Week of February 22, 1985

President Reagan orders his agriculture secretary to rewrite a program aimed at

easing the farm credit crisis.

President Reagan declares that the U.S. supports the removal of Nicaragua’s

leftist regime unless it joins with its rebel enemies to form a truly democratic

government.

The senate confirmed Edwin Meese III as attorney general of the United States.

Poland orders the expulsion of the U.S. military attaché Col. Frederick Myer after

accusing him of taking photos of military installations.

The reputed godfathers of New York City’s five Mafia families are indicted by a

federal grand jury on charges of participating in a commission that governs mob

operations prosecutors. The godfathers include Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corallo

and Paul (Big Paul) Castellano.

The Senate narrowly approves more relief for debt-strapped farmers.

holding onto a chair for support, is shown on Soviet

television, officially acknowledging a new mandate to

govern and speaking to election officials. The

appearance was the soviet leader’s second public

appearance in five days, after an absence of tow

months due to illness.

William Carter Spann, the jailed nephew of former

President Jimmy carter and the self-described “bad

peanut’ of the Carter family, is credited with helping

rescue a fellow inmate who apparently tried to hang

himself in a cell.

Bernhard H. Goetz, who admitted shooting four youths on a subway train last

December, appears on court to show his support of a man charged in a stabbing

death during a theft of candy.

Subway vigilante, Bernhard Goetz says that he will move out of New York City

after he is tried on gun possession charges stemming from his shooting of four

teens who asked him for 45.

Week of February 22, 1985

Passing - Ex senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (82).

controversial low-cholesterol diet to prevent heart

disease, commits suicide in a New York City

hospital after fighting leukemia for months. He was

69.

Tina Marie Machado loses her Miss Hawaii USA

crown after less than a week. Pageant officials say

she is too old at 25 and won by mistake. Entrants

must be under 25, but Ms. Machado - who turned

25 in November, was allowed to enter.

Baskin-Robbins files suit against Haagen-Dazs

charging they infringed on a Baskin-Robbins

trademark and engaged in unfair competition by

introducing a flavor under the name Pralines & Cream at about 300 stores.

Baskin-Robbins’ most popular flavor is Pralines ‘N Cream - a vanilla ice cream

laced with caramel ribbon and toffee-coated pecans.

“Big Boy” who has been Big Boy restaurants mascot for

some 49 years, is at a crossroads. The company is deciding

whether to keep him, give him a diminished roll or get rid of

him all-together.

where you can record tapes from tapes. It’ll be sold only in

Japan for now. Hollywood hates the idea and believes it’ll be

easy to pirate videotapes.

challenges the NFL and suggests that the USFL’s Express play either the raiders

or the Rams this summer. “I think such a game would be really fun for the fan,

the viewer, the Coliseum and the environment.

USFL season is underway as ABC telecasts a game between the New Jersey

Generals and Birmingham stallions. The Generals have Heisman Trophy winner

Doug Flutie. The USFL till make instant replay video pictures available to officials

working the game, something not yet done in the NFL.

Leon Spinks stops Lupe Guerra 43 seconds into the fourth round of their Detroit

bout.

Week of February 22, 1985

Entertainment news -

$22 million suit - Frank Sinatra files suit against the National enquirer for an

October article that claimed the entertainer went of a Swiss clinic for injections of

a youth serum made of sheep cells.

Passing - Alexander Scurby. He was 71.

Passing - Efrem Zimbalist Sr., one of the century’s great violinists. He was 95.

“Beat of a New Generation” - Pepsi-

Cola kicks off its 1985 advertising

campaign featuring singer Lionel

Richie in a three-minute television

spot - the longest product-oriented

television commercials aired to date.

The commercial is described as a

mini-rock video and will air during the

Grammy Awards telecast on CBS.

A simple five-year contraceptive that

is injected just beneath the skin of a woman’s upper arm has been found safe

and effective by World Health Organization experts, The injection contains

progestin, which has been used in birth control pills for years, but the implant

appears to be safer and even more effective. The FDA will be asked to approve

the drug for use in this country in a few months.

Sports -

Former Coach John McKay is heavily fined by the NFL for ordering Tampa Bay

to allow the New York Jets to score at will so his star tailback could try for an NFL

record.

Playing in Las Vegas -

Willie Nelson - Caesar’s Palace

Desert Inn - Jerry Lewis and Shirley Jones

Maxim - Allen & Rossi

MGM Grand - Rich Little and Ann Jillian

- “Centerfold.”

Week of February 22, 1985

She’s Helen Folasade Adu and was born in Nigeria. But she calls herself Sade -

a nickname derived from Folasade.

some winners:

Record of the year - “What’s

Love Got to Do With It.” - Tina

Turner

Song of the year - “What’s Love

Got To Do With It.” - Written by

Graham Lyle and Terry Britten

Album of the Year - “Can’t Slow

Down” - Lionel Richie

Best new artist - Cyndi Lauper

Best male pop vocalist - Phil

Collins - “Against All Odds.”

Best female pop vocalist - Tina Turner - “What’s Love Got To Do With It.”

Pop instrumental - “Ghostbusters,” Ray Parker Jr.

Male Rock vocal - “Bruce Springsteen - “dancing in the Dark.”

Female rock Vocal - Tina Turner - “Better Be Good to Me.”

Saturday night television -

CBS - Otherworld, Airwolf, Cover-up

NBC - Diff’rent Strokes, Double Trouble, Gimme a Break, Gimme a Break,

Berrenger’s, Saturday Night Live

ABC - T.J. Hooker, The Love Boat, Finder of Lost Loves

PBS - Austin City Limits

WTBS - Night Tracks

Double Trouble - Identical twin girls begin their careers while living with the New

York aunt.

At the movies -

1984- John Hurt, Richard Burton

The Falcon and the Snowman

Witness - Harrison Ford

Turk 182 - Timothy Hutton

Beverly Hills Cop - Eddie Murphy

Breakfast Club

Heaven Help us

Mischief

Week of February 22, 1985

The Killing Fields

Mean Season - Mariel Hemingway

Mass Appeal

Breakfast Club

Week of February 22, 1985