Week of July 22, 1986
Father Lawrence Jenco
, an American Roman Catholic priest who
was kidnapped by Muslim fundamentalists in Lebanon nearly 19
months ago, is released.
House and Senate Superfund conferees agree to support a five-
year $8.5 billion hazardous waste clean-up program that sets
standards for removal of deadly wastes and requires industry to
inform the public when dangerous chemicals are released into the environment.
The Titanic expedition is over and leader Robert
Ballard says that about 100 photos will be fitted
together for form a “photo-mosaic” of the broken
wreck and debris. Some 57,000 color photos and
hundreds of videotapes were taken of the sunken
ocean liner, which lies in pure darkness 2 ½ miles
down the ocean floor. The Navy paid for the
expedition as part of a five-year, $2.8 million
contract to develop deep-sea diving research and
exploration vehicles. But the Navy has no plans to
return.
NASA says the seven crew members of the space shuttle Challenger probably
remained conscious for at least 10 seconds after the Jan. 28 explosion and they
switched on at least three emergency breathing packs.
The Reagan Administration reports that Japan has agreed, just before a U.S
deadline, to stop selling computer chips at below-market prices in the United
States and to allow American chipmakers a larger share of the Japanese market.
Wildfires fed by strong winds ravage the French Riviera, killing an elderly woman,
charring resort homes and thousands of acres of forest and forcing the
evacuation of 2000 people.
John Jenco says of his brother - Father Lawrence Jenco that Shia Muslim
kidnapers kept him in solitary confinement and chains for six months of his
captivity in Lebanon and he often was blindfolded after that.
New government study - Childbearing by unmarried women has reached its
highest level on recording, accounting for one baby in five.
Week of July 22, 1986
Passing - W. Averell Harriman (94) one of the great diplomatic figures of World
War II.
Pepsico says it has agreed boy buy Kentucky Fried Chicken for an $850-million
cash deal.
Technology -
Third generation Compact Disc players, which are now being sold, are proving
to be unusually free of breakage and defects. When CD repairs are needed, they
can be costly. Most problems tend to be mechanical, not electronic. Topping the
list are defects in the assembly that moves the laser, either a sled or slider
mechanism and in the worm-gear drive assembly. Other problem areas are the
sliding-drawer mechanism. Less common are laser diodes failures. If you need
one, it will cost about $70.
Sports -
Holy Football - The National Football League is found guilty of violating an
antitrust law. The USFL had sued for $1.69 billion, but damages awarded - just
$3.00! The verdict came after almost two years of pretrial litigation and 2 ½
months of trial testimony. The decision discredits the NFL, but will probably doom
the 4-year-old USFL, which in its fourth year, planned to switch to fall play in
direct competition with the NFL, but without the established league’s television
revenue sources. The jury decided that not only does the NFL enjoy monopoly
power, but it also unfairly conspired to gain its competitive edge and did in fact
violate antitrust law - “to exclude competition within major league football.”
The jury could not conclude, among other things, that the NFL, as the USFL had
insisted, actually prevented the USFL from obtaining “access to a national
broadcast television contract.”
Week of July 22, 1986
Many believe the USFL’s day are
numbered. Arizona Outlaws owner
Bill Tatham Jr. says, “Unless the
verdict changes, I think we’ve seen
the end, either this year, next year or
whenever.” Fred Bullard, co-owner of
the Jacksonville Bulls comments: “I
wouldn’t call us out until the last piece
of dirt is thrown on the casket, but
some very serious decisions have to
be made very soon. I would suggest
things are not the brightest right now.
Unless we pull a rabbit out of a hat, it
doesn’t look good for us playing this
season. Probably the only thing that
could salvage the league would be if a network talked to us for 1987, when the
NFL television contract runs out. I’m an optimistic person, but it’s hard to be
optimistic.”
After just 30 seconds, Mike Tyson KO’s Marvis Frazier at a Glens Falls, NY bout.
Radio news -
Los Angeles ratings - Power 106, which is six months old, rises to the top of the
ratings - a 6.0. KIIS-FM falls back to a 5.9 In New York - WHTZ “Z-100” jumps
from a 6.1 to a 6.9. Z-100 has yet to beat its 7.2 standing in the spring 1984
ratings.
Entertainment
- Griffin O’Neal (21) son of actor Ryan O’Neal is indicted on six
counts, including boat manslaughter in the Memorial Day boating accident death
of the son of movie director Francis Ford Coppola.
