The August 29, 1981 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 240 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 Friday, August 29, 2025, 310 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, August 29, 2026, in 54 days. You have lived for 16,381 days, or about 393,152 hours, or about 23,589,175 minutes, or about 1,415,350,500 seconds.
29th of August 1981 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 29, 1981
THE NEWARK NEWS: IN MEMORIAM
Date: 30 August 1981
By Tom MacKin
Tom MacKin
IT WAS late afternoon, Aug. 31, 1972, when the telephone rang in my office in Munich. The secretary said it was my wife calling from New Jersey. My first thought: It must be a death in the family. In a way, it was. As I picked up the receiver with trembling hand, she said: ''I thought you should know. The Newark News died today.'' The Newark News dead! It did not seem possible. I could not remember a time that it was not a part of my life. As a schoolboy I had carried it door-to-door in my neighborhood in Kearny, an enclave stretching from West Hudson Park to the Passaic River.
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DAILY NEWS PUBLISHES LAST TONIGHT EDITION
Date: 29 August 1981
The Daily News yesterday ceased publication of its unsuccessful and costly year-old afternoon edition, Tonight. The move had been announced two weeks ago, along with the planned layoff of 320 employees and other cost-cutting measures, to meet an anticipated $11 million Daily News deficit this year.
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Major News in Summary; Bad News With A Long Fuse
Date: 30 August 1981
Though he has been accused of many things, no one is likely to charge Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr. with failing to put a good face on bad news. Convicted in court of bribery and conspiracy, the New Jersey Democrat was condemned by his peers last week for conduct ''ethically repugnant to the point of warranting his expulsion from the United States Senate.'' Nevertheless, Mr. Williams pronounced himself ''gratified'' that in recommending the harshest possible punishment, the Select Committee on Ethics asked the Senate to postpone its imposition until a Federal judge ruled on his appeal.
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News Summary
Date: 29 August 1981
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1981 International Cuba and Russia were again accused by Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. of playing major roles in the fomenting of civil war in EL Salvador, and he accused the country's rebels of engaging in ''straight terrorism'' against the civilian population. His remarks were made at a news conference at the State Department after an announcement by France and Mexico that they had recognized the rebels as a ''representative political force.'' (Page 1, Column 6.) The joint French-Mexican statement presented to the United Nations Security Council was apparently a challenge to American policy on El Salvador. It said that, in addition to recognizing the Salvadoran guerrilla-led opposition as a ''representative political force,'' the opposition had a right to participate in negotiations aimed at ending the fighting. The statement also called for reorganization of the Salvadoran armed forces before ''authentically free'' elections could be held. The French-Mexican proposals run directly counter to the Reagan Administration's policy, which seeks the military defeat of the guerrillas and their exclusion from elections for a constitutionl assembly, scheduled in March. (1:5.)
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Reality News
Date: 30 August 1981
By Christopher Wellisz
Christopher Wellisz
Most property owners whose holdings would be taken over to make way for the proposed 42nd Street Redevelopment Project are not expected to be among the developers included in the plan sponsored by the city and the New York State Urban Development Corporation. They simply do not have the financial resources to carry out the ambitious plans envisioned by the U.D.C. One possible exception is the Brandt Organization, the owner of eight theaters in the project area, which includes the two blocks on 42d Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. According to Robert Brandt, a vice president, the organization will submit a bid by the Sept. 4 deadline to restore some of its theaters, among them the Victory, Lyric and the Selwyn, to their original condition.
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News Summary; SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1981
Date: 30 August 1981
International A policy statement on South Africa by the Reagan Administration said that despite the Administration's opposition to South African apartheid policies it would not take sides between South African blacks and whites or try to undermine the Government ''in order to curry favor elsewhere.'' Chester A. Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, said the United States wished to remain neutral in order to be in a better position to pursue diplomatic solutions and to protect Western strategic and economic interests in Africa. (Page 1, Col. 6.)
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Reality News; Studio 54
Date: 30 August 1981
The 17-story office building and adjoining two-story theater building at 246-256 West 54th Street that houses ''Studio 54,'' the discotheque, has been sold by JISA Associates, of which Steven Rubell was a principal, to Philip Pilevsky, one of the more active purchasers of Manhattan properties in recent years.
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Reality News; Church Street
Date: 30 August 1981
By Carter Horesley
Carter Horesley
The 22-story office building at 100 Church Street has been sold by the Prudential Insurance Company of America to the Mackenzie Hill 100 Church Corporation for $42 million. The purchaser is a European-based company that is a client of Jones Lang Wootton, the real estate consultants who will serve as leasing and managing agents for the building. The building occupies the block bounded by Church and Barclay Streets, West Broadway and Park Place. CARTER B. HORSLEY
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Follow-Up on the News; A Victory, of Sorts
Date: 30 August 1981
By Charles Klaveness
Charles Klaveness
Last December, in another case with political overtones, the campaign committee that had worked unsuccessfully to re-elect Senator George McGovern in South Dakota found itself in some legal difficulty, too. The committee was accused of having offered meals and a television set on Election Day to some Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation, to induce them to go to the polls. Mr. McGovern, a Democrat, lost the election to James Abdnor.
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Follow-Up on the News; Fall of a Falcon
Date: 30 August 1981
By Charles Klaveness
Charles Klaveness
With considerable fanfare, and not a little fluttering of feathers, the peregrine falcons returned to Manhattan last year. They were released in an effort to rebuild their population in New York City, where - as in the rest of the Eastern United States - they had been wiped out by the effects of DDT.
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