The May 16, 1981 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 135 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, May 16, 2026, 50 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, May 16, 2027, in 314 days. You have lived for 16,486 days, or about 395,666 hours, or about 23,739,980 minutes, or about 1,424,398,800 seconds.
16th of May 1981 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 16, 1981
UNESCO SAYS IT WILL PERSIST IN EFFORT TO REGULATE PRESS
Date: 17 May 1981
By Paul Lewis, Special To the New York Times
Paul Lewis
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization will continue in its effort to regulate the news media despite Western fears that it will limit press freedom, the director general, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, said at a conference at this Alpine resort today. The conference participants, who represent major Western news organizations as well as the third world's press, are trying to agree on a common strategy for fighting plans for a New World Information Order that would give Unesco the power to regulate the flow of news and information around the world. Tomorrow the participants plan to issue a ''bill of rights for the free press'' known as the Declaration of Talloires. It will set out for the first time the Western news organizations' approach to a New World Information Order.
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JUDGE BARS PAPER FROM PRINTING DATA ON SCHOOL AIDE IN SEX CASE
Date: 16 May 1981
Special to the New York Times
A Superior Court judge here has barred a newspaper from publishing material related to a case involving allegations of sexual harassment on the part of a school official, even though the editors had not decided to use the information and the administrative proceedings on the matter have been completed. Judge D. Marsh McLelland issued the temporary restraining order Wednesday against the Burlington Times-News, an afternoon daily with a circulation of 28,400, owned by Freedom Newspapers of Santa Anna, Calif. The order prohibits the newspaper from ''publishing, circulating, releasing or distributing any documents which are copies from or information based upon materials contained in the confidential personnel file'' of Henry G. Bright, former principal of the Elon College Elementary School.
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SHOOTING OF POPE 'AFFECTS US MORE'
Date: 17 May 1981
By Matthew L. Wald
Matthew Wald
HARTFORD ATTACKS on popes are not new, noted the Archbishop John F. Whealon, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hartford, on Wednesday afternoon, when Pope John Paul II was shot at the Vatican. But unlike medieval assassinations, the attack last week ''affects us more, only because it is in our time, and because of modern communication,'' he said. Because of the communication, the effect is not only greater, but it is different in course. As the Archbishop spoke in the chancellery of the Hartford Archdiocese, Jack Lennhoff was leaving St. Joseph's Cathedral, next door. He said he had been at his office, listening to a New York radio station, when he heard the Episcopal Bishop of New York. ''He said we should all say a prayer, so I came over to say a rosary,'' said Mr. Lennhoff, who works at Connecticut Public Television.
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Film View; WHEN READERS CORNER A CRITIC
Date: 17 May 1981
By Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
Nightmare: One minute I'm walking up Eighth Avenue at 9 o'clock in the evening, headed toward the bus stop, and the next minute I'm sitting in the back seat of a small, roomy Japanese automobile, a Bloomingdale's shopping bag over my head, speeding toward some unknown destination. Hijacked. ''Cuba?'' The question is asked politely. No need to antagonize them. A man's response is firm, without emotion. ''You'll find out soon enough. A woman snickers, not kindly, and adds, ''You certainly will.'' Has this snatch been ordered by the Red Brigades? A producer with hurt feelings? The Mob? Representatives of the Moral Majority? My landlord? We are going over a bridge. The sound of tires-on-grid is familiar. ''The Queensboro Bridge,'' I say. The others laugh and my heart sinks. People are always disappearing in Queens. It's quicklime for the soul. ''No,'' says the avuncular type who seems to be driving.
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Tracy Austin's View
Date: 17 May 1981
To the Sports Editor: I'm writing this letter because I'm surprised at all the stories that have been written lately about the offcourt lives of some women tennis players. I'm especially surprised that some publications have had articles written about me, who accompanies me to my tournaments, and why.
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REALTY NEWS
Date: 17 May 1981
Hackensack, N.J. The Continental Plaza office complex in Hackensack has been sold to RREEF-USA I, a closed-end real estate investment fund for about $85 million by James D. D'Agostino. The three-building complex contains approximately 580,000 square feet of office space. It is located at the intersection of Hackensack Avenue and Route 4 and was begun in 1970 and is now fully leased.
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News Analysis
Date: 16 May 1981
By Richard Eder, Special To the New York Times
Richard Eder
''Just because this may be a new era for France doesn't mean that it is a new era for the rest of the world. We are a medium-sized, vulnerable country and we can't change foreign policies just because we change Presidents.'' The words were spoken by a French foreign policy analyst associated with neither Francois Mitterrand, who takes office as President next Thursday, nor with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. The statement represents a wide consensus, however. Advisers to Mr. Mitterrand are stressing the notion of continuity in the vital aspects of foreign policy. So are members of the present Government.
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News Summary; SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1981
Date: 17 May 1981
International The Saudi royal family's influence with Syria was another strategy taken taken by Philip C. Habib, the American special envoy to the Middle East, in his efforts to prevent a war between Israel and Syria over the Syrian missile emplacements in Lebanon. He went to Riyadh to urge the royal family to help maintain peace in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Syria again refused to remove its missiles from Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, which Israel threatens to destroy. (Page 1, Column 6.) Japan's Foreign Minister resigned as a result of a dispute over the degree of Japanese military cooperation with the United States, in which the Prime Minister is accused by Foreign Ministry officials of taking an ambiguous stand. Prime Minister Zenko Susuki appointed Sunao Sonoda, to succeed Masayoshi Ito. Mr. Sonoda, who was the Health and Welfare Minister in the Susuki Cabinet, was a former Foreign Minister. (1:2.)
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News Summary; SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1981
Date: 16 May 1981
International Saudi Arabia's intervention in the Israeli-Syrian dispute over the Syrian missiles based in Lebanon is being sought by the Reagan Administration through the American special envoy to the Middle East, Philip C. Habib. American officials believe that an Israeli attack on the missile emplacements is imminent. The State Department ordered the United State Embassy in Beirut to hasten the evacuation of American dependents and to advise nonofficial Americans in Lebanon to leave. (Page 1, Column 6.) Israel will continue to use diplomacy to settle the missile crisis in Lebanon with Syria, Prime Minister Menachem Begin said following a meeting in Jerusalem with Mr. Habib, who was expected to remain in the Middle East at least several more days. Israel was expected to delay any military action against Syria until Mr. Habib's ends his attempts at peacemaking. (6:3-6.)
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The 'New' Drinan
Date: 17 May 1981
The word came from the Vatican: ''Politics is the responsibility of laymen, and a priest should be a priest.'' So after 10 years in the House of Representatives, Robert F. Drinan, the liberal Jesuit priest from Massachusetts, gave up his seat last Jan. 1.
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