Week of March 8, 1984
Poland - Thousand of village teens fighting the removal of crucifixes from their
schools defied “Zomo’ riot police and carried their protest to the neighboring
town.
The leaders of Lebanon’s warring factions agree on a cease-fire in Beirut and
announce that a disengagement of forces would begin immediately in the war-
torn country.
For the first time since he was shot walking out of the Washington Hilton Hotel
almost three years ago, President Reagan uses the same ‘presidential entrance”
when he arrived and left the downtown hotel.
Sen. Gary Hart wins the Florida and Massachusetts primaries, but Walter F.
Mondale gets primary factories in Georgia and Alabama.
It will take
President Reagan
two more
years to decide what to do about acid
rain, the head of the Environmental
Protection Agency predicts.
Good news - The government reports
that American businesses plan to spend
a record $343.6 billion on modernization
and expansion in 1984, a 12% increase -
the best gain in nearly two decades.
The average income of U.S. doctors fell
during a six-month period last year for
the first time since the American Medical Assn. Began keeping statistics in 1970.
In San Diego, Mayor Roger Hedgecock promises to set up a trust to manage his
investments and to refrain from real estate investments as long as he is mayor of
San Diego. But he said, he wouldn’t set up the trust unless he is re-elected in
November. He apologized for inconsistencies and contradictions he made in
recent weeks when revealing details of his financial relationship with Nancy
Hoover, a principal in the troubled J. David & Co. investment company. Hoover
had given Hedgecock a $130,000 personal loan to remodel his home and that he
had a $50,000 investment account with J. David which has been forced into
bankruptcy court.
Unemployment dips to 7.8%, its lowest point since September 1981.
