Week of March 8, 1980

The government reports inflation was up 1.5% last month thanks to soaring

energy costs.

Scarsdale Diet author Dr. Herman Tarnower

is shot to death in the bedroom of his

ultramodern suburban home in Westchester,

NY. Jean Harris, the headmistress of a

Virginia girls’ school confesses to the killing,

saying she was a frequent weekend visitor to

the Tarnower home.

Three terrorists firing from a car attacked a

U.S. Army vehicle carrying three military

science instructors on San Juan’s busiest

freeway.

A polish airliner carrying 22 members of the

U.S. amateur boxing team on a flight from

New York crashes into a military fort near

Warsaw’s international airport, killing all 87

on board.

President Carter and Ronald Reagan win

three southern primaries Florida, Georgia

and Alabama.

The U.S. Court of Appeals rules that the three commercial television networks

acted unreasonably in refusing to sell 30 minutes of prime time for a political

speech by President Carter last December.

John B. Connally, the former Texas governor withdraws from the Republican

presidential race.

In Chicago - Firefighters and paramedics return to work 24 days after they went

on strike.

The Army would be able to fill only about half its infantry jobs and about 75% of

its artillery positions within 90 days after the outbreak of an emergency,

according to Sen. Sam Nunn.

Week of March 8, 1980

The Ayatollah Khomeini backs the uncompromising stand of the militant students

holding the American hostages in Iran.

In a Gallup Poll - President Carter continues to hold a wide lead over Ronald

Reagan and George Bush. He leads Reagan 57% to 34%.

Ronald Reagan, his presidential campaign sharply geared down to save

dwindling resources, campaigns for last-minute support in the south’s first

primary state. He stumps the state by bus, dropping the plane.

including massive cuts in federal spending, driving up

the price of gasoline and making credit harder to obtain

for high-living Americans.

The House approves President Carter’s proposed

windfall profits tax after defeating a final attempt by

republicans to make the levy more acceptable to the oil

industry.

An unknown number of employees in a “small unit” at

Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas are suspended after allegations that they made

bets on how long critically ill patients would live and may have acted to hasten

the deaths of some of the patients. The Las Vegas Review-Journal said the bets

were made among members of the night shift in an intensive care unit.

Gerald R. Ford, who says his “sole, single purpose… is to get President Carter

out of the White House,” meets with Carter in the Oval Office for a 40-minute

friendly chat. “We had a very full discussion of domestic and international

matters,” said Ford.

A jury in Indiana acquits Ford Motor Co. on three counts of reckless homicide in

the fiery deaths of three teen-agers when their Pinto sedan explodes in flames

when hit from behind.

Dickey, are dismissed from the squad by coach Bo

Schembechler because of drug use.

shoplifting case was continued without a finding after he

admitted he took $81 worth of shirts and socks from a

suburban department store last December.

Week of March 8, 1980

For the first time since 1922, the Boy Scouts of

America have overhauled their uniform style.

Cash Box does a special section titled “The

Second British Invasion.” In it, an interview with

Johnny Rotten and his new band Public Image

Ltd.,

ousted as CBS president in 1978 is now vice

president of the Turner Broadcasting System,

which includes WTBS-TV, Atlanta and the

Cable News Network, scheduled to begin

operation June 1.

Wednesday night television -

CBS - Beyond Westworld, Movie

NBC - Real People, Diff’rent

Strokes, The Facts of Life, From

Here to Eternity (see ad), Tonight,

Tomorrow

ABC - Eight is Enough, Charlie’s

Angels, Vegas, The Iran Crisis:

America Held Hostage

PBS - Great Performances

At the movies -

A Force of One

Kramer Vs. Kramer

Coal Miner’s Daughter

Foxes

All that Jazz

Coal Miner’s daughter

Star Trek The Motion Picture

Visitor

American Gigolo

Week of March 8, 1980

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Week of March 8, 1980