Week of June 17 1983

prosecuted criminally in connection with a helicopter crash

that killed actor Vic Morrow and two child actors while

filming a scene for the upcoming film “the Twilight Zone. A

special effects worker and the helicopter pilot are among

those charged.

Sally Ride and four

successfully on the

space shuttle

Challenger from

Cape Canaveral. Ride is the first American

woman ever to fly into space.

In Paris, a 20 year-old French housewife

discovers that a violent headache she

suffered for 10 days is caused by a bullet

fired at her by her husband while she was

sleeping. Evelyne Muxart recently woke up

and found blood in her hair, washed it out and went back to bed with her

husband. The next day, she began to have violent headaches. Doctors removed

a 22-caliber slug from her head. Her husband was arrested. He was out of work

and intended to commit suicide after killing his wife.

Republic Airlines fires the pilot of a twin-engine jetliner that came within 30

seconds of running out of fuel on a flight from Phoenix to Fresno, California. The

plane, with 86 persons on board, lost power in one of its engines after the crew

discovered it was low on fuel. Under full power, the plane made an emergency

landing at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.

ignoring a call from the government to stick to the “religious

aspect” of his visit. The visit inspired a renewed spirit against

the country’s communist regime.

An audit of the financially troubled National Public Radio

network reveals the network is $4 million in debt. NPR

Chairman Myron Jones said the network is “only wounded...

not mortally wounded” and “we will survive.” The audit showed that management

did not keep accurate records of American Express expenditures and that

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expense reports were incomplete.

The entire Encyclopedia Americana is being readied for computers and Frank

Farrell, president of Grolier Electronic publishing claims that “any adult who is

computer illiterate in the next 10 years will be obsolete... it’s a very scary

proposition for adults.”

In sports, John Williams, former all pro, is indicted by a federal grand jury on

charges of distributing cocaine. Williams (37), who now practices dentistry in

Minnesota, was an offensive tackle with the Colts and Rams. “I was dealing. I

was foolish. I was in a whirlwind caught in the middle of it and sinking. I’ll be glad

to get it over with. I don’t want sympathy, I’ll just lay it straight on the table.”

Gameshows on daytime TV - $25,000 Pyramid, Childs Play, The Price Is Right,

Tattletales - all CBS... Sale Of The Century, Wheel Of Fortune, Dream House,

New Battlestars and Fantasy - all NBC... Family Feud - ABC.

Top TV shows -Hart to Hart, The A-Team, Simon & Simon, MASH, Facts Of Life,

Magnum, PI, Hill Street Blues, Jeffersons, 60 minutes, 20/20, Newhart, Fantasy

Island, Three’s Company and Trapper John, M.D.

Week of June 17 1983

Pop music this week in 1983 -

“Electric Avenue” - Eddie Grant,

“Flashdance” - Irene Cara, “Every

Breath You Take” - Police, “Time

(Clock Of The Heart)” - Culture

Club, “My Love” - Lionel Ritchie,

“Always Something There To

Remind Me” - Naked Eyes, “Affair

Of The Heart” - Rick Springfield,

“I’m Still Standing” - Elton John,

On a country road - “You Can’t Run From Love” - Eddie Rabbit, “Love Is On A

Roll” - Don Williams, “Fool For Your Love” - Mickey Gilley, “The Closer You Get”

- Alabama, “Highway 40 Blues” - Ricky Skaggs.

Premiering at the movies - “Superman III” with Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor,

Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Annette O’Toole.

Also - War Games - Matthew

Broderick, Dabney Coleman,

Ally Sheedy.

Psycho II - Vera Miles, Meg

Tilly and Robert Loggia.

Return Of The Jedi - Mark

Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie

Fisher, Billy D. Williams.

Octopussy - Roger Moore as

James Bond, Maud Adams.