Week of Febuary 22, 1991

President Bush gives Iraq until noon to begin immediate and unconditional

withdrawal of its troops from Kuwait. The President accuses the Hussein regime

of setting Kuwait oil wells on fire. At least 150 of Kuwait’s 950 oil wells have

been set ablaze by Iraqi troops.

The United States and its allies launch their long-threatened ground assault

against Iraqi forces to drive them out of Kuwait.

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s government orders its forces to withdraw from

Kuwait as allied troops push further into Iraq and occupy Kuwait.

An Iraqi Scud missile slams into a makeshift barracks full of U.S. troops near

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia - killing at least 27 soldiers.

U.S. Marines enter the capital of Kuwait, cutting off the main body of Iraq’s elite

republican guard - as his armies flee.

President Bush announces a suspension of hostilities in the Persian Gulf War -

declaring, “Kuwait is liberated. Iraq’s army is defeated. Our military objectives are

met.”

serve his sentence at a minimum-security prison in

the San Francisco Bay Area.

Chrysler Corp announces that it will discontinue its

Jeep Wagoneer.

The Republic of Croatia joined Slovenia’s move to

secede from Yugoslavia.

After months of debate - the New York City board

of Education decides to begin handing out

condoms at 30 to 35 schools, then phase in at the

rest of the city’s 120 schools.

Technology -

Sony forms Sony Electronic Publishing - for video and computer software.

Music news -

Passing - 1950’s country favorite Webb Pierce. He was 65.

Week of Febuary 22, 1991

New anti-war song by the Rolling Stones - “High Wire.”

MTV marks videos that have been lip-synced as “visualization” and the person’s

name. It is being used on the new “Gonna Make You Sweat” by C+C Music

Factory, marking lip-syncing Zelma Davis who’s singing for Martha Wash.

To the Extreme -

Vanilla Ice

The Soul Cages -

Sting

Please Hammer Don’t

Hurt ‘Em - M.C.

Hammer

Radio news -

Los Angeles - KDAY

(1580)- the first

rap/hip hop station -

drops that format this

week. Will the genre

take-off?

Television news -

From the war - Peter

Arnett on CNN.

This week - “First

Person With Maria

Shriver” - with Demi

Moore, Michael Jordan, Gloria Estefan.

The original crew of Star Trek - reunites for Star Trek VI.

On “Saturday Night Live” - Host Alec Baldwin with musical guest Whitney

Houston.

Passing - George Gobel (71) - a fixture on television in the 1950’s & 1960’s.

Originally co-owned “Leave It To Beaver.”

Passing - Another 1950’s TV icon - John Daly - who did “What’s My Line” and

anchored the ABC News.

Week of Febuary 22, 1991

At the movies -

Silence of the Lambs

Sleeping with the

Enemy

King Ralph

Home Alone

Dances with Wolves