Week of August 1, 1984
President Reagan challenges Walter Mondale to spell out how he would increase
taxes. Reagan says he vows to veto any measure that would raise personal
income tax rates.
President Reagan, applauding Poland’s recent amnesty for political prisoners,
drops two of the lesser sanctions imposed after Warsaw’s 1981 crackdown on
the Solidarity union movement but will continue for now to oppose Poland’s
membership in the International Monetary Fund.
Atty. Gen. William Smith
charges that the Soviet KGB
fabricated Ku Klux Klan threats sent to Asian and African
countries planning to participate in the Olympic Games.
Jesse Jackson announces that he will not run for the south
Carolina Senate seat held by Republican Strom Thurmond,
but instead will campaign around the country for democrats
this fall.
Carl Lewis wins his first two 200-meter heats. He’ll try for his second Olympic
gold medal.
Dissident Andrei Sakharov ends his hunger strike, but remains hospitalized.
Music - In the New York rap-hip-hop scene - Run D.M.C. is the hottest Joseph
Simmons (Run) is a Sociology graduate from St. John’s. Member Jay Mizell is
also known as Jam Master Jay a master mixer and scratcher. The other member
is Daryll McDaniels.
The Cars new video “Drive” debuts this week on MTV. Actor Timothy Hutton
directs the video.
Olympics in Los Angeles -
Mary Lou Retton
scores a 9.8
to win a gold medal in gymnastics…. The U.S wins its 17
th
Gold as Steve Hegg wins the 4,000 meter cycling race.
Entertainment news -
Passing - Actor Richard Burton, dies of a cerebral
hemorrhage at a hospital in Geneva. He was 58. Family
friends say he became ill at the modest villa in the
countryside village of Celigny, outside Geneva, where he
