Week of June 15, 1991

The Population Registration - a legal foundation of apartheid - is repealed by the

white-controlled Parliament - ending four decades of cradle-to-grave racial

labeling in South Africa.

Boris N. Yeltsin arrives in Washington - and this time - is given a VIP treatment

- unlike his 1989 visit when he was considered an underling to Mikhail

Gorbachev.

the subject of a seven-year manhunt -

surrenders to Colombian authorities in

exchange form a promise of leniency for

drug related crimes and a guarantee

against extradition to the United States.

The Supreme Court gives communities

broad powers to ban nude dancing, ruling

that the public’s “moral disapproval” of

nudity outweighs the first Amendment’s

protection of free expression.

Berlin reclaims its glory as the capital of

Germany after Parliament voted to abandon

Bonn and “complete the unification”

process.

The federal government estimates that the cost of treating AIDS patients will

nearly double between 1991 and 1994 - from $5.8 billion to $10.4 billion.

Boris N. Yeltsin - the Russian Federation’s newly elected president says he sees

no way to save the Soviet Union’s Communist system and that he will press

ahead with radical reforms to bring the country a broad democracy and market

economy.

U.S. officials launch an emergency evacuation of about 20,000 military

dependents from bases facing massive clean up after the 36-hour eruption of Mt.

Pinatubo in the Philippines. They’re coming back to the States.

Kuwait’s martial-law court sentenced eight people to death - six of them in

absentia - for collaborating with Iraqi occupation forces.

Sports - Golfer Payne Stewart wins his second major title at the U.S Open.

Week of June 15, 1991

Otis Nixon of the Montreal Expos sets a National league record with six stolen

bases.

Technology -

Apple lays off 900 people and is cutting costs in an effort to gain market share

with a new line of low-priced Macintosh computers.

“State of the Company” memo

nightmare - IBM attacking us in

systems software, Novell defeating

us in networking and more agile,

customer-oriented applications

competitors getting their Windows

act together is a reality.” Analysts

said the memo was, the first public

indication that Gates is seriously

worried about Apple’s suit. If the

judge in the case hinders

Microsoft’s development of

Windows, “then IBM has an open

field for OS/2 and OS/2 is an

operating system developed for

IBM and compatible computers” -

so said an observer.

Passing - Jean Arthur - comedy film star of the 1930’s and 1940’s. She was 90.

Roseanne Barr settles her suit with the National Enquirer - who had published

love letters from Barr to her then-fiancé - Tom Arnold.

Music news -

Top albums -

Spellbound - Paula Abdul

Niggga4life - N.W.A.

Slave to the Grind - Skid Row

No Fences - Garth Brooks

Gonna Make You Sweat - C+C Music Factory

Don’t miss the divinyls “I Touch Myself” world tour.

Week of June 15, 1991

Television news -

He’s moving to CBS - Bill Cosby will produce and star in a remake of Groucho

Marx’ “You Bet Your Life” on CBS-TV in 1992. It’s a surprise to most as his

sitcom will air just one more year - and on NBC of course.

CNN does a series of reports on the famine threatening 30 million Africans.

MCA acquires the rights to Bullwinkle cartoon

characters including Rocket J. Squirrel - from the

heir’s of creator Jay Ward.

Friday night television -

CBS - Verdict, the Detectives, Movie

NBC - Hunter, Midnight Caller, Johnny Carson

ABC - Full House, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers,

Going Places, 20/20, Nightline, In Concert ‘91

Fox - America’s Most Wanted, Alien Nation

PBS - Wall St. Week, Washington Week

MTV - Week in Rock

Johnny Carson - Jay Leno hosts with rock band

Surface.

At the movies -

Robin Hood

City Slickers

Backdraft

Jungle Fever

Don’t Tell Mom

Week of June 15, 1991