Week of December 15, 1983

Responding to criticism of escalating U.S. military involvement in Lebanon,

President Regan declares American Marines will be withdrawn fro Beirut if there

is a “collapse of order” there.

Salvadoran armed forces vow to eradicate right-wing death squads, abdicating to

U.S. military pressure.

Wholesale prices fell by .2% in November led by declining costs of fuel and food.

Italian ferry Appia, carrying 93 wounded Palestinian guerrillas and civilians, sails

from Tripoli to begin the humiliating second evacuation from Lebanon of Yasser

Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization.

Israeli gunboats fire on Tripoli, forcing

trapped PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and

thousands of his guerrilla followers to cancel

their evacuation by sea, at least for a day.

Two bombs explode minutes apart at French

regional headquarters and at a hotel bar in

west Beirut. A total of 12 are killed.

President Regan says that U.S. Marines will

remain in Lebanon until they accomplish

their peacekeeping mission, unless the

Lebanese government undergoes a

“complete change of course” and asks that

they be withdrawn.

The Irish Republican Army says that its guerrillas planted a deadly car bomb

outside Harrods department store without authorization from the IRA high

command. The group apologized for the civilian casualties and said it has taken

steps to prevent a repetition of “this type of operation.”

San Francisco - Fourteen Laotian refugees are critically ill in Bay Area hospitals

after eating a deadly species of wild mushrooms of which there is no known

antidote.

Right to die - Elizabeth Bouvia, the 26-year-old cerebral palsy victim who wants

to escape what she considers a hopeless life, has no right to starve herself to

death - a Superior Court judge ruled in Riverside, CA.

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always want to reveal information “that’s going to screw things

up” and President Regan said the ban on the media during the

Grenada invasion cut casualties. Interviewed, he delivered this

explanation -“In World War II, reporters were involved all

along. And on the whole, they were on our side. But today, it

seems as though reporters are always against us… they’re

always seeking to report something that’s going to screw

things up.”

at least 51, after a police officer told an occupant of a parked car to drive it away.

78 are killed when fire sweeps through a crowded disco in Madrid.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. passed the New York state bar on his second try,

Fotomat - the film processor and developer, whose retail

outlets are a fixture in shopping areas coast-to-coast,

says it lost $13.6 million in the last quarter and is near

default on $12.5 million in bank loans.

Sports - Wayne Gretsky scores two goals Sunday night

at Winnipeg and assisted tow others to reach 100 points -

quicker than any player in NHL history (34 games).

Vita Blue - a Cy Young Award-winning pitcher and one of

baseball’s biggest stars through the 1970’s, is ordered to

spend three months in prison and fined $5,000 on a drug

charge.

Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspends Dodgers

Howe was tested for cocaine and results came out positive.

In Boston - Actress Jodi Foster is fined $100 by a U.S.

Customs official for carrying what appeared to be a small

amount of cocaine - and will face charges if lab tests prove

that the substance was cocaine.

Technology - Home video tape sales doubled this year to 11

million.

Week of December 15, 1983

First 71-minute CD - the most you can have on a compact disc is being offered

by Denon It’s Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Top TV -

60 Minutes - 29.4

Dallas - 27.3

The A-Team - 27.1

Dynasty - 25.7

Simon & Simon - 24.7

Falcon Crest - 24.4

Magnum, P.I. - 24.4

All Star Party - 23.0

Hotel - 22.0

Knots Landing - 21.8

Love Boat - 21.5

Monday Night Football - 21.2

Remington Steele - 20.7

Movie-Through Naked Eyes - 20.2

Barbara Walters Special - 19.7

Hill Street Blues - 18.9

Best Christmas Pageant ever - 18.9

AfterMash - 18.7

Knight Rider - 18.6

Jeffersons - 18.3

Newhart - 19.2

Fantasy - Island - 17.7

Television news -

Former President Gerald Ford, his wife Betty and former Secretary of State

Henry Kissinger make $330 each for their cameo appearances on this week’s

“Dynasty” on ABC-TV.

General Hospital at the end of the year. He had been

with the afternoon soap for five years.

Seen in syndication - Dick Clark’s Salute! This week

features Jerry Lee Lewis.

Don’t miss Perry Como’s Christmas In New York

featuring Michele Lee of Knot’s Landing. On ABC-TV.

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Another holiday special - “John Schneider’s Christmas Holiday” which finds the

“Dukes of Hazzard” star singing “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,”

“Christmas Waltz” and others.

Sunday night television -

CBS - 60 Minutes, Alice, One Day At A Time, Circus of the Stars

NBC - First Camera, Knight Rider, Movie

ABC - The Pope and the Vatican, Hardcastle & McCormick, Movie

PBS - Nature, Masterpiece Theater

HBO - Fraggle Rock, Movie-Six Weeks w/Dudley Moore, The Hitchhiker

USA - Countdown to ’84, PBA Bowling, Pro Boxing

MTV - The Kids Are Alright/Film on The Who, Music videos

First Camera - With anchor Lloyd Dobyns.

