The April 18, 1981 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 107 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, April 18, 2026, 85 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, April 18, 2027, in 279 days. You have lived for 16,521 days, or about 396,510 hours, or about 23,790,652 minutes, or about 1,427,439,120 seconds.
18th of April 1981 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 18, 1981
Realty News
Date: 19 April 1981
By Carter Horsley
Carter Horsley
13 Middletown, N.J. The M. Alfieri Company of Union, N.J., has begun construction on the first phase of Tri-Parkway Plaza, a $18 million, 275,000-squarefoot office park on 18 acres off exit 109 of the Garden State Parkway in Middletown, N.J. The first phase consists of a three-story, 75,000 square foot building that is expected to be ready for occupancy in June 1982. Building Sale Giorgio Laurenti and Roberto Riva have purchased the 12-story office building at 38-44 East 30th Street in the Kips Bay section of Manhattan from East 30th Associates, of which Peter Nelson is a principal, for more than $6 million. The five-story building contains about 100,000 square feet of office space and its major tenant is the Kidney Foundation. Broker: Peter Kellner of James Felt Fealty Services Inc.
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Upstaging Reagan
Date: 19 April 1981
President Reagan was at the other end of the phone line, and Dan Sullivan, the drama critic of The Los Angeles Times, said that his immediate reaction was: ''Wow, the President!'' Mr. Reagan wanted Mr. Sullivan to print a good word for a foundering musical, ''Turn to the Right,'' starring Buddy Ebsen. The President's tone indicated, the critic said last month, that Mr. Reagan and Mr. Ebsen were friends.
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A Love of Labor
Date: 19 April 1981
When the Cathedral of St. John the Divine resumed building the largest Gothic structure in the world after a 38-year pause, it calculated that 22,000 stones would be needed to finish the last two towers. It could have ordered the stones machine-cut from a quarry.
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Vanishing in Georgia
Date: 19 April 1981
It was a drive that 73-year-old Charles R. Romer, a retired oil executive, and his wife, Catherine, 75, had taken many times as ''snowbirds'' -people who spend their winters in Florida and the rest of the year back home in the North. The Romers checked into a Holiday Inn in Brunswick City, Ga., on April 8, 1980.
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Magruder Switch
Date: 19 April 1981
Jeb Magruder, one of the President's men in the Watergate case, had embarked on a new life of Christian service after a short term in prison for obstructing justice. Then, in August 1979, after completing two and a half years of studies for a Master of Divinity degree at the Princeton Theological Seminary, he changed course.
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News Analysis
Date: 18 April 1981
By David K. Shipler, Special To the New York Times
David Shipler
A basic change in the attitude of the United States toward Israeli military action in Lebanon appears to have given a new flexibility to Israel's Army and Air Force, which have been busy recently with air strikes and ground assaults against Palestinian guerrilla bases in Lebanese territory. The Carter Administration used to criticize Israel publicly for the attacks, especially the air strikes, which the Lebanese authorities say have caused many civilian casualties. But the Reagan Administration has adopted the view, made clear during Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr.'s visit to Jerusalem April 6 and 7, that Israel has a legitimate interest in keeping its northern border free of guerrillas and that it must decide itself how best to accomplish that. The Haig talks left Israeli officials with the impression that they would not be criticized for using American-made weapons in Lebanon if their actions did not upset any efforts to end fighting between Syrian troops and Lebanese Christian militias.
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News Summary; SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 1981
Date: 19 April 1981
International Saudi Arabia insists that an arms deal be carried out by the Administration, allowing it to purchase five Awacs electronic surveillance planes, in addition to the previously ordered F-15 fighters. It also wants seven aerial tankers. The Saudis rejected Administration suggestions that it postpone buying the Awacs and avoid a fight in Congress, which would influenced by Israel's opposition to the plane deal. (Page 1, Column 3.) American naval power predominates in the Indian Ocean following the most ambitious mobilization of naval forces since the Vietnam War to challenge Soviet advances in Africa and Asia. Singapore, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Kenya, among other places, are visited monthly by thousands of American sailors on shore leave, emphasizing a naval commander's view that the Indian Ocean has become ''the primary strategic concern for the United States.'' (1:4-5.)
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News Summary; SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1981
Date: 18 April 1981
International An independent farmers's union was approved by the Polish Government, which thereby gave direct control over almost all areas of industrial and agrarian productivity in Poland to independent labor organizations outside the Communist Party. The new union, Rural Solidarity, will be given official status May 10. (Page 1, Column 6.) Proposed American aid to Pakistan caused sharp disagreement between Indian and American officials in Washington. India regards Pakistan as a threat to its security. Indian and American officials said that Eric Gonsalves, the senior career official in India's Foreign Ministry, expressed India's deep concern over the Administration's plans to provide military aid to Pakistan, as part of of a $1 billion assistance program that would also give economic aid, at a meeting with Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and other American officials. (1:5.)
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THE PRESS MUST SCRUTINIZE ITS OWN ETHICS
Date: 19 April 1981
By Bill Bleyer
Bill Bleyer
WHEN members of the New Jersey Press Association recently assembled for their annual convention to cite the best work of 1980 and consider the state of journalism, one important question was raised and quickly dismissed.
In his keynote speech on investigative reporting, Bob Dubill, head of the Gannett News Service, said that news organizations had a responsibility to monitor corporations and private-interest groups, as well as government agencies. It is harder to obtain information on the nonpublic groups, Mr. Dubill asserted, even though they could affect our lives as much as a public body.
At that point, a member of the audience asked: ''Who is supposed to watch the press?'' The question did not raise much of a stir, even though it was cited that polls have shown that most Americans perceive the press as biased and favor the imposition of a fairness doctrine for print media similar to the rules for broadcasters drawn up by the Federal Communications Commission.
The press can - and does - police itself, Mr. Dubill said. Also, there are journalism reviews to throw darts at newspapers and broadcasters straying from the boundaries of accepted behavior.
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Man Sues Over Photograph Identifying Him as Hinckley
Date: 19 April 1981
UPI
Upi
The attorney for a man misidentified by The Associated Press in a photograph as John W. Hinckley Jr., who is accused of attempting to assassinate President Reagan, has filed a $1.5 million lawsuit. The attorney for James Whittom said it was his client, not Mr. Hinckley, in the picture of a neo-Nazi group that was distributed by the news agency April 1. The news agency, which later said the man in the photograph was not Mr. Hinckley, declined to comment on the lawsuit.
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