NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1986
Date: 22 April 1986
International
Amber Laura Heard (born April 22, 1986) is an American actress. She had her first leading role in the horror film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), and went on to star in films such as The Ward (2010), Drive Angry (2011), and London Fields (2018).
She has also had supporting roles in films including Pineapple Express (2008), Never Back Down (2008), The Joneses (2009), The Rum Diary (2011), Paranoia (2013), Machete Kills (2013), 3 Days to Kill (2014), Magic Mike XXL (2015), and The Danish Girl (2015). From 2017 to 2023, Heard played Mera in the DC Extended Universe, including the films Justice League (2017), Aquaman (2018), and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023). She has also acted in television series such as The CW's teen drama Hidden Palms (2007) and the Paramount+ fantasy series The Stand (2020–2021).
In 2016, Heard became a volunteer with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in the capacity of an ACLU Artist Ambassador, a role reserved for individuals who advocate for civil rights and civil liberties. Heard also served as a Human Rights Ambassador for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Heard was married to actor Johnny Depp from 2015 to 2016. Afterward, the pair accused each other of domestic abuse and engaged in two lengthy and high-profile defamation cases, the English Depp v. NGN trial where the court ruled that Depp engaged in domestic abuse against Heard, and the widely publicized American Depp v. Heard trial, where she was found liable for defaming Depp.
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Date: 22 April 1986
By Stuart Taylor Jr., Special To the New York Times
Stuart Taylor
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 today that a person suing a news organization for libel must prove damaging statements are false, at least ''on matters of public concern.''
Date: 23 April 1986
By George James
George James
In the month since she became United States Attorney for the Eastern District in Brooklyn, Reena Raggi has taken the complicated findings of a yearlong inquiry by the State Department of Investigation and got a guilty plea from a key suspect.
Date: 23 April 1986
International Britain will expel 21 Libyan students for suspected involvement in ''student revolutionary activities.'' The 21, all men, were arrested in England, Wales and Scotland. They include a pilot trainee who, the authorities said, telephoned Tripoli radio last month with an offer to form suicide squads to attack American military installations. [ Page A1, Columns 3-4. ]
Date: 22 April 1986
The erratic but brilliant career of Marcus Dupree appeared to take an upward turn last week when he was made eligible for the National Football League draft. But the running back sounded yesterday as if his career were over.
Date: 23 April 1986
By Leonard Buder
Leonard Buder
A state appeals court yesterday overturned a judge's order prohibiting lawyers and witnesses from talking to reporters about the Queens trial of two police officers.
Date: 22 April 1986
By Frank Lynn
Frank Lynn
Mark Green, a public-interest writer and lawyer, announced yesterday that he would seek the Democratic nomination to oppose Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato.
Date: 22 April 1986
By Philip Taubman, Special To the New York Times
Philip Taubman
The publicity build-up for the Goodwill Games, a mini-Olympics scheduled to take place in Moscow in July, began in earnest in the Soviet Union today with a news conference and free samples of Pepsi Cola.
Date: 23 April 1986
AP
The Polk County schools today halted their five-year-old practice of subjecting students to polygraph, or lie-detector, tests in disciplinary cases after a controversy over the use of the tests.
Date: 23 April 1986
By Wayne King and Warren Weaver Jr
Wayne King
You have less than two weeks to pick up a $1,000 ticket to the fund-raising dinner that will finance the Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communications at the Uversity of Texas, of which the former CBS News anchor is an alumnus. The May 6 program at the Mayflower Hotel will be a roast of Mr. Cronkite, and it even has a title: ''No, No, Walter, That's NOT the Way It Is.''