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1975 June 7 Tom Hayden fails to defeat Calif. Sen. John Tunney in the Democratic primary, but gets 36.7% of the vote June 26 Shoot out on Oglala Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota between xxx (Leonard Peltier later blamed & indicted, as described in In The Spirit of Crazy Horse) 75 Aug 11 Last Amer soldier leaves Vietnam (total American casualties: 46,079) (Almanac sez 57,939 killed or missing) total Vietnamese casualties ?? Aug 23 Pathet Lao celebrate complete takeover of Laos Aug 27 Kent State President & 27 National Guard acquitted of all responsibility for shootings Sept 5 Lynette `Squeaky' Fromme fires at Carter (Sacto) 75 Sept 9 New York City emergency plan to stave off default for three mo nths Sept 18 Patty Hearst found by FBI In SF & caught Sept 22 Sara Jane Moore fires at Carter (SF) Oct 1 OPEC raises oil prices another 10%, but agrees to hold that price for 9 months 75 Oct Bruce Springsteen on cover of Time & Newsweek Nov 10 French leave Angola Nov 17 Cleaver arrested on return to US after 7 years living in Cuba, Guinea, Algeria, N. Korea, Fr (for Apr 68 Oakland shootout) Nov 20 Franco dies, dictator of Spain 36 years Dec 11 High-ranking govt official announces US has sent $25 million in arms & support to Angola over the past 3 months Dec 19 US Senate bars further covert aid to Angola 1975 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING *Joni Mitchell: Hissing of Summer Lawns Bob Marley and the Wailers: Natty Dread Tommy Dylan: Basement Tapes released Patti Smith: Horses +? *Sons of Champlin *Germany: Kraftwerk *Fleetwood Mac reformed with Buckingham & Nicks NYC: First Punk bands (The Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie, Television) Ireland: six traditional musicians meet in Dublin & form The Bothy Band, start of many revival groups what year? ? John Prine TV: Saturday Night Live (yes) (starts) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Nicholson) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (also seen as 74) (Jaws) Nashville Rocky Horror Show The Wiz (black musical) Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women and Childbirth in America - Suzanne Arms Birth Without Violence: Frederick Leboyer (the book & the movi e) The Woman Warrior: Maxine Hong Kingston Small Is Beautiful (I have this as 73) Ernest Callenbach: Ecotopia Fritzof Capra: The Tao of Physics ?Briarpatch Network The Book of Tofu - Shurtleff & Aoyagi The Postage Stamp Garden Book - Duane Newcomb Edward Abbey: The Monkey Wrench Gang First article on effect of carbon dioxide on global warming (Greenhouse Effect) (Science magazine & Journal of Atmospheric Sciences) Philip Agee: Inside the Company (was this the first CIA expose ?) Shogun - James Clavell (the book?) Transcendental Meditation est sushi 1976 (Dollar strengthens on foreign exchange 76-77) ("Economic recovery") Highest rate of bank failures since 1933 (385 in trouble) 76 Ford's "Whip Inflation Now" buttons (U.S. Balance of Payments starts to go into red) Lowest birth rate of the Baby Bust Oldest baby boomers start turning 30 Bicentennial celebrations when? kick-off : 30,000 demonstrators First US/USSR grain sales treaty (minimum purchases) Koreagate South African invasion of Angola (Almanac has this as 81) Cuba sends troops to Angola James Buckley running for president Cocaine becomes noticeably fashionable 76 Apple Computer started in Steve Jobs' basement in Mtn View Congressional Black Caucus founded Who's Deep Throat? CB craze Born again Personal ads "est" ("Peter Berg popularizes the term "bioregionalism" ")?ck CQ da te Tom Hayden establishes Campaign for Economic Democracy Production of PCBs banned U.S. 200th birthday celebrations Feb 4 Earthquake in Guatemala -> Plenty Feb Leonard Peltier arrested in Canada & trial Feb 12 MPLA ("Soviet" Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola) states that it has won the Angolan Civil War; Unita (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, Jonas Savimbi, President - supported by U.S.) forms? coalition with FLNA (Natl Frt for the Lib of Angola) Feb 19 Four recruits die at Fort Dix of a new flu virus which is a hybrid of Asian flu with one that causes flu-like illness in pigs ("swine flu"). Worries about an epidemic similar to the 1918-19 swine flu epidemic which affected 500,000 Americans. Big vaccination campaign started. Mar 11 Stock Market tops 1,000 (highest since Jan 26, 73) Mar 18 New trial ordered for Rubin "Hurricane" Carter & John Artis (for 67 triple murder N.J.) ?When was Dylan's song? Mar 28 FBI discloses it burglarized the Socialist Party 92+ times between 1960 and 1966 Apr 5 Howard Hughes dies & Beijing demos against the Gang of Four Apr 9 Phil Ochs hangs himself at his sister's house, Far Rockaway, NY 76 Apr 25 Portugal's first free parliamentary elections in 50 years - Socialists & Popular Democrats share win May 28 OPEC extends oil price freeze June 5 Teton dam bursts, Idaho June 16 US ambassador killed in Lebanon "civil war" June 16 Uprising in Soweto, South Africa's biggest black "township": 10,000 students demo (asking to be taught in English instead of Afrikaans?) Spreads to 7 other black townships 128 dead; 1,112 injured By year's end, some thousands have died in demos throughout the country July? Is this the first month of the trade deficit July 29 Legionnaires die at Philadelphia convention of strange new disease July 20 Viking I lands on Mars Sept 30 Congress passes Hyde amendment, which would prevent Medicaid reimbursements for abortions Oct 4 Agric Sec Earl Butz's resigns due to racist remark Oct 12 Three elderly deaths halt swine flu vac program 76 Oct Amory Lovins: Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken (in Foreign Affairs) he was 28 explain! (Democrats running for Pres: Henry Jackson, Lloyd? Bentsen, George Wallace) Wavy Gravy's Nobody for President campaign Oct 22 Fed Dist Ct holds Hyde Amenment unconstitutional 76 Nov Carter/Mondale defeats Ford Is this when Bill Clinton elected to first of three terms in Arkansas? Nov 15 Parti Quebecois gain control of Quebec govt Tksg The Band: Last Waltz at Winterland (Graham) (movie 78) 76 Dec 17 OPEC agrees on two oil price raises: Saudi Arabia 5% raise, other 11 OPEC nations 10% raise Dec 20 Mayor Richard Daley, ruler of Chicago for 20 years, dies -> first black non-Daley major (name) when? Dec 22 Worst oil spill off US coast - Liberian tanker off Nantucket Springsteen Bob Dylan: Desire McCartney: Wings over America tour *Joni Mitchell: Hejira *Warren Zevon *Ramones *Blondie *Bunny Wailer: first solo John Denver: Rocky Mountain High Peter Frampton The Captain and Tennille 76 *Sex Pistols (UK) - first Punk (late 76) ENGLAND June - play in Manchester TV: Charlie's Angels begins Happy Days & Laverne and Shirley, Little Hse on the Prairie, The Waltons (Note: all nostalgia) Sat Night Fever (released) Network (A Chorus Line) Rocky, Taxi Driver All the President's Men Three Days of the Condor The Marathon Man (w Dustin Hoffman) Werner Herzog's movies reviewed in Rolling Stone Wim Wenders: Kings of the Road Laurel's Kitchen 76 Roots (the book) The Guide to Self-Sufficiency - John Seymour (U.K.) The Solar Home Book - Anderson & Riordan The Woodburner's Encyclopedia - Shelton & Shapiro A Co-operative Method of Natural Birth Control-Margaret Nofzig er (The Joy of Running - Kostubala) Passages - Gail Sheehy When God Was a Woman - Merlin Stone Mother Jones starts publication In These Times starts publication Rolling Stones Magazine write-in on the Sixties 1977 Dollar plummets (to 270 yen at the end of 77) Alaskan pipeline completed (when started?) Trans Dept announces seat belts required by 84 Carter ?renews draft evader amnesty Carter declares energy conservation the "moral equiv of war" Urban Development Action Grant: public redevelopment investmen t must be matched with private investment ?burn out phenomenon noticed (goat cheese, Brooke Shields) jogging worst weather extremes of the 20th century: North, East, South cold; West in last worst year of drought ?Elvis dies July: unemployment in U.K. 1 million (get # for 76) Jan explain Carter austerity, human rights campaign when? Carter recommends abandonment of 18 porkbarrel dam projects J 23-30 Roots on tv, watched by 36 million Jan 27 Vatican bars women from priesthood Mar Carter ends travel restrictions to Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, Cambodia, and lifts ban on spending US dollars in Cuba Mar 11 United?? Farmworkers & Teamsters sign agreement, Calif (after 10 years of discord) Mar Greens get first media attention in Fr with 12% win Apr 11 Parents of 5 "Moonies" denied custody Apr 18 Carter presents Energy Plan 77 Apr 22 UK: North Sea oil spill May Unemployment down to 7% - lowest in 29 months May 1-2 1,414 arrested as Clamshell Alliance occupies construction site of nuclear power plant at Seabrook, New Hampshire May 13 La Pasionaria returns to Madrid, 34 days after the Communist Party is legalized in Spain May 13 500 demonstrators arrested at Seabrook demo found guilty of trespass Jun 7 Dade County, Florida vote repeals anti-gay ordinance (singer Anita Bryant is active in campaign against repeal) June 17 EPA approves Seabrook June 26 Marches throughout US in support of gays 100,000 San Francisco, tens of thousands