Week of November 15, 1991

charges in the Iran contra-scandal are overturned - on

the same grounds that got Oliver L. North off - that

immunized testimony had tainted witnesses.

Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin takes

over most of the Soviet Union’s gold and diamond

mining and suspends oil exports. He’s trying to ensure

fuel for the winter and wants to finance a program of

economic reforms.

California State senator Alan Robbins resigns from

office and will plead guilty to federal political corruption charges. He’ll be

sentenced to five years in prison.

Louisiana - Democrat Edwin Edwards defeats former Ku Klux Klan leader David

Duke and wins his governorship back.

Syria - British church envoy Terry Waite who disappeared while working to free

two American hostages- is released along with U.S hostage Thomas Sutherland

after they were held captive for years.

The Dow drops 120 points - its worst plunge in two years. Next day - it was up

29 points.

President Bush dismisses the suggestion that his call earlier in the week for

banks to lower credit card interest rates spooked Wall St. into its big one-day

drop.

The House approves a bill to stop businesses from making annoying

telemarketing calls and sending “junk fox” ads to phone subscribers who don’t

want any of it. Over 300,000 solicitors now call more than 18 million Americans

each day, with about 75,000 stockbrokers making some 6 million calls a day.

Sports -

Terry Pendleton of the Atlanta Braves was selected the national league’s most

valuable player - just head of Barry Bonds of Pittsburgh.

Bush’s request that he join the national

Commission on AIDS, saying he wants to focus

attention “on what all of us must do to fight this

disease.”

Week of November 15, 1991

Spinal injury - Detroit Lions’ Mike Utley has surgery for an injury suffered in a Los

Angeles Rams game and he remains paralyzed.

Magic Johnson begins AZT treatment and says he wants to buy an NBA

franchise.

Tennis star Martina Navratilova tells the New York Post that if she had contracted

AIDS, the public would say, “I had it coming.” This after it was disclosed that

Magic Johnson of the Lakers had tested positive for HIV, and the public’s

reaction was on his side.

Dale Ernhardt wins his fifth NASCAR Winston Cup title, finishing fifth as Mark

Martin wins his first race in more than a year in the Hardee 500 at Atlanta Motor

Speedway.

Music news -

The Rolling Stones sign a $45 million contract with Virgin records that begins

with their next album, due in 1993.

Robbers steal 30,000 copies of the soon-to-be-released - Michael Jackson’s

“Dangerous” album - a rather hot commodity. They were stolen from a

warehouse near Hollywood.

Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” video from the upcoming “Dangerous” album

- has debuted on MTV, Fox and BET.

Billboard editorial raps rapper Ice Cube

for advocating violence in two songs

from the album “Death Certificate.’

Entertainment news -

Julia Roberts says it was Kiefer

Sutherland who first called their

wedding - but she wanted out too.

Television news -

for “Inside Edition.” She interviews

Michael Jordan for her debut piece.

On “Saturday Night Live” - Linda

Hamilton hosts with musical guest

Week of November 15, 1991

Scorsese.

New series from the producers of “L.A.

Law” - “Civil Wars” - the battle of the ex’s.

On ABC TV. Stars Mariel Hemingway and

Peter Onorati.

At the movies -

Meeting Venus

Cheap Shots

Little man Tate

Other People’s Money

All I Want For Christmas

Homicide

The Man in the Mon

The fisher King

The Butcher’s Wife

Frankie 7 Johnny

Cape Fear

Week of November 15, 1991