Week of August 22, 1983

Pan American games in Venezuela - Some 13 members of the U.S. track and

field team are withdrawn from the Pan Am games and four weight lifters are

stropped of their medals. It’s being called the largest drug scandal in

international amateur competition history.

the U.S. will accept Moscow’s terms for limiting

medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe, it will

destroy any missiles that it removes under the

agreement, rather than re deploy them

elsewhere.

Biggest anti-government protest in Manila’s

history - More than 500,000 Filipinos pour

through streets in Manila behind the casket of

slain opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr.

Aquino was gunned down last week. Aquino’s

widow, Corazon, called on President Ferdinand

E. Marcos to release all political prisoners.

In San Diego - President Reagan, in speaking to a cheering crowd of 400

Republican women - charged that too many activists in the feminist movement

are demagogic, politically biased and treat women as stereotypes.

Maureen Reagan agrees to take a job to help President Reagan overcome his

poor standing with women. “My father came to me and said, ‘I seem to have this

problem and I don’t think I’m such a bad guy.’” “I don’t think he’s such a bad guy

either, and I agreed to help,” said the daughter of the President.

Some 250,000 (mostly minorities) march on Washington. They were united to

defeat President Reagan in next year’s election. Said Benjamin Hooks -

executive director of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People -

“We have come in the name of peace to declare war - war, if you please on the

Reagan Administration. We are not here to live in the past and simply sing, ‘We

shall overcome.’ We are here to obliterate Reaganism from the face of the

Earth.”

Menachem Begin affirms he is resigning as prime minister of Israel, throwing his

ruling coalition into turmoil over the search for a successor.

Week of August 22, 1983

In Beirut - American, French and British peacekeeping troops come under attack

in fighting between Muslim militiamen and government troops that engulfed

Beirut.

Olympic crackdown - U.S. athletes will face mandatory, random tests for drugs

before representing the country in future international competition, the executive

director of the U.s. Olympic Committee said.

The space shuttle Challenger lifts-off from Cape Canaveral after a 17-minute

delay.

Manhattan - A broken water main floods streets and knocks out a major subway

link to Manhattan’s financial and government districts, disrupting the morning

rush hour for about 400,000 commuters.

guilty to charges of drunk driving and was scolded by

the judge for wearing shorts in court. Judge Mercator

Kendrick also told the author of “In Cold Blood” that he

can never again drive in New York State.

Bad luck - An Amtrak train bound from Miami to New

York with 413 passengers hit and killed a woman in

Savannah, struck a pickup truck in South Carolina and

was derailed in North Carolina after ramming a

disabled tractor-trailer. Three accidents in 4 ½ hours!

Some passengers were injured in the derailment. A spokesman for Amtrak said

the accidents were “an incredible coincidental series of occurrences.”

Jackson’s “Billie Jean” is on the charts. A

song in a medley with “Do It Again,” the

Steely Dan tune.

CBS Records announces a long-term

contract with the Rolling Stones for

worldwide distribution of their records - a

deal worth $28 million and the richest in

the music business (so far).

AC/DC has a new drummer - Simon Wright. He replaces Phil Rudd.

Week of August 22, 1983

Television news -

new deal. Back in May, she considered herself a

free agent.

Passing - Actress Jan Clayton - better-known as

the fist mom for Lassie back in 1954.

Christina Craft, recently awarded $500,000 in her

sex discrimination suit against Metromedia, resigns

as a news anchorwoman at KEYT (channel 3) in

Santa Barbara. She said she plans to right a book

and accept an offer for a lecture tour.

Tuesday night television -

CBS - On the Road w/Charles Kuralt, Movie

NBC - The A-Team, Remington Steele, The Firm, Tonight, David Letterman

ABC - Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Three’s Company, Debut-Two

Marriages, Nightline

USA - Women’s Gymnastics, Celebrity Tennis

Debut - Two Marriages - Contrasts the life style of a traditional family with that of

a household created out of second marriages. Stars Michael Murphy and Janet

Ellber.

Tonight show - Guest host David Brenner with guest comedian Richard Lewis.

Week of August 22, 1983

Week of August 22, 1983