Week of September 1, 1980

Polish Communist Party Chief Edward Gierek , whose

regime was jolted by the worst labor unrest in a decade, is

removed from his post.

Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev sends warm

congratulations to Poland’s new Communist Party leader,

Stanislaw Kanta, calling the former Polish secret police chief a

“staunch champion of the people’s true interests.”

Zbegniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s national security adviser is being

investigated by the Justice Department to determine whether he violated

espionage laws in discussing secret Soviet intelligence with the President’s

brother - Billy Carter.

Student Busing Begins In St. Louis - classes begin under a court-ordered

desegregation plan that calls for busing about 7,600 of the district’s 63,000

students.

Selective Service Director Bernard Rostker announces that 93% of all eligible

military-age young men have registered for any future draft.

Inflation at the wholesale level hits better than a 20% annual rate in August while

unemployment edged to 7.6%.

Ronald Reagan, lunching with Chrysler assembly line workers in a Detroit auto

plant says that the federal program to aid the financially troubled company “is

working, and I am happy about it.”

Abbie Hoffman (43) the fugitive former “Yippie” leader

who got “tired of looking over his shoulder,” ends six

years of life underground and turns himself in to

authorities. He’s facing drug charges.

Campaigning - President Carter, in Independence

Missouri say he and Ronald Reagan differ “in almost

every basic element,” most sharply on the issue of

negotiating a reduction in nuclear arms. Reagan, he

said, would “initiate a massive nuclear arms race with the soviet Union” that

would pose “one of the most serious threats to the safety of our nation and the

world.”

Week of September 1, 1980

In New Jersey - Ronald Reagan accused President Carter of betraying American

workers with his economic policies.

The FCC will refund Citizen Band license fees to those who paid for one between

1970 and 1975; a court decision said it found the FCC was charging fees that

generated more money that it actually cost to process license requests. The

commission has already refunded more than $50 million to eligible radio and TV

stations.

Sports -

George Brett of the Kansas City Royals is hot. He’s

baseball’s leading hitter at .397 and he’s attempting to

become the first major leaguer to bat .400 since Ted Williams

(.406) in 1941.

U.S Tennis Open - Hana Mandlikova - the 18-year-old

Czech whose idol is Martina Navratilova, beats her for the

second time in 10 days.

Racing - California 500 at Ontario - Bobby Unser wins his

fourth, but Johnny Rutherford wins his first national championship by finishing

second - his eighth 1-2 finish in nine races.

Entertainment news -

Passing - Duncan Renaldo - Best known as TV’s “Cisco Kid.” He was 76.

Music news -

Ex-Black Sabbath member Ozzy Osbourne has a new band - “The Blizzard of

Oz.” They’ll be touring England in a few weeks.

Friday of this week - David Bowie sings on the “Tonight” show on NBC-TV. Don’t

miss it!

London’s famed Abbey Road recording studio is conducting a sale of used

recording equipment, with profits going to its studio expansion. Don’t miss this

one - only two days beginning Oct. 15.

Television news -

Dinah Shore is leaving her daily talk show after 10 years.

“Dinah & Friends” will not return after it reaches its run in

October.

Week of September 1, 1980

Public TV, NBC and ABC will again offer closed-captioned programs for the new

TV season, but CBS is still adamant about not joining the others in having the

National Captioning Institute put subtitles on its programs. CBS says that another

technology called teletext will make the current captioning process obsolete. Said

a spokesperson - “We don’t want to be part and parcel of encouraging people to

buy something that we know is already outdated.”

Cable-TV - Showtime - the premium cable-TV channel says it is lining up a fall

schedule that relies more on original programming than feature films. Added to

the schedule - “Bizarre,” - cable-TV’s first biweekly comedy series. It’s hosted by

John Byner. Also look for “Ralph Nader For The People” - a consumer forum

launched last year and “Carousel” - 15 half-hour family family films. Showtime

currently has 1.2 million paying subscribers.

The FCC is about to consider sweeping rules that will create another class of

television service - a low power service.

Brent Musberger - who many know for co-hosting “The

NFL Today” weekends on CBS-TV, has also been a co-

anchor for KNXT-TV news in Los Angeles. This week, he’s

leaving that post. He wants to return full time to CBS

Sports. Musberger, who co-anchored the KNXT-TV 11pm

news with Connie Chung says of anchoring newscasts -

“You are more or less a headline reader. You can read the

words. They roll out in front of you. But come with me to a

football game, where you have to memorize the names of

80 players and then go live with someone talking into your

ear about something else and go into a commercial…”

Sunday night television -

CBS - 60 Minutes, Archie Bunker’s Place, One Day At A Time, Alice, The

Jeffersons, Trapper John, M.D.

NBC - Disney’s Wonderful World, ChiPs, 32 nd Annual Emmy Awards

ABC - Those Amazing Animals, Movie

PBS - Masterpiece Theater

Those Amazing Animals - With Burgess Meredith, Priscilla Presley and Jim

Stafford. Kathy Lee rides a killer Whale.

Archie Bunker’s Place - Archie’s partner Harry sells his part of the bar/restaurant

to Murray Klein.