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Lire la suite...Le 25 avril 1984 était un mercredi sous le signe astral du ♉. C'était le 115ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était Ronald Reagan.
Si vous êtes né ce jour-là, vous avez 41 ans. Ton dernier anniversaire était le vendredi 25 avril 2025, il y a 147 jours. Votre prochain anniversaire est le samedi 25 avril 2026, dans 217 jours. Vous avez vécu 15 122 jours, soit environ 362 929 heures, ou environ 21 775 796 minutes, ou environ 1 306 547 760 secondes.
Date: 26 April 1984
Reuters
The police used water cannon today to break up a demonstration by 200 Chilean journalists after 20 of them staged a 24-hour hunger strike to protest censorship. Witnesses said one demonstrator had been detained but was released later in the drive against publications opposed to Chile's military Government.
Date: 26 April 1984
AP
Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier, who was freed by the Italian police two years ago after 42 days as a prisoner of Red Brigade terrorists, received his second star Tuesday with his promotion to major general. General Dozier, the deputy commander of III Corps and of Fort Hood. said at a ceremony it was ''an exciting time to be in the Army.''
Date: 25 April 1984
By Jonathan Friendly
Jonathan Friendly
Cable News Network's coverage of the New Bedford, Mass., rape trial was criticized and complimented yesterday before a Senate subcommittee - as the network prepared to offer live coverage of yet another potentially lurid case, the charges of child molestation at a California nursery school. Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican and a former district attorney, said the coverage of the rape in Big Dan's Tavern could ''terrorize'' other victims and discourage them from reporting sexual assaults. He said that if news organizations did not exercise self-restraint in other cases, Congress might take up legislation to assure victims' rights to privacy in Federal cases. The name of the New Bedford victim would not normally have been widely disseminated, but it was mentioned in open court while CNN was broadcasting, and other news organizations then used it. Four men were convicted and two acquitted of assaulting the woman on a pool table.
Date: 26 April 1984
AP
Ivan V. Arkhipov, a Soviet First Deputy Prime Minister, will go to China on May 10 for a 10-day visit, the Soviet press agency Tass said today.
Date: 25 April 1984
The independent directors of The Observer, whose task is to uphold editorial independence, accused the paper's owner today of actions that constituted ''improper proprietorial interference in the accurate presentation of news and free expression of opinion.'' Lonrho Ltd., the congolomerate that owns the paper, Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper, rejected the criticism and said it had ''never inhibited or prevented the editor from publishing whatsoever he saw fit to publish.'' The editor, Donald Trelford, was attacked last week by R. W. Rowland, the chairman of Lonrho, for an article about Zimbabwe that Mr. Rowland described as ''sensational'' and ''wrong.'' Mr. Rowland, who has renewed earlier threats to sell the paper, which is reportedly losing more than $1 million a year, met this morning with Robert Maxwell, a Czech-born printing and publishing millionaire, to discuss a sale. But no deal was agreed upon.
Date: 26 April 1984
By James David Barber
James Barber
America is drifting into a mode of political thinking that is not only illusory but consciously, even proudly so. Both Republicans and Democrats alike are afflicted with this malady. President Reagan's indifference to reality is hardly news. His criterion of validity is drama, not empiricism. As David A. Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, once summed up the White House system: ''Every time one fantasy doesn't work they try another one.'' Mr. Reagan, told by a reporter that one of his favorite, endlessly repeated anecdotes - how a black hero at Pearl Harbor ended segregation in the armed forces - was total fiction, replied: ''I remember the scene. . . . It was very powerful.'' What matters to him is the grace and theatrical force of a performance; as a lifelong practitioner of illusion, he is in no way embarrassed by its victory over the facts.
Date: 26 April 1984
By David K. Shipler
David Shipler
A leftist Israeli magazine, Haolam Hazeh, today became the first news organization here to publish a photograph of a man being led away alive from the hijacked bus in the Gaza Strip two weeks ago. The photograph is of extremely poor quality, too blurry for the faces to be identified. It is a different picture, apparently showing a different man, from a key photograph taken by another publication, the newspaper Hadashot. The military censor has barred publication of the other, clearer photograph. Both photographs were taken after Israeli troops stormed the hijacked bus just before dawn on April 13. The authorities said two hijackers were killed and the other two died on the way to the hospital.
Date: 26 April 1984
By Arnold H. Lubasch
Arnold Lubasch
A Federal appeals court yesterday restricted judges' authority to bar the press and public at pretrial hearings. In the ruling, which involved a newspaper's complaint about a closed hearing on suppressing evidence, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit declared in Manhattan, ''The First Amendment assures some degree of access to suppression hearings.'' The press and public should rarely be excluded from courtrooms, Judge Jon O. Newman said in the decision. He said a judge should find good reasons before closing a suppression hearing, state the reasons and provide public notice, to permit an appeal.
Date: 25 April 1984
With symbolic aptness, President Reagan is approaching Peking slowly and obliquely, by way of Hawaii and Guam. It took a considerable course correction for him to concede that China's friendship is worth the voyage. But what matters most is the result. A long and ugly debate is virtually ended. In America as in China, ideology has yielded to practical mutual interests.
Date: 26 April 1984
President Reagan has assured Taiwan officials that he will not agree to any new curbs on American dealings with Taiwan during his visit to China, Administration and pro-Taiwan sources said today. The assurances, they said, have been delivered orally through briefings by White House and State Department officials both to Taiwan representatives in Washington and to American conservatives who oppose any further restrictions on American arms sales to Taiwan. In addition, a Taiwan supporter provided a copy of a document he said he had received from Taiwan authorities. The document is said to be a statement of what Mr. Reagan will tell the Chinese leaders in Peking about American policy toward Taiwan. It was said by the Taiwan supporter to have been sent by Mr. Reagan to President Chiang Ching-kuo of Taiwan via the unofficial American diplomatic mission in Taipei headed by James Lilley.