The September 7, 1985 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 249 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 Sunday, September 7, 2025, 293 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, September 7, 2026, in 71 days. You have lived for 14,903 days, or about 357,684 hours, or about 21,461,098 minutes, or about 1,287,665,880 seconds.
7th of September 1985 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on September 7, 1985
PHILADELPHIS NEWSPAPERS STRUCK BY UNIONS
Date: 07 September 1985
AP
Union employees went on strike early today against The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily News early today in a dispute over wages, benefits and working conditions. ''The strike is on,'' said William Gullifer, a teamsters union vice president and president of the Council of Newspaper Unions, which bargains collectively on economic issues for nine labor groups representing 4,774 employees at The Inquirer, a morning newspaper, and The Daily News, which publishes in the afternoon.
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SNARL OF ISSUES LED TO STRIKE BY 9 UNIONS
Date: 08 September 1985
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
The strike of all nine unions at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News that began at 12:01 Saturday morning was prompted by what both management and union spokesmen describe as a tangle of issues that both sides say may be difficult to unravel. ''The issues are sort of all over the place,'' William F. Gullifer, president of the Philadelphia Council of Newspaper Unions, said yesterday, adding that it was unlikely that negotiations would resume before Monday or Tuesday. William W. Broom, a spokesman for the newspapers, said that neither would be able to publish during the strike. The Inquirer has a daily circulation of 525,000 and a Sunday circulation of more than a million, while The News, which does not publish Sundays, has a circulation of about 275,000.
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Mozambique Reports It Smashed Rebel Base
Date: 08 September 1985
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Mozambican and Zimbabwean warplanes and paratroopers smashed the mountain headquarters of the Mozambique National Resistance and killed hundreds of rebels, the semi-official Mozambique News Agency reported today. On Thursday President Samora Machel toured the ruins of Casa Banana, the name for the rebels' headquarters on Serra Da Gorongoza, a mountain in Manica Province in the central part of the country.
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BLACK FUNERAL NEAR CAPE TOWN ENDS IN VIOLENCE
Date: 08 September 1985
By Alan Cowell, Special To the New York Times
Alan Cowell
Policemen and troops in armored trucks opened fire with tear gas, rubber bullets and shotguns in black townships near Cape Town late today after a funeral for 11 victims of recent racial violence, including a 2-month-old girl. The police said tonight that a black man was killed in the battle, but a police spokesman, Lieut. Atti Loubsher, gave no information about other casualties or what had led to the police action. A resident who asked not to be identified said she saw a man with a gaping wound in his shoulder being taken away by the police.
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SENATORS SAY RUSSIANS ARE FLEXIBLE ON ARMS
Date: 07 September 1985
Special to the New York Times
A delegation of United States Senators returned today from a visit to Moscow and reported ''movement'' in the Soviet position on arms reduction, which they attributed to the ''flexibility'' of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. The Senators said they got the impression that Mr. Gorbachev was anxious for success at his meeting with President Reagan, scheduled for November in Geneva.
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SALVADOR GETS 12 U.S. GUNSHIPS TO BATTLE REBELS
Date: 07 September 1985
Special to the New York Times
A spokesman for the United States Embassy in El Salvador said today that the United States was sending 12 helicopter gunships to the Salvadoran Air Force. The spokesman said that six of the helicopters had already arrived in El Salvador and that the others were expected soon.
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STRAIN ON BUDGET SEEN IN NAVY PLAN
Date: 07 September 1985
By Bill Keller, Special To the New York Times
Bill Keller
The Navy's ambition to have a 600-ship fighting fleet is on a collision course with the Pentagon's latest budget plans, according to testimony today before a House subcommittee. Congressional and private analysts said the Navy had committed so much of its future budgets to shipbuilding that it might be unable to provide enough aircraft, crews, munitions, maintenance and other essentials to keep the ships operating. The testimony, before the House Subcommittee on Seapower, was the latest demonstration of mounting concern that the Navy cannot sustain its huge shipbuilding program without sacrificing combat readiness. Officials of the Congressional Budget Office told the subcommittee that even if the cost of building and operating ships did not increase, the Navy would need to increase its budget at least 3 percentage points above the rate of inflation well into the 1990's to make ends meet.
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NAKASONE IS DEALT SETBACK ON ARMS SPENDING
Date: 07 September 1985
By Clyde Haberman, Special To the New York Times
Clyde Haberman
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone suffered a major political defeat today when he failed to convince his governing party that Japan should abandon a self-imposed restriction on military spending. After a series of intense meetings this week, Government and party leaders agreed to adopt as official policy a Japanese Defense Agency plan to steadily increase weapons purchases over the next five years. But the leaders thwarted Mr. Nakasone's wishes by refusing to take the additional giant step of scrapping the nine-year-old policy that limits the overall military budget to 1 percent of the country's gross national product. On the surface, the two decisions seemed contradictory. Barring unexpectedly high economic growth in the next few years, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, for Japan to carry out the arms buildup and to also stay within the 1 percent barrier.
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PENTAGON WHISTLE-BLOWER REBUTS CHIEF AT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ON WEAPON COSTS
Date: 07 September 1985
By Charles Mohr, Special To the New York Times
Charles Mohr
The Pentagon's most celebrated whistle-blower testified at a Congressional hearing today that he doubted the Defense Department was able to control the bureaucracy of uniformed military personnel who buy billions of dollars worth of weapons annually. The witness, A. Ernest Fitzgerald, was discharged from the Air Force in 1969 for disclosing a huge cost increase for the C-5A cargo plane but later won reinstatement through a court order. He is now the financial management systems deputy of the Air Force. Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee today, he also said huge savings could be achieved by rewriting the formulas the Pentagon uses to allow military contracting concerns firms to add markups and overhead costs to their prices.
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WHY INUIT SHOULD NOT BE CALLED ESKIMO
Date: 07 September 1985
To the Editor: I have generally found your articles about the Canadian North informative.
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