Week of September 1, 1986

At least 70 people are killed after a

single engine light plane collides with

a DC-9 near Los Angeles (Cerritos).

The wreckage ignited 16 homes/

Two masked gunmen stormed into an

Istanbul synagogue and sprayed

gunfire on Sabbath worshippers,

killing at least 21. They burned the

bodies with gasoline before blowing

themselves up.

About 400 persons are missing after

a Soviet cruise ship gets rammed and

sinks in the Black Sea by a Soviet

freighter who ignored repeated calls

to change course.

Iranian gunboats seize two Soviet

freighters in the Persian Gulf. One

was allowed to sail, but the other was

escorted to an Iranian port where the

cargo was unloaded.

Thousands of young blacks march in protest in Soweto as security forces fire

warning shots and tear gas to block a mass funeral for at lest 20 blacks killed by

police.

A long hijacking ordeal ends in tragedy in Pakistan when Arabs, who hijacked a

Pan Am World Airways jumbo jet at Karachi International Airport, began firing

automatic weapons at the passengers. 15 were killed.

The nation’s unemployment rate fell for the third straight month - now at 6.8%.

Two “Star Wars’ satellites reportedly intended to track a rocket and destroy one

another were boosted into orbit by a delta rocket whose success brought cheer

to a battered U.s. space program. The operation was a major test of President

Reagan’s proposed missile defense system.

Week of September 1, 1986

American Motors Corp announces that it will offer zero-interest financing for most

of its 1986 cars and Jeeps. Last week, GM and Ford began offering car buyers

2.4% loans through their financing arms.

Christina Ann Wilson - a 7-year-old girl who made a nationally broadcast appeal

for organ donations is in stable condition after liver transplant surgery in Chicago.

Several weeks ago, Christina recorded a public-service announcement appealing

for organ donations to the American Liver foundation and it was broadcast

nationwide.

Dutch Balloonists Henk Brink, his wife Evelien

and Willem Hageman set a balloon transatlantic

record. From St. John’s Newfoundland, they

touched down in Amsterdam after a 51-hour,

14-minute flight.

Prince Charles spends about 30 minutes at

Whitney Young Magnet High School near

Chicago after attending the ribbon-cutting for

Marshall Field department store’s “Eagle and

the Crown” British promotion.

A disgruntled employee who tried to sabotage

the encyclopedia Britannica by secretly rewriting

parts of its 1988 edition was thwarted by a

sophisticated computer. The employee was not named.

A sewage treatment plant worker who says his job is so easy that he works only

a few minutes a day, has taken out ads thanking Toledo. “Thanks Toledo. For 18

years of generous wages, very liberal working conditions and much more at your

sewage plant.” Say the ads taken out by James Pieper - a sewage plant

operator for 18 years. “Over the years I’ve had four partners that have slept on a

regular basis on the shift. “I come in, make the half-hour round and I still have 7

½ hours left to do nothing.” Piper, who earns $25,471 a year, says he does not

fear losing his job for speaking out. “They won’t fire anyone out there for not

working. Why should they fire me for talking about it.”

She’s on a role - Debbie Fields (29) who opened her Debbi Fields small shop in

Palo Alto (CA) nine years ago.

Sports -

USFL is gone - More than 500 United States Football League players were

thrown out of work July 29 when a federal jury awarded the league $1. In an

Week of September 1, 1986

amendment to the collective bargaining agreement that freed the USFL players

to seek employment elsewhere, the USFL owners agreed Aug. 8 to re-sign a

minimum of 10 players each to sustain the league’s identity and to pay them

each $1.500 a month through Jan. 15.

annual MTV Music Awards on Saturday

this week. Broadcast from New York and

LA - look for Pet Shop Boys, INXS,

Robert Palmer, Whitney Houston, Mr.

Mister, the Monkees, Genesis, Van

Halen, the Hooters and Tina Turner.

The six-city Amnesty International tour that ended about 11 weeks ago has

netted $2.1 million. The concerts featured U2, the Police and Bryan Adams. The

tour’s goal was to raise awareness of the organization’s worldwide campaign to

free non-violent prisoners of conscience.

Entertainment news -

roles included the husband of “Mrs. Robinson” in

“The Graduate.”

Seven past or current female staffers of CBS’

early morning news “Nightwatch” sue the

network alleging that they faced sexual

harassment, discrimination and hostility while

working for the program. All are production

staffers.

Monday night television -

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

NBC - Valerie, Amazing Stories, Movie, Tonight, David Letterman

ABC - Movie, Nightline

PBS - Evening at Pops, American Masters

HBO - Movie (Rambo First Blood part II).

ABC Movie - “Death on the Nile” (1978) - Peter Ustinov, Bette Davis, Mia

Farrow, David Niven, Angela Lansbury, George Kennedy, Maggie Smith, Jack

Warden, Lois Chiles, Olivia Hussey.

Week of September 1, 1986

Week of September 1, 1986