Week of April 11, 1988

Addressing the annual National Assn. of Broadcasters

convention in Las Vegas and setting the tone for next

challenges Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to tear

down the “grim, invisible wall of oppression” that prohibits

the flow of ideas and information between East and West.

“We have been too long divided East from West. Tear

down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev, that our peoples might

come to know one another - and together, build the world

anew.”

Hijackers of a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet seized last week, release 12 of their

estimated 46 captives as ground crews refueled the plane for a flight to Algeria.

Two hostages were slain, earlier.

Two Algerian officials meet with the hijackers of a Kuwait Airways jet with 32

hostages aboard and said the air pirates agreed to avoid further violence in the

nine-day terror odyssey. T

The U.S. Navy Frigate Samuel B. Roberts hits a mine near Iran’s Farsi Island

while on patrol in the Persian Gulf. Six sailors were injured.

run for the leadership post next year and will, instead, seek the

chairmanship of the senate Appropriations Committee.

Stock prices plummet for their fifth-worst single day loss - 101

points, after the announcement of a $13.8 billion trade deficit in

February.

Wholesale prices jump .6% in March - much more than expected.

At least 12 Arabs are dead - shot by Israeli troops as the occupied West band

and Gaza Strip erupted in violence.

Former President Richard N. Nixon suggests that President Reagan pardon

former White House aides John M. Poindexter and Oliver l. North, if their roles in

the Iran-contra affair should lead to their conviction for crimes Reagan deems

unintentional.

Week of April 11, 1988

Vice President George Bush charges that Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel

A. Noriega has maintained his hold on the Central American nation because

Libya’s Col. Moammar Kadafi has sent him millions of dollars in financial support.

lawsuit against President Reagan, British Prime

Minister Margaret Thatcher and others for

compensation for 55 Libyans killed or injured in a U.S.

bombing raid on Tripoli two years ago. Clark said he

filed the suit in U.S. district Court in Washington against

Reagan, Thatcher, other officials and pilots who

conducted the raid, for compensation for 15 Libyans

killed and 40 injured.

Former White House Spokesman Larry Speaks resigns as chief spokesman for

Merrill Lynch & Co, days after he created a storm of controversy by admitting he

once concocted quotes to make President Reagan look good.

President Reagan said that he has caught unaware by the disclosure of

fabricated quotes by his former spokesman, Larry Speakes, and said he has “no

affection for these kiss-and-tell books” written by his ex-aides. “And I find them

entirely fiction,” said the President.

Carl N. Karcher, founder of the Carls Jr. fast food chain, is charged with insider

trading by illegally tipping off his relatives about some bad news his company

was about to release.

to report over $4 million in persona

expenditure paid for by business or

corporations they controlled. Much of the

$4 million went to renovate their $11-

million 28-acre Connecticut estate

according to the indictment.

out and will supersede MS-DOS as the

new operating system standard for PC’s. The new operating system will allow

some existing programs to run a bit faster, but in the long run, it will be able to

run more powerful programs with computers equipped with more memory and

OS/2 can run up to a dozen tasks simultaneously. To be sure, MS-DOS will still

be around and supported for at least a few more years. Last week, IBM said it is

Week of April 11, 1988

coming out with its PS/2 line of personal computers to usher this new era in. For

OS-2 - you’ll need one of these new PS/2 computers or a PC AT with either an

80286 or 80386 microprocessor and at least 3 megs of RAM. It’s being called a

new level of computing. Where MS-DOS could be equated to one tenant in a

building, OS/2 is like having dozens of tenants in the same building.

Tony Hoffman - best known for hawking real estate get rich advice on cable talk

shows and infomercials, files for bankruptcy.

Music news -

of hits during the late 1950’s and into the 1960’s.

His last big one was “Rainy Night In Georgia”

from 1970.

R.E.M. - America’s leading rock band (according

to Rolling Stone) signs with a new label - Warner

Brothers.

James (JT) Taylor has left Kool & The Gang to

go solo.

Daryl Hall & John Oates launch their first studio album in three years with a

closed-circuit press conference beamed to more than a dozen cities. It was

hosted by Z-100 PD Scott Shannon.

