The April 14, 1982 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 103 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 Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 79 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, April 14, 2027, in 285 days. You have lived for 16,150 days, or about 387,617 hours, or about 23,257,079 minutes, or about 1,395,424,740 seconds.
Date: 14 April 1982
By Jonathan Friendly
Jonathan Friendly
Joe L. Allbritton, the Texas financier negotiating to acquire The Daily News, has offered News employees a 20 percent share in the paper's future profits. His aides resumed bargaining with News unions last night, expecting to press the profit-sharing plan as an inducement for a speedy settlement. He has set an April 25 deadline for a pact.
Date: 14 April 1982
By Steven Rattner, Special To the New York Times
Steven Rattner
For Britain's navy, the Falkland Islands crisis represents its greatest effort since World War II. For John Woodward, the confrontation constitutes the biggest challenge of his life. As the fleet steams steadily toward the South Atlantic, Rear Adm. J.F. Woodward, a veteran of 36 years in the Royal Navy who may celebrate his approaching 50th birthday in the South Atlantic, stands on the bridge of the Hermes as commander of the British flotilla, his career at almost as critical a turning point as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's. By all accounts, Admiral Woodward is among the finest that the Royal Navy had to offer, a thoroughly modern officer whose training reflects the best of modern warfare and of Britain's centuries of naval tradition. Meanwhile, he has displayed sufficient bureaucratic skills to have climbed steadily through a series of sea-based and land-based jobs without discernibly ruffling any feathers.
Date: 14 April 1982
AP
The Coca-Cola Company has canceled an earlier agreement to acquire the Outlet Company, a Rhode Island-based owner of radio and television stations, the companies announced today. In a brief statement, Coca-Cola said its agreement in principle to acquire Outlet had been canceled after ''an evaluation of an audit of Outlet and a review of Outlet's business.'' A Coke spokesman, Carlton Curtis, declined to elaborate on the announcement.
Date: 14 April 1982
By David K. Shipler, Special To the New York Times
David Shipler
Prime Minister Menachem Begin has embarked on a strategy of brinkmanship, both in the process of peace with Egypt and the prospect of war with the Palestine Liberation Organization in southern Lebanon. Pressures are building in his Government for tough action on both fronts: postponing the April 25 withdrawal from Sinai and invading Lebanon. So far, the Prime Minister has withstood the angry and fearful counsel of some of his Cabinet members, turning their anxiety to some advantage in a complex diplomatic game. But there is some question about his ability or willingness to contain the boiling emotions of his countrymen, especially on the issue of Sinai.
Date: 15 April 1982
Special to the New York Times
Judge Lawrence Nicholas Martin Jr. is a quiet jurist, a hard worker and a disciplinarian who ''runs a good courtroom,'' as one colleague put it. But he is also no stranger to controversy. Last January, when he was assigned to the Luis Marin case, a lawyer who is familiar both with the ways of the Westchester County Courthouse and with Judge Martin's position as one of the few Democrats in a largely Republican judiciary, had this theory: ''It's a weak case, and he is more likely than anyone to throw it out -and if he does, it won't hurt some Republican's chance to run for Supreme Court.'' The lawyer was at least partly right; Judge Martin did dismiss the charges today.
Date: 14 April 1982
The trustee of the Advent Corporation, a Portsmouth, N.H., maker of stereo speakers and large-screen televisions that has been operating under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code since March 17, 1981, said he had concluded that there is ''no realistic possibility'' for reorganization of the company or other similar financial arrangement that would give any return to its shareholders. The trustee, Frederic T. Hersey, noted that his conclusion does not affect an agreement reached earlier this month under which International Jensen Inc., a unit of Esmark Inc., agreed to acquire Advent's audio business and brand name. In February, the Kloss Video Corporation dropped plans to acquire Advent, a company that had been founded by its president, Herbert Kloss, in 1976.
Date: 15 April 1982
By Michael Oreskes
Michael Oreskes
There it was, the ultimate urban nightmare played out for real in a West Side parking lot. Three men, picking up their cars after a day's work at a television network, came upon a woman in distress. A man appeared to be dragging her off. She seemed to be unconscious, or worse. So the three men intervened. But the attacker, like so many people in the city, had a weapon - a .22-caliber pistol - ''light, accurate, efficient,'' in the words of James T. Sullivan, Chief of Detectives. The attacker proceeded to murder his three unwanted witnesses - one shot each, in the head.
Date: 15 April 1982
By John Herbers, Special To the New York Times
John Herbers
Fifteen years ago the nation was engaged in a debate over how poor people should be helped, whether they should be given cash or such noncash benefits as food, medical care and housing, in addition to their relatively meager welfare payments. The ''give-them-cash'' approach, which would have involved a negative income tax or other device, lost out. There was a massive increase in noncash benefits, from $2.2 billion in 1965 to $27.8 billion in 1980, even when the effect of inflation was excluded. But the benefits were handed out under so many different complicated programs that neither the Government nor anyone else was able to determine, as they might have under a simple cash distribution effort, what impact they had made on poverty.
Date: 14 April 1982
Amax Inc., the mining and metals producer, said it would begin in early May an additional 20 percent reduction in manpower and production at its molybdenum operations in Colorado. Some 380 employees at the Climax mine and about 230 employees at the Henderson mine will be affected.
Date: 14 April 1982
The Clark Copy International Corporation, a small manufacturer of photocopy machines based in Chicago, said it had signed a 20-year contract to manufacture and distribute its plain paper copier and other products in China.