30 years ago, Wednesday, April 5, 1978

President Kyprianou yesterday told the new US Ambassador Mr Stine that Cyprus wants American friendship and was ready to do its utmost in this direction but there was a need for substantive response. The President made a strong appeal for the revision of the Carter Administration’s decision to seek the lifting of US arms embargo and said this has caused deep disappointment because as he said a lot of things are at stake in this decision.

40 years ago, Friday, April 5, 1968
Troops and police went into action with tear gas in Washington this afternoon as a new wave of fire-bombing and looting hit the city. The troops, with bayonets fixed and wearing gas masks, moved in to disperse crowds and protect firemen fighting three huge blazes in a ghetto area. They also pumped gas into stores to drive out young Negro looters.

50 years ago, Tuesday, April 5, 1958
Cheryl Turner, 14-year-old daughter of screen star Lana Turner, will appear in a juvenile court in Hollywood tomorrow after confessing she stabbed to death her mother’s friend, 42-year-old minor gangster, Johnny Stompanato. Cheryl has been in jail over the weekend booked on a holding charge peculiar to California law called suspicion of murder.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.