in NY July Record US trade deficit (13th consecutive monthly deficit) 26% rise in oil imports is said to be major factor J 13-14 NYC black out Aug 10 Son of Sam captured after 6 murders, 7 wounded Sept 12 Stephen Biko dies in prison, South Africa Sept 20 Vietnam finally admitted to UN Oct US trade deficit 3.1 bill (first time over 3 bill in history) Oct 12 Univ of Calif vs Bakke (trial starts - filed Sept 19) explain 77 Nov 4 United Nations votes South African arms embargo Nov 5 Carter vetoes Tennessee Clinch River Breeder Reactor Nov 18 KKK members convicted of 1963 bombing of Birmingham church in which four young black girls were killed (Nov 19 Egypt Pres? Sadat visits Israel) (Dec 7 FBI finally releases JFK assas files due to requests under Freedom of Information Act Dec 10 First 61 of 300 Americans held in Mexican prisons on drug charges released in prisoner exchange (Dec 14 Farmers strike announced) *Elvis Costello *Patti Smith: first album *Peter Tosh: first solo *Talking Heads 77 *Clash and the first Big Year of Punk 77 *Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in plane crash Fake Beatles put together Rocky Horror Show starts at U.C. Annie Hall Close Enctrs of the Third Kind, Star Wars The Turning Point (MacLaine, Bancroft) Julie (Redgrave, Fonda) (Goodbye Girl) (Sat. Night Fever continues) (becomes hit) Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000: Alain Tanner ?Man of Marble - Andrzej Wajda The Women's Room - Marilyn French Games Mother Never Taught You (Corporate Gamesmanship for Women) - Harragan For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf: Ntozake Shange 77 Amory Lovins: Soft Energy Paths Food First (the book) Rainbook (Resources for Appropriate Technology) Goodbye to the Flush Toilet - Stoner (Rodale) 77 A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander David Werner: Where There is No Doctor The Moosewood Cookbook - Mollie Katzen 1978 "Dollar crisis" - dollar devalued 20% in foreign exchange (the year I was in Europe) Engineering recession Koreagate Coors boycott starts after 20-month strike is broken Birth Control pill side effects Free Base (cocaine derivative) Sirius Community founded, Amherst, MA Boat people Dennis Banks granted asylum from extradition to South Dakota by Jerry Brown (Half a million letters to Governor Brown urge sanctuary) Amer Ind Religious Freedom Act: right to use peyote as a religious sacrament in Native American Church meetings by Native Americans 78-79 Santa Monica rent control campaign (when was Tom Hayden elected?) Holocaust on tv when? ERA Wash D.C. march Jan Trade deficit jumps to 26.7 bill (eek! is this right) (could this be 2.67?) - 4x the 1976 deficit due to oil import increase (76-34 bill; 79-44.3 bill) 78 Feb 11 AIM Longest Walk starts from Alcatraz Lois Gibbs brings U.S. to awareness of Love Canal (near Niagara Falls, NY) (& residents evacuated this year) Mar 5 China adopts new constitution stressing economic development over revolutionary ideology Mar Japan, Germany try to prop up the dollar Mar 17 Worst oil spill off Brittany - supertanker Amoco Cadiz breaks in two: 223,000 tons Apr 7 Carter defers production of neutron bomb May 21 4,300 rally at Bangor Naval Base, Wash to protest U.S. Trident May 27 40 meditators attend U.N. Disarmament Session's Mobilization for Survival (convened May 23) June Trade deficit 2.24 bill, smallest since Sept 77 but 24th consecutive month 78 June 6 Prop 13 passed - Calif (give name & explain) June 15 Supreme Court rules TVA may not complete Tellico Dam (based on the endangered Snail Darter) June 28 Supreme Court upholds affirmative action programs in general, but orders Alan Bakke admitted to UC Davis Medical College July 17 AIM Longest Walk arrives Washington, D.C. July 25 First test tube baby born (U.K.) Aug 15 ERA deadline extended by Congress to June 30, 82 Aug 22 Sandanistas capture of Nic Natl Palace starts revolution Sept Taz (Die Tageszeitung) starts publication in Germany (S 5-17 Carter Camp David Sadat/Begin summit -> Accords) Oct 13 Sid Vicious (former Sex Pistol bandmember) kills girlfriend Oct 15 Carter Energy Package Oct 15 Congress deregulates airlines Oct 20 End of worst week in Stock Market's history drops 59.08 to 838.01 O 25-30 Record dollar lows - Dollar drops to 178 yen end Oct Meanwhile, gold at record high of 245/ounce Oct 31 Stock Market drops to 792.45, lowest since Apr 13 Nov 18 Jim Jones' Peoples Temple mass suicide, Jonestown, Guyana - 91 1 Dec Communist China opens door to capitalist innovations Dec 16 Cleveland defaults 78 Dec 17 OPEC raises oil prices 14.5% (12.70 -> 14.54/barrel) Dec 31 Graham's Winterland's last concert (Grateful Dead & Blues Bros.) Stayin' Alive - BeeGees 78 *second Big Year of Punk *Joni Mitchell: Don Juan's Reckless Daughter ?Warren Zevon second album? Coming Home Deer Hunter Blue Collar Grease (the movie) Woody Allen: Annie Hall and Interiors An Unmarried Woman The Buddy Holly Story Dylan's Renaldo and Clara movie Kristofferson all over the media (Animal House) (Superman) 78 Muddling Toward Frugality - Warren Johnson The Unsettling of America - Wendell Berry One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka Spiritual Midwifery - Ina May Gaskin The Vegetarian Epicure, Book II - Anna Thomas The Briarpatch Book Reinhabiting a Separate Country: A Bioregional Anthology of North America - Peter Berg (Planet Drum) The Incredible Secret Money Machine - Don Lancaster The Pregnancy After 30 Workbook - Brewer (Rodale) Gyn/Ecology - Mary Daly Linus Pauling: Vitamin C, the Common Cold, and the Flu In Search of Enemies (A CIA Story) - John Stockwell "Garry Trudeau" (?syndicates Doonesbury) Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy radio show starts in U.K. ?Immanuel Velikovsky: Worlds in Collision 1979 U.S. Stagflation of 78-80 starts, dollar starts decline of 78- 80 12% inflation due to massive energy cost increases Housing prices start to rise Gold price goes to record high of 400/ounce (Steel lay-offs) (Volcker appointed to head Federal Reserve Board) ?U.S. reaches Zero Population Growth? None of military services meets its recruiting quota Dictators overthrown: Masie of Equatorial Guina, Bokassa of the Central African "Empire" Oil spill in the Atlantic when? No-nukes D.C. march when? Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) signed (U.S. Senate never ratifies) ?Dave Foreman founds Earth First! Grameen Bank for micro business loans started in India 79 Over 1000 Shramadama work camps in Sri Lanka KSAN progressive radio staff quits for good 78-79: Santa Monica rent control campaign Jan 7 Pol Pot is overthrown in Cambodia 79 Jan 16 Shah of Iran deposed (when? hostages taken) Feb 1 Ayatollah Khomeini in -> oil shortages (Feb 5 Farmers demonstrate, Wash D.C.) Mar 26 Israel/Egypt peace treaty signed 79 Mar 27 OPEC raises oil prices 9% to 14.546/barrel (?see Dec 17, 78) taking advantage of the drop in Iran oil production Mar 28 Three Mile Island (near Middletown, Pa.) nuclear A 1-10 Teamsters strike (A 4 Bhutto killed, Pakistan) Apr 11 Idi Amin of Uganda is overthrown Apr 12 GATT signed (talks started 73) Apr 18 Lee Marvin's ex-live-in partner wins "Palimony" (based on 76 Sup Ct ruling) 79 May 4 Margaret Thatcher elected Prime Minister of Britain May 6 65,000+ Wash anti-nuke May 8 California starts odd-even license gas distribution 79 May? OPEC raises oil prices again (2 1/2 x) (?ca 8 dollars/barrel to 20 dollars/barrel??) -> dollar/gallon gas (-> inflation (13%) + unemployment 79-80) 79 June 3 Mexico's worst oil well blowout, 3.1 billion barrels Bay of Campeche, near the Yucatan Peninsula, twice as big as the 78 Brittany (Amoco Cadiz) spill starts (finally capped Mar 24, 80) Jun 7 Carter approves development of the MX missile Jun 20 NY, Conn, NJ start odd-even license gas distribution Jun 28 OPEC announces oil price rise 24% to 18/barrel July 5 ACLU sues FBI over 65 murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo by KKK July 17 Nicaragua: last Somoza of 46-year dynasty flees to Miami Sandanistas take power July 18 Gold price passes 300/ounce Sept 29 200,000 anti-nuke lower Manhattan + ca 11 other demos around US Oct 1045 anti-nuke arrested in frt of NY Stock Exchange Oct 7 2,500 anti-nuke demonstrators attempt to occupy 2 nuclear plants under construction Seabrook Oct Federal Reserve System decides to allow more fluctuation in interest rates Oct 15 El Salvador President Romero is deposed by a military coup (Feb 81 - US admits to having sent 18 advisors to help the military junta. El Salv leftists claim 100 US advisors.) Oct 17 Mother T?eresa awarded Nobel Peace Prize Nov 3 KKK kill 5, wound 8 anti-Klan demos in march Greensboro, NC Nov 4 Iranians seize Amer Embassy, Tehran, take 90 hostages (65 Americans) Nov US Steel closes 15 plants: 13,000 out of work Nov 24 US General Accounting Office admits that thousands of US troops were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War Dec 5 Gold is selling for less than 136.49/ounce D 25-26 USSR invades Afghanistan Dec US gov persuades NATO to accept stationing of additional 464 Cruise & 108 Pershing II missiles in Europe (in addition to 5000+ already there) 79 Dec U.S. bail-out of Chrysler starts, UAW accepts pay cuts Dylan: Slow Train Coming ("Dylan finds Jesus") *Joni Mitchell: Mingus The China Syndrome (Fonda)(just before Three Mile