Week of March 22, 1981

The Supreme Court rules that state statutory rape laws do not discriminate

against men.

statement to Parliament about a newspaper story saying a

former head of Britain’s counter-espionage service may

have been a soviet agent for 30 years. The report by the

London Daily Mail, says Sir Roger Hollis, head of Britain’s

MI-5 counterespionage service from 1956 to 1965, “is

feared” to have been an agent of the Soviet KGB secret

service.

President Reagan gets his first budget victory as the

Senate votes to cancel the April 1 increase in federal price supports for dairy

products.

Reagan Policy Reversal - President Reagan announces to an appreciative crowd

of reporters and press officers that he plans to cancel the lottery by which

questioners were picked for his second news conference.

Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. says there is “a

very dangerous very bad” split in Poland’s Communist

party and the coming weekend “cold be critical” in

determining whether there can be a peaceful outcome to

Poland’s internal problems.

Trouble in Poland as strikers shut down transportation,

businesses, factories, bringing the country to the brink of

political chaos.

A five-story riverfront condo collapses as workers poured the final section of

heavy, wet cement atop the roof. At least 10 workmen are killed.

Queen Elizabeth II gives her formal consent to the July 29 marriage of her eldest

son, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.

President Reagan’s daughter, Maureen, comes to Washington for three days but

she didn’t stay at the White House and won’t see her father this time. She was in

town to give a speech and said she never considered staying at the White

Week of March 22, 1981

House. “It never even came up. I had business meetings and it’s easier to get in

and out of a hotel than in and out of the White House.

Inflation up as the Labor department reports a 1% rise for the month or over 12%

annual rate.

gunman and undergoes immediate surgery for removal of a bullet that lodged in

his left lung. His condition is good and his life is in no danger. It’s not as good for

White House Press Secretary James Brady, as a bullet entered his brain. Also

shot - Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy and a District of Columbia policeman,

Thomas Delahanty. John Warnock Hinckley Jr. (25) of Colorado was arrested at

the scene.

Hinckley was arrested

in Nashville last

October carrying three

handguns on the same

day that then President

Jimmy Carter visited

that city.

Vice President George

Bush rushes back to

Washington from

Texas. But, Alexander

Haig - Secretary of State said in the mean time of power - “As of now, I am in

control, here in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and I

am in close tough with him.”

Scott Hinckley, the brother of John W. Hinckley Jr., the man accused of shooting

President Reagan, was to have been a dinner guest this week at the home of

Vice President George Bush’s son, Neil - The Houston Post reports. Neil Bush,

who lives in Denver, said his family knew the Hinckley family because they had

made large contributions to the Vice President’s campaign. Scott Hinckley is vice

president of his father’s Denver-based oil firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corp.

James Brady - After 4 ½ hours of surgery, doctors are more optimistic and they

upgraded his chances of survival markedly.

Week of March 22, 1981

She’s up for grabs. After 15 years with Motown, Diana Ross is negotiating with

other record companies. It’s no secret that Neil Bogart, over at Boardwalk

Entertainment wants her. Also, David Bowie is shopping for a new label and has

already had talks with David Geffen.

develop and RCA this week kick-off a

major advertising launch for its

“Selecta Vision” videodisc player. Its

$20-million advertising campaign was

launched with commercials running

on all three networks. RCA is late on

getting in the videodisk game.

Magnavox has already launched their

version, but some estimates say that

they’ve sold about 35,000 players.

Pioneer has one out too. All three are

incompatible systems. RCA says its

advertising plans are ambitions and

that its $20-million advertising

commitment is more than Magnavox

spends in a year on its entire line of

products. The RCA players sell for $500.

Entertainment news -

Carol Burnett wins a $1.6 million libel judgment from the National Enquirer for a

1976 story that she claimed made her appear drunk.

Television news -

Dick Ebersol who now produces “Saturday Night Live” says the show got off on

the wrong foot this season by billing the newcomers as “The New Generation.”

While he won’t revamp the show, he’ll return it to tradition. “Weekend Update” will

be restored to its 12 O’clock midnight time slot. “It gives the show a second start

of a half hour in.,” said Ebersol, who says he’s also bringing back the original

theme music.

Appearing - Erik Estrada, Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, Olivia Newton-John and

others.

WRGB-TV (Channel 6) Schenectady/Albany NY - a longtime NBC station, is

shifting from the #3 network to the #1 network - CBS.

Week of March 22, 1981

Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man” - a TV movie - will air on CBS this

week. Annette O’Toole stars.

The destroyers.

On the “Midnight Special” this week - Skip

Stephenson, Byron Allen co-host. Guests include

Robert Urich, Phyllis Davis, Bart Braverman,

Cathy Moriarty, Creedence Clearwater Revival,

Yarbrough & Peoples.

CBS - Palmerstown, Movie

NBC - Lobo, BJ and the Bear, Flamingo Road, Tonight, Tomorrow

ABC - Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Three’s Company, Too Close For

Comfort, Hart to Hart, Nightline, Late movie

PBS - Nova, Mystery!

Happy Days - The Fonz starts his new career - as an auto mechanic instructor.

Tonight Show - B.B. King joins Johnny Carson.

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