Week of June 8, 1986

A presidential commission blames a fatally flowed rocket design and the failure of

NASA management to recognize or fix it for the Challenger space shuttle tragedy

that claimed the lives of seven crew members last January.

President Pieter W. Botha declares a nationwide state

of emergency in South Africa. Some 1,200 anti-

apartheid activists, clergymen, union officials and

student leaders of all races were rounded up in what is

virtual martial law throughout the country. Later, he met

with black Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu - their first

meeting in six years. That meeting was described as

cordial.

A monitoring station on Finland’s southern coast near

the Soviet Union detected radiation levels four times

higher than any registered in Finland after the

Chernobyl nuclear accident.

In Georgia - A 62-year-old woman dies of a brain hemorrhage after being struck

in the head by a golf ball hit by her husband who vowed never to play the game

again. Jane Perkins was seated in a golf cart to the left of the ninth tee when she

was struck by the drive hit by her husband, Jack.

A White House spokesman declares that the SALT II treaty is dead, even thought

President Reagan, disclosing a new Soviet offer to reduce nuclear weapons, said

there is time to avert a stepped-up arms race before the u.s. bomber buildup

exceeds limits set in the 1979 accord.

Wholesale prices, after tumbling for four months in a row, shot up .6% in May as

gasoline prices topped their steep nose-dive.

Passing - Marshall Drew, one of the last of the 706 survivors of the sinking of the

Titanic. He was 82.

Kiwi - the shoe polish people says that Muhammad Ali’s Champion Brands

industries shoe polish cans look an awful like Kiwi’s and they don’t like it. Kiwi

says Champion Brands copied Kiwi’s familiar red, black and gold colors and lifted

the instructions, word for word, from Kiwi cans.

Week of June 8, 1986

Sports -

The Boston Celtics beat the Houston Rockets,

winning their 16 th NBA Championship.

The New England patriots reward Coach Raymond

Berry for his success in the 1985 season with a

five-year contract.

Chris Everet Lloyd beats Martina Navratilova to

win a record seventh French Open title.

Former Miami Dolphins running back Eugene

(Mercury) Morris, a three-time Super Bowl vet,

pleads no contest to a cocaine conspiracy charge

in exchange for freedom from prison. He had

served three years in the Dade Correctional

Institution after being sentenced to 20 years following his 1982 conviction on four

drug-related charges.

Wayne Gretzky, national Hockey League scoring champ the last six years,

walked away with the hart memorial Trophy as the league’s most valuable player

an unprecedented seventh year in a row.

A. Bartlett Giamatti, retiring Yale president and Renaissance scholar, is named

president of the national League.

Music news -

MTV Saturday night - Nightranger: Seven Wishes Tour.

Queen Elizabeth II awards British rock star Bob Geldof an

honorary knighthood in recognition of this work in organizing

band Aid and other concerts that raised millions of dollars for

the starving in Africa. Because he is not a British citizen,

Geldof will not be sir Bob Geldof, but Bob Geldof KBE

Passing - Benny Goodman (77) - The King Of Swing.

Look for a new single “Back in the High Life” this week by

Steve Winwood.

Television news -

Exxon Corp - a leading funder for PBS shows, withdraws support for what it’s

calling current economic conditions of the petroleum industry.

Week of June 8, 1986

Grant Tinker gives his farewell address to NBC affiliates at a gathering in Hawaii.

He said that Brandon Tartikoff, his chief Lieutenant is staying on.

Thursday night television -

CBS - Crazy Like A Fox , Bridges to

Cross, Knots Landing

NBC - Cosby Show, Family Ties,

Sheers, All is Forgiven, Hill St. Blues,

Tonight, Late Night W/David Letterman

ABC - Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!, The

Colbys, 20/20, U.S. Open Golf

Hightlights, Nightline

PBS - Mystery!

Tonight Show - Carl Reiner and Cybill

Shepherd john Johnny Carson

David Letterman - Tracey Ullman, Bryan

Adams, Sarah McClendon

Friday night television-

CBS - Twilight Zone, Movie

NBC - Knight Rider , Miami Vice, Stingray,

Tonight Show

ABC - Webster, Mr. Belvedere, Mr.

Sunshine, Hearts of Steel, Love Boat, U.S.

Open Highlights, Nightline

PBS - Washington Week, Wall St. Week

MTV - Top 20 countdown

WTBS - Night Tracks

Showtime - John Fogerty’s All Stars

Tonight Show - Johnny Carson welcomes Bill Cosby and Graham Nash.

At the movies -

Space Camp

Top Gun

The Manhattan Project