Week of July 23, 1990

Troops loyal to Liberian President Samuel K. Doe have massacred as many as

600 refugees.

President Bush chooses David Hackett Souter - a judge form New Hampshire -

to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

President Bush urges lawmakers to spare key Pentagon spending programs

from the budget ax as the White House and top congressional leaders moved

toward completing separate proposals for cutting 450 billion from next year’s

federal budget deficit.

Defense Secretary Dick Cheney orders that the number of generals and admirals

assigned to his staff be cut in half. The change is in line with the defense

Department’s movies to pare the nation’s armed forces in response to world

changes and tighter budgets.

Ian Gow - a senior British lawmaker and Thatcher aide considered Britain’s most

strident IRA opponent is killed when a bomb ripped through his car in London.

Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev overruled his chief radical opponent, Boris

N. Yeltsin with a decree reaffirming central control over the country’s banks.

House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich said that he will withhold his support from

any budget agreement reached by White House and congressional negotiators

unless it is “very, very good… extraordinarily good.”

Sri Lanka - Government security forces display a killing site littered with the

bodies of up to 200 police officers who they said were massacred by Tamil

separatist guerrillas.

The Senate votes 96-0 to denounce and fine Sen.

financial dealings that “brought the senate into

dishonor and disrepute.” He was accused of

violating Senate rules on outside income and

expense reimbursement.

Armenian lawmakers vote to defy President

Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s decree that armed groups

must turn in their weapons and disband.

Gov. Mario Guomo of NY signs legislation banning

Dwarf tossing and dwarf bowling in New York

Week of July 23, 1990

bars, calling the activities a “strange diversion.” “Any activity which dehumanizes

and humiliates these people is degrading to us all.” “This bill recognizes that and,

in effect, declares these bizarre games to be debased.’

OPEC raises oil to $21 a barrel.

Barbara Bush is featured in a new public service TV campaign to get kids to

read. Look for it!

IBM says it will not advertise on PGA Championship telecasts because the host

club, Shoal Creek in Alabama, has no black members.

Sports -

Officials say Yankee owner George Steinbrenner will owes the city $434,000 in

stadium rental fees from 1987 and 1988. Meanwhile, Steinbrenner is out as

principal owner of the team - a decision made by Commissioner Fay Vincent

because of his association with gambler Howard Spira.

Radio news -

KMNY (money radio) near Los Angeles - is fined $10,000 by the FCC for failing

to disclose to listeners that stockbrokers and investment counselors interviewed

on its financial programs had paid for their airtime. The station bills itself as the

first all-business radio station.

Entertainment news -

Zsa Zsa Gabor leaves jail after three days. She was there after slapping a

Beverly Hills police officer.

National Furor - Comedian

sorry - but not that sorry - for

butchering “The Star Spangled

Banner” before a San Diego

Padres baseball game. She said

she began singing - then

panicked. Many believe it was

simply a disgrace. It was

described as screechy, off key

and flippant - like Roseanne.

Roseanne Barr - again. She

says she is suing the National

Week of July 23, 1990

Enquirer for libel, slander and possible copyright infringement, saying the tabloid

has harassed her since she rose to fame.

tour.

An Indiana judge rules that the album “As Nasty As They Wanna Be” by 2 Live

Crew violates standards of decency and should not be sold to minors.

The Dallas (Tx.) District Attorney’s office files misdemeanor obscenity charges

against two record stores for selling the Miami rap group 2 Live Crew Album, “As

Nasty As they Wanna Be.”

David Risher - a record storeowner who refused to stop selling a controversial 2

Live Crew album, pleaded not guilty in San Antonio to a charge of promoting

obscene material.

Passing - Bobby Day (60) Best known for the early rock hit “Rockin’ Robin.”

VH-1 presents Anita Baker’s Compositions world tour 1990.

Patti Scialfa - Bruce Springsteen’s girlfriend - gives birth to a boy - Bruce’s first

kid!

Hot albums -

Wilson Phillips -

Wilson Phillips

Please Hammer Don’t

Hurt ‘Em - M.C.

Hammer

Step By Step - New

Kids on the Block

Pretty Woman -

Soundtrack

Pandemonium -

Poison

Television news -

The “Today” show

suffers its lowest

ratings in seven years.

Joe Garagiola has

returned as co-host

Week of July 23, 1990

with Bryant Gumbel and Deborah Norville.

Monday night television -

CBS - Major Dad, Sydney, Murphy Brown, Designing Women, Face to Face

w/Connie Chung

NBC - Sister Kate, Working Girl, Movie, Best of Carson

ABC - Checkered Flag, Movie, Nightline, Into the Night

Fox - 21 Jump Street, Alien Nation

PBS - National Audubon Society

A&E - Adam West at the Improv, Around the World in 80 Days, Agatha Christie:

partners in Crime

Into the Night w/Rick Dees - Robert Englund.

Top movies this week -

Presumed Innocent

Ghost

Problem Child

Arachnopobia

Die Hard 2

Week of July 23, 1990