Week of March 23, 1980

President Carter shuts off the export of all American goods to the Summer

Olympics in Moscow, a move that could also bloc NBC’s coverage of the games.

Iranian President Abol-hassan Bani-Sadr meets

with three leaders of the militant students

occupying the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. There’s an

expectation the hostages will be transferred to the

Iranian government.

Washington state’s Mt. St. Helens is beginning to

come alive with belches of gas and explosions. It

shot volcanic ash 4 miles high. Is it ready to go?

Refuge is permanent - The deposed Shah of Iran

returns to the Middle East. Egyptian President

Anwar Sadat declared the 60-year-old exile had

found a “permanent “ home in his country.

Iranian officials warn that the Shah of Iran’s move from Panama to Egypt will

obstruct progress toward resolving the crisis over the U.S. Embassy hostages in

Tehran and that some may be tried as spies as soon as the new parliament

convenes. Those convicted will go to prison.

second-degree murder in the slaying of “Scarsdale

Diet” author Dr. Herman Tarnower. Court papers reveal

she was fed up with the physician because “he slept

with every woman he could.” As it turned out -

Tarnower bequeathed Ms. Harris $220,000 and willed

another $200,000 to a nurse he had been dating.

Elderly OK - President carter says he will not call for

cuts in Social Security benefits, supplemental security

income, Medicare, Meals on Wheels or assisted housing in his budget-cutting

proposals.

Primary upset - Sen. Edward Kennedy defeats President Carter in New York and

Connecticut. George Bush beat Reagan in Connecticut, but Reagan won in New

York.

Week of March 23, 1980

GOP Presidential candidate John B. Anderson says President Carter had a mind

like a seat cushion, “It bears the imprint of the last person who sat in it.”

A mine elevator cable snaps, plunging all 23 miners aboard more than a mile to

their deaths at the bottom of the world’s deepest and largest gold mine, not far

from Johannesburg, South Africa.

Most of Afghanistan’s national soccer team has defected to West Germany,

citing hatred of the soviet occupation army in their homeland.

In England, some call her “Big Spender Annie.”

recent polls to be the most unpopular member of the

royal family, is getting rapped for spending too much

money. She recently had a new stable built complete

with more animals. This, at a time when inflation in

Britain is 19%.

Entertainment news -

Another run at Las Vegas - Owners of Caesars

Palace file an application with the Nevada gaming

agencies asking that Frank Sinatra be approved as a “key employee” of the

hotel-casino.

medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics but was snubbed by Adolf Hitler. He was 66.

Lee Trevino holds off Ben Crenshaw to win the Tournament

Players Championship in Florida.

Tracy Austin beats Martina Navratilova in the final of the

$300,000 women’s tennis championship.

Music news -

conductor known as the master of lush strings. He was

74.

Passing - Crooner Dick Haymes (64). He was married

some 6 times and appeared in 35 movies.

Week of March 23, 1980

Television news -

Debuting this week - “ABC News Nightline” on ABC-TV. The show is an

outgrowth of the hostage updates called “America Held Hostage,” seen late

nights on ABC for the past six months. “Nightline” will air 20-minutes Mon-Thurs

nights at 11:30p. Anchor Ted Koppel says the show will focus chiefly on domestic

matters.

Week of March 23, 1980

More television news -

“Three’s Company” makes her Las Vegas debut. Check her

out at the MGM Grand. She sings. She dances.

Wednesday night television -

CBS - The Day That Christ Died (3 hours)

NBC - Real People, Diff’rent Strokes, Hello Larry, From

Here To Eternity, Johnny Carson, Tomorrow

ABC - Eight Is Enough, Charlie’s Angels, (late night) - The

Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage (Nightline debuts on Monday in this timeslot).

The Day That Christ Died - Stars Chris Caradon, Colin Blakely, Keith Michell,

Jonathan Pryce, Hope Lange, Eleanor Bron.

Tomorrow w/Tom Snyder - Tom interviews Grace Slick of the Jefferson Starship.

Week of March 23, 1980

Saturday Afternoon On ABC-TV

Week of March 23, 1980