Week of August 23, 1990

President Bush declares the U.S. is prepared to talk to Iraq but the U.S. refuses

to negotiate under Iraqi preconditions.

Iraq begins surrounding and sealing off foreign embassies in Kuwait - breaking

an earlier promise of safe passage.

Iraq cuts off power and water to the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait. Meanwhile,

President Saddam Hussein goes on TV - mixing threats with propaganda -

saying an attack will result in “columns of dead bodies.”

Iraq orders its ship tankers not to challenge the U.S.-led blockade of its shipping

- in an effort to avoid confrontation.

About 49,000 military reservists will be called to active duty by Oct. 1 and most

are heading to Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf.

President Saddam Hussein announces that all foreign women and children being

held in Iraq are free to leave. So far - about 52 have left.

President Bush, saying other nations must bear their fair share, dispatches his

top Cabinet officers on a global tour to seek a money commitment from foreign

leaders to defray the mounting Iraqi aggression.

Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Russian leader Boris N. Yeltsin hold

a summit to try to find an approach to the nation’s economic problems.

the eighth inning - leading the Mets to a 12-2

victory over the Giants.

Lyle Alzado’s comeback ends again. He met with

raiders owner Al Davis and it was decided that his

injuries would hamper any comeback.

Technology -

IBM’s PS/1 personal computer goes on sale

nationwide this week. Priced at $1,999 you get a

VGA color monitor, 30-Meg hard disk drive and a

2,400-baud modem. Uses the Intel 80286

microprocessor with a clock speed of 10mhz.

Top jazz albums -

We Are In Love - Harry Connick Jr.

Week of August 23, 1990

Standard Time Vol. 3 - Wynton Marsalis

Question and Answer - Pat Metheny

Lefty’s Roach Souffle - Harry Connick Jr.

Music news -

helicopter crash. He had appeared in

concert at the Alpine Valley Music

theatre outside Milwaukee. Also

appearing in that concert - Eric Clapton

and three of his associations were also

killed in the crash.

Don’t miss Billy Idol’s Charmed Life Tour.

After the National Anthem event - More

Sinead O’Connor nuttiness as she

donned a wig and duped protesters and

a TV reporter in Saratoga Springs - and

told them to boycott her performance at

the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. A

TV reporter for Albany channel 13 -

interviewed her, but thought she was a

protester. More and more radio stations seem to be banning her music.

Bruce Springsteen gives $10,000 to singer Mary Wells who has throat cancer

and is broke.

Curtis Mayfield is transferred to a Georgia spinal center - about two weeks after

a freak accident left him paralyzed from the neck down.

Heavy metal band Judas Priest is absolved of planting subliminal messages - so

says a judge in Reno, Nevada.

Michael Jackson names Sandy Gallin of Galln-Morey Associates as his new

personal manager. He hasn’t had one for two years - after he dismissed Frank

Dileo after his last tour.

Passing - David Rose (80) - Legendary composer and conductor.

because she apparently scratched her cornea with he contact lens.

Week of August 23, 1990

Jump Street” - signs a multi-picture deal

produce films.

Connie Selleca sues Columbia Pictures

Television - saying she was forced out of

the new ABC series “Baby Talk.’

Wednesday night television -

CBS - Meet The Raisins: Story of the

California Raisins, His & Hers, Jake and

the Fatman, Top Cops,

NBC - Unsolved Mysteries, Working It

Out, Night Court, Hunter, Johnny Carson

ABC - The Wonder Years, Growing Pains,

Doogie Howser, M.D., Anything But Love,

Equal Justice, Nightline, Into the Night

PBS - Great Performances

CNBC - Morton Downey Jr., Dick Cavett, McLaughlin

Johnny Carson - Richard Lewis.

Into the Night W/Rick Dees - Peggy Lipton.