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Under this heading, The Times amplifies articles or rectifies what the editors consider significant lapses of fairness, balance or perspective. A Washington dispatch last Friday discussed the Soviet construction of a large radar installation at Krasnoyarsk in Central Siberia.
The Ohio Legislature this morning approved emergency legislation that would permit some of the 70 state-insured savings and loans that were closed Friday to reopen. Gov. Richard F. Celeste was expected to sign the legislation immediately, and a spokesman for the Governor said some institutions may be allowed to reopen as early as today. The measure would allow an institution to reopen as soon as it applied for Federal deposit insurance and state banking officials determined that the thrift unit was in strong enough financial shape to qualify for the insurance. The impact of the crisis spread to international financial markets yesterday and was blamed for a rise of about $36 an ounce in the price of gold and a sharp decline for the dollar. (Page D1.)
An article in Business Day yesterday about the trial of a former Wall Street Journal reporter, R. Foster Winans, incorrectly described earlier testimony about the source of a suggestion to share profits. Peter Brant, a former stockbroker, had testified that it was Mr. Winans's suggestion. Mr. Winans's salary was also misstated. It was raised to $530 a week when he began writing a column, ''Heard on the Street.''
Because of an editing error, an article in some editions of Metropolitan Report yesterday about state budget negotiations in Albany misattributed testimony before the Assembly Ways and Means Committee. It was a lawyer, Robert Fink (not Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink), who criticized the Cuomo Administration's tax-enforcement bill.
Technology and gold issues yesterday joined media stocks in a rally that gave Wall Street its best gain in two months. The Dow Jones industrial average improved 21.42 points, to 1,271.09, after rising 2.32 points on Monday. The New York Stock Exchange index rose 1.40 points, to 103.91, and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index jumped 2.66 points, to 179.54. The average price per share rose 46 cents.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 20, 1985, covering March 20, 1985.
John Fogerty
Phil Collins
Bruce Springsteen
Wham!
Soundtrack
1985Morgan Amalfitano, French footballer[†]
Morgan Henri René Amalfitano is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for Cannes, Sedan, Lorient, Marseille, West Bromwich Albion and West Ham United. Amalfitano earned one cap for the France national team, representing his country in a friendly in February 2012.
1985Ronnie Brewer, American basketball player[†]
Ronnie Brewer is an American former professional basketball player and currently an assistant coach. Brewer played collegiately at the University of Arkansas, where his father Ron Brewer was a star in the late 1970s. Brewer is known for having an unorthodox shooting technique, the result of a childhood water slide injury.
1985Nicolas Lombaerts, Belgian footballer[†]
Nicolas Robert Christian Lombaerts is a Belgian professional football coach and a former centre-back.
1985Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.[†]
Libby Riddles is an American dog musher, and the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
In 1985, the world population was approximately 4,868,943,465 people[†]