Week of February 16, 1983

President Reagan gives his first public blessing to a multibillion-dollar package of

emergency jobs and recession relief while Republican congressional leaders

caution that any effort by democrats to add more expensive provisions to the

$4.3 billion emergency jobs program would jeopardize the legislation’s speedy

passage.

The United States has sent radar surveillance planes to Egypt and has moved

the aircraft carrier Minitz and three escort ships to counter a Libyan aircraft build-

up apparently aimed at Sudan.

vows to turn the Gulf of Sidra into a “red gulf of

blood’ if the U.s. aircraft carrier Nimitz and his

battle group dare to enter the disputed bay in the

southern Mediterranean.

12 men and a woman were hog-tied and shot in

the head in a mass execution during what was

apparently a robbery at a high-stakes gambling

den in Seattle’s Chinatown.

India - At least 500 villagers are killed by frenzied

tribesman in central Assam state.

U.S. marines will begin expanding their patrols in East Beirut in support of

Lebanese troops who have moved in there.

Sen. Gary Hart (D-CO) formally enters the 1984 presidential contest, pledging to

replace ‘tired assumptions” with fresh ideas’ and to speak for “the vast

unorganized majority’ instead of the “narrow interests” with their powerful

Washington lobbies.

California feminist leader Virginia Foat is ordered extradited to Louisiana to stand

trial for the 1965 killing of an argentine businessman.

President Reagan says he has ordered the Justice department to investigate the

Environmental Protection Agency’s handling of its billion-dollar hazardous waste

clean-up program and that he would “never insist on invoking executive privilege

to cover up wrongdoing.”

Week of February 16, 1983

there is no union in the league.

Dodgers pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela, who two years ago was paid

$42,000 has been awarded a record $1 million salary for the 1983 season.

At least 2 million people have been executed in 39 countries in the last 15 years

without fair trials, a United Nations report says.

with the New Jersey General of the United States

Football League. The NCAA says it believes Walker

and will not investigate, so unless his USFL contract

signature is produced, the NCAA says he’ll be eligible

to play his senior year at the University of Georgia.

Technology - International Telephone & Telegraph

Corp says it had asked the U.S. district court to strip

American Telephone & Telegraph Co. of the right to

use the “Bell” name for marketing purposes and also

to prohibit centralized purchasing by the Bell

operating companies after divestiture. ITT says the

actions would reduce confusion and the appearance

of continued affiliation between AT&T and the Bell

operating companies targeted for divestiture next

Jan. 1.

Week of February 16, 1983

Entertainment news -

Actor Raymond Vitte, who played Cody Johnson on the TV series “The Quest,”

dies in a confrontation with police who had bee called by neighbors complaining

about his incessant religious chanting.

Sunday night television -

CBS - 60 Minutes, Archie Bunker’s Place, Gloria, the

Jeffersons, One day at a Time, trapper John, M.d.

NBC - Voyagers! Movie

ABC - Ripley’s Believe it Or Not, Matt Houston, Movie

PBS -

Masterpiece

Theater.

Archie Bunker’s Place - Archie balks at

attending a restaurant convention until

one of the association’s attractive

representatives pays him a visit.

Matt Houston - A crazed man is out to

get Matt.

ABC Sunday Night Movie - Star Trek.

At the movies -

48 Hours

Sting II

Lords of Discipline

Table for Five

Without a Trace

Tootsie

Frances

Week of February 16, 1983