Knight Rider - Michael and KITT rescue a Gypsy con artist who stole a piece of

important evidence in a stick-up.

Week of December 15, 1983

NBC Movie - “National Lampoon’s Animal House” with John Belushi, Tim

Matheson and John Vernon.

ABC Movie - “Goldfinger” with Sean Connery as James Bond.

Music quotes -

fat? It doesn’t matter. Pop music is popular, and popular is

everyone. As long as people enjoy our music, that’s what we

are there for.”

Thanksgiving record and tape sales were the strongest since

1979 with gains of 5-30% reported by retailers.

Pepsi Cola’s deal with the Jacksons for their 1984 tour sponsorship is $10

million.

Brooklyn. In 1977, she joined

keyboardist/saxophonist John Turi to form Blue

Angel Records. Her “Girls Just Want To have

Fun,” written by Robert Hazard, looks like a hit.

MTV - At a video music conference, MTV head

Bob Pittman offered some reasons why the

video music business is growing:

“The TV babies are now of age and they have

different expectations of their TV set. We don’t

know life without TV. The set is part of our

lives. TV babies will accept new forms, but

broadcast TV still programs in a linear form,

with a beginning, a middle and end. TV babies

hunger for new forms; video games and video music television.”

Continues Pittman - “We hear a lot today about kids not passing tests, but those

tests measure linear comprehension. Kids today process information in a

different way. They can pick up information from different sources and process it.

They process information in clusters. You can see this influence in the movies,

as in ‘Flashdance,’ and on MTV. Music videos are not based on plot and

continuity. Video music is the hottest new development in the entertainment

industry.”

Radio news - The most fascinating radio station in the world is atomic time

station WWV, near Ft Collins, CO. Scripps-Howard’s Deborah Frazier writes an

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article this month about this unique shortwave station, which can save lives…

Thanks Scripps-Howard! You can hear WWV on your shortwave radio at 2.5, 5.0,

10.0, 15.0 and 20mhz depending on your location and time of day. Sister station

is WWVH in Hawaii on the same channels. WWV’s time announcer is male.

More top-40 FM stations as WASH, Washington and KDWB, Minneapolis

complete their switches.

Legendary New York personality Dan Ingram is returning to the air with a weekly

countdown show (see ad). Ingram’s been off the air since WABC went talk May

of last year. He says he’s been offered at least three morning and afternoon air

shifts in New York, including Z-100 and WPLJ, which is owned by ABC, “but the

money was never right.” His countdown show has a twist - in that the five CBS-

FM affiliates signed to carry the show will participate in its music research.

Ironically, the show has not yet cleared in Ingram’s New York City, where he held

afternoons on WABC for 21 years.

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Week of December 15, 1983

Billboard’s Top Pop Artists For 1983:

Michael Jackson

Men At Work

The Police

Duran Duran

Def Leppard

Journey

Daryl Hall & John Oates

Alabama

Lionel Richie

Prince

Culture Club

Loverboy

Stray Cats

Billy Joel

Laura Branigan

Toto

Bob Seger & The Sliver Bullet Band

Thomas Dolby

Willie Nelson

Pink Floyd

Stevie Nicks

David Bowie

The Fixx

Pat Benatar

Bryan Adams

Olivia Newton-John

Styx

Kenny Rogers

Phil Collins

Jane Fonda

Flock of Seagulls

Little River Band

Top hits in Britain -

Only You - Flying Pickets

Love Of The Common People -

Paul Young

My Oh My - Slade

Hold Me Know - Thompson Twins

Uptown Girl - Billy Joel

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Calling Your Name - Marilyn

Move Over Darling - Tracey Ullman

Let’s Stay Together - Tina Turner

Please Don’t Fall In Love - Cliff Richard

Hot Hits -

Say Say Say - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson

Uptown Girl - Billy Joel

All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie

Twist of Fate - Olivia Newton-John

Union of the Snake - Duran Duran

Church of the Poison Mind - Culture Club

Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers and

Dolly Parton

Undercover of the Night - Rolling Stones

Whey Me? - Irene Cara

Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes

Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter

Schilling

Crumblin’ Down - John Cougar

Mellencamp

Cum On Feel The Noize - Quiet Riot

I Guess That’s Why The Call It The Blues

- Elton John

Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder

Synchronicity II - The Police

In A Big Country - Big Country

Ain’t Nobody - Rufus With Chaka

Khan

Souls - Rick Springfield

Joanna - Kool and the Gang

Time Will Reveal - DeBarge

Karma Chameleon - Culture Club

Read ‘Em And Weep - Barry

Manilow

If I’d Been The One - 38 Special

That’s All - Genesis

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Week of December 15, 1983