Week of December 8, 1981
Andrei Sakharov ends his hunger strike and Soviet
authorities and tells his daughter-in-law she can join her
husband in the United States.
Bid for $30 million ransom - American gunmen holding 102
hostages on three hijacked Venezuelan jetliners lands in
Cuba, ending a seven-nation odyssey across south and
central America
The government warns Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi
to drop his alleged plan to assassinate President Reagan and other U.S. officials.
President Reagan says that the U.S. has evidence that the Libyan leader has
sent an assassination squad to kill him.
President Reagan invalidates U.S. passports for travel to Libya and asks the
estimated 1,500 Americans in the country to come home at once because their
lives and safety are in “imminent danger.”
Poland’s premier and Communist Party leader, Gen. Wojeiech Jaruzelski tells his
nation in a broadcast that the country is in a “state of war” and that it will be run
by an “Army Council of National Salvation.”
A superior court judge orders hairdresser
Marilyn
Barnett
to move out of the Malibu house owned by her
former lover, tennis champion Billie Jean King. Billie Jean
King says she is relieved that it was all over. Larry King
said his wife and he would lose millions in contracts
withdrawn or never offered after the public revelation that
Billie had a lesbian lover.
Porno star John Homes is arrested on suspicion of
murder in the bludgeoning deaths of four people in the
Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles.
Radio news
- WSM will produce a live overnight program
- to be fed nationwide called “Music Country Network.”
Music news
- An “eternal flame” that burned in memory
of the late Elvis Presley has been snuffed out for good and
the owner of the tourist attraction where the flame was
