Week of February 1, 1984

Norway expels five Soviet Embassy officials after the exposure of a top

Norwegian diplomat as a KGB spy.

Lebanese Premier Shafik Wazzan and his Cabinet resign in hops that a new

coalition government might have a better chance of bringing Lebanon’s sectarian

conflict to an end.

President Reagan sends Congress a 925-billion budget plan for 1985 that

includes a 14.5 % increase in Pentagon spending

Marine helicopters evacuate 41 U.S. Embassy personnel and their dependents to

Navy warships off the Lebanese coast as Muslim rebels seize government

offices in Beirut.

Stewart unhook their lifelines and slowly rose

up and away from Challenger.

Earlier in the week, Challenger astronauts

released an Indonesian satellite into space, but

hours later, observed it was lost.

President Reagan, says withdrawing U.S.

Marines from Lebanon now would be

disastrous for American interests worldwide,

and he declared that he is “not ready to

surrender,” even if House Speaker Thomas P.

(tip) O’Neill Jr. is.

Martin S. Feldstein, chairman of the President Council of Economic Advisers,

already criticized by the Reagan Administration for publicly advocating tax

increases to help reduce huge deficits, is not gratis again. Treasury Secretary

Donald T. Regan snips at Feldstein this week, saying Congress might as well

“throw away” his latest economic reports. He was supposed to appear on NBC’s

“Today” show, but that’s been axed.

General Motors reports that it earned a company record $3.7 billion in 1983.

America’s unemployment rate drops to an even 8%, its lowest level since

October 1981.

Week of February 1, 1984

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Week of February 1, 1984

months ago as her father’s adviser on women’s issues,

says that some Administration sides “drive me to nausea,”

with their reluctance to accept women.”

Medical at UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles - For the first

time, a baby has been born to an infertile woman after an

embryo that had been fertilized in another women was

transferred to her womb.

Orwellian-style ad - Seems that everyone is talking about

Apple Computer’s “1984” commercial, which introduces the

Manintosh - first shown on the SuperBowl last month. In it, a menacing Big

Brother figure harangues an auditorium full of shaven-headed clones, and big

brother is on a screen. The commercial ends with an athletic woman racing into

the hall, pursued by cops, before they reach her, she hurls a hammer at the

screen, setting off an explosion. Only then do you know it’s an Apple Macintosh

ad, as an announcer hails the arrival of the new computer. Ad agency Chiat/Day

produced the ad.

Entertainment news -

amount of marijuana and LSD into Britain.

In a Barbara Walters interview this week. Howard Cosell tells

her his sports casting may be ending and expressed his

disappointment at not being allowed to anchor “The World

News Tonight,” a promise he says he thought Roone Arledge,

network news and sports president made to him.

Wednesday night television -

CBS - Empire, Empire Movie

NBC - Real People, Facts of Life, Night Court, St. Elsewhere, Johnny Carson

ABC - The Fall Guy, Dynasty, Hotel, Nightline

PBS - Live From The Met, Late Night America

Showtime - Steve Martin in “An Homage To Steve.”

USA - College Basketball, Pick the Pros, More College Basketball

Real People - Sarah Purcell gets in some water skiing stunts.

Week of February 1, 1984

Week of February 1, 1984