Isld - Mar 7 9) Hair (the movie) Apocalypse Now (Coppola) Being There Kramer vs Kramer Woody Allen: Manhattan La Cage Aux Folles Breaking Away Picnic at Hanging Rock The Last Wave Nosferatu (Rocky II) (Star Trek - the movie) (The Electric Horseman) (Redford, Fonda) (TV: Mork and Mindy) Tom Wolfe: The Right Stuff James Lovelock Gaia hypothesis published as book The Integral Urban House Book - Farallones Institute Underground Houses - Roy Godel, Escher, Bach The Dancing Wu Li Masters (An Overview of the New Physics) - Gary Zukaw (A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams) 1980 U.S. Industrial output lowest in 5 years Unemployment soaring Housing prices skyrocket (I say) Govt tight money anti-inflation policy Japanese cars & semiconductors? jump in sales to U.S. (Japanese investment in U.S. starts to grow ($1.2 bill in 80) Banks deregulated Abscam scandel (into Jan 81 - Apr 81 convictions) Pay raise for armed service recruits -> turnaround U.K.: Planning Act shifts powers from counties to districts 80 Guardian Angels founded First Right Livelihood Awards from Sweden Rev Jerry Falwell claims Moral Majority has registered 4 mill 36-yr Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas dies (MCI wins settlement from AT&T) (Color Me Beautiful - Carole Jackson) (The Official Preppie Handbook) USSR invades Afghanistan, US boycotts Moscow Olympics Jerry Brown running for Pres (second time) Biotech breakthroughs Castro allows Cubans to leave Audubon Society & U.S. Fish & Wildlife begin California Condor Recovery Program Supreme Court rules that organisms created by genetic enginnering can be patented (sez EWJ) Jan Myles Horton, founder of Highlander, dies Jan 2 Gold price rise starts: 562.85/ounce 80 Jan 4 Carter announces USSR grain sales embargo (in the wake of USSR Afghanistan invasion) Jan Carter proposes peacetime m/f draft Jan 15 Gold price rises to 700/ounce Jan 16 Interferon made by gene-splicing J 14-18 gold goes up ?$176 to $835/ounce 80 Feb global oil glut -> price starts to lower Mar 27 Silver plummets to 10.80/ounce, destroying Hunt brothers silver empire which they started building in summer 79 Apr 2 Carter signs the Windfall Profits Oil Tax Apr 17 Zimbabwe, once Rhodesia, gains independence from U.K. Apr 17 Recession begins May 4 Tito dies, Yugoslavia, xx years head of state M 17-19 Black uprising, Miami (May 18 Mount St. Helens erupts) May 21 Carter announces state of emergency at Love Canal 80 June 800,000 anti-nuke march NYC (with Coretta King) Jn 3&6 Computer errors trigger 2 false nuc alarms June Congress approves small peacetime draft (June Employees buy-out Rath Packing) July US car makers report record losses, 2nd quarter 80 Aug 14 After 2 months of labor turmoil, 16,000 Polish workers seize the Lenin Shipyard, Gdansk Aug 30 Polish govt allows formation of independent unions 80 -> Solidarity formed Sept 22 After 10 months of skirmishes, Iran-Iraq war starts, halting 60% of world's oil traffic Sept 23 Maine referendum shuts down Maine's only nuc plant (Yankee) Sept 30 Recession believed ending 80 Oct Socialists win in Spain (first democracy since 39) Oct 17 Recession ends but inflation continues 80 Nov Reagan defeats Carter plus many Republican Senators ride in "on R's coattails) Nov surge in mortgage rates starts Nov 14 Guinea-Bissau govt falls Nov 25 Upper Volta president ousted Dec 3 Congress passes Superfund (ck) $1.6 bill to clean up toxic sites 80 Dec 8 John Lennon shot and killed Dec Dingas leave Muktananda's Oakland ashram Dec 10 Second instance of surrogate motherhood reported (Tenn) 80 Dec 16 Saudi Arabia raises oil prices $2 to $32/barrel, then OPEC allows others to rise to 40/barrel Dec 16 Leaders of Solidarity, leaders of a new government, and reps of Catholic Church + 150,000 gather in Gdansk to recognize the dramatic change which has come to Poland Dec 18 Hunger strike in Northern Ireland is called off after 7 weeks 80 First Rap hit: Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight ("79") Weavers reunion concert The Elephant Man (The Shining) (Blues Brothers) ?Return of the Secaucus Seven - John Sayles Alvin Toffler: The Third Wave Lester Thurow: The Zero-Sum Society The Next WE Catalog A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn Medical Self-Care (the book) - Tom Ferguson, M.D. The Toilet Papers: Designs to Recycle Human Waste & Water: Dry Toilets, Greywater Systems, & Urban Sewage - Sim Van der R yn The Old House Journal Catalog Drawing Down the Moon - Margot Adler (Clan of the Cave Bear) (the book) 1981 Oil at its highest price (1.35-40?/g) and starts to drop US Inflation rate starts to drop US Interest rates around 16% Japanese investment in U.S. doubles to $3 billion Number of young families buying homes drops Worldwide Stagflation of 1981-83 81 + In the wake of oil price increase, third world less 81 able to repay 400 billion in debts incurred 71-80 Savings & Loans continue to become insolvent ?U.S. Steel decides to buy Marathon Oil instead of modernizing its plants 81-82 "terror in the Guatemala countryside" Morris Dees starts? the Southern Poverty Law Center & takes the Texas KKK to court to stop them from harassing Viet-American fishermen in Galveston Bay U.K.: black uprisings in Brixton (s. London), Toxteth (Liverpool) & Moss Side (Manchester) Indian Point Reactor fizzled (kiwi) 25.5 million people over 65, 28% increase over 1970 Earth First! founded CED? elects majority to Santa Monica City Council (& Dennis Zane elected mayor) [but see82] Socialist Bernard Sanders elected mayor Burlington, Vermont Pac Man copyrighted 1980/81 Oldest baby boomers start turning 35 ? -> up against the clock starts? Assassination attempt on the Pope 81 Jan 5 Second draft registration held Jan 16 Bernadette Devlin shot Jan 20 Iranian hostages released minutes after Reagan inaug Jan 23 Atlanta: 16th child disappeared or found dead in 18 months (continues into Feb) Jan 28 Reagan abolishes oil price controls Jan 30 Endangered Species List de-emphasized "to concentrate on recovery rather than reporting new species" Feb 2 Sect of Education proposes bilingual education plans Feb 4 Reagan cuts synthetic fuel projects 81 Mar? James Watt appointed Secretary of Interior By 87 national environmental group membership has rises from 4 million to 7 million Mar 2 ?Reagan cuts 35.1 billion from spending & reduces taxes 23% (check) Mental Health Institutions cut back (Soc. Sec.) Reagan: tax act benefits high-income taxpayers and large corporations Mar 2 US sends 20 more military advisors & $25 million military equipment to El Salvador Duarte ?junta (Mar 30 Reagan wounded in assas attempt - Hinckley) 81 Apr A group of Lakota & Sioux Indians occupy a section of South Dakota's Black Hills & set up Yellow Thunder Camp (part of national forest officially returned to them in 80) Apr 9 Robert (Bobby) Sands elected to Parliament in 6th week of hunger strike A 11-12 Uprising in Brixton, Jamaican section of London Apr 24 Reagan ends curb on sales of wheat to USSR May 5 Robert (Bobby) Sands dies in Maze Prison near Belfast, N. Ireland, after 66-day hunger strike asking the British government to grant political prisoner status to Irish Nationalist inmates, instead of treating them as common criminals May House passes Nuclear Freeze, to be tabled by Senate May 23 30th black youngster found dead in Atlanta June First half-dozen cases of AIDS diagnosed - LA 81 June 6 Backlog of 6,000 Haitians facing deportation hearings June 21 Arrest in Atlanta finally stops killings Jl-Sep California fruit fly battle; first mis-use? of IPM July 3 195 demonstrators arrested in series of White House sit-downs against Reagan administration cuts & involvement with El Salvador Jl 3-14 Neo-Nazi Front riots in London & a dozen other English cities July 29 Prince Charles weds Lady Diana Aug IBM introduces the Personal Computer (PC) Aug Reagan ?signs? income tax reductions for rich (explain) Aug 1 Seventh hunger striker dies, Belfast Aug 3 12,000 air-traffic controllers go on strike Aug 5 Reagan breaks air-traffic controllers strike by hiring non-union workers Aug 6 Reagan endorses neutron bomb Aug 20 Tenth & last hunger striker dies, Belfast 81 end Aug Mexico announces inability to pay interest on its debt Aug 24 South Africa invades Angola Sept Mortgage rates 17.71% Oct Weatherpeople surface with bungled robbery Oct Papandreou & Socialist party elected in Greece, on platform including a call for shutdown of American bases Oct 22 Cancun: 22 Third World leaders convene in Mexico Nov West German protest (?Cruise) Dec CQ: Bioregional Quiz 81 Dec 13 Solidarity crushed in Poland - martial law imposed Dec 26 Supreme Court upholds right of 3 Indian tribes to use gill nets to fish in Lakes Michigan, Superior, & Huron Bob Marley dies when? Michael Jackson Reds, Tell Me A Riddle My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle) Cutter's Way, Soldier Girls Heartland, Gallipolli El Salvador: Another Vietnam (Raiders of the Lost Ark) Pixote, Zoot Suit Ragtime The French Lieutenant's Woman Mon Oncle d'Amerique - Alain Resnais Perfumed Nightmare - Kidlat Tahimik ?Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean ?Man of Iron - Andrzej Wajda Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In - Fisher & Ury 1982 Recession of 81-82 ("Worst since the 1930s") ("Due to Paul Volcker's tight money policies") Highest unemployment since 1940/WWII: 10.8% / 11 mill people Peak year of U.S. arms exports to third world countries mid-year: Stock market starts great rise Highest rate of business failures since 1933 (including Banks - from ca 9 to 42 & S&L's) Texas (Houston) oil-based boom starts to go bust Three +? increases in prime rate (July: 13%) Unemployed steelworkers organize ad hoc relief programs such as Northeastern Minnesota Food Shelves Divorce rates, rising through the 60's & 70's, peak in 1979 and 1981, and stabilize early 82: public officials disclose that toxic solvents from Fairchild semiconductor's south San Jose plant have contaminated Silicon Valley water supply (-> high tech not so clean) 82 NY Fire Dept hires women Congress places moratorium on ocean dumping of nuclear wastes until the end of 84 Amory & Hunter Lovins found Rocky Mountain Institute Mime Troupe: Factwino Meets the Moral Majority & Last Tango in Huahuatenango (Jane Fonda workout) John Belushi dies (USA Today started) ?First nuclear-free zone municipality declared Santa Monica mayor Ruth Yanatta Goldway loses re-election to David Epstein of All Sa Mo Coalition ?to Dennis Zane?? 82 Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) founded Scandel at Swami Muktananda's ashram In the 10 years since DDT banned, bald eagle, osprey, brown pelican & peregrine falcon populations have increased Return of Halley's Comet after 77 years First implant of an artificial heart 82 Jan Greece asks removal of American nukes if no progress in making Balkan peninsula nuke-free zone Jan 7 Reagan continues draft registration Jan 8 AT&T lawsuit settled: AT&T gives up the 22 local Bell System phone companies Feb 1 General Motors announces small profit for 4th qtr 81 (Feb Mexico devalues peso) Feb Dresden peace demo - first in E Ger since 54 call for disarmament & sing Lennon's Give Peace A Chance Mar 2 Great Britain reduces price of its North Sea oil by 4 dollars/barrel to 31 dollars/ barrel (2nd cut in a month by Brits) Mar 20 OPEC agrees to cut its oil production to 17.5 mill barrels/day (1979 production was 31 mill barrels/day) Apr 2 Argentina seizes the Falkland Islands, U.K. sends navy 82 Apr U.S. orders demolition of homes in Navajo/Hopi "Joint Use Area", elders resist A 18-25 Ground Zero Week - Nuclear Freeze Apr 19 U.S. re-bans travel to Cuba Apr ? United Nations Law of the Sea, international sea treaty, completed after ten years negotiations among 151 nations (rejected by Pres Reagan in July & still not signed by US) May 18 Rev. Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax fraud June 1 The Revolutionary Cells Terrorist Group explodes bombs at 4 U.S. military bases in West Germany June 12 700,000 Nuc Freeze march from U.N. to Central Park Largest protest in NYC's history NY Central Park & LA Rose Bowl: hundreds of thousands sing Lennon's "Imagine" when? Peace & Freedom NYC march (is this the same? June when? Tom Hayden elected to Calif State Assembly ($1.7 mill campaign) June?? Gore Vidal not elected to Calif. Senate June Calif: Peripheral Canal (Prop. 9) defeated June 15 USSR announces at U.N. that Brezhnev has pledged no first use of nuclear weapons June Reagan vetoes Congressional settlement of American Indian water rights claim (Papago tribe of Arizona) June 17 Natl Marine Fisheries Service of US Dept of Commerce, after 14 month SAM-SCAM investigation of illegal fish sales on the Columbia River - using wire taps, body microphones, aerial reconnaissance photography & river patrols, & zeroing in on the 147-mile stretch between the Bonneville and McNary Dams where only Indians fish under the 1974 Boldt decision based on the 1855 treaty, raids camp of and arrests David SoHappy, 50, Howard Jim, 65, & 73 other Indians. June 24 ERA supporters admit defeat: 33 states have ratified in 10 years, 3 short of the three-quarters needed by the June 30 deadline Jul 15 Rev Sun Myung Moon performs a mass-marriage for 4,150 Jul 23 International Whaling Commission votes to ban all commercial whaling effective 86 Aug 4 US Court of Appeals rules that all new autos sold after Sept 83 must have seat belts Aug IRS rules Mother Jones magazine is commercial & removes its tax exempt status Aug Interest rates start to fall, Stock Market starts series of sharp rises Sept 12 First dump trucks loaded with PCBs drive into Afton, Warren County, North Carolina, the poorest county in the state, are met by vigil of 50 to 300 protestors waiting daily for the last month; 510 arrests made 82 Sept First Amer Indian International Tribunal held at Deqanawida-Quetzalqualtal Univ in Davis to gather testimony from native peoples of the world on the economic effects of U.S. foreign & domestic policies Also world pilgrimage of indigenous peoples from 450 countries arrives at Yellow Thunder Camp in South Dakota to help save it from usurpation by coal and uranium corporations Oct 8 Polish government bans Solidarity Oct 19 John Delorean, chairman of Delorean Motor Co, arrested LA on possession of 59 lbs cocaine (explain) 82 Nov Deukmejian elected gov Calif (was this vs Bradley?) (end of Jerry Brown's term as Calif governor) Nov 3 Stock Market rises record 43.41 points to close at all-time high of 1,065.49 But recession is deepening: Oct unemp rose to 10.4% (11.6 million) & industrial production has 13th decline in 15 months; utilization of factory capacity is 68.4%, the lowest since record-keeping began in 1948 Nov 5 Demo at Honeywell, Minnesota's largest defense contractor, 36 arrested Nov 13 Viet Veterans Memorial "Wall" dedicated, Wash. D. C. Dec In These Times: Jerry Rubin holding Business Networking salons Dec? Bethlehem Steel lays off 10,000 Dec 17 Federal District Court Judge decides not to grant preliminary injunction against completion of the Gasquet-Orleans Road thru Siskiyou Indian religious area 82 Dec 22 Congress passes first version Boland amendment (411-0) which prohibited covert efforts by the President to overthrow the Nicaraguan government *Springsteen: Nebraska Eddie Murphy U2: War (is this their first?) Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five: The Message (first Hip-Hop) late 82: First Hearts of Space on KQED Sophie's Choice, Tootsie, Diva, Missing, Soldier Girls, El Salvador: Another Vietnam, Missing Blade Runner Quest for Fire, E.T., Poltergeist Fitzcarraldo, Burden of Dreams Koyanisqatsi Yol (Chan is Missing - Wayne Wong) Moonlighting (Pols in London) (Xica) (The World According to Garp) (Atomic Cafe) Jonathan Schell: The Fate of the Earth Edible Landscaping Dreaming the Dark - Starhawk G Spot Frances Moore Lappe publishes revised Diet fora Small Planet 1983 First year of (small) U.S. trade deficit with Europe Bank failures continue to rise (ca 47) but "economy expanding" for next 6 years Number of Americans over 65 surpasses number of teenagers (July) (WER Spring 89 p.85) First Calif condor chick born in captivity Sally Ride becomes first Amer woman in space 253 Marines killed in suicide bombing in Beirut Scott Nearing dies at age 100 May 15 NYT: Vast Office Glut Plagues Downtowns: Average vacancy rate across the nation hits 10.8% in March (includes Denver, Houston, Chicago, etc) up from 3.4% in 1980 AIDS worries deaths from PCP/angel dust Garry Trudeau takes a year off doing Doonesbury break-dancing digital ripped sweatshirts "a la Flashdance" anti-nuke: Shoreham 83 (Apple Computer hires Sculley) when? Southern Poverty Law Center firebombed by KKK. Three KKK caught & convicted. early Hopi & Navajo both elect new tribal chairs (Hopi: Ivan Sidney; Navajo: Peterson Zah) who work to resolve historic dispute between the two tribes Jan New Calif Gov Deukmejian extradites Dennis Banks (52) to South Dakota, where most of the 40 AIM members murdered since 74 were killed. Banks flees to New York. Jan 3 Times Beach, Mo. declared disaster area due to dioxin contamination Jan 4 Colorado farmers protest foreclosures Jan 22 3000 West Germans protest construction of new runway at Frankfurt airport Feb Economic indicators begin to show upturn in economy 83 Mar 14 OPEC lowers oil prices for the first time (34 to 29 dollars/barrel) Mar Greens win over 5% of vote in W German elections Mar Animal rights activists confront U.C. Berkeley over E.I.R. for new animal facility Mar 25 Congress passes legislation to "rescue" the Social Security System from bankruptcy (by putting a greater burden on younger wage-earners) (explain) April SF Zen Center roshi asked to leave April Reagan vetos Congressional settlement of American Indian land claims (Pequot tribe of Connecticut) Apr 12 First black mayor of Chicago elected (Harold Washington) May 4 House passes (watered down) Nuc Freeze, to be tabled in Senate May Over 1 million Sicilians have signed a petition against US base at Comiso (1/5 of total pop of Sicily) May Gasquet-Orleans Road bulldozers blockaded by Earth First! & the Kalmiopsis Action Alliance Injunction finally granted in late May June Alice Kahn's article on Yuppie in Express July 14 Earth First! & the Oregon Natural Resources Council granted preliminary injunction against building of the Bald Mountain Road, after over 40 arrests Aug 6-7 (Hiroshima Day) French freeze movement launched in meetings at Larzac Aug 21 Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino killed Manila 83 Aug 27 300,000 march in Washington on 