Week of May 8, 1981

May 8, 1981

President Reagan, cheered by his latest budget victory, but acknowledging his

tax plan, faces rougher going is hanging tough in his battle to win approval of the

three-year, 30% rate cut.

president of France for a seven-year term.

Defeating Valery Giscard d’Estaing and ending a

23-year era of right-leaning French government.

Pope John Paul II is hit by three bullets fired at

close range before 18,000 people in St. Peter’s

Square by a man said to be an escaped killer

from a Turkish prison. The Pope underwent

emergency surgery and is said to be in

satisfactory condition. The most serious wound

appears to be in his stomach. The suspect is

Mehmet Ali Agca.

In Salem, Ore - A man who “didn’t say nothing” walked into a crowded rock ‘n’

roll bar on ladies night and opened fire with an automatic pistol, killing four and

wounding at least 20 others before he was wrestled to the ground by customers

- one wielding a pool cue.

Muhammad Ali donates $400,000 towards the capture of Atlanta’s child killers.

The old reward was $100,000.

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in trying to get business at U.S. military bases is not

improper, so says a White House spokesman. Reagan

(35) now works for Dana Ingalls Profile, a company that

does business with the military. The younger Reagan said

that his name has to come up, and when someone on the

phone asks him whom he is, he tells them. He says his job

“is to talk to buyers and request permission to give quotes

on business. Al we want to do is get on the approved supplier’s list like hundreds

and hundreds of other companies.” He’s vice president of marketing and sales

for the company.

The Federal Communications Commission unexpectedly withdraws its

permission for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co to raise most domestic

long-distance phone rates by 16% effective this week.

debut in “The Little Foxes.”

slain in Atlanta in less than two years, discovered “trace evidence” that links his

case to other recent deaths.

Carol Burnett’s $1.5-million jury award for libel against the National Enquirer is

cut in half by a judge.

“Heaven’s Gate” - the biggest movie bomb to date, has now cost some jobs as

Steven Back, the United Artists executive who supervised the $43-million film, is

given the boot.

reportedly obsessed with the death of John Lennon and in his

mind “binded together” the slain Beatles star and actress Jodie

Foster, so says federal law enforcement officials. Hinckley is the

son of a wealthy Denver-area couple. “I still think about Jodie al

the time. That’s all I think about really, that and John Lennon’s

death, They were sort of binded together before Dec. 8; they

(have) been binded together since last summer, really. John and

Jodie, and now one of ‘em’s dead.”

Sports -

The Women’s Tennis Assn says its Board of Directors unanimously rejected

Billie Jean-king’s offer to resign as president of the organization. King, founder of

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the association, is the subject of a lawsuit file by her former secretary, Marilyn

Barnett, who claims to have been her lesbian lover during the early 1970’s and

who is suing King for “palimony.”

A giant tree limb breaks off an 80-foot oak and falls into a crowd of spectators at

the Byron Nelson Golf Classic, killing a spectator and injuring about 20 others.

Everybody’s eye seems to be on the Dodger

pitcher. Look for front-page photos in Time,

Sports Illustrated, Newsweek and other

magazines. His games are usually sold out.

TV ratings are higher than average.

Fernando Valenzuela.

More LA - The Los Angeles Rams sign free

agent Jeff Kemp, son of U.S. Rep. Jack

Kemp. He’s a Dartmouth quarterback.

Music news -

Recently - Jim Willey of the Déjà Vu Sound

Center in Pineville, Louisiana is arrested for selling a 16-year-old boy a cassette

of “Blowfly’s party,” a rap/dance record. Police say the mildly suggestive record

falls under a state statute banning sales of harmful material” to a minor. He could

spend a year in jail.

Showtime on Times-Mirror-owned cable TV systems and hopes to branch out.

Dan Rather says he knew he had pressure to maintain the CBs “Evening News,

but “I had no idea it was going to be what it is.’

The Cable News Network, claiming its right to cover the news is being abridged,

files suit against the major networks and president Reagan over procedures used

in setting up television pools for White House news.

CBS Cable will launch its 12-hour-a-day cultural programming beginning October

12. CBS will be the second of the major networks to program for the burgeoning

cable TV industry, which now serves about 20 million homes, with 46 million

projected for 1990. ABC’s Alpha Repertory Television Service began service on

April 12 and RCA, parent company of NBC, plans to develop programming for

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cable TV but has not set a debut date. CBS Cable will serve about 1.5 million

subscribers initially.

Monday night television -

CBS - Lynda Carter’s Celebration, MASH, House Calls, Lou Grant

NBC - Little House on the Prairie, Movie, Tonight, Tomorrow

ABC - That’s Incredible, Movie, Nightline

PBS - Great Performances

Lynda Carter special - Her third variety special, this time with Ray Charles, Jerry

Reed and Chris Evert Lloyd.

NBC Movie - The Starmaker (see ad).

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Week of May 8, 1981