Week of June 27-30, 1982
In Brussels - leaders of the 10 Common Market nations, in a slap at the Reagan
Administration, say that U.S. economic policy is disrupting Western Europe and
jeopardizing Free World trade. They are angered by recent decisions of the
Reagan Administration to try to prohibit European countries from using American
technology for a soviet-Western Europe gas pipeline to curb imports of European
steel and to contest Europe’s joint agricultural policy.
A pair of teenage lovers seeking “a better world” in heaven held hands as they
ignored the pleas of friends and leaped from the roof of a six-story building in
Chicago. The girl (15) was killed and the boy (16) was critically injured.
The shuttle Columbia blasts into space - its fourth and final test mission.
The Supreme Court rules that federal savings and loan associations, even in
states with pro-consumer mortgage laws, can stop a homeowner from passing
on his low-interest mortgage when he sells his house.
Ending siege - Prime Minister Menachem Begin says that if the Palestinian
guerrillas surrender their heavy weapons and agree to leave Lebanon, they may
take their weapons with them. Israel announces a cease-fire.
Music news -
Passing -
Harry Mills
- One of the Mills Brothers (68).
Sunday night television -
CBS - 60 Minutes, Archie Bunker’s Place, One Day at
a Time, Alice, The Jeffersons, Trapper John, M.D.
NBC - Father Murphy, ChiPs, Movie
ABC - Movie, Movie
PBS - Nova, Masterpiece Theater
CBS Cable - The World Of James Joyce, Affairs of the
Heart
USA - Time-out Theater
HBO - Movie - Stripes with Bill Murray
Father Murphy - A young priest quits the priesthood and takes a job at a saloon
where he tries to help those in need.
Nova - “Locusts: war without end.”
Alice - Mel realizes he doesn’t of an heir to leave in a will.