Week of June 1-5, 1983

June 1-5, 1983

Prime Minister Menachem Begin, in an appeal for national unity says Israel has

no intention of attacking the Syrians and vows before the Knesset to “bring out

boys home.”

23 people are dead after an air Canada

DC-9 jetliner catches fire in flight and

makes an emergency landing in

Cincinnati. One of the dead was TV

manufacturer Curtis Mathes Jr. The pilot

landed the plane even though he could

not see. The fire apparently began in a

restroom. The plane was on its way to Toronto from Dallas. 41 passengers and 5

crewmembers were on board. All those who died where in the first class

compartment.

The nation’s unemployment edges down to 10.1% from 10.2%.

Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and former Indian Prime Minister

Morarji Desai denounce a new book about the early years of the Nixon

Administration as a “slimy lie” and “a sheer mad story.’ “The Price of Power,” by

Week of June 1-5, 1983

Seymour Hersh says that Kissinger commissioned a secret study in 1969 that

called for using nuclear weapons to destroy Communist supply lines in Vietnam

and for a U.S. ground invasion of North Vietnam.

Authorities break-up a Hare Krishna sect in Moscow and punish two of its

leaders, according to a weekly magazine report.

Two Rikers Island prisoners have died from the incurable disease AIDS and

others in city prisons are suffering from the fatal illness. The illness, first identified

in 1981, primarily strikes homosexuals, intravenous drug users and

hemophiliacs. It subverts the body’s immune system and prevents a person from

warding off diseases. Half of the 1,450 AIDS cases reported nationwide since

June 1981, have occurred in New York City and 38% of those victims have died.

More New York - An unidentified man jumps to his death from the observation

deck of the Empire State Building. At least 27 people have jumped to their deaths

from the upper floors of the landmark since it opened in 1931.

that he is disappointed over not being invited to

the White House since the inauguration. “The

problem is I have to share him with 200 million

people,” said Reagan in a CBS Morning News

interview.

The government bans the sale of synthetic hair

fibers for scalp implants, branding the practice

dangerous and unproductive and ordering it

halted immediately. The band does not apply to a

surgical procedure in which a person’s own scalp

hair and surrounding tissue are grafted onto

another part of the scalp.

first space flight of an American woman - astronaut

Sally Ride, is scheduled June 18 aboard the space

shuttle Challenger.

Sports -

About 1.75 million line the streets of Philadelphia to

salute the NBA champion 76ers during a ticker=-tape

parade through the city.

Week of June 1-5, 1983

Howard Cosell returns to the Monday Night Baseball announcing booth. Cosell

will be teamed with Al Michaels and Earl waver on the primary games.

Entertainment news -

In Philadelphia - A group of brain-damaged people,

some I tears, abruptly leave a dinner theater after Zsa

Zsa Gabor refused to keep performing unless they

moved from tables near the stage. Gabor said she

never asked that the people move and that the theater was too dark for her to

see who was in the audience.