Week of December 8, 1982
Conservative republicans launch a filibuster against President Reagan’s highway
jobs bill and senate GOP leader Howard J. Baker Jr. immediately files a cloture
petition to shut off debate.
Premier
Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski
tells a nationwide
television audience that martial law will be suspended in
Poland before the end of the year. He declared, “The worst
is behind us.”
The Fed lowers its discount rate to 8.5%, down from 9%.
Bandits cut through the roof of an armored car company in
the Bronx, handcuff a guard and escape with $5.3 million in
what police say is the largest cash robbery in the nation’s history.
Several maximum strength Anacin III capsules in a bottle purchased by a San
Jose (CA) woman
The Law of the Sea Convention is signed by 118 countries, triggering steps to
form an international sea Bed authority to regulate mining of rich mineral deposits
on the ocean floor.
The death toll in the terrorist bombing of a crowded discotheque in Northern
Ireland reaches 16.
Medical
- After seven years of delay, the U.S. food and Drug administration
reverses its position and grants approval for use of chymopapain, an inject able
drug widely used in other countries to treat slipped spinal discs.
A new and deadly disease which attacks the immune system and first discovered
among homosexual men, has spread to children in blood transfusions, according
to the Centers for disease Control in Atlanta. A 21-month-old San Francisco
child, who had several blood transfusions has contracted the disease, acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
A daredevil dangling a third day on a cable high above the Colorado River denies
he is a nut trying to destroy a national monument. He says he wants to raise
money for needy senior citizens because President Reagan is ignoring them.
Sports
- National Football League players ratify by a 3-1 margin the five-year
$1.6 billion collective bargaining agreement that ends their 57-day strike, but
