Week of February 1, 1991

An air traffic controller is blamed for the collision of two planes at Los Angeles

International Airport - and as many as 33 may be dead. The USAir jetliner

landing at the airport collided on the ground with a commuter plane.

Six U.S. crewman are dead after their B-52 crashed into to Indian Ocean while

returning from a bombing run over Iraq.

President Bush - taking it to the road in Georgia - told a crowd that Saddam

Hussein has an “endless appetite for evil” and that when the war ends, “We will

have taught a dangerous dictator… that what we say goes.”

Vidar Kleppe - a right-wing Norwegian legislator has nominated President Bush

for the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for standing up to Saddam Hussein’s “threats

against the whole world community.”

President Bush rules out a ground war so far - and says he will rely on his

military advisers on such a direction.

U.S. and allied warplanes will not bomb residential streets and will not target

civilians. Many Iraqi’s re hiding in schools and mosques.

Secretary of State James Baker III indicates that the U.S. and its allies may help

rebuild postwar Iraq but they must have a key peacetime role.

The DNA Advisory Committee - endorses a plan by St. Jude Children’s

Research Hospital in Memphis - to insert foreign genes into cancer-stricken

immune cells of children with leukemia.

imported weapons and now has an arsenal at its disposal. Spegeli has a

problem - he’s on the run from a federal arrest

warrant.

Sports -

apologizes for a joke he told at a banquet about

Lisa Olson and the Persian Gulf War. The joke was

- “Do you know what Lisa Olson has in common

with the Iraqis? They’ve both seen Patriot missiles

up close.” Olson was the sportswriter who was

sexually harassed in the locker room last season by

several Patriot players.

Week of February 1, 1991

Entertainment news -

Passing - Danny Thomas - Beloved actor/comedian/entertainer and known for

his work with St. Judes in Memphis. He was 79.

claiming he cost them in potential commissions by ignoring their advice and

making awful career moves.

Whitney Houston’s “Star Spangled Banner” as performed at the Super Bowl is in

demand. Radio stations are playing it - and it’ll be released as a single this week.

Wow - on CBS-TV this week - “Cher at the Mirage.” A one-night only

performance - her first CBS special in more than a decade!

“Playgirl of the Western World” is the headline in this edition of “Playboy”

magazine and Madonna. The author is not flattering at all to the pop mistress -

coining a term for her act: “slut feminism.” The author is Michael Kelly.

the current cost! The show is important and NBC has no choice.

Mr. Drysdale’s foil on “the Beverly

Hillbillies.”

Passing- TV producer Harry

Ackerman (78).

Passing - Actor John McIntire. He

was 83.

Can you believe it? Three female

NBC correspondents - Sunday

“Today” co-anchor Maria Shriver,

“Today” co-anchor Deborah Norville

and “Today” national correspondent

Katherine Couric are expecting babies.

Thursday night television -

CBS - Top Cops, the Flash, Good Sports, Knots Landing, America Tonight

NBC - Cosby Show, A Different World, Cheers, Wings, L.A. Law, Tonight Show

ABC - Father Dowling Mysteries, Fantasies, PrimeTime Live, Nightline, Into The

Night

Week of February 1, 1991

Fox - The Simpsons, Babes, Beverly Hills 90210

PBS - Mystery!

HBO - Tracey Ullman, Adventures of Molly Dodd

Showtime - Jimmie Walker & Friends II

CNN - Gulf War, Gulf Talk, Sports Tonight, Newsnight, Sonya Live

Johnny Carson - Clint Black, Robert Morse, Rich Shydner.

Into The Night w/Rick Dees - Les Greenwood, Byron Allen.

A t the movies -

Home Alone

Dances with Wolves

White Fang

Awakenings

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