Week of September 8, 1982
A U.S. Army helicopter crashes onto a West German highway during an air show
killing all 44 on board.
Israeli warplanes bomb PLO positions near Beirut.
A huge bomb destroys the headquarters of Lebannon’s President-elect Bashir
Gemayel in an assassination attempt that buried him in rubble, but he should be
OK. 8 died in the attack.
Gannet launches USA Today - a national, general interest daily paper. The new
newspaper will transmit data from Washington DC to pressing plants scattered
across the country. It is calling itself “The Nation’s Newspaper.”
President “hurt” as the Republican-controlled senate overrides his fund veto and
the kicker - it was by a single vote. “It’s a disappointment. We’re going to have a
lot more chances cause I’m going to do a lot more vetoing… It doesn’t change
my mind any about what I’m going to do. Any time there is an attempt to bust the
budget, I will veto,” said the President.
Princess Grace
of Monaco suffers multiple
fractures after a vintage car she was driving, lost
its brakes and plunged off a winding road high
above Monaco. Also in the car, her 17-year-old
daughter Stephanie, who was slightly injured.
John Madden
suggests that football officials
should join training camps.
Madden, as heard on CBS,
criticizes NFL officiating
often, but has a high opinion of them. But, says Madden -
“It’s time for those guys to come join the party. The Players
works six days a week, the coaches work seven days a
week, the commissioner works all week and so do I. It
doesn’t make any sense for the officials to just show up on
weekends.” “Under the circumstances, the officials do a
good job, but they’d do it much better if they had training
camps in the summer and worked all week in the fall like the
players do…”
Music news
- Billboard has an interesting article about how a mental hospital in
Hartford, Conn has banned MTV after deciding that a steady diet of rock video
would be “too inciting” for its patients.