Wolfman Jack is hosting an “early” rock ‘n’ roll show

on, of all places, The Nashville Network. Wolfman

taped 26 episodes of the new show, “Rock N’ Roll

Palace’ in less than two weeks at Little Darlin’s Rock

‘n’ roll Palace in Kissimmee, FL. Wolfman says he

hates videos and particularly MTV - “I’ve hated MTV since it came on the air. It’s

really loused up the music terribly. All they do is look for ways to make the

records fit the images they have on the screen.” Speaking of TNN, it’s celebrating

5 years on the air.

Radio news -

Westwood One - the program syndicater, buys its first radio station - WYNY

New York for $39 million.

Los Angeles - Power 106 - 7.6… KIIS AM/FM - 6.9… Talk KABC - 6.2 … KOST

- 5.2… KROQ - 3.7

Week of April 11, 1988

Entertainment news -

Viewers tuning into the Academy Awards, saw Cher and her eye-popping dress.

Here are some winners:

Best Picture - “The Last Emperor.”

Best actress - Cher - ”Moonstruck.”

Best director - Bernardo Bertolucci - “The Last

Emperor

Best supporting actor - Sean Connery - “The

Untouchables.”

Best supporting actress - Olympia Dukakis -

“Moonstruck”

Best original song - “(I’ve Had) the Time of My Life.” -

Dirty Dancing

Jane Fonda’s new exercise videotape - “Start Up” has shipped 781,659 copies -

a record for a videotape debut of this kind.

Ted Turner will launch Turner Home Video this summer. His new cable channel -

TNT will launch Oct. 3.

Television news

Syndication - Don’t miss “Don King’s Only In America” talk show. Guests this

week - Bruce Willis, Louie Anderson, Randy Travis and Freddie Jackson.

Geraldo Rivera’s syndicated TV special - “Murder: Live From Death Row” was a

hit in the ratings. It’s yet another of Geraldo’s sensational specials.

NBC will produce programming for the

Disney Channel - the first time a network has

produced programming for a cable channel.

Saturday mornings after its Disney run.

Saturday night television -

CBS - High Mountain rangers, Tour of Duty,

NBC - Facts of Life, The storyteller: The Luck

Child, Golden Girls, Amen, Hunter, Saturday

Night Live

Week of April 11, 1988

ABC - Conversations with the Presidents, O’Hara, Spenser: For Hire

Fox - Family Double Dare, Boys Will Bee Boys, Werewolf, Werewolf

HBO - Boxing - Chevz-Aguilar

Nick at Nite - Laugh-In, Make Room for Daddy, My Three Sons, Donna Reed,

Mr. Ed, Car 54, Where Are You?, Mad Movies, Monkees

WTBS - Night Tracks

High Mountain Rangers - After their father kills a man, a family sets out to

silence the witness - Cody. Stars Robert Conrad and his son Shane.

Saturday Night Live - Former presidential candidate Paul Simon hosts with

musician Paul Simon.

Top Hits In Britain -

Drop the Boy - Bros

Heart - Pet Shop Boys

Don’t Turn Around - Aswad

Can I Play With Madness - Iron Maiden

Could’ve Been - Tiffany

Cross My Broken heart - Sinitta

Loves Changes (Everything) - Climie Fisher

Stay On These Roads - A-Ha

I’m Not Scared - Eighth Wonder

Top Country -

I’ll Always Come Back - K.T. Oslin

Week of April 11, 1988

I Wanna Dance With You - Eddie Rabbit

Cry, Cry Cry - Highway 101

It’s Such A Small World - Rodney Crowell

The Last Resort - T. Graham Brown

Strangers Again - Holly Dunn

Timeless And True Love - The McCarters

Young Country - Hank Williams Jr.

Famous Last Words of a Fool - George Strait

Hot Album Rock Tracks -

Get It On - Kingdom Come

Tall Cool One - Robert Plant

Born To Be Bad - George Thorogood

Only A Memory - The Smithereens

Rev It Up - Jerry Harrison Casual Gods

Nothing But Flowers - Talking Heads

New Sensation INXS

Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil

All That Heaven Will Allow - Bruce Springsteen

Century’s End - Donald Fagen

Damn Good - David Lee Roth

Under the Milky Way - The Church

Top movies this week -

Beetlejuice

Biloxi Blues

Bad Dreams

The Seventh sign

Bright Lights, Big City

18 Again

Masquerade

The Last Emperor

Above the Law

Stand and Deliver

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Week of April 11, 1988

Casey Kasem Has Left “American Top 40” But Will Conduct A New National

Radio Show With Westwood One

Week of April 11, 1988