Week of September 1, 1985

as the Night Stalker is captured by angry citizens as he

allegedly tried to steal a car in East Los Angeles. He is

suspected of killing 16 people plus 21 assaults.

An exhausted group of scientists suspend their survey of the

remains of the Titanic after finding the hull in such good

condition that their leader called it “a museum piece.”

The space shuttle Discovery makes a perfect landing at Edward Air Force Base.

Due to political pressure, President Reagan, backs off from his previous

opposition and orders limited economic sanctions against South Africa in a move

“aimed against the machinery of apartheid.”

Thailand - government forces crush a coup attempt masterminded by a former

prime minister, a former general and a disgruntled ex-colonel. Hundreds of rebels

had commandeered tanks and attacked key army installations, It was crushed,

with 4 dead including two members of an NBC News crews - Bangkok bureau

chief Neil Davis and American soundman Bill Latch.

President Reagan apologizes - saying he was careless after he gave the

impression that he believed segregation had been eliminated in South Africa.

Coca-Coca Classic, which debuted in

July (under the old 99-year-old formula) is

sitting besides new “Coke” in

supermarkets.

After a six-month stagnation - the

nation’s unemployment fell sharply to

6.9% in August, the lowest level in more

than five years.

A 19-hour fire in Passaic, NJ wipes out

the jobs of up to 3,000 workers and

leaves 500 people homeless in the city’s

industrial center.

Week of September 1, 1985

Bonn - Chancellor Helmut Kohl, facing the gravest spy scandal of his

administration, rejects demands for the ouster of his interior minister despite

opposition claims that the minister bungled the affair from the start.

Weekly radio address - President Reagan, vowing to get “a fair shake abroad,”

for U.S. products, announces unprecedented investigations of alleged unfair

trade practices in Japan, South Korea and Brazil. Currently, U.S. firms cannot

sell tobacco in Japan, life and fire insurance in South Korea and computers in

Brazil. In his radio address, the President said he has ordered ‘acceleration’ of

current efforts to open Japanese markets to leather goods and to challenge

Europe’s canned-fruit subsidies.

becomes the first leading member of British royalty to appear

on a radio call-in program, answering questions about her

childhood nervousness and her some times thorny

relationship with the press.

The second game of the world chess championship match

between titleholder Anatoly Karpov and challenger Gary

Kasparov, ends in a draw. Kasparov won the first game and now has 1 ½ points

to Karpov’s half point.

Doctors transplant a human heart into the chest of Michael Drummond, the

youngest man to receive an artificial heart, after the Jarvik-7 pump had kept him

alive for nine days.

of cocaine” during the second half of the 1980

season and played a game under the influence of

the drug. He was testifying at a federal trial of a

suspected drug dealer.

Music news -

Last month - the Parents Music Resource Center

(PMRC), a politically connected group of

Washington wives, won a record industry promise to

include albums-jacket stickers warning pop music

fans of potential explicit or offensive material.

Richard Ramirez, who is being held for the Night Stalker murders, is said by

friends to be a huge AC/DC fan. He left an AC/Dc cap in the home of one of his

Week of September 1, 1985

victims and one of Ramirez’s high school friends said the suspect is obsessed

with the group’s “highway to Hell’ album which includes a song called “Night

Prowler.’

USA for Africa has about $35 million in the bank, ready to

disperse. Founders are manager Ken Kragen, Quincy

Jones and Harry Belafonte.

More pop charity - A&M Records releases a benefit

album for Greenpeace. Artists appearing - the

Eurythmics, Thomas Dolby, the Pretenders, Tears for Fears, and Howard Jones.

All proceeds go to Greenpeace. Look for a single from the album - “Push and

Shove.”

Entertainment news -

Rock Hudson is writing a book about his life - including his battle with AIDS -

and proceeds of the autobiography will go toward fighting the killer disease.

Hudson stunned the world in July when he announced he had the deadly

disease.

Television news -

More original sitcoms being added to cable channels - USA is debuting its first

Road.”

On “Saturday Night Live” this week -

Howard Cosell hosts with musical guest

Greg Kihn.

Phyllis George is leaving the “CBS Morning

News.” She had been hired last January, but

the network says it just didn’t work out.

Don’t miss the Jerry Lewis Muscular

Dystrophy telethon.

Sunday night television -

CBS - 60 Minutes, Murder She Wrote, Crazy Like a Fox, Trapper John, M.D.

NBC - Punky Brewster, Silver Spoons, OceanQuest, Movie

Week of September 1, 1985

ABC - Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, Movie

PBS - Evening at Pops, Masterpiece Theatre

Ripley’s Believe It Or

Not - Featured - How

modern brains surgery

was created, Jet

engine art.

Crazy Like A Fox - An

old friend of Harry

leaves him an old film,

old baseball cards, but

Harry soon learns they

are very valuable.

At the movies -

Godzilla

Year of the Dragon

Compromising

Positions

Silverado

Teen Wolf

Pee Wee’s Big

Adventure

Back to the Future

European Vacation

Gremlins

Year of the Dragon