Week of April 8, 1984

Recovering from his narrow primary loss to Gary Hart, Walter F. Mondale wins in

at least wins the caucus battle in Wisconsin.

Challenger astronauts capture a disabled satellite with a bionic arm and park it in

the shuttle’s cargo bay for the first-repair repair in space.

Christopher Wilder who was wanted in a number of murders and sex crimes,

shoots himself to death after he was confronted by New Hampshire state police

in the Village of Colebrook.

President Reagan authorizes emergency

medical and military aid for embattled El

Salvador from Pentagon stocks, bypassing

congressional critics of his Central American

policy.

The Chairman and 12 other Democrats on the House Judiciary committee ask

the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to determine whether the

Reagan Administration is violating the Neutrality Act in Nicaragua.

Visiting a Ford assembly plant in Kansas City, President Reagan calls attention

to the resurgence of the auto and home-building industries as illustrations of the

nation’s economic recovery.

Patti Davis, daughter of President and Mrs Reagan, is engaged to marry Paul

Grilley, a Beverly Hills yoga instructor. They met two years ago while she was

taking yoga lessons.

reports from the Academy Awards. He’ll be reporting for the

NBC Source rock network and will be heard mainly on rock

FM stations.

Gay bath houses will remain open but sexual activity that may

spread the lethal disease AIDS will be prohibited, so says the

San Francisco Public Health Director.

Best picture - “Terms of Endearment.”

Best actor - Robert Duvall ‘Tender Mercies,”

Best actress - Shirley McLaine - “terms of endearment.”

Week of April 8, 1984

Best supporting actor - Jack Nicholson - “Terms of

Endearment.”

Living Dangerously.”

Best original song - “Flashdance” - Georgio Morder, Keith

Forsey and Irene Cara

Sports -

Just misses - The Cincinnati Reds walk their former

player - Pete Rose four times and retire him once,

The Kansas City Chiefs sign star rusher Ken Lacy of the champion Michigan

Panthers of the USFL. Lacy’s defection to the Chiefs marks the first time an

established USFL star has chosen to jump to the rival NFL in the league’s two-

year battle for the nation’s top football players.

Music news -

CBS Records did great business in 1983 as operating profits skyrocketed to over

$100 million from just over $20 million in 1982. Some of it had to do with the

success of Michael Jackson.

Milton Berle appears as both a man and women in Ratt’s current video “Round

and Round. “

John Cougar Mellencamp plays a boxer in his video “Authority Song.”

Television news -

Check out “The Duck Factory” - a new NBC-TV show Thursday night. The

sitcom stars stand-up-comedian (now actor) Jim Carrey who comes to Hollywood

from Duluth in the hopes of landing a job at a cartoon factory. He does and lands

in a small animation studio that produces “Dippy Duck” a TV cartoon strip. The

owner of the place dies, and Carrey gets hired (where else - at the wake).

Teresa Ganzell co-stars as the gal who inherits the business. Also stars Jack

Gilford, Nancy lane, Julie Payne, Jay Tarses, Clarence Gilyard Jr. and Don

Messick. Produced by Mary Tyler Moore’s company - MTM.

Week of April 8, 1984

Week of April 8, 1984