Week of September 23, 1987

President Reagan tells Congress that the Navy attack on an Iranian ship laying

mines I the Persian Gulf was conducted under authority of Article 51 of the U.N.

Charter and did not require notification of lawmakers under the war Powers

Resolution.

The U.S. Navy ways it will sink the Iranian ship it caught planting mines in the

Persian Gulf. The seized vessel is wired with explosives.

A B-1B Air Force bomber crashes in rolling farmland in southeastern Colorado,

killing three crewmen, but three others parachuted to safety.

Kremlin helm after a 7-week absence that sparked

rumors in the West about his health or an

assassination attempt, says he had taken a month’s

vacation and “I can tell you, I earned it.”

President Reagan accuses Senate democrats of

aiding Iran and undermining U.s. interests by pushing

legislation that threatens co cut off funds need to

escort Kuwaiti oil tankers flying the U.S. flag in the

Persian Gulf.

Nancy Reagan decline to take the credit for pushing

President Reagan to conclude an arms agreement

with the Soviets, saying, “everybody wants it.”

Sen. Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware, staggered by admissions of plagiarism and

embellishing his academic record withdraws as a candidate for the democratic

presidential nomination.

Rep. Patricia Schroeder announces that she will not seek the 1988 Democratic

presidential nomination.

Business - The DOW rockets 75.23 points - the best

single-day surge in its history. The mystery move is

unexplained. There’s nothing really to back the surge.

Week of September 23, 1987

Technology -

Toshiba America announces the nation’s first portable personal computer using

Intel’s fast 80386 chip. The T5100 will sell for $6,499 and has the computing

power equal to some of the most advanced desktop computer systems.

1960’s songs in the national top-10 - “I Think We’re

Alone Now” by Tiffany and “Mony Mony” is a hit again -

this time by Billy Idol.

Spin Magazine is back, some five months after

Penthouse pulled its plug. It has new financing!

Don’t miss David Bowie in concert on his current Glass Spider Tour.

Entertainment news -

create a Tibetan cultural center in New York.

Passing - actress Mary Astor (81).

team. He was 65… of cancer. “Say Goodnight Dick.”

Jessica Hahn says she took an AIDS test after she hared

food with her “good friend” Liberace, who died early this

year of AIDS-related complications.

Jessica Han’s mother, lashing out at her daughter for

posing topless for Playboy magazine, says she doesn’t

know how her daughter can live with herself and she’s

afraid of community backlash affecting her family. Copies

of the November issue of Playboy went on sale this week.

“I don’t sleep, I don’t eat, it’s a wonder I’m down to 90

pounds, said Jessica Moylan.

Passing - Elizabeth Debbie Eden (41), the person whose desire for a sex-change

operation prompted a homosexual lover to attempt a bank robbery - the basis for

the movie “dog day afternoon.

Week of September 23, 1987

Television news -

“Star Trek; the Next Generation” debuts as a two-hour TV movie this week.

Variety show - ABC debuts “Dolly” starring Dolly Parton this Sunday.

Saturday Night Live will return Oct. 17 with the entire cast

intact - the first since 1978. The cast includes Nora Dunn,

Jackson, Dennis Miller, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Nealon and A

Whitney Brown.

CBS has given p on “The Morning Program” and will let

the news division take the time period back beginning in

December. Co-hosts Roland Smith and Mariette Hartley

and producer Bob Shanks will not be involved in the new

broadcast.

Lorne Greene, who died Sept 11, was set to reprise his role as Ben Cartwright in

the new “Bonanza: The Next Generation” - a TV movie set to go into production.

Week of September 23, 1987

Aaron Spelling Productions, for years associated with ABC-TV, will make TV

programs for CBS. Only two Spelling productions were renewed by ABC for this

fall - “”Hotel” and “Dynasty.”

Saturday night television -

CBS - Movie, Jake and the Fatman

NBC - Facts of Life, 227, Golden Girls, J.J.

Starbuck, Saturday Night Live

ABC - Once a Hero, Movie

HBO - Howie from Maui (Mandel)

Showtime - Paris By Night With George Burns

CBS Movie - “Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge” -

James Arness, Amanda Blake

In Syndication

Week of September 23, 1987