Week of July 8, 1982
Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev warns President Reagan that the United
States should keep its marines out of Lebanon.
A Pan Am World Airways jetliner crashes into a New Orleans residential area
killing six on the ground and 145 on board. The plane took-off during a severe
thunderstorm and crashed two minutes later.
President Reagan lifts the economic sanctions imposed against Argentina after it
invaded the Falkland Islands.
Secretary of State designate
George Shultz
says
before a Senate committee confirmation hearing the
crisis in Lebanon dramatizes the need to address all
dimensions of the Palestinian problem and he urged
Palestinian participation in the Camp David talks.
President Reagan tells Honduran President Roberto
Suazo Cordova that the people of the Central
American nation “can count on us.”
Caffeine free is in - Pepsi Cola, following rival 7-Up,
says it plans to introduce decaffeinated cola and Coke
announces the introduction of a new sugar-free soft drink to be called “Diet
Coke.”
Sports - The NCAA will expand its playoffs in basketball, it’ll retain its 48-team
postseason basketball championship but will initiate a pre-tournament elimination
round next season, giving a total a 52 teams a chance to win the title.
Entertainment news - Frank Sinatra
and his wife
Barbara
celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary at a
gathering at Chasens in Hollywood. Seen - Jill St.
John, Kirk Douglas, Louis Jourdan and Milton Berle.
Catherine Reilly, who portrayed the “blue nun” in
those television wine commercials, kills her boyfriend
with his police revolver during a lovers’ quarrel and
then shot herself to death. She also played a
secretary in the first “superman’ movie and was busy
as a model.
