Week of July 1, 1982
Vietnam says it will withdraw a significant number of its estimated 200,000
occupation troops from Cambodia this month as a goodwill gesture.
In Spain - 25 Polish soccer fans who followed their team to the World Cup
matches have defected, with many more to follow - some estimates say as many
as 300.
The Supreme Court gives states broad authority to combat child porno, ruling
that authorities may ban the production, sale or distribution of such material
whether it is legally obscene or not.
Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach says that Vietnam will let all Amerasian
children living in the country go to the United States if Congress and President
Reagan agree to take them.
President Reagan will send a contingent of American troops to Beirut to help
evacuate 8,000 Palestinian guerrillas surrounded by Israeli forces.
Over half-a-million people, including
President Reagan and First Lady Nancy
see the space shuttle Columbia land at
Edwards Air Force Base in California.
“TK and Hank,” you’ve given the
American people a Fourth of July present
to remember” said the President to
astronauts
Thomas Mattingly and
Henry Hartsfield.
The nation’s unemployment holds steady at 9.5% in June.
Singer
Wayne Newton
sells his 50% interest in the
Aladdin to his partner, Ed Torres. Apparently, there had
been a rift between them, as Torres refused to continue
hiring Newton as a performer in the hotel’s showroom.
Newton in fact, has been appearing at Caesars Palace.
Sports -
Wimbledon - Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe to win
the title after 8 years.
Week of July 1, 1982
Martina Navratilova outplays Chris Evert Lloyd to take the women’s title at
Wimbledon.
Hal McRae
hits a grand slam in the first inning at
Kansas City to propel the Royals to a 6-2 win over
the Boston Red Sox.
Baltimore Orioles pitcher Mike Flanagan expects
to be the father of the nation’s fourth test-tube
baby next week. He’s a Cy Young Award winner.
Baby is expected next week.
Carl Peterson is named v/p and general manager
and George Peries is named head coach of the
Philadelphia franchise of the USFL.
Catherine Reilly, the model who appeared as the
“Blue Nu8n” in the TV wine commercials, shot her boyfriend - a police officer -
during a lover’s quarrel in her Manhattan apartment and then turned the gun on
herself.
Music news
- CBS temporarily halts all production of the Clash’s latest album,
“Combat Rock,” after a suit is filed complaining by Flushco Inc, that CBS illegally
included the sound track in a TV commercial, “2000 Flushes.”
Television news
- Saturday morning cartoon “The Smurfs” is hitting huge
ratings on NBC, drawing audience shares around 40%. NBC says it is expanding
the hour cartoon to 90 minutes in the fall. It’s based on a European comic strip,
“Les Schtroumpfs,” created in 1957 by Pierre Culliford, a Belgian cartoonist.
This version was developed a few years ago after one of the daughters of then
NBC program chief Fred Silverman, saw a Schtroumpf doll in a shop. Hanna-
Barbera produces.
He’s catching on - “
The Uncle Floyd
Show,”
once the province of New York/New
Jersey as seen on UHF Channel 68, is
being broadcast late night on several NBC
owned and operated TV stations. The show
has had a sort of cult following with Uncle
Floyd videotapes being circulated around
the country, mostly by college students.
Floyd Vivino.