Passing - Director Vincente Minnelli (83), who won an Oscar for “Gigi” in 1958,
made his last movie, “A Matter of Time” starring daughter Liza in 1976.
Music news -
Passing -
Gordon Mills
(51) - who took
Tom Jones
and Englebert Humperdinck
and made into superstars. Mills also wrote
“It’s Not Unusual” - Tom Jones’ first hit.
Gordon Mills died of cancer (left in picture)
Rhino Records is launching a major retail
push for its extensive Monkees catalog to
Week of July 22, 1986
tie in with the reformed ‘60’s band’s summer concert tour. Rhino says it all
started with MTV’s Monkees marathon, which MTV called “Pleasant Valley
Sunday” - the 22 ½ hour broadcast last February of the Monkees original TV
shows. That tribute was repeated by MTV on June 22. The series is back on
syndicated reruns and soon will be shown by the Nickelodeon cable network in
September. There are now 10 Monkees albums on Rhino - eight reissued titles
and two label-compiled anthologies.
Week of July 22, 1986
Television news -
Dick Cavett
will return to ABC-TV with “Latenight
America” to follow “Nightline” this fall. Cavett, now with
USA, was with PBS and ABC-TV.
Wednesday night television -
CBS - Mistral’s Daughter (3 Hours)
NBC - Highway To Heaven, Gimme a Break, You Again?
St. Elsewhere, Tonight Show
ABC - ABC Closeup (3 Hours) Nightline
PBS - National Geographic
HBO - On Location: Robert Klein On Broadway
Showtime - Honeymooners Lost Episodes, Brothers, The Frantics, It’s Showtime
Mistral’s Daughter - Based on the novel by Judith Krantz.
At the movies -
Top Gun
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Karate Kid
Ruthless People
Legal Eagles
Maximum Overdrive
Haunted Honeymoon
Back to School
About Last Night
Aliens
The Great Mouse Detective
Top Hits In Britain -
Every Beat Of My Heart - Rod Stewart
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Let’s Go All The Way - Sly Fox
My Favourite Waste of Time -
Owen Paul
Happy Hour - Housemartins
Sing Our Own Song - UB40
The Edge of Heaven - Wham!
Venus - Bananarama
Too Good To Be Forgotten - Amazulu
Week of July 22, 1986
Top Country -
I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again - T. Graham Brown
Nobody In His Right Mind Would’ve Left Her - George Strait
On The Other Hand - Randy Travis
All Tied Up - Ronnie McDowell
You’re The Last Thing I Needed Tonight - John Schneider
Rockin’ With The Rhythm Of The Rain - The Judds
Savin’ My Love For You - Pake McEntire
Love At The Five And Dime - Kathy Mattea
Will The Wolf Survive - Waylon Jennings
Strong Heart - T.G. Shepard
Top Artists Played In Clubs -
Aretha Franklin
Colonel Abrams
Ready for the World
Val Young
Total Contrast
Janet Jackson
Prince & The Revolution
The Flirts
Stevie Wonder
ABC
Jennifer Holliday
Alisha
Simply Red
J.M. Silk
Top Album Rock Cuts -
Touch And Go - Emerson, Lake & Powell
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Somebody Like You - 38 Special
Secret Separation - The Fixx
Red Rain - Peter Gabriel
Yankee Rose - David Lee Roth
Rumbleseat - John Cougar Mellencamp
Love Walks In - Van Halen
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Invisible Touch - Genesis
No Promises - Icehouse
The Aftermath - Bob Seger & The Silver
Bullet Band
Week of July 22, 1986
Top Albums -
So - Peter Gabriel
Control - Janet Jackson
Top Gun - Soundtrack
Love Zone - Billy Ocean
Winner In You - Patti Labelle
Like A Rock - Bob Seger & The Silver
Bullet Band
True Blue - Madonna
Invisible Touch - Genesis
The Other Side of Life - Moody Blues
Raising Hell - Run D.M.C.
5150 - Van Halen
Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
GTR - GTR
Picture Book - Simply Red
Tuff Enuff - Fabulous Thunderbirds
Play Deep - The Outfield
Music From The Edge of Heaven -
Wham!
Raised On Radio - Journey
Strength In Numbers - 38 Special
Please - Pet Shop Boys
El DeBarge - El DeBarge
Headed For The Future - Neil Diamond
Heart - Heart
Emerson, Lake & Powell - Emerson, Lake & Powell
For Those Of You With Or Without Children - Bill Cosby
Parade - Prince & The Revolution
The Jets - The Jets
