21. tammikuuta 1984 oli lauantaina tähtimerkin ♒ alla. Se oli 20 päivä vuodesta. Yhdysvaltain presidentti oli Ronald Reagan.
Jos olet syntynyt tänä päivänä, olet 42 vuotta vanha. Viimeisin syntymäpäiväsi oli keskiviikkona 21. tammikuuta 2026, 167 päivää sitten. Seuraava syntymäpäiväsi on torstaina 21. tammikuuta 2027, 197 päivän kuluttua. Olet elänyt 15 508 päivää tai noin 372 195 tuntia tai noin 22 331 703 minuuttia tai noin 1 339 902 180 sekuntia.
Date: 22 January 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
'Perdue Missile' Senator Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee called it ''the Perdue Missile.'' He referred on the Senate floor to a June 1983 news item that said the Air Force was using a converted 20- foot cannon to shoot dead chickens at grounded airplanes at 700 miles an hour.
Date: 22 January 1984
By Robert D. McFadden
Robert
Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward, in a new order on police conduct toward members of the news media, has directed city police officers to ''not interfere with the videotaping or the photographing of incidents in public places.'' ''Such intentional actions as blocking or obstructing cameras or harassing the photographer constitutes censorship,'' Mr. Ward said in his order, adding: ''Censorship is not our function.'' The order, dated Jan. 11, amplifies and formalizes what had been largely unwritten general guidelines for handling confrontations with reporters, photographers and other members of the news media, according to Alice T. McGillion, a deputy police commissioner.
Date: 21 January 1984
Attorney General William French Smith said the consent judgment was filed in United States District Court in Orlando, Fla., and will become final on approval by the court. The Government and the companies agreed to the order to settle a civil antitrust suit filed by the Justice Department on May 16, 1982, against the Tribune Company and the Sentinel Star Company, predecessor to the current Florida subsidiary, Sentinel Communications Company of Orlando. The two shopping guides and three weeklies were acquired in 1980 by the Sentinel Star Company.
Date: 22 January 1984
By Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman
The United States was right in announcing its intention to leave Unesco. To expect us to acquiesce in, not to mention actively support, the regulations proposed at the Paris conference on communications for control of the distribution of news is to expect us to spit in our soup, if you will excuse the vulgarity, and I am glad and proud that we did not do it. Students and apprentice journalists and others who come here on international exchanges to study and work are usually exhilarated by their experience of a nonauthoritarian political system and by the freedom of expression they find. The difficulty comes when they return to their homelands and find restrictions on
Date: 21 January 1984
Is it possible that Greece's best-selling newspaper, Ethnos, has sold itself covertly to the ''disinformation department'' of the Soviet K.G.B.? Not merely possible but provable, according to a book published in Athens last June. The newspaper struck back with a criminal libel suit. The author, a reputable journalist, was found guilty and given a two-year prison sentence, now on appeal.
Date: 21 January 1984
Public trials have been a valued legal tradition at least since early England, when justice was dispensed at town meetings. Four years ago the Supreme Court spelled out in bold letters that ''a presumption of openness inheres in the very nature of a criminal trial in our system of justice.'' Yet too many judges, intoxicated with the desire to run a courtroom as a personal fiefdom, still focus on the fine print that mentions rare circumstances when closing the courtroom might be justified in terms of fairness or the privacy of jurors and witnesses. So once again this week the Supreme Court had to lay down the law to the judges. The winners were justice and the public no less than the press.
Date: 21 January 1984
By Jonathan Friendly
Jonathan Friendly
A Newsweek article last spring, about four Nicaraguans and their experiences in that country's revolution, misled readers about how information for it had been gathered, but editors at the magazine are unsure how to deal with the error. A central premise of the article was that the reporter had been in regular contact with the four Nicaraguans since the revolution began. In fact, she said in a recent interview, she had known only one of them that long. The error, according to Beth Nissen, the reporter, and to Michael Ruby, an assistant managing editor who investigated the incident, was a result of an editor's misinterpretation.
Date: 22 January 1984
By Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman
Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe says that American critics of Japan's defense policies focus too hard on how much money is spent and not enough on ''overall'' Japanese efforts. ''I would like to see a more overall assessment,'' Mr. Abe said Friday, citing various Japanese attempts to ''secure peace,'' such as foreign economic aid. The Foreign Minister, who leaves next week for a visit to the United States, seemed to be bracing for a new round of American complaints about military spending as the Japanese Government completes its budget for the coming fiscal year.
Date: 21 January 1984
By Steven R. Weisman
Steven Weisman
President Reagan said Friday that the meeting this week between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko of the Soviet Union ''did not resolve our differences,'' but that it had helped in reducing world tensions. In a statement after meeting with Shultz for 40 minutes at the White House, Mr. Reagan said that the Secretary of State and his Soviet counterpart ''had a full and serious exchange of views on key global questions'' in Stockholm. The President also said that the United States and its Western allies would soon propose a long-awaited package of ''practical and concrete measures'' in Stockholm ''to reduce the risk of surprise attack, or war by accident or misunderstanding.''
Date: 22 January 1984
By Jeff Gerth, Special To the New York Times
Jeff Gerth
The Air Force announced today that it had conducted the first test in flight of an advanced missile designed to destroy satellites. The test, at 10:50 A.M. in California, involved only the booster and booster guidance system and did not involve a target, the Air Force said. Comdr. Jeffrey S. Rink, a Pentagon spokesman, said details of the test and test results were classified and would not be disclosed.