Week of January 21 -31, 1994

In Cairo - PLO leader Yasser Arafat met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

to discuss ways to speed up the Middle East peace process.

The Clinton Administration asks for $6 billion in aide to help the Northridge (Ca.)

earthquake victims.

More aftershocks in Los Angeles… more nerves. Some 2,500 housing units are

declared unsafe.

The famed Menendez murder case in Los Angeles ends in a mistrial, but the DA

is going to retry the brothers - who are accused of murdering their parents.

Lorena Bobbitt is acquitted by a jury that ruled she was temporarily insane when

she cut off her husband’s penis.

who perfected small, inexpensive, nearly

identical houses and - who has two

towns named after him - one on Long

Island - the other in Pennsylvania. The

closest thing to mass-production of

houses.

Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized

politicians who say there is no health care

crisis in America, calling on Washington

insiders who have no health care worries

themselves.

Ross Perot pledged that his political

organization will influence every 1994

House and Senate race and said

President Clinton’s health car plan is “an

airplane with no wings.”

Sarajevo - Mortar fire kills six children as they played in the snow near their

apartment building in Sarajevo.

Winnie Mandela was on the ANC’s list of candidates for South Africa’s first all-

race election, despite a 1991 kidnapping conviction along with several whites,

Indians and people of mixed race.

Week of January 21 -31, 1994

should not be attorney general because

she cares “more about day care than

about violent crime” - so said Sen. Phil

Gramm (R-Tex.).

Retired pathologist Jack Kevorkian is

released from house arrest by a

Michigan judge who rejected the state’s

ban on assisted suicide and dismissed

two of three charges against the

euthanasia advocate.

Weekly radio address - President

Clinton took credit for the good

economy and talked about moving forward with his health care agenda and

overhauling the welfare system.

Super Bowl XXVIII - The Dallas Cowboys beat the Buffalo Bills - 30-13.

Skater Tonya Harding said she learned afterward that persons close to her had

been responsible for the attack Jan. 6 on rival Nancy Kerrigan, but did not report

it to police. The question is -will she be able to participate in the Winter games

next month?

Austrian skier Ulrike Maier is killed in a downhill race in Germany.

Australia - A student upset about the plight of Cambodian boat people charged a

stage where Britain’s Prince Charles was about to speak and fired two shots from

a pistol loaded with blanks. He was subdued.

BankAmerica will acquire Continental Bank - thus becoming the #2 banking

company behind Citcorp.

American Express says it will spin off its Lehman Bros investment banking unit.

The economy is in good shape - with GNP growing at the fastest pace in six

years - no inflation.

Kodak is changing its product line - and adding a discount brand. It’s changing

the top-of-the-line Ektar film and will rename it Royal Gold. The discount film will

be called Funtime.

Week of January 21 -31, 1994

Technology -

HBO’s “Comic Relief VI” got 12 million viewers, beating the networks in some

time slots.

Apple Computer will begin licensing some of its software - in a shift of

philosophy.

Government whitepaper - The Clinton Administration says it wants to preempt

local authority over the information superhighway by broadening the federal role

in overseeing technology providers such as telephone and cable-TV companies.

Music news -

forthright, in-your-face, brazen - but a

lot of fun. And, she’s a great pianist

and poet.

Michael Jackson will reportedly pay

$15 million to a 14-year-old boy to

settle to settle a sexual abuse case

and still insists he’s innocent. A

criminal investigation will proceed.

Salt-N-Pepa has their first album out

in three years - “Very Necessary.”

#9 - Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame

induction - John Lennon, Elton John, Duane Eddy, Grateful Dead and the

Animals get inducted… Bruce Springsteen and Axl Rose sang the Beatles

“Come Together.’ Johnny Otis was inducted as was the late Willie Dixon.

Hot albums -

Doggystyle - Snoop Doggy Dogg

Music Box - Mariah Carey

Lethal Injection - Ice Cube

Vs., Pearl Jam

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins

Bat Out of Hell II - Meatloaf

The One Thing - Michael Bolton

Greatest Hits - Tom Petty

Core - Stone Temple Pilots

Toni Braxton - Toni Braxton

Week of January 21 -31, 1994

Diary of a Mad Band - Jodeci

MTV Unplugged - 10,000 Maniacs

Janet - Janet Jackson

In Utero - Nirvana

So Far So Good -Bryan

Adams

Blind Melon - Blind Melon

Get a Grip - Aerosmith

Spaghetti Experience - Guns

‘N Roses

Television news -

NBC Super Bowl XXVIII - Dick

Enberg and Bob Trumpy call

the action from the Georgia

Dome in Atlanta.

On Sunday - TBS presents an

8-hour “Andy Griffith”

marathon.

A new music channel is being

planned by a consortium of companies - among them - Sony, EMI, PolyGram

and Ticketmaster - to compete with MTV. The channel will also be able to let

viewers shop for concert and sports tickets, buy CD’s and other music

merchandise.

New show - On Fox-TV ‘Mantis” - a new kind of superhero. First of all - he’s

African-American. He hits criminals with a paralyzing chemical while suspended

by a chain from a high-tech flying car called a chyrsalid (oh boy!).

Dave Letterman - who is looking to fill the hour after his late-night show (CBS

gave it to him) - is talking to Regis Philbin. Lets see.

NBC will go live-action on Saturday mornings - programming supposedly for

teens. TNBC will include Saved By the Bell: The New Class” and “California

Dreams.”

Goodbye CBS - Fox-TV hires John Madden for $8 million per year! He’ll be the

network’s lead football analyst. Looks like Pat Summerall is going to join Fox as

well.

Week of January 21 -31, 1994

best known as “Kojak.”

Phil Donahue loses another affiliate -

WFAA-TV in Dallas. Part of it had to do

with a sponsor boycott of the show

organized by a local doctor.

Bob Dole says he would love to do a

“Saturday Night Live” as long as he

didn’t have to do rehearsals on Wed.,

Thurs. or Friday nights - he doesn’t

have the time. Lorne Michaels would

love to have him as a guest host .

At the movies -

Philadelphia

Mrs. Doubtfire

Intersection

Grumpy Old Men

Iron Will

The Pelican Brief

Schindler’s List

House Party 3

Shadowlands

Tombstone

Week of January 21 -31, 1994