CHARLES A. GRUMICH
Date: 23 June 1981
Charles A. Grumich, a reporter and editor at The Associated Press for 43 years, died of a heart attack Sunday in his Greenwich Village home.
Replaying Tuesday, June 23, 1981
The June 23, 1981 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 173 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 Tuesday, June 23, 2026, 19 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, June 23, 2027, in 345 days. You have lived for 16,455 days, or about 394,930 hours, or about 23,695,850 minutes, or about 1,421,751,000 seconds.
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23rd of June 1981 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on June 23, 1981
New Viewdata Test
Date: 23 June 1981
AP
Viewdata Corporation of America, a unit of Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc., said that it would begin testing its expanded Viewtron at-home information service in mid-1983 in cooperation with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The test will involve some 5,000 participants in an area of south Florida still to be chosen, said Viewdata's president, Albert J. Gillen. V.C.A. and A.T.&T. currently operate a smaller trial system in Coral Gables, Fla., that allows about 200 participants to receive continually updated news, weather, sports, stock market, travel and entertainment information, consumer advice, educational aids, games and quizzes and advertising on their televisions.
'60 MINUTES' NEWSMEN TO ADD A DAILY PROGRAM
Date: 24 June 1981
By Tony Schwartz
Tony Schwartz
The four correspondents on ''60 Minutes'' - Ed Bradley, Harry Reasoner, Morley Safer and Mike Wallace - will take on added duties in the fall as rotating anchors for a new CBS News afternoon program, ''Up to the Minute.'' The half-hour program will make its debut Sept. 28 and will be broadcast Mondays through Fridays at 4 P.M. Each program will begin with a film segment on a topical subject, to be followed by a studioaudience discussion of the issues in the film. Each week will be devoted to aspects of a broad subject such as the effects of feminism on men or violence and will feature experts on the day's topic. The audience will be led by one of the four correspondents.
ALFRED FRANKENSTEIN, LONGTIME MUSIC CRITIC AND AUTHORITY ON ART
Date: 24 June 1981
By John Rockwell
John Rockwell
Alfred Frankenstein, the author, teacher and former music and art critic of The San Francisco Chronicle, died of a heart attack at Kaiser Medical Center in San Francisco on Monday. He was 74 years old. Mr. Frankenstein combined a keen mind, lively writing style and profound sympathy for American and contemporary art and music into a distinguished critical sensibility. His influence far transcended the San Francisco area. He contributed to many music and art periodicals, wrote several books and lectured widely.
MOSCOW IS STRESSING PERIL FROM POLAND
Date: 24 June 1981
By Serge Schmemann, Special To the New York Times
Serge Schmemann
Invoking the bitter memories of the German invasion of the Soviet Union 40 years ago, a series of commentaries culminating in a tough article in Pravda today have declared that events in Poland pose a fundamental threat to postwar European borders and to Soviet strategic interests. Allowing for the emotional hyperbole to be expected for an anniversary of an invasion that cost the Soviet Union 20 million lives, the commentaries have provided a formulation of the security threat seen by Moscow in Poland's steady drive toward democratization. The theme - first espoused on television last weekend by Leonid M. Zamyatin, the Kremlin's spokesman, reiterated in the armed forces newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda by Marshal Viktor G. Kulikov, commander of Warsaw Pact forces, and repeated again today in Pravda by Vitaly G. Korionov, a party commentator - is that any change in Poland's status would weaken a key link in the Warsaw Pact, thereby threatening the entire balance of postwar Europe. Soviet Fears a 'Polish Breach' Mr. Korionov said the postwar division of Europe was the ''cornerstone of security'' on the continent. Now, he said, foes of Communism are conniving to undermine the structure by way of a ''Polish breach.''
News Analysis
Date: 24 June 1981
By M.a. Farber, Special To the New York Times
While Wayne B. Williams remained locked in solitary at the Fulton County jail last night, and while the public wondered whether his arrest would bring an end to the series of murders of young blacks here, the police were back at Mr. Williams's home, removing carpets, going through garbage cans, scouring shrubbery. This latest search for evidence, a day after Mr. Williams was arrested and charged with murdering Nathaniel Cater, the latest name on the city's special list of 28 black homicide victims, underscored that fact that the case of the ''missing and murdered children'' and young adults is anything but over. Mr. Williams, a 23-year-old music promoter who is black, has maintained his innocence since his name emerged in connection with the case three weeks ago. The police and the press, he says, are ruining his reputation and ''what is left of my life.'' Senior law-enforcement officials, initially uncertain of Mr. Williams's involvement in any of the slayings, have now concluded that he is responsible for the death of Mr. Cater, a 27-year-old man whose nude body was found floating in the Chattahoochee River May 24. The officials are intensifying their efforts to determine whether Mr. Williams is a ''serial killer'' who could be responsible for as many as half the 28 deaths.
News Analysis
Date: 23 June 1981
By Alan Riding, Special To the New York Times
Alan Riding
Despite the unexpected agreement by President Reagan and Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo in their talks earlier this month to work out a joint economic aid package for the Caribbean basin, the initiative faces formidable political difficulties. In reality, the much-vaunted assistance plan for the region is still at an embryonic stage, with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, Venezuela and Canada eventually expected to join the United States and Mexico in financing and implementing it. Yet questions are already being raised in the region about the viability of a plan that seeks to isolate economic problems from the sharp political differences that exist, not only within and between the countries of the area but also among potential aid donors. ''If anyone thinks that economic aid can resolve the political crises in El Salvador and Guatemala, they're simply naive,'' a regional economist said, mentioning the two Central American countries polarized by extremist violence.
BATTING .500
Date: 23 June 1981
By Wolfgang Saxon
Wolfgang Saxon
After 20 years backstage at lesser labor dramas, Kenneth E. Moffett is in the national limelight as a man trying to save the baseball season for the fans after helping to spare the passengers of 14,200 daily airline flights and all other travelers the coast-to-coast chaos of an air controllers' strike. A tall, affable Pennsylvanian who looks and sounds a bit like the television host David Hartman, Mr. Moffett became the country's top labor mediator only Jan. 2. That was the day after Wayne Horvitz, an appointee of President Carter, quit as head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and put Mr. Moffett in charge as acting director. Reporters who have watched Mr. Moffett work call him pleasant and unflappable.
News Summary; WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1981
Date: 24 June 1981
International An accord among French leftists led to the appointment of four Communists to the 44-member Cabinet of President Francois Mitterrand in the wake of the Socialist Party's sweeping legislative election triumphs. The four posts are not politically sensitive. In return, the Communist Party has agreed to support some Socialist policies in foreign and domestic areas that it had opposed. (Page A1, Columns 1-2.) The offer to sell U.S. arms to China was denounced by Cyrus R. Vance, a Secretary of State in the Carter Administration, as ''needlessly provocative.'' In an interview, Mr. Vance said that the new policy of the Reagan Administration ''has substantially diminished'' any influence the United States had over the Soviet Union. (A1:1.)
News Summary; TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1981
Date: 23 June 1981
International A delay in arms negotiations was indicated by Eugene V. Rostow, President Reagan's nominee to head the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Mr. Rostow told a Senate hearing that the Administration would probably not be ready to begin formal talks with Moscow on limiting strategic arms until March 1982. (Page A1, Column 1.) American concern over Iraqi plans to manufacture nuclear weapons was expressed in a document given to Prime Minister Menachem Begin in January by the United States Ambassdor to Israel, according to a knowledgeable Israeli official. Mr. Begin was reported to have informed a parliamentary committee about the document, which was said to have been based on American intelligence reports. (A1:1-2.)