Week of June 6-15, 1983

The Reagan Administration backs down and announces that it will exempt

psychotics and paranoid schizophrenics from Social Security disability reviews

and undertake other reforms to make its controversial reviews more humane.

Family slain - Four family members are found murdered in their home near Los

Angeles (Chino). Police are looking for an escaped prisoner. The dead include a

10 and 12-year-old. There was one survivor, the family’s 8-year-old son.

offering the Kremlin a choice of measuring nuclear

arsenals by counting missiles and warheads or by the

overall destructive power of each nation’s long-range

missiles.

Retaliation - the United States orders the expulsion of 21

Nicaraguan officials from the country’s six official consular

posts in the United States, in retaliation against the ouster of three American

diplomats from Managua.

The Supreme Court strikes down a set of state and

local government regulations that could have made

abortions more difficult to obtain, including a

requirement that abortions for women more than

three months pregnant, be performed in hospitals.

Fort Worth - A fire in a pile of carpets nearly

extinguished by a guard, flares up and destroys an

87-unit motel building, killing 5 and injuring 31.

Trouble in Poland - Secret police invade the home of

Solidarity chief Lech Walesa and place him under

arrest in an effort to keep him from meeting Pope

John Paul II.

President Reagan congratulates Prime Minister

Margaret Thatcher on her “impressive” election

victory and asks, “If in the future I should have any

need… how would you like to manage a campaign?”

Week of June 6-15, 1983

Makes the switch - Burger King says it will now offer Pepsi instead of Coke at its

3,200 outlets. The company says it feels it will get the service and promotional

effort needed to be the No. 1 customer of a soft drink supplier.

Pioneer 10, the spacecraft to the stars passes Neptune traveling over 30,000

mph.

straw poll at the Wisconsin Democratic party’s convention.

He was followed by Walter F. Mondale and Gary Hart.

Michael Reagan, son of the President complains that his

dad has yet to see his 5-year-old son Ashley, and “it’s

been quite a while since they’ve seen Cameron (his wife)

because of course, one thing, they’re 3,000 miles away.

Sports -

USFL action - The Philadelphia Stars score 20

points in the second half and defeat the New

Jersey Generals - 23-9. The Michigan Panthers

beat the Los Angeles Express 42-17.

New pro - Former Miami quarterback Jim Kelly,

signs an estimated $3.5 million contract with the

Houston Gamblers - a new USFL franchise.

Kelly was a first-round draft choice for the

Buffalo Bills

Secretariat wins the Belmont stakes.

Entertainment news -

Passing - Norma Shearer - once a Hollywood film queen. She was 82.

Passing - movie and television producer Ivan Tors (66).

The second US Festival comes and goes. The attendance was lower than

expected with just over 300,000 in attendance. The music festival needed a

600,000- 800,000 break-even point. But, backer Steve Wozniak says he wants

to do something next year.

Week of June 6-15, 1983

Television news -

CMTV (Country Music Television) is now on 1.5 million cable systems.

Calvin Klein launches new ads

- this time without Brooke

Shields who use to say nothing

came between her and her

Calvin Klein jeans.

More sports TV - Officials of the

Chicago White Sox, Detroit

Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers and

Seattle supersonics unveil

plans for the Sports Network -

a new national cable pay sports

network. The new channel will

rely on a satellite hook-up of

regional pay-TV sports services already operating in the above cities.

A jury rules that Dr. Carl Galloway was not slandered by a 1979 “60 Minutes”

repot that he signed a phony medical document.

Alan Alda, fresh from years on MASH, will be the new spokesman for Atari home

computers.