The November 17, 1981 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♏. It was the 320 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 Monday, November 17, 2025, 231 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, November 17, 2026, in 133 days. You have lived for 16,302 days, or about 391,249 hours, or about 23,474,969 minutes, or about 1,408,498,140 seconds.
17th of November 1981 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on November 17, 1981
CBS PRESSES AFFILIATES TO ACCEPT ONE-HOUR NEWS
Date: 18 November 1981
By Tony Schwartz
Tony Schwartz
TV executives met with representatives of the network's affiliates yesterday in Hawaii in an effort to convince the affiliates' board to accept a proposal to expand ''The CBS Evening News'' from 30 minutes to an hour next year. According to high-level CBS sources, the attempt has the full approval of William S. Paley, chairman of CBS, and Gene F. Jankowski, president of the CBS/Broadcast division. CBS sources said the company was prepared to assure the affiliates that they would not lose any money during the first year by giving up one of the half-hours between 6 and 7:30 P.M. Many stations command their highest rates for commercial time sold during the period. Such compensation could cost the network as much as $40 million to $50 million.
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Indian Express Closes Its Bombay Edition
Date: 18 November 1981
Special to the New York Times
The Indian Express, the country's largest English-language newspaper, announced today that it was closing its edition in Bombay and seven allied publications. It blamed political pressure and labor and financial troubles, The announcement by Saroj Goenka, a director of The Express, followed a campaign by the newspaper in which it accused A.R. Antulay, chief minister of Maharashtra State, of corruption.
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GEORGE KENNAN CALLS ON U.S. TO VIEW SOVIET MORE SOBERLY
Date: 18 November 1981
George F. Kennan, the historian and former diplomat, feels that the view of the Soviet Union in ''our governmental and journalistic establishments'' is so distorted and exaggerated that it imperils the chances for ''a more hopeful world.'' He spoke about American perceptions of the Soviet Union on Monday at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., where he received an award in honor of Grenville Clark, a lawyer who advocated world peace through law. A former ambassador to Moscow and a specialist in Soviet affairs, Mr. Kennan is a co-chairman of the American Committee on East-West Accord, a nongovernmental group promoting improved Soviet-American relations.
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LAW CLOSING TESTIMONY IN SEX CASE FACES TEST
Date: 17 November 1981
By Linda Greenhouse, Special To the New York Times
Linda Greenhouse
The Supreme Court set the stage today for the third significant test since 1979 of the right of the public and the press to attend courtroom proceedings. The Justices agreed to hear a challenge by The Boston Globe to a Massachusetts law that requires judges to close the courtroom to the press and public while a sex crime victim who is under the age of 18 is testifying. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts upheld the law, rejecting the newspaper's argument that its reporters had a constitutional right to attend the trial under a 1980 decision by the United States Supreme Court. That decision, Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia, held that the First Amendment's free press guarantee ordinarily gives the press and the public access to criminal trials.
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News Analysis
Date: 18 November 1981
By John Herbers, Special To the New York Times
John Herbers
Nine years ago this month, President Nixon demanded and received the resignation of the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh as chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights after the panel accused the Administration of reducing the enforcement of school desegregation. Mr. Nixon appointed Arthur S. Flemming, who had been Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Eisenhower Administration, to succeed the outspoken Father Hesburgh, and the move was widely interpreted among members of minorities as a blow to the civil rights movement. On Monday President Reagan dismissed Mr. Flemming from the post amid accusations that the Administration did not like his strong advocacy of civil rights. In both instances, the White House denied that the dismissals had anything to do with the statements of the commission or its chairman.
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News Analysis
Date: 18 November 1981
By James Barron
James Barron
In the last eight weeks the Grumman Corporation has discovered just how expensive fighting an unwanted takeover bid can be. In its successful campaign to defeat the LTV Corporation's $450 million tender offer, Grumman spent more than $1.5 million in legal fees and $600,000 on newspaper advertising. The bills from its financial advisers are also expected to be steep. But Grumman's out-of-pocket expenses do not reflect the full price of rebuffing LTV. After buying Grumman stock to keep it out of LTV's hands, Grumman and its allies have had to swallow some $25 million in paper losses. And, in a long-range sense, the battle with LTV has ended Grumman's aura of isolation on Long Island, where the aircraft manufacturer is by far the largest employer.
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News Summary; WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1981
Date: 18 November 1981
International President Reagan has known for two months that his national security adviser, Richard V. Allen, received a $1,000 cash payment from a Japanese journalist who interviewed Mrs. Reagan one day after the Inauguration, the White House spokesman said. He also said, that in the 60 days in which the secret inquiry has been under way, the White House had made no decision on whether the matter would ever be made public. (Page A1, Columns 3-4.) A new Middle East peace initiative was reported by Reagan Administration officials. They said that Philip C. Habib, President Reagan's special envoy, planned to return to the region late this month to try to strengthen the cease-fire in Lebanon. (A1:1.)
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News Summary; TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1981
Date: 17 November 1981
International A U.S. negotiating position on arms will be formally announced by President Reagan in a few days, according to high Administration officials. They said that Mr. Reagan would make public proposals to Moscow for eliminating or reducing medium-range missiles in Europe to show American support for arms control and to counter antinuclear campaigns in Western Europe. (Page A1, Columns 2-3.) The primary Soviet problem is food, Leonid I. Brezhnev told leaders of the Soviet Communist Party. Acknowledging that a third year of drought had caused great harm to the economy, the Soviet leader pledged to develop a comprehensive program to improve the entire system of food production and distribution. (A1:1.)
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OPEC Panel Sets Meeting
Date: 17 November 1981
AP
The oil strategy committee of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will meet this weekend in Vienna to discuss future approaches to supply and pricing, the Austrian news agency said today.
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Margin Narrows On Prison Vote
Date: 17 November 1981
The margin by which New York State voters apparently rejected the $500 million bond issue for prison construction narrowed to 1,985 votes as New York City and Monroe County released their official figures, the News Election Service reported.
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