Week of Oct 8-11, 1986
President Reagan on a pre-summit political foray into North Carolina talked up
tobacco, textiles and taxes and praised senior Sen. Jesse Helms as “an
individual whose very name causes liberals to break out in a nervous rash, a
friend of mine and a champion of our cause.”
Bernard Kalb resigns as chef spokesman for secretary of sate George P. Shultz
in protest of the government’s “disinformation” program directed at Libyan leader
Mommar Kadafi.
Nicaragua - An American captured when Sandinista troops shot down his cargo
plane says that the aircraft was carrying weapons to the contra rebels and that
he worked with CIA employees
President Reagan arrives in Iceland,
promising frank talk without guarantee of
success on arms control and other issues
during his weekend rendezvous with
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrives
for a short-notice summit with President
Reagan in Iceland, saying the superpower
leaders bear a “responsibility for the
destiny of the world and calling for total elimination of nuclear weapons.”
Music news
- Def-Jam Records’
Rick Rubin
says that
Michael Jackson, owner of the Beatles song catalogue, has
refused to give Def-Jam artists the Beastie Boys the right to
record a new version of the Beatles’ “I’m down.” Rubin said
he was told after Jackson here it, he thought it made a
mockery of the Beatles. But Rubin says “Now that’s
ridiculous. The Beastie Boys make fun of everything! Who
does Michael think he is; to go around protecting people
form a pop song? It’s very disturbing and not cool at all.
He’s acting like a censor.”
Television news -
It’s announced that a new Star Trek - one set a century ahead of the original will
debut next September. “Star Trek’ creator Gene Roddenberry will serve as
executive producer of “Star Trek” The Next Generation’ which will feature an all-
