August<br > 1<br > 5 6 7 8<br >12 13 14 15<br >19 20 21 22<br >26 27 28 29<br >3<br >4<br >Airplane crash kills Panama s strongman<br >leader， National Guard Commander Omar<br >Torrijos Herrera.<br >U.S. air traffic controllers strike. A federal<br >judge finds their union， the Professional Air<br >Traffic Controllers Organization， in contempt of<br >court. Two days later， the government begins to<br >fire strikers as airlines cut service to 75 per cent<br >of capacity.<br >Egypt and Israel sign an agreement that sets<br >up an international force to patrol the Sinai<br >Peninsula after Israeli troops withdraw.<br >Rebel officers force Bolivia s President Luis<br >Garcia Meza Tejada to resign， and win<br >concessions from the military junta that<br >succeeds him.<br >Battle for control of Conoco， Incorporated， is<br >won by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company<br >against Seagram Company and Mobil Oil<br > Corporation. Du Pont pays $7.54 billion for the<br > oil firm in the costliest take-over in U.S. history.<br >Truck and bus drivers end a 50-hour street<br > blockade in Warsaw， Poland， in a protest<br >Aug. 13<br > against food shortages.<br > Israel s Knesset (parliament) approves Prime<br > Minister Menachem Begin s coalition<br > government， made up of his Likud Party and<br > three religious parties.<br >10 U.S. announces that it will assemble neutron<br > warheads.<br > Canadian postal workers end 43-day strike.<br >11 Street protests against food shortages "could<br > lead to the greatest national tragedy，" warns<br > Poland s Communist Party First Secretary<br > Stanislaw Kania.<br > Italy announces a $70-biilion energy/plan to<br > reduce the risk that the country "will drop out<br > of the group of industrialized nations forever."<br >13 President Reagan signs bills that cut taxes and<br > drastically reduce the budget.<br >17 U.S. ends 10-week suspension of delivery of<br > military aircraft to Israel.<br >19 U.S. fighter aircraft down two Libyan jets over<br > the Mediterranean Sea about 60 miles (100<br > kilometers) from Libya s coast.<br >24 South Africa sends two armored columns 80<br > miles (130 kilometers) into Angola.<br >25 Voyager2spscecraft passes within 63，000<br > miles (101，000 kilometers) of Saturn， revealing<br > that the planet has thousands of rings， as<br > shown in the artificiaNy colored photograph<br > above.<br > 30 Bomb blast kills Iran s President Mohammad<br > Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad Jad<br > Bahonar. Minister of the Interior Ayatollah<br > Mohammad Riza Mahdavi-Kani becomes<br > provisional prime minister two days later.<br >17<br ><br >