20th anniversary of MLK march for "Jobs, Peace, & Freedom" (NYT estimates 200,000) (Almanac sez 250,000) Sept? First Conference on the Fate of the Earth Sept? Craxi & Socialist Party win power in Italy from 40 years of Christian Democrats Sept Continental & Eastern Airlines file bankruptcies (the first fall-outs to deregulation?) Oct 4- Vietnam: A Television History (13 weekly segments) Oct 9 James Watt resigns as Interior Secretary 83 Oct 22 1.2 mill Germans, including 180,000 at Bonn and 64 mile human chain between Stuttgart & New Ulm (+ Hamburg, W. Berlin) + huns of thous London + 350,000 Rome + 100,000 Vienna 25,000 Paris, 20,000 Stockholm, 4000 Dublin + 140 sites in US Oct 23 U.S. Marine hdqs in Beirut bombed - 241 killed; (U.S. Marines have been there since 1958, when 5000 were sent to protect the elected government from threatened overthrow July-Oct [ck]); In Feb, Reagan removes all marines from Lebanon 83 Oct 25 U.S. invasion of Grenada Oct 30 500,000 Dutch anti-missile rally, the Hague Oct 31 Conference on "The Long Term Worldwide Biological Consequences of Nuclear War", Wash D.C.: Nuclear Winter Scientists from the U.S., U.S.S.R. & other nations participate Nov German government report finds great damage to Germany's forests due to air pollution and acid rain mid-Nov Cruise deployed in England Nov 20 The Day After shown on tv - 100 million watch Nov 20 German opposition Soc Dem party opposes Cruise Dec Dow stops manufacture & sale of 2,4,5-T (Agent Orange ingredient) in US Dec 11 20,000 women demo at Greenham Common anti-nuke (?85- encampment) Dec U.S. Steel lays off 15,500 & closes all or part of 29 mills, the largest shut-down in American history 83 Dec Dennis Banks granted asylum in the Onandaga Indian Nation, NY (50,000 letters delivered to Governor Cuomo) Hearts of Space goes national Bergman: Fanny & Alexander Never Cry Wolf Gandhi Trading Places (black man becomes prince) Baby It's You - John Sayles Staying Alive (Travolta) Flashdance Terms of Endearment Local Hero The Big Chill Streamers - Altman (Viet) ?Four Corners: A Natl Sac Area? The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez Monty Python: The Meaning of Life Season of Thunder (Philippine resistance) Alsino and the Condor (Nicaraguan struggle) Under Fire (Nicaraguan struggle) The Year of Living Dangerously (Thai? war) 83 The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment & the Dismantling of Basic Industry - Bluestone & Harrison (ck - saw as 82) In The Spirit of Crazy Horse - Peter Mathiessen (sp?) 1984 U.S. trade deficit with Europe jumps to $13 billion U.S. trade deficit with Japan is $36.8 billion "due to high U.S. dollar" and U.S. banks also borrow $21.6 billion Japanese invest $4.7 billion in the U.S. Mergers/takeovers skyrocket (from $52.2 bill (83) to 124.8 bil l) Bank failure rate skyrocket to worst since 1938 (79 banks) (Debt $172 billion - $111 billion interest on past debts) Farmers going bankrupt Farm Policy Reform Act not adopted by Reagan 84 Foreign debt repayment worries 2 U.S. deficit worries Foreign investment has doubled since 1979 British miners fight Thatcher's coal pit closures European left asking for 35-hour week Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson (& hymie statement) Abortion-clinic bombings male empowerment Indians at Wounded Knee, aided by Tiyospaye Crisis Center in Dever, starting to plant gardens, arrange to re-release wild horses & re-introduce buffalo Institute for Transportation & Devpmt, Wash begins sending bicycles to Nicaragua 84 Southern Poverty Law Center's Klanwatch program goes to court to outlaw a paramilitary army built by the North Carolina Klan, which had been marching through black neighborhoods. When court order violated (arsenal built of stolen military weapons) Klanwatch wins second suit which puts North Carolina Klan out of business. Chavez calls grape boycott to persuade growers not to use five pesticides 84 Mime Troupe: Steeltown & 1985 (Newsweek: year of the Yuppie (Dec 31, 84 issue) Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to Oregon? BCA majority in Berkeley First conception of a human ovum in a surrogate mother Identification of the AIDS virus Astronauts fly free in space for the first time Buckminster Fuller dies U.K.: building begins at self-build community at Lightmoor in Telford new town, awarded top prize by Prince Charles for Royal Institute of British Architects, June 1987 Jan Weirton Steel employees buy-out plant Jan 12 Cholesterol is linked to heart disease after 10-yr study by the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute Jan 25 INFACT (Infant Formula Action Coalition) wins settlement with Nestle Corporation after seven year boycott Feb 13 FTC approves Texaco purchase of Getty Oil Mar 5 Standard Oil of Calif buys Gulf Mar Major U.S. banks raise prime lending rate from 11 to 11.5%, the first increase since August 83 Mar 13 Reagan agrees to cleanup Bikini Atoll of nuclear contamination so Bikinians can return (est 42 million) Mar 14 Hard Rock Cafe Mar 30 U.S., Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, & Colombia agree to give Argentina $500 million aid to meet its payments on its $43.6 billion debt Apr 5 Banks raise prime rate from 11.5 to 12% (highest since Oct 82) Apr 6 Federal Reserve Board raises its rate from 8.5 to 9% Apr CIA reveals its participation in / mining of Nicaraguan harbor s 84 May Dutch government appears to conclude it cannot accept missile deployment May 3 Iran, Iraq attack ships in Persian Gulf May 7 Veterans & 7 chemical companies settle Agent Orange suit (out of court): 15,000 vets & families to get $180 mill May 10 US govt held negligent in above-ground testing of nuclear weapons in Nevada from 51 to 62, though only one cancer victim compensated 84 May The MX program barely survives a House vote May 15 Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejects Reagan nominee (for head of U.S. Information Agency) M21-26 First North American Bioregional Congress meets in Excelsior Springs, Ozarkia bioregion, Missouri May 23 Contra Eden Pastora admits receiving CIA aid May 24 Longest Run leaves NYC, 51 days to Sacto Jun 1 Dutch cabinet votes to postpone its decision on accepting Cruise missiles until Nov 1, 85 Jun 9 150,000 in London protest Cruise missiles Jun 14 Reagan agrees to talks with USSR about nuc weapons control J 22-24 SLATE reunion, Berkeley July Reagan's Advisory Council on Oceans and Atmosphere recommend that the U.S. govt "reconsider" disposal of nuclear waste at sea July P.M. David Lange of New Zealand comes out against nuclear warships in New Zealand's waters July In the biggest environmental protest in the Soviet countries, 6-7,000 Hungarians have signed a petition protesting plan to dam or divert the Danube River for a hydroelectric project Jul 25 Volcker says Fed will not tighten growth in money supply to control inflation (any more) Jl 30- Aug 3 Heaviest trading ever on Stock Market Stock Market rises 87.46 pts to 1,202.08 (Aug 3 - 36 pts) Even as economy slows fall? Voter Registration in attempt to defeat Reagan: xxx new voters registered (ITT) 84 Aug 2 Census Bureau: Poverty rate up 15.2% in 83, highest since 65 (to 35.3 million poor) Aug Australia, New Zealand, and 12 other Pacific island members of the Pacific Forum declare the area a nuclear-free zone, including ban on French nuclear testing & possible dumping of nuclear waste by Japan and the U.S. Oct 17 Britain drops its oil price 1.35/barrel Oct 18 Nigeria, member of OPEC, drops its oil price 2/barrel Oct 20 Reagan vetoes bill to improve Federal health care for American Indian reservations Oct 20 Repeat of European anti-missile protests Oct 28 OPEC decides to cut oil production Nov Boston area is prohibited from adding new commercial sewer connections until it cleans up its aged sewer system which has been dumping 6 billion gallons raw sewage a year into Boston harbor Nov Pledge of Resistance campaign when? Mitch Snyder, head of the Community for Creative Non-Violence goes on hunger strike to get fed govt to make an abandoned bldg available to street people. Eve of election, Reagan & Dept of Health & Human Services capitulate 84 Nov Reagan re-elected (versus Mondale/Ferraro) but Democratic Congress Dec 3 Bhopal Union Carbide pesticide factory disaster kills 2,000 and injures some 50,000 in India Dec 11 20,000 women anti-nuke demo at Greenham Common Dec Department of Energy narrows choice of nuclear waste sites west of the Mississippi River to three: Washington, Texas, Nevada (after activism on original nine sites through the late 70s) Dec 22 Bernhard Goetz, riding on NYC subway, shoots & wounds 4 teen-age boys after one of them asks for 5 dollars Dec? FSM 20-year celebration (is this when it was?) Boy George ?Madonna *Springsteen: Born in the USA "World Beat" TV: Saturday Night Live (still) (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) Wild Style (break dancing) (or was this 83?) (or 82) Breakin' Seeing Red 84 Silkwood (movie) Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders Moscow on the Hudson Sugar Cane Alley The Cotton Club Erendira When the Mountains Tremble (Guatemalan struggle) 84 El Norte (Guatemalan refugees) (shot in Mexico) Nicaragua: No Pasaran (David Bradbury, Australian) farmers: The River, The Dollmaker, Country Iceman (prehistoric man) ?Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World The Gods Must Be Crazy The Brother From Another Planet - John Sayles (Ah Ying - Allen Fong (did Father & Son - 81) The Sixties Papers Green Politics - Fritjof Capra & Charlene Spretnak ?Robert Reich: The Next American Frontier Alperowitz & Faux: Rebuilding America Indian Country: Peter Matthiessen William Gibson: Neuromancer Utne Reader 1985 Dollar reaches peak high: ca 250 yen and ca 3.50 mark "Yen suddenly doubles in value, largely at US instigation" U.S. a debtor nation (Sept 20 NYT) U.S. arms exports to third world countries decline strongly Worries about glut economy T-Boone Pickens? Ivan Boesky pleads guilty of fraud on Wall Street Europeans having trouble with unemployment Farmers recession ("due to high dollar") No longer lower wages overseas People Express (airline) ?GM-Toyota joint venture auto plant opens Fremont, Calif. ?Sanctuary movement (gets media notice) (actually began 80 in Arizona) Mother of Michael Donald, young black man who was lynched in 81 by KKK, sues KKK with the Southern Poverty Law Center Fundamentalists Anonymous formed Use of crack cocaine becomes a national problem Ecstasy 85 Swiss become first country in Europe to require catalytic converters on automobiles & to begin selling lead-free gasoline needed to work with them, in effort to deal with the death of their forests Petris bill requiring warning signs when dangerous pesticides are sprayed on a field finally passed by California legislature but vetoed by Gov. Deukmejian Efforts to pass bottle bills in Florida, NJersey, Penn (7 other states already have them) Work begins at VPL on creation of Virtual Reality machinery DSA active through 85-> (Michael Harrington dies July 89) Virtual ban on leaded gasoline U.K.: black uprisings in Handsworth (Birmingham) & Broadwater Farm [hsg devmt] (Tottenham, ne London - Oct) 85 Jan P.M. David Lange of New Zealand refuses to allow US Navy destroyer into port which might be carrying nuclear weapons Jan Mono Lake (Rush Creek) fight starts? Jan 30 OPEC cuts oil prices Feb 5 P.M. Robert Hawke of Australia refuses to allow US use of bases to monitor an MX missile test Feb US auto workers announce record profits (= recovery) Feb 13 South African police arrest 13, nearly all the leaders of the United Democratic Front (main opposition group) F 18-21 South African police kill 18 demonstrators at Crossroads near Capetown, injure 200 Feb by end, some 1900 arrested in the US demonstrating against South African apartheid in last several months Feb? On 25th anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre (1960), South African police kill 69 Mar 1 ABC bought by Capital Cities Communications, Inc. (Biggest merger in US history outside the oil industry) Mar 21 During funeral march for 3 killed in Sharpeville memorial demo, South African police kill 19 85 Mar 11 Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of U.S.S.R. Mr-Ap? Kesterson starts? Apr Mono Lake (Rush Creek) decision Apr Farley Mowat denied entry into U.S. Ap 1 EPA orders end to dumping of sludge off the New Jersey coast Apr 4 Congress rejects Reagan's appeal for support for Nic contras Apr 7 Gorbachev announces USSR moratorium (til Nov) on deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles A 16-My South Africa divestment (UC Berk) (shantytowns) Apr 18 Ted Turner launches bid to take over CBS 85 May Nature publishes new research by Dr. Joe Farman which indicates ozone layer levels are falling May 1 Reagan ends U.S. trade with Nicaragua May 2 Senate votes to limit Pentagon spending to 85 levels, adjusted for inflation May 12 Washington Post reports Lebanese counterterrorist unit responsible for car bomb in Beirut suburb which killed 80 on March 8 was trained by the CIA May 12 Philadelphia police bomb & destroy 61 row houses & kill 11 in confrontation with anarchist group MOVE May 17 Fed cuts interest rate to 7.5% (lowest since 78) Two major banks immed drop rate 10.5 to 10% May 20 (Next trading day) Stock Market rises 19.54 pt to finish above 1300 for the first time May 23 Reagan & Senate agree to compromise limiting MX missiles to 50 June 2 General Motors acquires Hughes Aircraft June 5 Senate votes to ask Reagan to stay within SALT II treaty limit s June 10 Reagan announces U.S. will June 11 Gorbachev calls for economic reforms in USSR June 27 Senate refuses to approve Reagan appointee for associate attorney general June? Pesticide Action Network names list of "Dirty Dozen" pesticides used internationally which should be banned 85 July 13 Live Aid Concert raises $70,000 for African famine relief 17 hour broadcast on radio & tv to 152 countries from live locations in London & Phil attended by 160,000 Baez, Bowie, Dylan, Jagger, McCartney, Elton John, Tina Turner take part (previously did USA for Africa with "We Are the World") J 15-27 12,000 women attend U.N. World Conference of Women, Kenya July Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior, protesting France's approaching nuclear tests in the region, is sunk in Auckland harbor, NZ by French secret service August United Farm Workers starts campaign against "Deadly Dozen" worst pesticides still in use in the U.S. 85 Aug 11 Leakage of toxic gas from Union Carbide ?pesticide plant, W. Virginia Sept 1 To avert Senate's passage of South African sanctions, Reagan announces more restrained sanctions (11 western nations have already imposed sanctions) Sept Unemployment, which has stayed at 7.2% for 6 months, finally drops to 6.9% (lowest since 1980) Sept? Mex City earthquake gets too much aid 85 Oct Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh arrested (& deported) Oct 26 Australian govt gives Ayers Rock back to the Aborigines Nov 15 Great Britain & Republic of Ireland sign agreement giving the Republic consultive role in governing of N. Ireland 85 Nov Oil prices about 28/barrel Dec 2 General Dynamics execs indicted for defense contract fraud Dec 8 OPEC announces new strategy to compete for world oil market In next few days, oil futures drop from 28.74 to 25.23/barrel, then recover somewhat (Dec 8 Guatemala elects civilian pres after 30 yrs mil rule) (is this significant?) Dec 11 General Electric to buy RCA Dec 11 Congress passes Gramm-Rudman forced reductions in deficit Dec Uprising of New Zealand Maori youths, Auckland "Big music scene LOS ANGELES" (RS: Madchester article) ?Rambo The Killing Fields (end 84) (saw again as 84) Witness (Amish) Alamo Bay - Louis Malle (Viet fishermen in Texas) (Carmen) White Nights (Gregory Hines & Baryshnikov as defectors) 85 Brazil Kerouac 85 Desperately Seeking Susan (Back to the Future) Mime Troupe: Troupers (the movie) Habits of the Heart - Bellah et al Women Who Love Too Much - Robin Norwood Deep Ecology - Devall & Sessions Acid Dreams - Lee & Shlain Uncovering the Sixties: The Life & Times of the Underground Press - Abe Peck 1986 Volcker tight money policy almost causes another recession Interest rates down (ca 8%) worries over third world debts U.S. bank failures ca. 140 and rising; 1600 banks in trouble (FDIC list) U.S. trade deficit with Japan grows to $58 billion ?51 and U.S. banks borrow $46 billion Dollar starts to drop steeply against the yen and mark (or is it be devalued?) -> tourism to U.S. increases Insurance companies raise their liability rates (at end of 86, declare 11.5 billion net income) Ivan Boesky accused Fourteen socially responsible investment funds Sanctuary Movement court case (get more) (creole cuisine?) when? California voters adopt Prop 65 Toxics Initiative with mechanism for citizen enforcement -> law suits when? Calif leg passes Bottle Bill (AB 2020) when? Immigration Reform Act (ck name) grants amnesty to illegal immigrants workers (ck details) 86 U.K.: Greater London Council & 6 metropolitan counties abolished 86 Jan 1 Gorbachev asks for world ban on atomic weapons Jan NYC finally stops pumping up to 150 million gallons of raw sewage into the Hudson River daily, with the opening of new North River Water Pollution Control Plant Jan 16 Energy Dept announces 12 potential nuclear waste sites in eastern U.S., including Penobscot site in Maine only re-granted to them six years before and four other tribal site s Jan 20 U.S. officially observes Martin Luther King Day for first time Jan oil prices lowered again (from 15 to 10 dollars/barrel) (worries about the effect of lowered oil prices) (effect on Texas starts) (also Mexico starts to go into debt) Jan 28 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, space program put on hold Jan Unemployment rate 6.6%, lowest in 6 years Feb (mid) oil prices in the 15-16/barrel range -> Stock Market buying frenzy Feb 6 Stock Market closes above 1600 for first time Feb Texas Air takes over Eastern Airlines to create largest U.S. airline 86 Feb Field testing of genetically engineered bacteria to reduce frost damage on strawberry plants planned by Advanced Genetic Sciences of Oakland, California banned by Monterey (Calif.) County Board of Supervisors Feb 16 Duvaliers flee Haiti after 28-year rule by the family Feb 19 Senate finally ratifies 1948 U.N. treaty outlawing genocide (90 other nations have already ratified) Feb 27 Stock Market closes above 1700 for first time Feb 27 Marcos's flee Philippines, Aquino in after Feb 7 election Feb Consumer prices fall for first time since who knows