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February 14, 1983

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Headlines from February 14, 1983

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In the judging schedule for the Westminster Dog Show in the Sports section yesterday, the captions with photographs of Ch.

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In the Advertising column in Business Day Thursday, data on the revenues of the magazine Psychology Today were incorrectly stated. A corrective item appears in the Advertising column on page D9.

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An article Thursday about the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for Broadcast Journalism omitted one winner. It was ''CBS Reports: People Like Us,'' with Bill Moyers.

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U.S. EASING CONTROL OVER WESTERN RANGELAND

By William E. Schmidt, Special To the New York Times

Western cattle ranchers stand to gain a large measure of control over land and water resources on 170 million acres of Federal land under policy changes initiated by the Reagan Administration. Over the past year, the Bureau of Land Management has moved to give cattlemen a stronger voice in range management and pulled back from what some ranchers have regarded as overzealous attempts to limit the number of cattle that could be grazed on the public range. At the same time, the agency is no longer seeking a blanket Federal claim to water on public land. Instead, ranchers are being encouraged to file, under state laws, for private title to water from man-made stock-watering ponds and wells developed on arid rangeland, even though the Federal Government owns the land. The agency, as part of the Department of the Interior, manages the largest share of the nation's public lands.

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I.M.F. PLAN HELPS EASE DEBT CRISIS

By Kenneth N. Gilpin

Last week the International Monetary Fund took a large step toward easing the world's latest financial crisis. Delegates meeting in Washington agreed to expand the I.M.F.'s lendable resources by $32.5 billion, or 47.4 percent. It is the largest increase in the organization's history, and the United States will have to contribute $5.8 billion of it. That decision caps, for now, what has been a six-month race against time run by multilateral lending institutions, central banks, governments, commercial banks and debtor countries to stave off loan defaults amid the unexpectedly long and severe global recession.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 9, 1983, covering February 14, 1983.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Business As Usual by Men at Work

    Business As Usual

    Men at Work

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    33
  2. 2
    Album cover for Built For Speed by Stray Cats

    Built For Speed

    Stray Cats

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    33
  3. 3
    Album cover for H2O by Daryl Hall  John Oates

    H2O

    Daryl Hall John Oates

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    16
  4. 4
    Album cover for Get Nervous by Pat Benatar

    Get Nervous

    Pat Benatar

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    13
  5. 5
    Album cover for Thriller by Michael Jackson

    Thriller

    Michael Jackson

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    8

Notable Births

Callix Crabbe

1983Callix Crabbe, Virgin Islander baseball player[†]

Callix Sadeaq Crabbe is a Virgin Islands American former professional baseball second baseman and current coach in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres. He was the assistant hitting coach for the Texas Rangers from 2019 through 2021.

Rocky Elsom

1983Rocky Elsom, Australian rugby player[†]

Rocky Elsom is an Australian former rugby union player. He played the positions of flanker and number eight. He was selected for 75 caps for Australia and scored 75 points. He is the most capped Australian blindside flanker. Elsom was the 76th Australian test captain, having replaced Stirling Mortlock in 2009 for two years. He played for the Wallabies from 2005 until 2011. Elsom played professionally for New South Wales, Brumbies and Leinster.

Bacary Sagna

1983Bacary Sagna, French footballer[†]

Bacary Sagna is a French former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

Notable Deaths

Lina Radke

1983Lina Radke, German runner and coach (born 1903)[†]

Karoline "Lina" Radke-Batschauer was a German track and field athlete. She was the first Olympic champion in the 800 m for women.

Historical Events

Knoxville, Tennessee

1983United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.[†]

Knoxville is a city in Knox County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. It is located on the Tennessee River and had a population of 190,740 at the 2020 United States census. It is the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state's third-most populous city, after Nashville and Memphis. It is the principal city of the Knoxville metropolitan area, which had a population of 879,773 in 2020.

Historical Context for February 14, 1983

In 1983, the world population was approximately 4,697,327,573 people[†]