Week of Oct 8-18, 1984

President Reagan, responding to a challenge by Walter F. Mondale, rules out

any cuts or changes in Social Security benefits for current recipients or future

retirees.

Reagan-Mondale debate - A Gallup

Poll taken for Newsweek magazine

indicated that Mondale won by a 54-

35 margin. Some Republicans fretted

that Reagan was fuzzy and even

boring at times. One observed, “He

sounded vacillating. I think he let

Mondale get away with Murder.” ABC

estimates 90 million watched the

debate, held in Louisville, Kentucky.

President Reagan, acknowledging he may have done too much homework for his

first debate with Walter F. Mondale, said he was at an automatic disadvantage as

the incumbent and “ever realized how easy it was” to be the outsider.

exchanged sharp words over the Beirut

bombings and church-state relations in a

nationally televised debate.

Offering a private assessment of his debate

with Geraldine Ferraro, Vice President George

Bush said, “We tried to kick a little as last

night.” When he realized his comment had

been picked up by a boom microphone of TV

station WNEW New York, Bush exclaimed, “Oh

god, he heard me. Turn that thing off. That was

off the record.”

First Lady Nancy Reagan says that her husband’s age (73) is a “non-issue” and

that the President has a mind like “ computer, like a steel trap.”

Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan becomes the first American women to walk in space

as she eased out of the space shuttle Challenger.

Week of Oct 8-18, 1984

Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres offers to withdraw Israeli troops from the

Bekaa Valley area of Lebanon if they are replaced by a U.N. peacekeeping force.

hotel bomb blast that killed a fellow lawmaker and three

others; a bold attack the IRA said was aimed at wiping out

Britain’s leadership. The attack occurred at the Grand Hotel

in Brighton.

President Jose Napaleon Duarte and Salvadoran guerrilla

leaders begin peace talks between the government and the

rebels the first since El Salvador’s civil war began five

years ago.

Angilican Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa is named winner of the 1984

Nobel Peace Prize.

Major banks reduce their prime lending rates to 12.5% from 12.75%.

Arthur L.H. Rudolph who designed the rocket that took U.S. astronauts to the

moon, has renounced his U.s. citizenship and leaves the country after the Justice

Department alleged that he “literally worked thousands of slave laborers to death’

while building V-2 rockets for the nazis during World War II.

President Reagan orders the CIA to investigate “the possibility of improper

conduct’ in connection with its production of a psychological warfare manual for

Nicaraguan rebels that says some leftist government officials could be

“neutralized” with the ‘selective use of violence.’

set to offer sky telephone service. The cost is

$7.50 for the first three minutes and $1.25 a

minute thereafter. Passengers shouldn’t

expect to receive calls as the planes will have

unlisted phone numbers.

AIDS update - The government reports that

researchers have found the virus believed to

cause AIDS in the saliva of people who have

a pre-AIDS condition or who have a pre-AIDS

condition or who have had contact with

known victims of the disease.

Week of Oct 8-18, 1984

Wins patent infringement - A court rules

that 48-year old chemist Larry Nichols is

the inventor of the Rubik’s Cube and not

Erno Rubik, the Hungarian professor of

architecture who once earned more than

$30,000 per week just on royalties.

Nichols, who invented the puzzle in

1969. Nichols’ employer, Moleculon

research Corp, to whom he assigned all

rights, patented the puzzle in 1972 and

offered it to a number of companies

including Ideal Toy, which turned it down.

Nichols and Moleculon, asked the U.s.

district Court for $60 million in treble

damages against Ideal and its parent, the

CBS Toys Divison. When the cube

became a hot in 1981, Moleculon wrote to ideal, putting the company on notice

that it believed its patent had been infringed. In the suit, Moleculon did not charge

that Rubik had stolen the cube from Nichols. “We contended that Ideal ignored

our valid patent,” said Nichols.

Dors, fatally shoots himself on the anniversary of the day they met (Oct 10). He

was said to be deeply depressed. The couple married in 1968. He was 43.

Television news - ABC merchandising has

licensed a series of posters and stickers featuring

six the network’s hunky daytime soap stars:

Hospital

Michael Knight - All My Children.

Laurence Lau - All My Children

Grant Show - Ryan’s Hope

Robert S. Woods - One Life to Live.

On Saturday Night Live - Guest host: Bob Uecker

with musical guest Peter Wolf.

Monday night television -

CBS - Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Kate & Allie, Newhart, Cagney & Lacey

NBC - TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Movie. Tonight, David Letterman

ABC - Monday Night Football, World’s Greatest Mysteries

Week of Oct 8-18, 1984

PBS - Wonderworks

Lifetime - Regis Philbin’s Health Styles

ESPN - Notre Dame Football

Cinemax - SCTV

HBO - Richard Pryor Here and New

World’s Greatest Mysteries - Looks at poltergeists, those who have died and

lived to tell about it and those who can see into the future. Hosted by George C.

Scott.

Late Night With David Letterman - Rev. Jesse Jackson and guessing expert

Dave Glousky.

At the movies -

Garbo Talks

Places in the Heart

Exterminator

Teachers

Purple Rain

Ghostbusters

Love streams

All of Me

Karate Kid

Irreconcilable differences

Amadeus

Week of Oct 8-18, 1984

Week of Oct 8-18, 1984

Week of Oct 8-18, 1984