when, continue dropping into May Mar 7 Fed cuts prime rate 7.5 to 7% (lowest since 78) following lead of central banks in W Ger, Fr, Japan Mar Two Lyndon LaRouche supporters chosen in Illinois Democratic primary for Lt Gov & Sec State Attention turns to LaRouche supporters who have gotten themselves onto other state ballots Mar 19 Reagan & Canada's Mulroney finally agree on acid rain actions (Mar 27 Senate approves 100 mill for Nic contras) Apr 15 US bombs Libya base Apr 18 South Africa finally ends pass laws 86 Apr 25 Explosion starts meltdown at Chernobyl near Kiev in the USSR Ukraine May 12 Drexel Burnham Lambert charged with illegal "insider trading" May 25 Hands Across America: 5 million attempt to form human chain across US & donate 10 dollars to aid hungry & homeless in US, from Battery Park, NYC to Long Beach, Calif. & Sport Aid: 20 million in 266 cities in 76 countries run in benefit for hunger in Africa June 11 South Africa: "State of Emergency" imposed June 16 Despite arrests, millions stay home in South African black trade union strike on 10th anniversary Soweto uprising Aug 4 OPEC agrees to cut oil production Within days, oil prices rise from 11.50 to 15/barrel 86 Sept 4 Stock Market hits all time high of 1919.71, starts to level of f Sept 11 Stock Market has fallen 86.61 pts to 1792.89 Sept 15 Texas Airlines buying out People Express & its ill-advised acquisition, Frontier Airlines Sept 21 35 nations adopt treaty to reduce risk of accidental war, including USSR agreement to on-site inspections Sept 27 Congress passes Tax Reform Act (affects 87) (after 2 yrs) Oct 2 Congress overrides Reagan's veto to pass South African sanctio ns Oct 3 Congress requires schools to inspect for asbestos hazards 86 Nov 1 Rhine River disaster: 30 tons of mercury and pesticides wash into the river during a fight against a fire at Sandoz AG warehouse in Basel, Switz; several days later, Ciba-Geigy admits it "accidentally" releas ed 900 pounds of pesticide into the river hours before Dec 4 Hundreds of thousands of French students march against Chirac's higher education bill Dec 20 Three black men attacked by bat-wielding young whites in Howard Beach neighborhood, Queens, NYC; one of them, Michael Griffith (23) hit by a car and dies during flight ??Paul Simon: Graceland (or was this 87?) The Color Purple - the movie (Dec 85) Woody Allen: Hannah & Her Sisters My Beautiful Launderette She's Gotta Have It (Peggy Sue Got Married) ??Kiss of the Spider Woman Men - Doris Dorrie (Ger) A Great Wall - Peter Wang (Aliens) (Salvador) (Sid and Nancy) Star Trek IV Contrary Warriors (Crow Indian struggle) 1987 First trillion-dollar national budget SPLC's Klanwatch wins 7 million dollar judgement against the KKK for Michael Donald's murder - including deed to national headquarters of the United Klans of America 135+ counties and municipalities have voted to become nuclear-free zones Over half the couples getting married have lived together beforehand (Manchester Guard Wkly, Dec 31, 89) Gorbachev announces policies of glasnost & perestroika Intifada uprising starts among Palestinians in Israel Safe sex ads ?? restriction of foreign musicians ?? John Berger's book on restoration volunteer heroes when? Prairie Home Companion last show when? Columbia protest when? First national U.S. Greens conference (Amherst, Mass.) when? Congress extends Clean Water Act (over Reagan's veto?) Joseph Giovannini coins the word "deconstructivism" to describe the new architectural style of Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, and the Coop Himmelblau spring? Max Headroom, computer-generated character from Britain, premiers on U.S. tv Jan Greens win 8.3% in German elections Jan Environmentalists, unionists & community members from BASF plant in Louisiana join Green Party in W. Ger. to protest Rhine River damage by BASF Feb?? Mar: Brazil announces suspension of debt payments 87 Mar? Contra cease-fire - Nicaragua Apr Dollar starts to fall, but is propped up & rises Stock market soars Brazil suspends payment of interest on debts U.S. threatening to tariff Japan if it does not stop "dumping" microchips Apr 1,100 demo at Honeywell, Minneapolis against manufacture of nuclear weapons; arrests since 81 total 1,820 (NYT Business 9/20/87) Apr 16 U.S. Patent Office announces genetically engineered animals can be patented when was seed patent law? Apr New Jersey requires statewide garbage seperating May Start Stock Market downfall predictions May 4? Immigration amnesty program (1 year) starts June Soviet doctors visit Leonard Peltier in prison (Canada) (June Sup Ct decision on So Cal church vs LA County flood control) 87 July First debt-for-nature swap announced (Bolivia's Beni Biosphere Reserve) May- July Hearings on Iran-Contra (Oliver North, etc) Aug 200 dolphins washed ashore from Virginia to Maine, dead of unknown disease; thousands of fish, crabs, & eels suffocated in North Carolina estuaries, apparently due to low levels of oxygen; disease ravaged Chesapeake Bay oyster beds; lobsters were asphyxiated in their pots by a brown tide of algae Aug 6 Hodel: Hetch Hetchy Aug 7 Cease fire Central America (Arias peace plan) and no S.F. homeporting Aug 12 Stock Market crashes 87 Aug 15&16 Harmonic convergence xxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sept 1 Brian Wilson loses legs at Concord Naval Weapons Station Sept (Turning third world debt into bonds) Sept? Ecuador debt-for-nature swap wk of S14 Reagan & Gorbachev to sign arms reduction treaty Oct 5 Supreme Court refuses to hear Peltier appeal Oct? Bork hearings Oct 11 Second Lesbian Gay March, Wash DC, again unreported by press Oct prime interest rate raised to 9 1/4 (fifth raise this year) Oct 16&19 Wall Street: stock market falls 508 points & US attack on Iran oil platforms Nov? Cuban refugees uprising - Oakdale? prison Nov 12 Unita/SA defeat in Angola (re-check) Nov California Rural Legal Assistance and California Agrarian Action Project win suit (started 1979) against University of California for preferential research for large agri-business farmers ?Ruben Blades ?Ladysmith Black Mambazo TV: Vietnam series, Thirtysomething 87 Woody Allen: Radio Days Dirty Dancing La Bamba (Luis Valdez plays Richie Valens) Platoon (saw as 86) Cry Freedom, Mandela, Walker Hollywood Shuffle, Ironweed (Matewan - Sayles) Withnail and I (The Witches of Eastwick) I've Heard the Mermaids Singing Good Morning, Vietnam (Fatal Attraction) (Hope and Glory) (My Life as a Dog) Sammy and Rosie Get Laid Fire From the Mountain (Nicaraguan struggle) Walker The East/The West (film by Kiyoshi Miyato on American Indians) Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow - Sinetar Growing a Business - Hawken The Great Depression of 1990 - Ravi Batra (summer?) 1988 when? nearly every W. Af. country receives offers for accepting hazardous waste ?ARDIS (Assoc for Responsible Dissent): Philip Agee, John Stockwell, Verne Lyon, Ralph McGehee, Philip Roettinger, Ilona Maria Lorenz ?Brits buying up US? ?Loni Hancock elected mayor of Berkeley NIMBY Worst drought in 50 years & warmest Jan-May on record Farms in south & midwest devastated Forest fires Global warming draws public interest Three million homeless in U.S. (sez EWJ) Federal "Drug Czar" appointed to lead war on illegal drugs Jan Restoring the Earth Conference Jan 26 Aust Aborigines mark Aust 200th anniversary as "invasion day" Feb EEC decides on 1992 Single European Market (end to internal barriers) Feb Costa Rica's La Selva Protected Zone debt-for-nature swap Feb G.E. workers agree to pay cut to keep their jobs Feb 3 Contra-Aid debate, Ft. Bragg offshore oil drilling hearing Mar 16 Puget Sound oil spill, Iranscam indictments Mar 17 US soldiers sent to Honduras Mar 24 Another Stock Market drop Apr 18 Attack on Iraq + Palestinian leader shot Apr 26 ?Shell oil spill - Suisun 88 Apr 25 Greenpeace & the Danish Government debate Association of Martime Incinerators before scientific committee of the London Dumping Convention over proposal for world-wide ban on incineration of toxic wastes at sea, which European countries have been doing since 1969 (about 90,000 tons toxic waste a year) (May U.S. inflation worries starting again) May Hungary: Kadar out after 32 years May Lilco agrees to sell unfinished Long Island Shoreham nuclear power plant to NY for $1 to be dismantled (ck for more recent ???) 