University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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Hattflttal Jferos wmm Page 9 Millionaire car dealer John De Lorean: busted in a $60 million cocaine deal. Dems gain 26 seats The Democrats picked up 26 seats in the House of Represen- tatives and seven governorships in an election where the reigning Republican party was lucky to get out alive. After all was said and done, the Democrats had 46 seats in the Senate, 267 seats in the House and 34 governorships. The Republicans had 54 seats in the Senate, 166 seats in the House and 15 governorships. Still to be determined were two Georgia House seats and the close race for governor in Illinois where the incumbent James Thompson and Democratic challenger Adlai Stevenson were locked in a battle that was too close to call. Some of the big winners on Election Day were: San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson, who defeat- ed California Governor Jerry Brown for the Senate; Republi- can George Deukmejian, who beat out Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley for the governor- ship despite the fact that two lo- cal Los Angeles TV stations had projected Bradley as the winner; Mario Cuomo, who won the gov- ernorship of New York in a tight race against Lew Lehrman, who spent $11 million in his bid for the post; Jeff Bingaman, who beat Reagan loyalist Harrison Schmidt for a senate seat in New Mexico; Democrat Frank Lau- tenberg, who defeated Republi- can Rep. Millicent Fenwick for a New Jersey Senate seat; and Texas Attorney General Mark White, who scored an impressive upset victory over GOP incu- mbent William P. Clements, Jr. in the Texas gubenatorial derby. The Republicans were indeed lucky to escape with many of the victories that they did. House Minority Leader Robert Michel from Illinois won by only four percent over his opponent G. Douglas Stephens, a Peoria Lawyer who won the Democratic nomination as a write-in candi- date. Many political analysts theorize that this was a direct message to the White House by dissatisfied Americans. With the election returns from this year ' s elections count- ed, vulnerable GOP senators up for re-election in 1984, such as John Warner of Virginia, Gor- don Humphrey of New Hamp- shire and Roger Jepsen of Iowa, were already working on their campaign strategies; the fresh- ness of the Democratic gains of 1982 very much in mind. In their usual political jargon, the Democrats called this year ' s results a signal that the voters wanted a change, while the Re- publicans, still in control of the Senate, called the results a man- date from the voters that they were willing to stay the course. By Howard Burns DeLorean busted in cocaine deal Multi-millionaire automobile designer John De Lorean was ar- rested by police for dealing co- caine just seven hours after the British government closed down his ailing company. De Lorean, a former top ex- ecutive with General Motors who quit his position there to form his own automobile com- pany, was arrested by FBI agents in what was the final stage of a drug deal that would have netted him up to $60 mil- lion. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Walsh tried for a $20 mil- lion bail for De Lorean. Walsh contended: This man is recog- nized as a genius, a visionary. But one does not create an in- dustry on the backs of cocaine users and heroin addicts. Walsh said that he had a vid- eotape of De Lorean cradling a packet of cocaine in his lap and saying: This is better than gold. This comes in the nick of time. After his defense attorney ar- gued that his client was more of a victim than a lawbreaker, De Lorean pleaded not guilty. DeLorean was held on $5 mil- lion bail. By Howard Burns War in Middle East; Israelis invade Beirut On June 6, the Israeli army in- vaded southern Lebanon, thus triggering the most thorough at- tack Israel had ever launched in its attempt to destroy the Pales- tinian Liberation Organization. The most immediate reason for the bombardment was the assassination attempt in Lon- don of Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to Britain. Israel ac- cused the PLO of the attack and immediately retaliated the next day by attacking PLO guerrilla camps in Lebanon. On July 6, President Reagan agreed to send a small group of U.S. troops to Beirut to help in a multinational peace-keeping force, sparking some concern in the U.S. that American troops were being asked to fight some- body else ' s war. A week later, Reagan an- nounced that he would hold up a U.S. shipment of cluster bombs to Israel because reports were saying that Israel had used the American-made bombs in its at- tack of Lebanon. At about this time, the U.S. sent in special envoy Phillip Ha- bib to act as a mediator between the two waring factions. On August 6, the PLO agreed to Habib ' s withdrawal plan, pending the agreement of Jor- dan, Syria and Egypt to take in some of the PLO members. The next day, they agreed. Towards the end of the month, a contingent of U.S. Ma- rines landed in Beirut and PLO members led by Yasir Arafat left for Syria and other Middle East settlements. On Sept. 14, Lebanese Presi- dent-elect Bashir Gemayel was killed when a bomb exploded and destroyed the headquarters of the Christian Philangist Par- ty. Three days later, there was revenge. Over 300 Lebanese citizens were killed on Sept. 17 by Phi- langist soldiers who went on a raid of refugee camps in south- ern Beirut. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon later admitted that the Israelis helped the Philangists gain entry into the camps. Calls for Sharon ' s resignation, as well as the resignation of Prime Min- ister Menachem Begin started being heard worldwide. In Feb. of this year, Sharon was found to be guilty of negli- gence in his handling of the situ- ation and was asked to step down as defense minister while retaining his position in the cabinet. By Howard Burns

