El 18 de agosto de 1984 fue un sábado bajo el signo estelar de ♌. Era el día 230 del año. El presidente de los Estados Unidos fue Ronald Reagan.
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Date: 18 August 1984
There is an imperfect but unmistakable correlation between domestic freedom and openness to the world. Closed societies like North Korea, Albania and Afghanistan have put themselves totally out of bounds to Western journalists. Other Communist nations admit them only by sufferance. Now, sadly, an arc of darkness is forming behind small iron curtains in much of the third world, including places that plead for American help and understanding.
Date: 18 August 1984
G.M. to Buy Stake In Robotic Vision DETROIT, Aug. 17 - The General Motors Corporation, continuing its aggressive pursuit of advanced manufacturing technology, said today that it had reached an agreement to acquire 18 percent of Robotic Vision Systems Inc. for $8.6 million. In addition, G.M. will retain warrants to purchase an additional 12 percent of the company's stock over a five-year period. Earlier this month G.M. announced its intention to buy minority interests in three machine-vision companies. And earlier this week, the company made the final arrangements to acquire Electronic Data Systems, which specializes in large data-processing systems, for $2.5 billion.
Date: 19 August 1984
By Paul S. Fishleder
Paul Fishleder
Last March, a year and a half after almost everything went wrong, Lenell Geter was legally free and clear. In August 1982, Mr. Geter, a young black engineer in Greenville, Tex., had been arrested in a series of armed robberies in the Dallas area.
Date: 19 August 1984
By Paul S. Fishleder
Paul Fishleder
For more than 35 years, the neon sign welcomed the world to Kansas City's House of Good Eats. To one confessed big eater, the writer Calvin Trillin, it was the single best restaurant in the world.
Date: 19 August 1984
By Paul S. Fishleder
Paul Fishleder
As the gray squalls of March blew the spring of 1983 into Chesapeake Bay country, the men who work the bay were gloomy. A tiny parasite known as MSX was killing oysters, further threatening a harvest and a way of life already endangered by overfishing, reduced demand and conpetition from the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: 19 August 1984
By States News Service
States Service
WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE James J. Florio, Democrat of Pine Hill, and his environmentalist allies are still savoring House passage of an expanded $10.2 billion Superfund meant to clean up the nation's worst hazardous waste dumps. But the program's prospects in the Senate are less certain. Members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, who have been laboring over their own reauthorization measure for months, went home Aug. 10 without coming up with their version of Mr. Florio's proposal. The Superfund will be in limbo until Sept. 11, when the committee is scheduled to again take up the measure.
Date: 18 August 1984
The Yalta agreement was attacked by President Reagan, who said the United States could not passively accept ''the permanent subjugation of the people of Eastern Europe.'' At a White House luncheon commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw rising against Nazi troops, he said the United States ''rejects any interpretation of the Yalta agreement that suggests American consent for the division of Europe into spheres of influence,'' and that he would ''press for full compliance'' with the agreement, specifically its stipulation on free elections. (Page 1, Column 1.) Peru has taken tougher action against guerrillas, according to military and police sources. They say a more severe and systematic strategy involves military and psychological tactics and includes the use of terror as a dissuasive method and the formation of antiguerrilla peasant militias. Peruvian judicial and church sources say the army and police are increasingly resorting to kidnappings, torture and executions of civilians in their fight. (1:1.)
Date: 18 August 1984
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
United Press International, the financially troubled news service, has begun to lay off employees as part of a restructuring effort that will provide short-term cost savings and, according to the company, ultimately result in an increased emphasis on news-gathering. The total number and types of jobs that will be lost remain unclear, though rumors have been circulating at U.P.I. that the staff could be reduced by from 5 percent to 15 percent.
Date: 19 August 1984
UPI
Upi
No representatives of the press will be allowed on Vice President Bush's campaign plane, but a chartered plane will be available for reporters covering him, according to his press secretary, Peter Teeley. Mr. Teeley insisted that the decision to keep reporters off Air Force Two was not based on repercussions from the publishing of off-the-record remarks by the top Republican candidates in recent days.
Date: 19 August 1984
UPI
Upi
Vice President Bush is the 1988 Presidential favorite of nearly half the Republican Party convention-goers who responded to a survey published today. The survey of 1,008 delegates and convention alternates by The Dallas Morning News found Mr. Bush the choice for President of 47.7 percent of the respondents. Representative Jack F. Kemp of Upstate New York was favored by 25.6 percent, followed by Senator Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee with 16.2 percent.