Week of October 8, 1988
Congress, consigning “one of the great sacred cows” to the slaughterhouse,
votes to authorize the Pentagon to close unneeded military bases at an
estimated savings of up to $5 billion a year.
Dan Quayle asserts that he was taking personal control of his election after
reaching a “certain snapping point.”
Vice President
George Bush
reacts to a report
that first lady Nancy Reagan is not supportive of
his presidential campaign and sent a letter to her,
saying, “I’ll be damned if I let anything nasty come
between us,” so said an aide. The aide said Mrs.
Reagan telephone Bush, telling him that she had
read the reports and that “of course it wasn’t true.”
Wholesale prices rose a moderate .4% in
September.
Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev, urgently seeking to boost food production,
calls for the reorganization of the hole of soviet agriculture in an evident reversal
of longstanding collective farm policy.
President Reagan salutes ‘five brave countrymen” - the discovery astronauts at
the White House and urges America’s school children to study hard and reach for
the stars.
The Supreme Court agrees to decide whether police violate a suspect’s rights
when they fail to recite the precise words familiar to every fan of TV cop shows
the Miranda warning.
Business -
Trump Shuttle - Donald Trump announces that he has
bought the profitable Eastern Airlines shuttle from Texas
Air Corp for $365 million cash and will rename it after
himself.
Entertainment -
Passing -
Waylon Flowers
, creator of the puppet
“Madame” he was 48.
