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The President of the United States went calling on an old friend in New York yesterday. And his friend, Terence Cardinal Cooke - gravely ill with leukemia - greeted Mr. Reagan and the First Lady with a benediction: ''May the Lord bless us and keep us. ''May He let His face shine upon us and be gracious to us. ''May He look upon us with kindness and give us His peace.
Because of an editing error, the Economic Scene column in Business Day Friday misstated the change in nonfarm business inventories.
Machine tool orders, reflecting the usual lack of activity during the summer, fell 22 percent in August from July, the National Machine Tool Builder's Association said yesterday in its monthly report. On a year-to-year basis, however, the trend continued to be upward, with orders posting a healthy 59 percent gain from August 1982.
More than three weeks after a South Korean airliner with 269 people aboard was shot down by the Soviet Union, important details about the incident remain clouded.
The Reagan Administration, fighting an uphill battle to get Congress to approve financial support for the International Monetary Fund, found itself isolated in the international community Sunday in pressing for curbs on loans to poor countries. The I.M.F., which manages a network of financial aid for the third world, opens its annual meeting here on Tuesday. Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan, with an eye on Congress, took a tough position Sunday on the major questions of help for the financially distressed nations at a preliminary meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors. Two Main Issues According to participants at the closed meeting, Mr. Regan held firm on two main issues.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 21, 1983, covering September 26, 1983.
The Police
Michael Jackson
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
Billy Joel
1983Archimede Morleo, Italian footballer[†]
Archimede Morleo is a former Italian footballer who last played for Eccellenza Apulia club Casarano.
1983Zoe Perry, American actress[†]
Zoe Perry is an American actress. The daughter of actors Laurie Metcalf and Jeff Perry, she made her film debut in Deception (2008) and had a supporting role in the independent drama film The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008).
1983Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer[†]
Ricardo Andrade Quaresma Bernardo is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a winger.
1983Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike, thus preventing nuclear war.[†]
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who played a key role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. On 26 September 1983, three weeks after the Soviet military had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to four more. Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm.
1983Soyuz 7K-ST No. 16L, intended to launch a crew to the Salyut 7 space station, explodes on the launch pad. The launch escape system is activated before the Soyuz-U rocket explodes, saving the crew.[†]
Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L, sometimes known as Soyuz T-10a or Soyuz T-10-1, was an unsuccessful Soyuz mission intended to visit the Salyut 7 space station, which was occupied by the Soyuz T-9 crew. However, it never finished its launch countdown; the launch vehicle was destroyed on the launch pad by fire on 26 September 1983. The launch escape system of the Soyuz spacecraft fired six seconds before the launch vehicle exploded, saving the crew. This is the only time a launch escape system has been fired before launch with a crew aboard.
In 1983, the world population was approximately 4,697,327,573 people[†]