Quotation of the Day
Date: 17 August 1981
''We will publish a Monday newspaper and hopefully forevermore.'' -Craig Ammerman, executive editor of The Bulletin in Philadelphia. (A1:1.)
Replaying Monday, August 17, 1981
The August 17, 1981 was a Monday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 228 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 Sunday, August 17, 2025, 321 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, August 17, 2026, in 43 days. You have lived for 16,392 days, or about 393,425 hours, or about 23,605,534 minutes, or about 1,416,332,040 seconds.
Some people who share this birthday:
17th of August 1981 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 17, 1981
Financial Times Price
Date: 17 August 1981
AP
The newsstand price of The Financial Times, London's daily business newspaper, rise tomorrow to 30 pence, or about 54 cents in United States currency, from 25 pence.
Service for Raine E. Bennett
Date: 18 August 1981
A memorial service for Raine E. Bennett, a former newspaperman, radio commentator and historian of the islands of the world, will be held at 5 P.M. today at the Overseas Press Club, 52 East 41st Street. Mr. Bennett, who lived in Manhattan, died July 5 at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center at the age of 89. He established the Islands Research Foundation in 1950 and had been a reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle, a radio commentator in Los Angeles and radio editor of The Los Angeles Evening Express. He is survived by a daughter, Nola, who lives in Phoenix.
SOLIDARITY PLANS NEWSPAPER STRIKE IN POLAND
Date: 18 August 1981
By James M. Markham, Special To the New York Times
James
Polish newspaper workers today made strike preparations for a two-day shutdown of the country's presses over the issue of the Solidarity independent labor union's access to the state-run media. In Warsaw, newspaper workers held meetings throughout the day with Solidarity leaders, while strike alerts were reported from Cracow, Szczecin, Lublin and Koszalin. The strike call poses an awkward challenge to Poland's Communist leaders, particularly as Stanislaw Kania, the party first secretary, and Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski promised the Soviet leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev, three days ago that they planned ''to stop anarchy and launch an all-out battle against counterrevolution.''
PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN IS RESCUED AS 8 UNIONS AGREE TO CONCESSIONS
Date: 17 August 1981
By William Robbins, Special To the New York Times
William Robbins
The Bulletin, one of the country's largest afternoon newspapers, was given a reprieve by its unions this evening, and a threat that it would stop publishing was lifted. All eight unions of the financially ailing newspaper, voting under a warning that today's issue might have been their last, agreed to grant $4.9 million in concessions demanded by the publisher, N.S. Hayden. The first word of the favorable vote was announced in The Bulletin's newsroom at 6:26 P.M. Cheering From the Staff ''We will publish a Monday newspaper and hopefully forevermore,'' said Craig Ammerman, the executive editor. As he made the announcement, he tossed into the air a yellow booklet explaining employees' rights to severance pay and other provisions that would have gone into effect if the newspaper had closed. A great cheer went up from staff members crowded into the room.
PREPARING FOR FLOOD OF DATA
Date: 17 August 1981
By Stuart Brotman
Stuart Brotman
Cambridge, Mass. - The emergence of a host of new communication technologies and services - among them cable televison, videodisks and videotext systems that link computer data bases to televison sets - has moved rapidly this year from the pages of the trade press to prominent coverage in newspapers and magazines. My professional activities requrie me to be more than a spectator to these developments, and what I am seeing of late is a set of broader policy issues that are sure to follow the current wave of industry and consumer enthusiasm. Although these issues indicate potential social risks, they also suggest how social benefits could be created. Some examples: Privacy. The linking of computers to interactive cable systems or telephone lines suggests the potential for serious invasions of privacy, such as interfering with individual messages and monitoring what is on each televison set. Since most judicially imposed privacy protection weighs the facts of an individual case against expectations of privacy reasonable in an increasingly intrusive society, the most ominous solution to this problem would be for the courts to say that the presence of the new communication technologies alone signals an era of lowered expectations and reduced privacy protection.
SELF: A SURPRISING SUCCESS
Date: 17 August 1981
By N.r. Kleinfield
Back in 1976, when Phyllis Starr Wilson was managing editor of Glamour magazine, one of Conde Nast's imposing stable of women's publications, she felt that women's magazines were not doing enough for the over-30 set. So she whipped up a prospectus for a magazine geared for women of all ages. She thought of calling it Woman or Self. The following year, S.I. Newhouse Jr., Conde Nast's chairman, got excited about a physical fitness magazine, since fitness articles in Conde Nast magazines were much savored by readers. Ultimately, the powers decided to combine the two notions, and have Mrs. Wilson edit the result. Thus, in late 1977, Conde Nast disclosed that it would give birth to a magazine in January 1979, its first new arrival since Glamour hit the racks 40 years before. The creation would be called Self.
News Analysis
Date: 18 August 1981
By John F. Burns, Special To the New York Times
John Burns
For a year now the Soviet Union has been faced in Poland with a a series of challenges to Communist Party leadership unlike any in Eastern Europe since World War II. From the beginning, Moscow has warned against the dilution of Communist Party power implicit in the growth of a broad-based, independent labor union movement, and in the demands of that movement for press freedom, a say in economic management and the democratization of government. More than once, the maneuvers by Soviet troops and the tenor of Moscow's polemics have suggested that the Russians were on the verge of military intervention. But each time the Soviet leadership has drawn back, apparently persuaded that the risk of bloodshed and of damage to the Soviet Union's international position, as well as the sheer cost of an occupation, outweighed the problems inherent in letting the Poles continue on their independent course.
News Summary; MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1981
Date: 17 August 1981
Controllers' Strike About one-fifth of Atlantic flights normally controlled by Portuguese air controllers were rerouted by the Federal Aviation Administration in response to the controllers' 48-hour boycott imposed in support of the American strikers. The boycott began at 8 last night and was to continue through 8 Tuesday evening. The F.A.A. established two new flight routes that will affect about 20 percent of trans-Atlantic originating in Southern Europe and North Africa. (Page A1, Column 6.) International Polish students postponed marches they had planned to call for the release of five men they said were political prisoners. The demonstrations had been opposed by the Government, the Solidarity union and the Roman Catholic Church. A final decision on whether to hold the marches will be made Saturday, an organizer said. (A1:4.) ''A wrong was done to Israel'' when the Reagan Administration suspended delivery of 16 fighter planes after the Israeli attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor last month, Prime Minister Menachem Begin told reporters in English and Hebrew. Speaking after the first meeting held by the Cabinet of his coalition Government, he said that President Reagan had ''decided to right that wrong'' and that he expected the suspension to be lifted in the next few days. (A1:5.)
News Analysis
Date: 17 August 1981
By James M. Markham, Special To the New York Times
James
Behind the latest polemics between the Polish Government and Solidarity, the independent union, a struggle for power is being played out. Having concluded an extraordinary congress last month that used democratic voting procedures to elect a new leadership, the heads of the Polish Communist Party apparently feel that they possess a new legitimacy that should permit them to govern with firmness, and with the respect and understanding of the nation. But this feeling has collided with a new phase of militancy in the union, which will hold its first national congress next month. If the Communist Party displays a certain postcongress self-satisfaction, Solidarity is in a state of preconvention ferment.