Week of February 8, 1989
President Bush unveils a $1.16 trillion budge the calls for a modest shift of funds
from the military to social programs. He urged the Democratic-controlled
Congress to work with him to “keep America growing while cutting the deficit.”
A federal appeals court, aiding with a trial judge and against the Bush
Administration, refused to stop the trial of fired national security aide, Oliver North
on the ground that national security secrets might be exposed.
The Soviet Union’s first Jewish cultural center in more than 50 years opens in
Moscow.
Entertainment news -
Passing - George O’Hanlon - the voice cartoon’s George Jetson. He was 76.
Actor Jesse
White - best known as the lonely
Maytag repairman in commercials, says he’s
retiring. Gordon Jump will replace him.
Gary Coleman of Diff’rent Strokes is suing his
parents and former business adviser, alleging they
took too big a share of his earnings.
Saturday night television -
CBS - Dolphin Cove, Smothers Brothers, West 57
th
NBC - 227, Amen, Golden Girls, empty Nest,
Hunter, Saturday Night Live
ABC - Mission: Impossible, A Man Called Hawk, Murphy’s Law
Fox - The Reporters, Beyond Tomorrow
HBO - Rodney Dangerfield in concert
Saturday Night Live - Ted Danson hosts with musical guest Luther Vandross.
At the movies -
The Fly II
Three Fugitives
Rain Man From Yesterday Beaches
Her Alibi
