderate Basque nationalists granting northern Basque region considerable autonomy
Date: 02 August 1979
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Lawrence ALTMAN
analysis; illus of Chief Medical Examiner's seal (L)
Date: 03 August 1979
Willie Mays is taken ill at testimonial on site of Polo Grounds; condition is diagnosed as fatigue and heat exhaustion (S)
Date: 02 August 1979
Special to The New York Times
Bolivia installs elected Congress for 1st time in 10 years as 1st step toward restoration of constitutional civilian government; demonstrations reported outside Congress building, La Paz (S)