Week of January 8, 1990

Interim President Ion Illescu declares that the Communist party of Romania has

been outlawed.

Unrest - Outspoken Lithuanians demand independence on the first day of

President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s visit to the Baltic state.

government armed forces committed

the Nov. 16 slayings of six Jesuit

priests, their housekeeper and her

daughter at their Central American

University residences in San

Salvador.

Wholesale prices hit .7% for

December - driving inflation to 4.8%

for all of 1989.

The Bush Administration backs away

from a plan to send two warships to intercept drug traffic off the Colombian coast.

Cincinnati - President Bush takes time out to meet with the family of Army Pfc.

James Markwell, a ranger medic killed by gunfire during the Dec. 20 Panama

invasion.

The Supreme Court rules unanimously that a university, when charged with race

or sex discrimination, must turn over confidential internal documents to

government investigators.

Ford says it plans to sell its Aerospace division and concentrate more of its

resources on the car business.

Exxon Corp is set to pay $millions in cleanup costs for allowing a half-million

gallons of fuel oil to spill from a pipeline into a busy waterway between New York

and New Jersey.

China - Hundreds of Beijing residents streamed into Tian An Men Square after

martial law was lifted and sporadic acts of defiance are quickly suppressed by

police.

Disneyland announces it will build another park in S. California and will add new

attractions to the older park.

Week of January 8, 1990

Major banks drop their prime lending rates to 10%.

Ford says it will make front-seat air bags for the driver and passenger standard

on all of its cars by the mid-1990’s.

High Tech -

The dual-deck VCR - will finally become available to consumers on March 28.

Home cassette copying is here! The unit - manufactured by Samsung - will sell

for $999.

Cincinnati Red - Outfielder Eric Davis signs a three-year $9.3-million contract

that includes performance bonuses.

Entertainment news -

Veteran actress Viveca Lindfors, is slashed across the face and ear by a

Greenwich Village gang member. She’s OK and has about 26 stitches.

actor.

Heartbreakers “More Strange Behavior” the Tour.

Ice Cube is leaving the rap group N.W.A. He plans to

release a solo album in the Spring.

Attorneys for Ringo Starr and a Tennessee record

producer (Chip Moman) who was ordered to turn

over potentially embarrassing recordings to the

former Beatle in exchange for $74,000 in expenses.

Television news -

Jennifer Casolo, the American imprisoned in El Salvador for 18 on charges she

hid weapons for leftist rebels - appears on CNN’s “Sonny Live.”

Janet Jackson launches her first concert tour on March 1. Although she’s sold

some 7 million albums and Ms. Jackson has never toured to support a new

album.

Bryant Gumbel will serve as the main host for 12 of 19 golf tournaments televised

by NBC this year.

Week of January 8, 1990

Pauley’s place on “Today” this week.

Top TV -

The Cosby Show - 24.2

Cheers - 24.2

Roseanne - 23.9

The Golden Girls

60 Minutes - 22.2

A Different World

21.6

Murder, She Wrote

Empty Nest - 20.9

The Wonder Years - 20.9

Designing Women - 20.7

Dear John - 20.5

Matlock - 18.5

Orange Bowl- 18.5

Unsolved Mysteries - 18.5

Who’s the Boss? - 18.3

Murphy Brown - 18.2

In the Heat of the Night - 17.9

Coach - 17.7

At the movies -

Born on the Fourth of July

The War of the Roses

Tango & Cash

Always

The Little Mermaid

Glory

Harlem Nights

We’re No Angels

Family Business

Week of January 8, 1990