Week of March 1-5, 1979

Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington for a meeting with

President Carter.

President Leonid I. Brezhnev says a new strategic arms limitation treaty with the

United States is near completion and for the first time, proposed a non-

aggression pact to cover both conventional and nuclear warfare.

The largest non-Communist industrial nations agree to reduce oil consumption by

5% because of the cutoff of Iranian oil. The United States, the world’s biggest oil

consumer, will bear the brunt of the reduction by cutting consumption by 1 million

barrels a day.

The Vietnamese frontier town of Lang Son, 80 miles northeast of Hanoi, is

reported in Chinese hands.

Keeping the Middle East peace initiative alive, President Carter gives Prime

Minister Menachem Begin a set of U.S. proposals aimed at resolving the

deadlock between Egypt and Israel. President Carter will fly to the Middle East in

an effort to salvage hopes for peace between the two countries.

Sports -

Marry - Tennis star Jimmy

Connors has been secretly married

for some time to a former Playmate

of the year - Patti McGuire .

Carl Yastrzemski, who threatened

two weeks ago to sit out the 1979

baseball season because of a

contract dispute, reports to the

Boston Red Sox training camp

Entertainment news -

Sportscaster Frank Gifford’s 24-

year-old son Kyle is critically hurt

and two companions are killed

when their car ran off the Palisades

Interstate Parkway rammed a tree and split into three pieces. He is in critical

condition.

Music - Jimmy Buffet, who has released nine albums and two have gone

platinum. He says commercial success is what everyone strives for: “if they deny

that, they’re lying. I’ve always wanted to be a commercial success, but that

Week of March 1-5, 1979

doesn’t mean I want to be on the cover of People magazine. You have to impose

certain limitations or you lose control of hat you’re doing. And I don’t have to do

that kind of stuff to sell records.”

Interesting - Disco hits are really the province of the record producer. Three of

disco’s hottest producers happen to be foreign - Giorgo Moroder - Italian,

Cerrone who is French and Alec Costandinos who is Greek. Moroder for

example, didn’t pioneer the use of the synthesizer in disco, but gave it a major

boost through Donna Summer’s hit “I Feel Love.” He got his start in 1975 with

Donna Summer’s first hit “Love to Love You Baby.’ He arranged the song and

played all the instruments except bass. “American disco had just started six

months earlier with George McRae’s ‘Rock Your Baby,” said Moroder.

Getting good reviews - The

Police whose new “Outlandos

D’Amour” album is being called

the most inviting mainstream

rock debut since the cars’ LP

last summer. The band consists

of drummer Stewart Copeland,

singer-bassist Sting and

guitarist Andy Summers. The

band combines new wave, r&b

and shadings of Jamaican

reggae. The band was

organized in January 1977 by

Copeland, a former Cal

Western University student.

Though Copeland wrote much

of the band’s initial material,

Sting, formerly a singer in a jazz

combo, eventually took over as

the main Police writer.

Sunday night television -

CBS - 60 Minutes, All in the Family 200 th Anniversary Show, Stockard Channing,

Mary Tyler Moore Hour

NBC - Wonderful World of Disney, Movie

ABC - Osmond Family Show, TV Movie - “Ordeal of Patty Hearst” (see ad)

PBS - National Geographic