Week of December 1, 1990

President Bush, declaring he wants to go the extra mile for peace, offered to

send Secretary of State James A. Baker III to Baghdad to meet with President

Saddam Hussein. He’s invited Iraqi Foreign Minister Tarik Aziz to Washington

the week of Dec. 10.

hostages in Iraq and Kuwait, citing “positive

changes.”

Defense Secretary Dick Cheney completes talks

with Polish military political and economic leaders

about raising prospects for future U.S. arms sales

to the new Polish government. It’s the first-ever

visit to Poland by a U.S. defense secretary.

Colin Powell - chairman of the Joint Chiefs of

Staff, lashes out at what he called amateurs and

others who have criticized the Bush

Administration’s Persian Gulf policy.

Germans vote freely as a united nation for the first time since the rise of Adolph

Hitler and give Chancellor Helmut Kohl a mandate to lead them.

The number of reservists who can be ordered to duty is raised to 188,000.

Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola each announce that they plan to use recycled plastic

in their soda bottles.

President Bush agreed to meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen in the

highest-level contact between the two nations since last year’s Tian An Men

square crackdown.

Pontiac, Michigan - Dr. Jack Kevorkian - a doctor who invented a device that a

woman used to kill herself was charged with first-degree murder by a prosecutor

who said he did not want his county to become a “suicide mecca.”

More Detroit as two northwest Airlines jets collide at Detroit Metro Airport - 8 are

dead and 21 are hurt.

The state Supreme Court in W. Virginia upheld a state law that allows a young

school dropout to be denied or stripped of a driver’s license.

Week of December 1, 1990

Passing - Actor Bob Cummings. He was 80.

Sports -

Kirk Gibson ends his three-year association with the Dodgers and will go to the

KC Royals. As a free agent - he signed a two-year contract for $3.3 million.

Was Elizabeth Taylor’s “Passion” perfume developed by an ex-boyfriend?

There’s now a trial that will decide. The guy is former used car dealer Henry

Wynberg.

Music news -

nation’s finest living composer.

Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie make their

last full-time appearance with Fleetwood

Mac - leaving Mick Fleetwood and John

McVie the lone survivors. Stevie and

Christine have written most of the band’s

most popular songs over the years.

White Rapper Vanilla Ice - admits that he

made up several of the colorful details about

his background in his official SBK Records

bio - but it is his voice on the album and

he’s lip-syncing on stage. Some of the

fabrications include claims that Ice who

gives his age as 22, went to the same Miami

high school as 2 Live Crew leader Luther Campbell, was a star for national

championship Team Honda on the professional motor cross circuit in the mid

80’s and that his mother was a music teacher at the university in Florida.

The National Academy of recording Arts & Sciences’ board of trustees has voted

to leave the best new artist Grammy, which was stripped from Milli Vanilli

frontmen Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan - unawarded, rather than give it to the act

that received the second-highest vote total.

Madonna says her “Justify My Love” video she believes the video has an honest

portrayal of sexuality and compared it to violent and sexist videos often seen on

TV. MTV will not play the video. But wait, sensing an opportunity, Warner Bros

Records says they will sell the video in stores - the first ever single marketed as

a home video.

Week of December 1, 1990

Top albums -

To the Extreme - Vanilla Ice

Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em

Mariah Carey

I’m Your Baby Tonight - Whitney

Houston

The Immaculate Collection -

Madonna

Television news -

On Saturday Night Live - Host

John Goodman with musical

Guests - Faith No More.

At the movies -

Home Alone

Misery

Three Men and a baby

Dances with Wolves

Predator II

Rocky V