NEWS SUMMARY;
Date: 19 April 1985
FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1985 International
Replaying Thursday, April 18, 1985
The April 18, 1985 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 107 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 41 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, April 18, 2026, 76 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, April 18, 2027, in 288 days. You have lived for 15,051 days, or about 361,237 hours, or about 21,674,253 minutes, or about 1,300,455,180 seconds.
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18th of April 1985 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 18, 1985
DIPLOMAT FROM WALL STREET
Date: 19 April 1985
By Michael Blumstein
Michael Blumstein
John C. Whitehead, who was named yesterday to the No. 2 post in the State Department, will step into a major foreign policy post with much more experience in the business world than international affairs. But his background is consistent with the prior business orientation of Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Mr. Whitehead, who is 63 years old, is to succeed Kenneth W. Dam as Deputy Secretary of State. If confirmed by the Senate, he would move to Washington after spending his entire working life at Goldman, Sachs & Company, a leading Wall Street investment bank that sells securities and arranges mergers for some of the country's biggest corporations.
ADVERTISING ; News Magazine Image For Woman's Day
Date: 18 April 1985
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
For whatever reason, it is a fact of magazine publishing life that advertisers place larger annual schedules in weekly magazines than they do in monthlies.
FINANCIAL NEWS NETWORK reports earnings for Qtr to Feb 28
Date: 18 April 1985
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JUST ANOTHER STORY FOR CBS, CNN
Date: 19 April 1985
By Richard W. Stevenson
Richard Stevenson
Ted Turner's hostile takeover bid for CBS Inc. has placed two of the nation's most prominent television news organizations in the unusual and potentially awkward position of having to turn their cameras on themselves.
BRIEFING ; Remembering Ernie Pyle
Date: 18 April 1985
By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr
James Clarity
Forty years ago today the war
CBS Defends Independence
Date: 18 April 1985
By Steven Greenhouse
Steven Greenhouse
Amid continuing rumors about a possible takeover attempt, Thomas H. Wyman, the chairman and chief executive of CBS Inc., today reasserted his company's intention to remain independent.
Editors Elect Officers
Date: 18 April 1985
UPI
Upi
Members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors have elected Robert P. Clark president for 1985-86. He is vice president for news for Harte- Hanks Newspapers in San Antonio, Tex. Three other officers were also elected at the editors' meeting in Washington last week: Michael G. Gartner, editorial chairman of The Des Moines Register, vice president; Katherine Fanning, editor of The Christian Science Monitor, secretary, and Edward R. Cony, vice president for news of The Wall Street Journal, treasurer.
Supporter of Gandhi Wounded in Punjab
Date: 19 April 1985
Reuters
A national official of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Congress Party has been shot and wounded in Punjab State, Press Trust of India, a news agency, reported today.