Week of February 22, 1987

Six leading industrial nations agree on a pact to prevent a further decline in the

U.S. dollar and reduce the U.S. trade deficit.

The Tower Commission castigates President Reagan and some of his aides for

the handling of selling arms to Iran. The commission, set by President Reagan

back in November, accused several of the President’s top aides of concealing

evidence from investigators. The report said President Reagan “did not seem to

be aware’ of the full consequences of his arms-to-Iran policy or the

unprofessional way it was implemented.

White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan, resigns and is replaced by former

Republican Senate leader Howard H. Baker Jr.

Vice President George Bush, who escaped any direct criticism from the Tower

Commission, says that the trading of arms for hostages was wrong and “failed

the American people.”

been granted immunity in the Iran-contra affair. She

says she feels “nervous” but “famous” for her new

role as a key figure in the Iran-contra scandal. “I don’t

think I’ve ever had so many cameras aimed at me.”

Hall became North’s secretary at the National

Security Council four years ago. She told

investigators that at North’s request, she altered for

NSC memos last fall on the sale of arms to Iran and

spent an afternoon with North shredding other

memos. While North’s secretary, Hall reportedly had

a 15-month romance with Arturo Cruz Jr., son of the

Nicaraguan contra leader. They broke up last

Thanksgiving, about the time the Iran-contra scandal

came down.

A U.S. District Court judge in New York rules that Johnson & Johnson, makers of

Tylenol, mislead customers when it said in Tylenol commercials, “You can’t buy a

more potent pain reliever without a prescription. Tylenol, an Acetaminophen, is

almost the same as competitors Datril and Panadol. Speaking of which,

Acetaminophen’s have 45% of the analgesic market Aspirin leads with 46% and

Ibuprofen 9%.

Audrey Marie Hilley - dubbed the Black Widow after when was convicted of

poisoning her husband and who once faked her own death, has died of exposure

Week of February 22, 1987

while trying to elude authorities in Alabama. She had received a three-day pass

from prison to visit her second husband at a hotel and was found muddy and

incoherent when she was found on a porch in a rural area. She was pronounced

dead of exposure and hypothermia.

Jerusalem - survivor of the Treblinka death camp identifies

the terrible” who beat prisoners with pipes and bayonets and

mutilated their corpses. Epstein was the first camp survivor

to testify in the war crimes trial. The Ukrainian-born

Demjanjuk, who settled in Cleveland after World War II, is

accused of being one of two guards who turned on the gas

chamber engines to kill 850,000 Jews at Treblinka in Nazi-

occupied Poland form 1942-1943.

Sports -

The NCAA says it will begin testing basketball players for drugs as soon as

possible.

bladder surgery at New York hospital Cornell Medical

Center and was in stable condition. His condition

suddenly took a turn for the worse. He was 58.

Passing - TV talkshow pioneer David Susskind (66).

He is best remembered for his historic 1960 live TV

interview with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev over

WNTA-TV (Channel 13) in New York (see this site).

Entertainment news -

Griffin O’Neal, son of actor Ryan O’Neal, is fined $200 and placed on 18 months

probation for a boating accident that killed the son of director Francis Ford

Coppla.

Jerry Hall says she will soon marry Mick Jagger, her longtime companion. “He’s

asked me so many times. I always asked ‘when’ ad he would say ‘after the next

album.’” They have two children James (1) and Elizabeth (2).

Music news -

Industry first - Geffen Records is trying out something different - making their

music videos in-house. They just signed Angel Gracia and Cliff Guest as in-

Week of February 22, 1987

house video directors. Unrelated but great for exposure, the duo submitted the

winning entry in a recent MTV video contest.

On Saturday Night Live this week - Valerie Bertinelli hosts with musical guest

Robert Cray.

MTV Saturday night - Glass House in concert.

Awards - Some Winners (see TV

ad) -

Best record - “Higher Love,” Steve

Winwood

Best song - “That’s What Friends

Are for,” Burt Bacharach, Carole

Bayer Sager

Simon

Best male pop vocal - “Higher

Love,” Steve Winwood

Best female pop vocal - “The

Broadway Album,” Barbara

Streisand

Male rock vocal - “Addicted to

Love,” Robert Palmer

Female rock vocal ‘Back Where

You Started,” Tina Turner

Group pop vocal - “That’s What

Friends Are For,” Dionne Warwick

and Friends

At the movies -

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

The Good Wife

Death Before Dishonor

Deadtime Stories

Crocodile Dundee

Over The Top

Black Widow

Platoon

Duet For One

Children of a Lesser God

Week of February 22, 1987

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Week of February 22, 1987