8 mei 1982 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♉. Het was de 127e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Ronald Reagan.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 44 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op vrijdag 8 mei 2026, 48 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zaterdag 8 mei 2027, in 316 dagen. Je hebt 16.119 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 386.873 uur, of ongeveer 23.212.424 minuten, of ongeveer 1.392.745.440 seconden.
Date: 09 May 1982
AP
British correspondents with the Falkland Islands task force must submit their dispatches for approval to military officials before relaying it to London, the Defense Ministry said today. But ''there is certainly no censorship as such,'' a ministry spokesman added.
Date: 08 May 1982
Special to the New York Times
British newspapers have been experiencing considerable delays in the arrival of dispatches from their correspondents on board ships of the Falkland task force. On Tuesday night, for example, The Times of London received a dispatch from its reporter John Witherow on the aircraft carrier Invincible almost 12 hours after the event it described, the Argentine attack on the destroyer Sheffield. Some reports have been held up for as long as three days.
Date: 08 May 1982
By Jonathan Friendly, Special To the New York Times
Jonathan Friendly
In his swan song as the outgoing president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Michael J. O'Neill of The Daily News in New York offered a surprisingly sharp criticism of the way journalism is practiced by his own paper and other news organizations. The press, Mr. O'Neill said in an address at the society's four-day convention here, has misused the power it has acquired in the last decade. It has become insensitive and arrogant, allowing its skepticism about public officials to turn into a hostility that has weakened Government's ability to function, he argued. ''The media have, in short, made a considerable contribution to the disarray in government and therefore have an obligation to help set matters straight,'' he continued. ''We should begin with an editorial philosophy that is more positive, more tolerant of the frailties of human institutions and their leaders, more sensitive to the rights and feelings of individuals - officials as well as private citizens.
Date: 09 May 1982
By John Herbers
John Herbers
As a distanced if not detached observer, Jody Powell looks at the Reagan White House press office with a mixture of envy at the skillful way the Reagan people handled the news media during the first year of their Administration and of skepticism that they can continue to control how the President is portrayed to the American public. In a display of cynicism rare for him but not uncommon in others who have labored at the task, Jimmy Carter's press secretary notes that ''there is some tendency for the press, having just savaged the predecessor, to get some blood off their hands before they set out on the next one.'' As he watches David R. Gergen, President Reagan's communications director, speaking on national television of ''journalistic fantasy'' in the coverage of Mr. Reagan's bungled news conferences, Powell senses that both sides have finally squared off against each other in the time-honored fashion of press and Presidents.
Date: 09 May 1982
AP
The police confiscated reporters' notebooks and documents about the South African National Intelligence Service from three Johannesburg newspapers, The Rand Daily Mail, a major English-language newspaper, reported today. The paper said that on Friday police officers with search warrants took items from The Mail and two Sunday newspapers, Rapport and The Sunday Times, after a complaint from the head of the intelligence service.
Date: 09 May 1982
By Colin Campbell, Special To the New York Times
Colin Campbell
The 26-year-old woman who has edited this provincial capital's only daily newspaper for the last three years, still prints articles about the robberies, killings, bombings, kidnappings, official corruption and extortion by gangsters in southern Thailand. ''I am not afraid,'' the editor, Supat Boonthanom, said recently in the offices of Chao Tai, the newspaper that was founded by her father and is now published by her mother, Payom Boonthanom. Her persistence is remarkable in light of how she came to be chief editor and the sole full-time reporterr. Three years ago, shortly before she graduated from the Pattani branch of Prince of Songkla University, her father, Suwat Boonthanom, was murdered in the bustling southern Thai city of Hat Yai.
Date: 08 May 1982
To the Editor: I am happy that the editors of The Times are such avid and loyal readers of the Ann Landers column (''Dear Ann,'' Topics May 5). I want you to know that I also read the editorial page of The Times, where I find constant reassurance in recycled truth and conventional wisdom. ANN LANDERS Chicago, May 5, 1982
Date: 08 May 1982
By Kenneth A. Briggs
Kenneth Briggs
President Reagan's announcement Thursday that he plans to introduce a constitutional amendment to allow organized voluntary prayer in public schools is vigorously opposed by a wide variety of the nation's major religious groups. The scope and strength of the opposition would appear to dim hopes that Mr. Reagan might have of gaining broad political support within the American religious community for passage of the forthcoming amendment. A joint statement assailing the plan was issued immediately by the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, the National Coalition for Public Education and Religious Liberty, the National Council of Churches, the Synagogue Council of America and the National Jewish Relations Advisory Council. The statement argued that such an amendment would violate the constitutional separation of church and state and heighten religious tensions in the schools. Further, the groups said, ''It is impossible to devise a prayer that is acceptable to all groups. Any effort to do so trivializes prayer by robbing it of depth and meaning.''
Date: 08 May 1982
By James M. Markham, Special To the New York Times
James
One of the central premises of the strategy of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain in the South Atlantic conflict -that gradually increasing military pressure will generate concessions from the Argentine junta - does not appear to be working. Rather, in the view of some Western diplomats and several wellplaced Argentines, the first round of clashes over the Falkland Islands seems to have left the Argentine President, Lieut. Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, and the two other members of the junta with the feeling that they can take on the British task force blow for blow. Though the sinking of the navy's sole cruiser, the General Belgrano, by a British submarine was a military disaster, the Government here turned it into something of a diplomatic success. The sinking of the ship, which was outside the British blockade zone, permitted Argentine diplomats to portray Britain as an aggressor determined to exact a disproportionate cost in lives, and opened the first rift in the support of Western Europe for Britain.
Date: 08 May 1982
No wonder President Reagan struck a deal with rebellious Senate Republicans this week to produce his second budget of the year. The President needs every good headline he can get to offset the dismal news about unemployment. Dismal is the only word. According to the Labor Department, unemployment rose to 9.4 percent in April, the worst rate in the 40 years such monthly records have been kept.