The August 13, 1985 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 224 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 40 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, August 13, 2025, 325 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, August 13, 2026, in 39 days. You have lived for 14,935 days, or about 358,448 hours, or about 21,506,939 minutes, or about 1,290,416,340 seconds.
13th of August 1985 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 13, 1985
Evening News
Date: 14 August 1985
AP
Two television producers have agreed temporarily to stop soliciting Evening News Association stock from Michigan residents in a hostile $453 million takeover bid for the newspaper and broadcasting company, lawyers said. The agreement by Norman Lear and A. Jerrold Perenchio will remain in effect until a Federal appeals court decides whether Michigan law applies to the takeover fight, said Theodore Souris, a lawyer representing the producers. Arguments are scheduled for next Tuesday in Cincinnati.
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BILL MOYERS RETURNS TO CBS EVENING NEWS
Date: 14 August 1985
By Sally Bedell Smith
Sally Smith
After an absence of seven months, Bill Moyers has returned to ''The CBS Evening News With Dan Rather'' as its resident commentator. But at the same time, Mr. Moyers said in an interview, he has given up on prime time at CBS as an regular outlet for reporting on serious issues. ''After several long and painful months I have concluded that serious public affairs reporting in depth isn't going to make it in the entertainment milieu of prime time,'' he said. ''I have to be a grown-up fellow and face the fact that reporting on social issues in depth isn't going to be given a fair shot.''
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NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1985
Date: 13 August 1985
International 524 people were believed to have died in the crash of a Japan Air Lines jumbo jet in central Japan. The plane crashed into a mountain range after the pilot reported that a cabin door had broken and that he lost control of the plane. Rescue crews found no sign of survivors in the widely scattered wreckage. [Page A1, Column 6.] Japanese and Americans believe Japan's trade competition is being used by the United States as a scapegoat to cover domestic economic problems, according to a New York Times/CBS News/Tokyo Broadcasting System Poll. But 48 percent of the American participants in the poll said trade with Japan was bad for the United States economy and 57 percent said Japan unfairly restricted United States imports. [A1:5.]
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$222 Million Offering By Southern Minnesota
Date: 13 August 1985
The Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency is offering $222 million of electric revenue bonds that were tentatively priced yesterday with a maximum yield of 9.65 percent for 9 1/2 percent bonds due in 2017 through underwriters led by Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. Among shorter maturities, yields ranged from 7 percent for bonds due in 1989 to 9.20 percent in 2000 and 9 1/2 percent in 2005.
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Name-Calling
Date: 13 August 1985
By Susan Heller Anderson and David W. Dunlap
Susan Anderson
New Hampshire lobs alliterative insults. Governor Cuomo challenges. New Hampshire accepts. And the verbal Ping-Pong match continues. When Governor Cuomo was at a recent House Ways and Means Committee hearing, testifying against President Reagan's plan to end the deduction of state and local taxes from Federal income taxes, Representative Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, asked him why New Hampshire's taxpayers should subsidize New York's. Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, responded that, if its residents thought each state should be financially independent, New Hampshire should secede.
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NICARAGUA REBELS REPORTED TO RAISE UP TO $25 MILLION
Date: 13 August 1985
By Shirley Christian, Special To the New York Times
Shirley Christian
Rebels fighting the Sandinista Government of Nicaragua have received as much as $25 million in donations from private individuals in the United States and foreign sources, according to a retired general and Administration officials who work with the insurgents. They said the anti-Sandinista movement was growing rapidly, adding advanced weapons and struggling for greater unity. The guerrillas, widely known by the name contras, now pose a real threat to the Nicaraguan Government, United States officials and rebel leaders assert. ''The end is not in sight, but it is much, much closer,'' said a high-ranking Administration official who works closely with the Nicaraguan exile groups. ''This is not going to take 10 years.'' $27 Million Voted by Congress The money from private sources is in addition to $27 million in nonmilitary aid to the rebels recently voted by Congress.
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APPEALS PANEL UPHOLDS DISMISSAL OF LAWSUIT ON NICARAGUAN POLICY
Date: 14 August 1985
By Stuart Taylor Jr., Special To the New York Times
Stuart Taylor
A Federal appeals court today upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing the United States Government of illegally supporting the Nicaraguan insurgents. In effect, the court ruled that in the absence of explicit Congressional restrictions on Government support for the rebels, it could not entertain a lawsuit challenging that support. The suit had been brought by 12 Nicaraguans who said that they or members of their families had been victims of rebel violence, by 12 members of the House of Representatives who said the Government was illegally waging war, and others. All the plaintiffs sought an order ending Government support for the rebels. The Nicaraguan plaintiffs also sought monetary damages.
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PHILIPPINE OPPOSITION LEADER BACK IN MANILA FROM THE U.S.
Date: 13 August 1985
UPI
Upi
An opposition leader ended 12 years of self-exile in the United States and returned to the Philippines today to face charges of subversion, arson and homicide. ''Our motherland is in her darkest hour,'' the opposition leader, Raul Daza, said on arrival. ''The time has come for all true Filipinos, whether here or abroad, and regardless of class, calling or roots, to rally around her.''
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JUDGE DISMISSES COMPLAINT IN BOSTON GLOBE LIBEL CASE
Date: 13 August 1985
By Alex S. Jones, Special To the New York Times
Alex Jones
A judge today dismissed all claims against The Boston Globe and one of its reporters in a libel suit brought by a former candidate for governor. Judge George Jacobs of Norfolk Superior Court said he was dismissing the original claims, and that he was not ruling on motions both parties had filed after the jury's verdict in the case last week. But Judge Jacobs questioned from the bench the ''redeeming value'' of articles published by The Globe that quoted jurors in the case after they were dismissed, and said he was taking under advisement a new motion from the plaintiff seeking ''sanctions'' against the defendants and their attorneys for ''ethical considerations'' on the interviews. The jury ruled last week that three paragraphs of a 55-paragraph article The Globe published in 1982 about John R. Lakian, the plaintiff, were false and defamatory and had been published with knowledge of their falsity or serious doubt of their truth.
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PLANS FOR A MILITARY DRAFT ATTRACT NEW ATTENTION
Date: 14 August 1985
By Richard Halloran, Special To the New York Times
Richard Halloran
The signs are no bigger than a sail on a distant horizon, but with the economy improving and jobs easier to get in civilian life, service in the armed forces has begun to look less attractive. Add to that a shrinking pool of men of military age over the next 10 years, and talk of resuming the draft begins to rumble. Senator Ernest F. Hollings, Democrat of South Carolina, has introduced legislation that would bring back military conscription, and Senator Gary Hart, Democrat of Colorado, has called for national service for young people, including military service. The Heritage Foundation, a research organization, recently queried advocates of a strong military and found them split on whether the volunteer force was satisfactory. Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Carter's national security adviser, said he favored national service in which military service would be an option. Senator Malcolm Wallop, Republican of Wyoming, said volunteers had taken the middle class out of the military.
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