Week of March 1, 1987

President Reagan selects FBI director William Webster as he new director for the

CIA. The agency is coming under increasing fire for its role in the unfolding Iran-

contra scandal.

President Reagan “blows-up” and denounces reports as “despicable fiction” that

his wife, Nancy, helped force Donald Regan from office. Regan was the White

House Chief Of Staff.

Camping Association meeting in Washington” “I don’t

think most people associate me with leeches or how to

get them off. But I know how to get them off. I’m an

expert at it.”

A dynamite-loaded cargo ship is abandoned by its crew

after a fire breaks out on board. Adrift in the English

Channel - a decision is being made either to tow it, or

have the French Navy sink it with firepower.

A private nurse assigned to artist Andy Warhol is barred from caring for patients

at New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center. Warhol died on February 22 after

undergoing a gallbladder operation. The hospital’s review of his medical record

raised questions concerning her performance. A spokeswoman said the hospital

“did not intend to have the nurse work here again.”

Komminsky - his great career spanned 5 decades.

Passing - Randolph Scott (89) - actor in Cowboy Westerns.

Steven Luben (36) - a Vietnam Vet and his girlfriend Diane

Felner are sentenced to four years in prison in London for

supplying heroin to singer Boy George. The prosecutor

said, “Feiner and Luben fastened on him like leeches. What

started as an occasional use became habit and turned into

addiction, fed by Luben’s supply.”

The Walt Disney Co. opens its first store near Los Angeles. Spokesman Tom

Deegan said that if the store is successful, others might follow.

At the mart - Pepperidge Farms Layer Cake (Chocolate Fudge) - $2.49 ... Birds

Eye Fresh Creations (Chicken) 11oz pkg - $2.99 ... Tender Vittles Cat Food -

Week of March 1, 1987

32oz - $1.49 Gorton’s Fishsticks - 20oz pkg - $3.39

New ‘87 Toyota Landcruiser 4X4 w/air, rear heater, chrome package, chrome

wheels electronic Am/Fm stereo radio, rear wiper, defogger, headlamp washers -

$14,988.

The American Cancer Society says that it will provide low-cost breast X-rays for

thousands of woman during their Breast Cancer Detection Awareness Program.

Some of the tests will cost as little as $40.

Hershey voluntarily recalls as many as 2.8 million chocolate-covered granola

bars because peanuts were mistakenly added. The label doesn’t list peanuts as

an ingredient to Hershey’s New Trail Chocolate Covered Granola Bars. Four

persons who ate the bars had an allergic reaction (but were not hospitalized).

Hi Tech - Apple Computer rolls out its two newest

Macintosh II. The SE features a Motorola 68000

microprocessor (32-bit w/7.8 mhz) Two 3 1/2”

floppy disc drives and and 20 meg hard disc drive

(optional)

$3,699 includes the hard disc drive ...

MAC II - features the Motorola 68020 (32

bit/15.6mhz). Either 20, 40, or 80 meg hard disc

drives. Price range - $4,798 to $6,998. See your

Mac dealer.

Bestsellers - “Windmills OF The Gods” - Sidney

Sheldon, “It” - Stephan King, “Jane Seymour’s

Guide To Romantic Living” - Jane Seymour,

“Fatherhood” - Bill Cosby

Bruce Willis breaks his collarbone while skiing in

Idaho. He’ll a miss a week of filming

“Moonlighting.” ... Cybill Shephard is due back on

the set this week after getting married to

chiropractor Bruce Oppenheim.

Linda Marchiano aka Linda Lovelace undergoes

a 14 hour liver transplant operation. Miss

“Lovelace” had been waiting on a liver since last

fall. Remarried, her husband is a plaster worker

with two children.

Week of March 1, 1987

Monday Night TV - CBS Kate & Allie, My Sister Sam, I’ll Take Manhattan ... NBC

- ALF, Movie ... ABC - Macgyver, Movie

MacGyver - an assassin returns to even things with MacGyver and Thornton

ABC Movie - “The Betty Ford Story (1986) - Gena Rowlands, Josef Sommer.

Jed Duvall replaces Steve Bell as the Washington-based news anchor on “Good

Morning America.” Bell left last year to be a local news anchor at WPVI-TV

(Channel 6) in Philadelphia.

slip as CBS News President Howard Stringer begins laying-off

about 200 people from the ailing news division. That number

could include as many as 20 on-air personnel.

“Jacob ‘s Ladder” - Huey Lewis &

The News, “Livin’ On A Prayer” -

Bon Jovi, “Somewhere Out There” - Linda

Ronstadt/James Ingram, “You Got It All” - The Jets,

“Keep You Hands To Yourself” - Georgia Satellites,

“Respect Yourself” - Bruce Willis, “Big Time” - Peter

Gabriel, “Mandolin Rain” - Bruce Hornsby, You Gotta

Fight For Your Right To Party” - The Beastie Boys,

“Let’s Wait Awhile” - Janet Jackson.

Top Albums - “Licensed To Ill” -

Beastie Boys, “The Way It Is” -

Bruce Hornsby, “Slippery When

Wet “ - Bon Jovi, “Control” -

Janet Jackson, “Fore!” - Huey

Lewis & The News, “Invisible

Touch” - Genesis, “Georgia

Satellites” - Georgia Satellites,

“Third Stage” - Boston, “Night

Songs” - Cinderella, “Different

Light” - The Bangles.

Week of March 1, 1987

Country Charts - “She And I” - Alabama, “Don’t Underestimate My Love For You”

- Lee Greenwood, “100% Chance Of Rain” - Gary Morris, “Cajun Moon” - Ricky

Skaggs

At the movies -

Lethal Weapon - Mel Gibson, Danny Glover

Over The Top - Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely

Nightmare On Elm Street 3 - Heather

Langencamp, Patricia Arguette

Catrall

Some Kind Of Wonderful - Deric Stoltz, Mary

Sue Masterson