Week of January 1, 1985
The Commerce Department predicts the economy will grow 4.3% this year, well
behind 1984’s 6.7%. But, we’ll see.
Bowl Games -
Fiesta - UCLA - 39 Miami - 37
Rose Bowl - USC - 20 Ohio State - 17
Orange Bowl - Washington - 28 Oklahoma - 17
Cotton Bowl - Boston College - 45 Houston - 28
Final instructions - President Reagan meets with Secretary of State George
Shultz before the Secretary leaves to meet Soviet foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko for nuclear arms talks.
A man who walked into a police station and confessed
to shooting four teens in a New York City subway,
waves extradition, saying he will return voluntarily to
New York to face attempted murder charges.
Bernhard
Hugo Goetz
(37), dubbed the “subway vigilante,”
nodded his head “yes” during a brief arraignment in
Concord (NH) District Court. Earlier, Goetz had said he
would fight extradition to New York. He was ordered
held without bail.
House Democrats vote to remove 80-year-old Rep Melvin Price as chairman of
the House Armed Services Committee, then install Re. Les Aspin.
Interior secretary William P. Clark submits his resignation to President Reagan.
He says he wants to return to his ranch in California by March.
The IRS proposes that employers begin withholding money next summer from
the paychecks of employees who receive such fringe benefits as the use of
company cars and company aircraft.
