The December 21, 1982 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 354 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 43 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, December 21, 2025, 197 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, December 21, 2026, in 167 days. You have lived for 15,903 days, or about 381,693 hours, or about 22,901,603 minutes, or about 1,374,096,180 seconds.
21st of December 1982 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 21, 1982
News Analysis
Date: 21 December 1982
By Steven R. Weisman, Special To the New York Times
Steven Weisman
From the White House on down, political leaders in the nation's capital are worrying that they seem to have lost control of events in recent weeks. Since the beginning of the month, Congress has sputtered along in a special post-election session that few members wanted. Howard H. Baker Jr., the Senate majority leader, has not been able to exercise his characteristic discipline as filibusters by a handful of members choked the Senate's ability to do business. Mr. Reagan, who defied the wishes of his own allies on Capitol Hill and demanded that Congress come back for this session - ''Our needs are too great to wait until next year,'' he said last month - has acquired almost none of the priority legislation he asked for.
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News Analysis
Date: 22 December 1982
By Joseph F. Sullivan, Special To the New York Times
Joseph Sullivan
Governor Kean's veto on Monday of an income-tax measure passed by the Senate and the Assembly culiminated a yearlong battle between the Democratic-led Legislature and the Republican administration. The votes and the promised veto pointed up the growing lack of cooperation between the two camps that has frustrated efforts to close a $150 million budget deficit and replaced the promise of bipartisanship with political confrontation. ''We knocked his hat off,'' said Richard J. Coffee, the executive director of the State Assembly and former State Democratic Chairman, in a reference to Mr. Kean after the income tax had passed. ''I've never seen the Governor work as hard as he did to try and stop us, and I never saw anyone work as hard as Alan to round up the votes for the tax,'' he added, referring to Assembly Speaker Allan J. Karcher, Democrat of Sayreville.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PORTFOLIO
Date: 21 December 1982
By Michael Decourcy Hinds, Special To the New York Times
Michael Hinds
It was an easy decision, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency said, that led to her being cited for contempt of Congress. ''My choice,'' the Administrator, Anne M. Gorsuch, said today in an interview, ''was to faithfully carry out my job according to my best lights and in harmony with what the President had told me what to do and, at the other end of the scale, to spend a year in jail and pay a $1,000 fine. These choices aren't even in the same ballpark.'' The contempt citation was voted Thursday after Mrs. Gorsuch refused to provide a House subcommittee with documents relating to her agency's handling of toxic dump cleanups.
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News Summary; WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1982
Date: 22 December 1982
International A Soviet arms-reduction proposal was made public by Yuri V. Andropov, the Soviet leader. Under the plan, Moscow would reduce its mediumrange missiles in Europe from more than 600 to about 162, the number of missiles now maintained by Britain and France, if the NATO allies abandon plans to deploy 572 new medium-range missiles in Europe late next year. (Page A1, Column 6.) Washington rejected the proposal on medium-range missiles in Europe made public by Moscow on the ground that it would leave the Soviet arsenal superior to NATO'S arsenal. (A1:5.)
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News Summary; TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1982
Date: 21 December 1982
International OPEC ministers failed to agree on the key issue of production ceilings for members of the oil group at a two-day meeting in Vienna. Some industry observers at the conference said a decline of oil prices early next year now seems likely. (Page A1, Column 4.) The ousted Nicaraguan Ambassador to the United States said his country was threatened by a ''leftist dictatorship'' that censored the press and curbed political freedoms. (A1:3-4.)
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Speight Jenkins Named Seattle Opera Director
Date: 21 December 1982
Speight Jenkins, a Texas-born, New York-based music writer, has been named general director of the Seattle Opera, effective Sept. 1. Mr. Jenkins, who will be responsible for planning from the 1984-85 season onwards, has a three-year contract. He succeeds Glynn Ross, who founded the company in 1962.
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Nat S. Finney, Ex-Reporter, Won Pulitzer in Journalism
Date: 22 December 1982
Nat S. Finney, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and former Washington, D.C., bureau chief for The Buffalo Evening News, died last Saturday in Washington after a brief illness. He was 79 years old.
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Yemeni Says 2,800 Died in Earthquake
Date: 21 December 1982
AP
More than 2,800 people died in the earthquake and severe aftershocks in Yemen last week, and it is estimated that 700,000 were driven from their homes, the nation's Prime Minister said today. More than 40,000 tents are needed to shelter the homeless, many of whom are living exposed to the elements, the Prime Minister, Abdel Karim al-Iryani, said at a news conference in Sana, the Yemeni capital.
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Tibetans Are Said to Return
Date: 22 December 1982
AP
About 1,000 Tibetans living abroad returned to visit relatives or to settle in Tibet in the first 11 months of the year, the official New China News Agency said today.
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Altman, Stoller, Weiss Expands Mead Account
Date: 22 December 1982
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
Altman, Stoller, Weiss has obviously been giving good service to the Mead Corporation, because the client has sent new business its way.
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