Week of April 1, 1988
Massachusetts Gov
Michael S. Dukakis
wins Wisconsin beating Jesse Jackson.
The U.S. Defense Department announce that
it will send 1,300 additional military personnel
to Panama, bringing the total number of
American troops there to nearly 12,000.
A judge in New Jersey grants Mary Beth
Whitehead-Gould immediate unsupervised
visitation of six hours a week with the child
she agreed to bear under a $10,000
surrogate contract. Superior Court Judge
Birger Sween said Whitehead-Gould’s visits
with 2-year-old Melissa Stern would be
expanded from one six-hour day a week to two days every other week in
September, overnight visits in April 1989 and two weeks during that summer.
Former President Richard M. Nixon says that Jesse Jackson is a “brilliant
campaigner’ and the only interesting candidate seeking a presidential nomination
this year, but that he could not win because of his radical views.
The nation’s unemployment rate edges down to 5.5% of the work force.
Business - R.H. Macy Co. purchases Bullocks and I. Magnin stores.
Passing - Radio actor Jim Jordan, best known as Fibber McGee in the radio
comedy serials of the 1940’s.
Music news -
Julie Abbas - Tiffany’s aunt, gets full custody of the teen singer for now.
David Ruffin
, former Temptations lead singer is jailed in
Detroit on a cocaine-possession charge.
Don’t miss a 10-hour concert/birthday bash - “Atlantic Records
-40
th
anniversary: It’s Only Rock & Roll” at Madison Square
Garden. When - May 14.
