20 augustus 1985 was een dinsdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♌. Het was de 231e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Ronald Reagan.
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Date: 21 August 1985
The Metropolitan News Company, primary distributor of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other newspapers to newsdealers in New York City, was acquired yesterday by the Nehoc Company, a holding company formed by Robert B. Cohen, principal owner of the Hudson County News Company. Terms were not disclosed.
Date: 21 August 1985
By Richard W. Stevenson
Richard Stevenson
U.S. News & World Report, the news weekly owned by Mortimer B. Zuckerman, has switched agencies to Dancer Fitzgerald Sample from Foote, Cone & Belding.
Date: 21 August 1985
By Alex S. Jones, Special To the New York Times
Alex Jones
The newspaper war between The Detroit News and The Detroit Free Press, combatants for over a hundred years in a bruising struggle for dominance here, may be entering a new and final phase.
Date: 20 August 1985
By Sally Bedell Smith
Sally Smith
Key representatives of NBC's affiliated stations have given qualified support to a proposal by NBC for a 24-hour news service for cable subscribers that would compete with Ted Turner's Cable News Network, network and station officials said yesterday.
Date: 20 August 1985
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant
Norman Lear and A. Jerrold Perenchio, the Hollywood producers, yesterday raised their offer for the Evening News Association by 25 percent.
Date: 21 August 1985
By Bill Keller, Special To the New York Times
Bill Keller
Representative Les Aspin, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has threatened to hold up legislation authorizing next year's military programs unless the Reagan Administration commits itself to a permanent limit on the MX intercontinental missile.
Date: 21 August 1985
By Gerald M. Boyd, Special To the New York Times
Gerald
The White House announced today that, despite Soviet objections, the United States would proceed with the first American test of an anti-satellite weapon against an object in space.