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Page 8 •National Jferoa Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Brezhnev dies Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the man who led the Soviet Union to great military expansion and economic decline over a period of 18 years, died at the age of 75. In a surprisingly sudden turn of events, the Soviet Politburo turned the nation ' s reigns over to Yuri Vladimirovich Andro- pov, a former spymaster in the KGB, the Russian Secret Police. Brezhnev drove the Soviet Union as hard as he could to match the United States in mili- tary supremacy. He was also known the world over for his harsh handling of dissidents, as exemplified by his heavy hand in Iron Curtain nations such as Po- land and Czechoslavakia. The Soviet people were not in- formed of Brezhnev ' s passing until 26V2 hours later. One day later, the Politburo met and an- nounced in an uncharacteristi- cally rapid action that 68-year- old Yuri Andropov would be Brezhnev ' s successor. Political analysts listed five main tasks that Andropov would have to satisfy as the new Soviet leader: 1) Satisfy the Russian Generals, 2) Measure the risks abroad involving the plans of the NATO allies, 3) Keeping East- ern Europe in line with Soviet policies, 4) Reforming a strug- gling economy, 5) Coping with Russian dissenters in a fashion that may differ from his han- dling of them as head of the KGB. Jury calls Hinckley insane John W. Hinckley Jr., the man accused of shooting President Ronald Reagan and three oth- ers, was found not guilty by rea- son of insanity on June 21. Hinckley had been brought up on 13 charges, ranging from at- tempted assassination of the president to possession of an un- licensed weapon. Hinckley was the first person to escape conviction of attempt- ed assassination on a president since 1835. As a result of being found not guilty, Hinckley was confined to St. Elizabeth ' s hospital in Wash- ington, D.C., where he would re- main until the courts rule that he would not be a threat to him- self or to society. War rages in Falklands Alexander Haig was in Lon- don by the end of the week to try and work out a peaceful solution with the British government. Britain warned that time was running out and that only Haig could persuade the Argentines to pull out of the Falklands. After meeting with Haig on April 10, Argentinian President Leopoldo Galtieri announced that his country would fight if provoked by the British. The first sign of British resur- gence occurred on April 25 when the port of Grytviken was cap- tured. The next day, the entire island of South Georgia had been recaptured. On April 2, the ruling junta in Argentina announced that its armed forces had taken hold in the British-controlled Falkland Islands, located approximately 250 miles from Argentina ' s southeastern tip. In response to the Argentinian aggression, British Prime Minis- ter Margaret Thatcher the next day ordered several large naval units to head for the Falklands at once. She also announced that about $1.5 billion in Argentinian assets in Britain would be imme- diately frozen. On May 2, Argentina ' s only cruiser, the General Belgrano, was hit by a British torpedo. The next day, it was announced by the Argentine government that 500 of their seamen had been killed in the attack. Two days after the attack on the General Belgrano, an Argen- tine jet fighter crippled the Brit- ish destroyer Sheffield, which had to be abandoned. On June 14, Thatcher made the announcement that the Ar- gentine forces on the island of Stanley had surrendered. Three days later, Galtieri resigned as president, commander of the army, and member of the junta. New President Maj. Gen. Reynaldo Bignone, was sworn in on July 1 and pledged that one day, the Argentines would be free from British rule. His first task, however, was to negotiate the release of some 600 prisoners being held by the British. A couple of months later, Ar- gentina and Britain worked out a cease-fire, and mourned the losses of thousands of troops killed in battle. Pope meets Arafat; Begin is critical In what one of his aides called ... the most important meet- ing of his life, PLO leader Yasir Arafat met with Pope John Paul II for twenty minutes. It was a meeting that delighted the PLO ' s leaders and outraged the Israelis. Commenting on the meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Mena- chem Begin said: It shall now be recorded in the national memory of the Jewish people that the spiritual leader of mil- lions of believers the world over did not recoil from meeting the head of the organization that had written into its constitution as a central aim the annihilation of the Jewish people. A Palestinian Roman Catholic priest named Ibrahim Ayad said of the meeting: Now that the head of the Palestinians has been received by the Pope, Catholics throughout the world will cease to look on the PLO as a terrorist organization. Many Jewish sympathizers were outraged to see pictures of the Pope and Arafat on the front pages of many daily newspapers and the weekly news magazines. Scattered protests against the media soon followed. face a Mesicr