88 May-Jun Reagan visits Gorbachev in Moscow & signs xxx June 1 Brazilian govt recognizes Indian right to remain in their territories Jn? Australian govt agrees to negotiate first treaty with Aborigin es Jn/Jl Dollar rises (through summer) 120 to 135 yen June The Khian Sea, which left Philadelphia Oct 86 with 10,000 tones of incinerator ash, has been refused permission to dump in the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Haiti, & Guinea-Bissau July- U.K.:Big summer of House Party/Acid House all-night dance even ts (Ecstasy at The Hacienda, Manchester) 88 July Hospital wastes found on east coast beaches Jul Sunday before 31st: 100,000 people linked hands on the north German coast to protest government complacency in fighting epidemic which has killed 4000 North Sea seals in the last three months Aug Cease fire in Angola (13 yrs civil war) Cease fire in Iran-Iraq war (8 yrs) USSR starts withdrawal from Afghanistan (8 1/2 yrs) 100,000 troops to be out by Feb 15 (13,00 have been killed; 22,000 wounded) Hopeful initiatives underway in Cyprus & Western Sahara "Vietnam may withdraw from Cambodia" Poland agrees to talk with Walesa (8 yrs) Aug 27 55,000 attend 25th anniversary Washington Civil Rights March Sept 8 Boise, Idaho: 4 white supremacists plead guilty to plotting bombings, robberies & the murder of Morris Dees Sept NYT: Is the cold war drawing to a close? Sept 19 Burma & Haiti rebel (Sept Savings & loans failures continuing) 88 Sept 29 80,000 in West Berlin protest IMF policies, 400 arrested Oct Albert Hoffman Institute founded L.A. & Switzerland re-legalizes LSD research Oct Energy Dept finally admits problems with nuclear arms industry and nuclear plants Oct (oil prices dropping again - below 10 dollars/barrel) 88 Nov Robert Morris sends Internet Worm (computer virus) 88 Nov Bush elected (vs Dukakis) but with Democratic Congress and with both candidates supporting environmentalism Also Insurance reforms (Calif) (Dec 7? U.N. adopts global weather resolution) (explain?) Dec 8? Gorbachev speech at U.N. (then hurries home after Georgia earthquake) Dec 14 US agrees to talk to PLO Dec 23? Peace in Namibia Dec? Chico Mendes, rubber tapper & rain forest activist, murdered in Brazil Dec "intifada started" Tracy Chapman Michelle Shocked K.D. Lang ?Baez, Collins, + Cohen + Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Pere Ubu Dinosaurs ?Japanese Taiko drums Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares tv: thirtysomething (when did it start?) Miami Vice (ditto) 88 The Unbearable Lightness of Being (from Kundera) (Bird) Moonstruck Babette's Feast School Daze (Spike Lee) The Milagro Beanfield War Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders Bagdad Cafe Colors (Dennis Hopper) (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) 88 Stand and Deliver (Edward Olmos plays Jaime Escalante) The War in El Cedro (Viet vets go to Nicaragua) The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese) (Salam Bombay) Tucker (Coppola) Imagine: John Lennon (Working Girl) ?Rain Man Mahaharata (theater) Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (film) The Beat Generation: An American Dream (movie) (actually 87) (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) 88 Paul Kennedy: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Japan Inc. The Chalice & the Blade Matthew Fox: The Coming of the Cosmic Christ Fukuyama?: The End of History? William Gibson: Mona Lisa Overdrive EEC/US "on the brink of trade war" Benazir Bhutto elected in Pakistan 1989 U.S. average family income regains 1973 level (only with two wage-earners) Jan 5 Riots against African students in China ? Creation Spirituality priest's banning Jan Japanese Emperor Hirohito dies Libyan chemical weapon plant Jan? African-American (huh) Jan? Germans & Nazi statement Jan 24 "Dow Jones back to Oct. 17 level" J30-F3 Record cold E & N U.S. (Alaska storm) Feb 4 Paraguay: Stroessner (dictator 35 years) unseated in mil coup Feb 9 Michael Manley, dem. socialist, re-elected P.M. Jamaica Feb? Antarctic oil spill Feb ?First? public demonstrations of Virtual Reality F-early March Feb-Mar Tower not? confirmed (Defense Secretary) Whitestock when? Jerry Brown appointed head Dem. Party, Calif. Mar 10 Moslems win in Nazareth Mar 10 Hungary: new constitution & Lithuania: Si-u-dees(t) to win 30/42 Mar 13 Tibet demos Neo Nazis win 6% in Hesse, Frankfurt Chilean grapes - cyanide Calif: handguns outlawed third world debt 89 Mar 24 Exxon Valdez oil spill - Alaska Mar 27 USSR: first contested elections Mar-Apr UK: "No winter in Europe this last year & things are blooming 2 months early Apr 6 Viet vol GIs return, after 2 month visit Apr 7 Annual reclaim the test site demo ?starts Apr 9 Georgia, ?USSR: 17 die Wash D.C. Pro-Choice March 100,000 Apr 10 Gas prices raised Apr 12 Abbie Hoffman dead Bush? announces renewal all water leases: Orange Cove near Fresno, Friant Dam Apr 13 Military child care hearings Apr 26 Beijing demos was this Tian?men (sp?) Square Apr 28 170 conscientious objectors have left South Africa in 4 years Mobil leaves South Africa due to end of tax credits May 8 (eve) Georgia demo - 20 killed (USSR) May 11 Panama: govt calls election void, Bush sending troops May 15 Russians getting Viet to pull out of Cambodia (by Sept.) -> talks w China Gorbachev to China today 89 May 18 China demos in Tienamen? Square during USSR-China talks May 31 "18th day" China demos ?100,000 in Tienamen Square Jn 3-4 China: police attack demonstrators ? June 4 Solidarity wins in Poland June 5 Khomeini dead Prime 11 1/2 -> 11% June 6 Sacramento: Rancho Seco voted down J 5-10 Uzbeck youths Fergona Valley attack Misketi Turks June 12 Expansion of Nat Am water rights upheld by Sup Ct 3rd anniversary Infact vs General Electric (Livermore demo) Second? anti-affirmative action Sup Ct Falwell announces Moral Majority to end Aug. 31 June Heavy rains in Ohio, flooding in 13 eastern U.S. states U.K.: drought (most since summer 1976) ?summer another attempt at re-introducing the mini July 3 Sup Ct anti-abortion ruling Aug 6 S.F. Examiner announces the existence of Wes Thomas's "Friday the 13th" computer virus Aug 23 2 million in Balkans form human chain on the 50th anniversary of the secret agreement which made them part of the Soviet Union Oct 7 Wash: Housing Now! march Oct 13 Dow drops 190? points (Oct 17 SF Earthquake) Oct East Germans leaving Oct Hungarian Communist party becomes officially socialist Oct 28 Ortega of Nicaragua announces he won't extend the cease-fire Nov 4 500,000 demonstrate in East Berlin Nov 9 /fBEast Germany opens its borders - "Berlin wall comes down"/f R (Nov 10 East Germans cross into West Germany) N 13-14 Czechoslovakia opens its borders Nov 14 El Salvador Nov 17 Czech: 10-20,000 teens try to march to Wenceslaus(sp?) Square; 400 injured Nov 18 Czech: strike at schools, invitations of forbidden speakers; Town meetings start; Civic Forum formed N 21-22 Czechoslovakia: 1 million demonstrators over next week becomes general strike Nov 28 Czechoslovakia announces it will adopt new constitution and Hungary announces first free election Dec 14 NATO announces troop reduction Dec 18 demonstrations in Romania (Dec 19 764,000 in current army) 89 Dec 20 US invades Panama Dec 22 Caescescu overthrown, Rumania (Dec 27 disco line dance craze) Mississippi Burning (36 Fillette) High Hopes (U.K.) Dangerous Liasons New York Stories - Woody Allen Dead Poets Society Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) Batman Comic Book Confidential (She-Devil) Story of Women/Une Affaires des Femmes (Chabrol) Woody Allen: Crimes and Misdemeanors Sidewalk Stories Born on the Fourth of July Downwind Downstream Sex, Lies and Videotape Roger and Me (more 1990) Distant Voices, Still Lives (UK) ______________________________________________ 1990 Robert Bly Jan Myles Horton dies Jan 22 Stock Market drops 77 points Jan 24 Secret Service agents raid homes of Acid Phreak and Phiber Optik and confiscate computer? equipment (Calif Drought Year #4) wk before Feb 2? South African transit workers win strike Feb 2 Secret Service agents raid Len Rose, aka Terminus Feb 2 South African government legalizes ANC Feb 4 Colombia gives half its forest to indigenous tribal peoples Feb 7 /fBUSSR legalizes multi-party/fR Feb 7 Secret Service raids three more computer hackers Feb 11 /fBSouth Africa: Mandela released/fR Feb 14 Drexel Burnham Lambert junk bond kings: bankruptcy Feb 15 Secret Service raids Craig Neidorf, editor of Phrack on-line magazine Feb 16 /fBLithuania ? declares independence? when? Latvia & Estonia declares independence /fR 90 Feb 21 Tokyo stock market drop (1000 yen?) "due to interest drop" (4.5%) Feb 25 Nicaraguan election: Sandanistas defeated by Chamorro Mar 1 Secret Service raids Steve Jackson Games Mar 16 GOP Lee Atwater's change of heart May 9 Secret Service announces 28 new hacker raids under Operation Sun Devil the year of the 20 years after Earth Day and I bet this was the start of New York City's enviro group w hat's their name? Aug Iraq invades Kuwait Oct 3 Germanys reunite Nov 12 -14 "Clearing squatters E. Berlin" Nov 19 Paris: CFE treaty signed, 22 nation what movies? 1991 (Jan MacWorld: multimedia) Jan 16- U.S. bombs Iraq out of Kuwait Feb 1 Calif emergency drought plan Feb 20 Albania uprising Mar 11 LA: citizen videos cop beating when? USSR crack down on Lithuania June 11 FDIC insolvent - 440 banks failing; S&Ls 80 bill + 50 bill coming + June 17 N Ireland: half population under 28; all parties but Sinn Fein meet about home rule ("after 17 years of England's involvement since troubles started") 1974- June 21 Sup Ct: states can outlaw nude dancing; no on burning draft cards June 21 S Af: ends ban law Aug 18 attempted USSR coup Sept 2 rioting in Britain recession, city and county bankruptcies Oct 20 Oakland fire (+ Bill Graham dead) USSR: the hungry winter starts Dec or Jan 92? USSR reformation as commonwealth Dec 31? cease fire in El Salvador when was Dead Poets Society Awakenings Alice (Woody Allen) The Doors To Sleep with Anger, A Rage in Harlem etc Thelma & Louise Dances with Wolves Paris Is Burning (gay scene) The Fisher King The Commitments Dec? or Jan 92? Simon tour to S Africa (Jan MacWorld: announcement of Quicktime video capabilities) Jan Wilson's budget: state college tuition hikes .