Week of August 22, 1989

Biggest drug bust of them all - Soldiers and police raid the estates of cocaine

barons seizing aircraft, cars and cattle and bringing the number of people

arrested in three days to more than 11,000.

the heard in the drug-plagued area of West Oakland, CA.

Colombia’s drug lords declare “total and absolute war” on the

country’s political and business leadership. Four new

bombings are blamed on the cartels as the government

intensifies their crackdown.

After 10 months, the defense rests in case in the McMartin

Pre-School molestation trial in California.

Holiday Inn is being sold to British firm Bass PLC for $2.23 billion.

In Nairobi - Gunmen ambush and ill British conservationist George Adamson,

best known for “Born Free.”

Sports - Charlie Hustle non-gratis - Baseball

Commissioner Bart Giamatti announces that

life for betting on his own team. He becomes the

the first since 1943. Rose denies the charge.

Nolan Ryan surpasses 5,000 career strikeouts - a

first in major league baseball. He did in a game

that saw the Texas Rangers whip the Oakland

Athletics 2-0. New tally - 5007 strikeouts.

Oddsmaker Jimmy The Greek is returning to television. He’ll handicap pro

football games this season for FNN’s sports network. He was fired by CBS 19

months ago for telling an interviewer blacks were better athletes than whites

because they were bred for strength during slavery.