The March 14, 1981 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♓. It was the 72 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 45 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, March 14, 2026, 109 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, March 14, 2027, in 255 days. You have lived for 16,545 days, or about 397,082 hours, or about 23,824,931 minutes, or about 1,429,495,860 seconds.
14th of March 1981 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on March 14, 1981
News Analysis
Date: 14 March 1981
By Jonathan Friendly
Jonathan Friendly
A largely unsuccessful effort by a Hartford television station to show portions of a figure-skating championship on its evening newscast has become an unusual test of competing claims of commercial rights and press freedoms. Lawyers expert in First Amendment and television-broadcasting questions say the case raises questions about the system of exclusivecoverage rights to sporting events that networks spent millions of dollars to develop. At the same time, the case emphasizes the extent to which many stations define ''news'' as the visually interesting rather than the socially significant, underlines the expanding role of the press conglomerates and raises anew the questions about technological changes that could make the notion of ''local stations'' obsolete. 'In Our Community' The issue arose out of the decision by WFSB-TV, the CBS-TV affiliate in Hartford, to try to show portions of the 1981 World Figure Skating Championships this month at the Hartford Civic Center. ABC-TV had paid a reported $165,000 for exclusive television rights and showed the finals to an audience of several million on its ''Wide World of Sports'' on Saturday and Sunday.
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EX-HEAD OF REUTERS
Date: 14 March 1981
By Peter B. Flint, Special To the New York Times
Peter
Lord Barnetson, a leading British news executive and chairman from 1968 to 1979 of Reuters, the international news agency, died Thursday in Westminster Hospital in London five weeks after undergoing heart and lung surgery. He was 63 years old and lived in Crowborough, East Sussex. For the last 15 years Lord Barnetson was chairman and managing director of United Newspapers, a major provincial newspaper group. He was also the chairman of The Observer of London and of Thames Television and a former chairman of the Commonwealth Press Union and The Press Association, the domestic British news agency.
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St. Louis's Papers Lose Suits to Get Police Files
Date: 15 March 1981
UPI
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A divided panel of Federal judges has ruled that the public and the news media have no constitutional right of access to police files sealed by sections of Missouri law. Those sections seal records in criminal cases not prosecuted or in which the defendant is acquitted.
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PRESS IN INDIA UPSET BY IMPORT DUTY ON NEWSPRINT
Date: 14 March 1981
Special to the New York Times
The newspaper industry in India is becoming nervous over a new 15 percent import duty on newsprint imposed by the Government recently. Indian newspapers depend heavily on foreign newsprint since the country is able to provide less than 20 percent of the newsprint it needs, and that is of poor quality. Many critics termed the levy, which was contained in the budget for the year beginning April 1, an ''assault on the freedom of the press.'' Nani A. Palkhivala, a lawyer, called it ''a tax on information and knowledge.''
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DEFYING THE VICAR
Date: 15 March 1981
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
His self assurance ''is matched only by his iron will.'' He is forceful, swift, brilliant, determined, careful, consistent. When his future wife first saw him, she said ''he's like a Greek god.'' Is that Pravda writing about Leonid Brezhnev? No, it is Time Magazine on Alexander M. Haig Jr. The first weeks of every new Presidency tend to bring out the gushy strain in American journalism. We heard about Nixon's strategy for peace and Carter's balm for the American spirit. But the press's suspension of disbelief seems at record heights at the start of the Reagan Administration. And the most extravagant example so far is the recent Time cover story on Secretary of State Haig.
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News Analysis
Date: 14 March 1981
By Bernard Gwertzman, Special To the New York Times
Bernard Gwertzman
The Reagan Administration has succeeded in focusing world attention on El Salvador, but its monthlong campaign has also produced some negative side effects not to Washington's liking. Many key members of Congress and foreign governments that were only dimly aware of El Salvador's problems before are now openly concerned about the possibility of ''another Vietnam,'' even though the Administration insists such a comparison is unfounded. When Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. sent officials to Europe and Latin America last month to explain the Administration policy and ordered an information blitz on Congress and the press, his purpose was to expose what he said was Soviet-bloc support for the leftist insurgents in El Salvador and to gain sympathy for future United States countermoves. But as a senior Haig aide told reporters yesterday, Mr. Haig ''perhaps opened the jar and he didn't, perhaps, realize how many genies were in it.''
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News Summary; SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1981
Date: 14 March 1981
International Libya agreed to receive prisoners that Pakistan is releasing at the demand of three hijackers holding more than 100 hostages aboard a Pakistani plane in Damascus, Syria. A Pakistani diplomat said 49 prisoners were being assembled in Karachi, Pakistan, for a trip ''in the direction of Libya.'' He said his Government had no record of 6 of the 55 prisoners whose release was demanded by the hijackers. The feeling in Damascus was that the issue of the six prisoners could be crucial to the completion of the agreement to release the hostages. (Page 1, Column 1.) More aid for El Salvador was decided on by the Administration. The Its proposals to send 15 members of the Army's Special Forces and to provide an additional $60 million in economic assistance was discussed by members of the Senate Appropriations Committee and officials of the State and Defense Departments and the Central Intelligence Agency. (1:2.)
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Reality News; Broadway
Date: 15 March 1981
Capital Market Sources, a subsidiary of Citibank, has leased approximately 35,000 square feet of office space at 39 Broadway for 10 years at an aggregate rent of about $3.8 million. Brokers: Jerry Richter of Wm. A. White & Sons and the Edward S. Gordon Company.
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News Summary; SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1981
Date: 15 March 1981
International South African military officers arrived in Washington last week apparently to visit State Department and Defense Department officials, but were preparing to return home after the State Department raised questions about their status and canceled an appointment. The trip by the five senior military officers, made under ''misleading circumstances,'' according to an Administration official. (Page 1, Column 6.) Pakistani hijackers surrendered in Damascus after Syria agreed to give asylum to 54 prisoners who had been released by Pakistan in compliance with the hijackers' demands. Three Americans were among the more than 100 hostages who had been held aboard the hijacked Pakistani airliner for two weeks. The plane was first flown to Kabul, Afghanistan, and then to Damascus. (1:4.)
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Propane Propulsion
Date: 15 March 1981
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
Hoping to cut fuel costs 40 percent, as well as conserve petroleum, the Rocky Hill Police Department announced in April 1980 that it would become the first in Connecticut and among the first in the nation to use liquefied propane rather than gasoline in police cars. It planned to convert two of its four cars.
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