The June 20, 1985 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♊. It was the 170 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, June 20, 2026, 17 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, June 20, 2027, in 347 days. You have lived for 14,992 days, or about 359,821 hours, or about 21,589,261 minutes, or about 1,295,355,660 seconds.
20th of June 1985 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on June 20, 1985
U.S. SEES THE PRESS HELPING HIJACKERS
Date: 20 June 1985
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
A Pentagon spokesman said yesterday that a majority of the news organizations were providing information that might be useful to the hijackers of the Trans World Airlines plane. He said the news organizations were doing this by reporting the movements of American military units and speculating on military and diplomatic moves the United States might make. ''For the price of a 25-cent newspaper or a 19-inch television, a group of hijackers who only represent the back pew of some mosque have a very elaborate intelligence network,'' said Michael I. Burch, the spokesman. He said reports by ABC News and NBC News regarding deployment of an antiterrorist commando group known as the Delta Force were examples of damaging information.
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FUROR IN JAPAN OVER TV MURDER
Date: 20 June 1985
AP
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone joined other Japanese today in expressing dismay that a group of journalists had stood by and taken photographs while two men bayoneted a businessman to death. Hundreds of protest calls were received by news organizations in Japan.
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BOMB AT FRANKFURT AIRPORT KILLS 3 AND WOUNDS 42
Date: 20 June 1985
Special to the New York Times
A powerful bomb ripped through an international departure lounge of the Frankfurt Airport this afternoon, killing three people and wounding 42, according to the police. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The bombing came as world attention has been centered on the hijacking drama that started last Friday when Lebanese Shiite gunmen seized a T.W.A. airliner after takeoff from Athens. But various police spokesmen declined to link the two events.
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VILLAGE VOICE IS BOUGHT BY CHAIRMAN OF HARTZ
Date: 21 June 1985
By Richard W. Stevenson
Richard Stevenson
The Village Voice, the outspoken liberal weekly that has been owned by Rupert Murdoch since 1977, was sold yesterday to Leonard Stern, a wealthy businessman. Announcement of the sale was greeted with apprehension by The Voice's staff, many of whom said they regard Mr. Stern as highly conservative and antithetical to the newspaper's tradition. [Page D3.] Mr. Murdoch's News America Publishing Inc. said in a statement that The Voice had been sold for more than $55 million, which had been Mr. Murdoch's minimum asking price.
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JAPAN'S PRESS SEARCHES ITS SOUL OVER TV MURDER
Date: 21 June 1985
By Clyde Haberman, Special To the New York Times
Clyde Haberman
For a few days, Kazuo Nagano was the most closely watched man in Japan. Newspaper reporters and television crews dogged his trail, even camping outside his apartment in Osaka in the hope of getting an interview or at least a picture. News gatherers often do that sort of thing in the United States as well. The difference is that when American newspapers and networks want to follow someone they dispatch teams of reporters. In Japan they send out platoons. As the 32-year-old Mr. Nagano discovered, the numbers can be overwhelming.
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Hold Back in Anger
Date: 21 June 1985
By Flora Lewis
Flora Lewis
President Reagan admits that he pounded a few walls in frustration over the Beirut hostage crisis. It is important to understand that sometimes national frustration has to be endured for the sake of lives, as the hostages themselves are having to endure fury in silence. There is no use reminding Mr. Reagan of his campaign slashes at President Carter at a similar time of national distress. Relieving pent-up feelings of impotence that way by attacking the leader who bears the burden of decision was wrong and harmful then, and it would be wrong and harmful now.
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The War of Words With Speakes
Date: 21 June 1985
Special to the New York Times
Sharp exchanges between reporters and Government spokesmen are nothing new. But the exchanges between the White House press corps and Larry Speakes, President Reagan's spokesman, have been notably sharp, even acidic and personal at times of national or international tension. What may have been the sharpest exchange to date took place this morning when reporters were questioning Mr. Speakes about the hostage situation in the Middle East. Following is an excerpt from an official White House transcript: Q. But will we still be in the position that we are in now, of somewhat of a crisis position with 13 Americans still being - or will we consider the crisis somewhat resolved, allowing Israel to release their prisoners?
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 20 June 1985
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1985 International The U.S. warned Lebanese Shiite leaders that if they failed to release 40 American hostages unconditionally, the Shiites would become international ''outcasts'' deprived of future American help. At the same time, the Administration reiterated that it would never yield to the demands for freeing the hostages, who are being held in Beirut. [Page 1, Column 6.] The pilot of the hijacked T.W.A. airliner issued a warning that any American rescue attempt would be futile. ''I think we'd all be dead men if they did because we are continuously surrounded by many, many guards,'' said Capt. John L. Testrake. [A1:5]
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 21 June 1985
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1985 International Israel will release 766 detainees if the 40 American hostages are freed unconditionally by the hijackers in Beirut, the Reagan Administration has told several friendly governments. But the Administration reiterated to diplomats that the United States would maintain its policy of not bargaining or giving in to terrorist demands. [Page 1, Column 6.] Five hostages beseeched the United States not to attempt a military rescue. The five were brought out of detention to say they were well and did not believe their Lebanese Shiite captors either intended or wanted to kill them. [A1:4-5.]
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Business News Program Ends
Date: 21 June 1985
Business Times, the daily morning cable news program on ESPN, will go off the air today. Despite the program's critical acclaim, its owners said they had been unable to raise the financing necessary to continue the program, which was broadcast from 6 to 9 A.M. James Crimmins, the program's founder and chief executive said that Business Times Inc., the private company that owns the program, has been trying to raise more funds for several months.
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