Week of January 19, 1983
President Reagan
urges visiting
Japanese Prime Minister
Yasuhiro
Nakasone
to take further action to open
Japan’s market to foreign goods.
President Reagan promises, “30 minutes
of surprises in his State of the Union
Address… lets see.
Radioactive debris from a crippled Soviet satellite plunges enters the atmosphere
over the Indian Ocean. It’s not known if any debris survived after striking the
water.
Consumer prices dipped .3% in December, holding inflation for 1982 to 3.9% -
the smallest gain in a decade.
Retaliation- China has decided to stop buying American cotton, soybeans and
man-made fibers in retaliation for U.S. quotas on Chinese textiles.
Two years in office - President Reagan gives himself high marks at his midterm,
saying the nation is on the right course, but still suffers for “the political mistakes
of the past.”
Medical - A man who paid to have a woman artificially inseminated and carry his
baby rejects the infant after it was born with a birth defect and claims he could
not be the father. But the surrogate mom doesn’t want the baby either. Ray
Stiver, the surrogate mother’s husband says,” - We honestly, sincerely feel we
did our half of the commitment. We feel we’ve been stabbed in the back.”
Technology
- Apple Computer unveils
“The Lisa” - the company’s entry into the
top-of-the-line personal computer market.
Also unveiled - the
Apple model Iie
(see
ad), the latest version of the 5-year-old
Apple II. The “e” is for enhanced.
Lawyers for Sony tell the Supreme Court
that it would be unfair to penalize them
for the copying of television programs by
the millions who have purchased a Sony
Beta VCR. It’s likely that the court will
