The April 20, 1985 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 109 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 Monday, April 20, 2026, 75 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, April 20, 2027, in 289 days. You have lived for 15,050 days, or about 361,200 hours, or about 21,672,010 minutes, or about 1,300,320,600 seconds.
20th of April 1985 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 20, 1985
Nigerian Newspaper Closes;Financial Problems Are Cited
Date: 21 April 1985
Reuters
A Nigerian Sunday newspaper, The Democrat Weekly, is to shut down in the face of growing financial difficulties and a shortage of newsprint, the newspaper's editorial adviser said today. The editorial adviser, Ajit Bhattacharjea, said the paper would publish its last issue on Sunday. The newspaper, based in the northern city of Kaduna, began publication on Jan. 1, 1984, a day after the military seized power in a coup.
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AROUND THE WORLD ; Two Americans Missing In Guatemala Highlands
Date: 20 April 1985
Two Americans, one of them a freelance journalist, were reported missing Friday in the Guatemalan highlands.
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JOURNALISTS ASSAIL SUFFOLK RESOLUTION
Date: 21 April 1985
By Judy Glass
Judy Glass
JOURNALISTS have reacted with concern to a Suffolk County legislator's resolution requesting and encouraging ''all local newspapers in the County of Suffolk to regularly print opposing points of view on matters of public importance.'' Critics of the resolution, many of them reporters and editors of Suffolk County's 37 community newspapers, said the resolution was ''inappropriate'' to the business of the County Legislature and an attempt to breach First Amendment rights of freedom of the press, and could be construed as a first step toward controlling the local press. The sponsor of the resolution, Patrick Heaney, Republican of East Quogue, and his supporters, said at a recent meeting of the Long Island Press Club that the resolution was ''a needed response'' to the power and dignity of a newspaper editorial. The sense-of-the-Legislature resolution, proposed in January, was approved, with 14 legislators voting for it and 4 abstaining. It was one of about 280 such resolutions proposed to the Legislature last year. Mr. Heaney directed that it be sent to selected community papers in the county.
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NEWS SUMMARY;
Date: 20 April 1985
SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1985 International Elie Wiesel implored the President to cancel a visit to a military cemetery where Nazi Germans are buried. Mr. Reagan listened intently at White House ceremonies honoring Mr. Wiesel, the chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, as Mr. Wiesel told him ''that place, Mr. President, isn't your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.'' Despite Mr. Wiesel's plea, the White House said Mr. Reagan would continue with his plans to lay a wreath at the Bitburg cemetery, accompanied by Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany, who had requested the visit. (Page 1, Column 1.) Helmut Kohl said he was gratified that President Reagan had reaffirmed his plan to visit a German military cemetery next month, saying the decision showed he was ''a friend of the Germans.'' He told a West German television interviewer that he and Mr. Reagan had discussed the revised plan to visit both the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and Bitburg, and that Mr. Reagan's decision on his itinerary was ''final.'' (1:2.)
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Subway Drama
Date: 21 April 1985
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
It was among the crimes that occur daily in New York City's subways. Assailants at the DeKalb Avenue BMT station in Brooklyn tore a gold chain from the neck of a 28-year-old woman.
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Protecting Jobs
Date: 21 April 1985
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
IN a move to protect workers against plant closings ''with no warning'' and ''no chance to plan what comes next,'' Gov. Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts last July signed what he called a ''national model'' law. It created a ''social compact'' under which companies would give at least 90 days' notice of a factory closing.
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Church on Trial
Date: 21 April 1985
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
AFTER a young man who was being counseled at a California church committed suicide, his parents sued the church and four of its ministers, charging ''clergy malpractice.'' Last June, the California Court of Appeal ruled that there were sufficient grounds for a trial.
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Ox Born to Cow
Date: 21 April 1985
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
WHEN a Holstein dairy cow gave birth at the Bronx Zoo to a gaur, a wild ox native to India, researchers hoped it would lead to more free reproduction of endangered animals in captivity. The rare birth in August 1981 was the result of an embryo transplant.
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MUTI CHANGES PHILADELPHIA'S TEMPO
Date: 21 April 1985
By John Rockwell
John Rockwell
With his fifth season as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra drawing to a close, Riccardo Muti seems to have made a resounding success of his efforts to transform, ever so slowly, one of America's grandest old orchestras into one of America's grandest new ones. Mr. Muti is a maestro in the modern mold, which constitutes an almost shocking change for this conservative city. Until 1980, the Philadelphia Orchestra had been led by only two men over the previous 68 years: Leopold Stokowski and Eugene Ormandy. Mr. Ormandy's recent death marked the final transference of authority over the orchestra to the Italian conductor. While Mr. Muti's changes have not been welcomed in every quarter, he has managed to make himself part of a local sense of civic renewal symbolized also by the progressive image of Philadelphia's new Mayor, W. Wilson Goode, and by the recent surprise success of the Villanova basketball team in the national championships. Next Thursday, for instance, Mr. Muti returns from one of his periodic absences to lead the first of five concerts of a subscription program at the Academy of Music. That he has been away at all, that one program is being played five times, and that the concerts will be at the venerable academy all speak directly to Mr. Muti's successes and ongoing struggles as the orchestra's music director - as does the program itself.
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SATURDAY NEWS QUIZ
Date: 20 April 1985
By Linda Amster
Linda Amster
Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 46. 1. This slogan-inscribed memento and seven others are a source of daily inspiration. Explain. 2. A decision by the South African Government was good news for thousands of people who live in the nation's ''gray'' areas. What are ''gray'' areas and what was the decision?
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