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Page 10 SMetriatott The year in Television Hill Street Blues When one talked about televi- sion in 1982, one invariably talked about NBC ' s Hill Street Blues, which cornered the mar- ket on television ' s coveted Emmy Awards. Hill Street Blues suffered when it was first introduced to the American public. It suffered so badly in its original Saturday night time slot that it didn ' t seem like it would be around for long. NBC then moved the show to Thursday night and its fortunes began to turn around. In very lit- tle time, Hill Street was being regarded as one of the best tele- vision programs of all time. Besides winning an Emmy as the best dramatic series, Hill Street also copped several indi- vidual honors including: Daniel J. Travanti for Best Actor, Bar- bara Babcock for Best Actress, Michael Conrad for Best Sup- porting Actor and Michael Ko- zoll and Steven Bochco for Best Writers. The accolades did not stop with the Emmys. Hill Street Blues was also one of the recipi- ents of the George Foster Pea- body Broadcasting Award. At the start of the 1982-83 television season, NBC intro- duced another series in the mold of Hill Street. St. Elsewhere, set in a metropolitan hospital, de- buted much the same as Hill Street — high critical acclaim with low ratings. Asner ' s politics Controversy reigned at CBS following the surprise cancella- tion of Lou Grant. The shows ' s star, Edward Asner, had become an outspoken advocate against U.S. policy in El Salvador in his position as president of the Screen Actors Guild. So outspo- ken, in fact, that he found him- self in almost every major news- paper and on the network ' s nightly newscasts. After the show was cancelled, CBS claimed that it wasn ' t get- ting good enough ratings. Asner claimed that he was being politi- cially stifled. The controversy continues. In response to the threat of late night and early morning news programs by various cable networks, the three major televi- sion networks launched their own programming. News explosion First out of the block was NBC News Overnight, with Lloyd Dobyns and Linda Eller- bee. In one of the most layed back approaches ever to be seen on network news, Overnight gets most of its reports from NBC af- filiates across the country. To- wards the end of the year, it was announced that Dobyns would become the host of a new NBC newsmagazine to debut in Feb- ruary. CBS followed with Nightwatch which airs in most markets from 2-7 am. Nightwatch was CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter ' s answer to the fact that some of the network ' s affiliates had shown interest in picking up CNN Headline News from the Turner Broadcasting System. Finally, ABC joined the crowd with The Last Word following the already established Night- line. The network scored a major coup by getting Phil Donahue to defect from NBC and join The Last Word in videotaped seg- ments similar to his own syndi- cated talk show. The rest of the show consists of a live interview segment from New York. After wide speculation that Tom Sny- der (late of NBC ' s Tomorrow program) would be named host, ABC hired Gregory Jackson from CBS Cable — the first ca- ble network to call it quits for financial reasons. M A S H The Korean War, television style, ended on Feb. 28 when members of the 4077tl M A S H went home to Amer ica after 11 years on the battle front. Siting the lack of new script ideas, producer Burt Metcalfe and the stars of one of TV ' s most popular comedies decided to call it quits. In what was the most- watched episode of a program since the Dallas episode Who shot J.R.?, M A S H took in more money for a 30-second commercial than any other sin- gle episode. Reruns would surface a couple of months later, but for a short time, there would be no The Korean War, television style, ended on Feb. 28 when mem- bers of the 4077th M A S Hwent home to America after 11 years on the battlefront. M A S H on network TV for the first time in 11 years. As mentioned earlier, CBS Cable became the first cable television network to cease oper- ations due to financial difficul- ties. Cable, however, remained strong in 1982 with more people than ever before hooked up for service. Home Box Office (HBO) took on the big boys when they en- tered a bidding war with NBC for the rights to Taxi, the Emmy-winning comedy series which had been cancelled by ABC. HBO ' s attempt to pur- chase Taxi was the first such at- tempt by a major cable network to acquire a series from the com- mercial networks. Despite flash- ing big bucks, HBO lost out to NBC HBO ' s arch rival, Showtime, led the pack in producing origi- nal comedies and dramas for itf subscribers. Among the net- work ' s efforts: an adaption of the Broadway musical Purlie with members of the original cast in- cluding Melba Moore, Sherman Hemsley and Robert Guillame; and Bizzare an off-the-wall sa- tirical show hosted by John Byner. Year in cable Among the cable channels born in 1982 were: Satellite News Channel, a joint venture of ABC and Westinghouse Broad- casting, which was the first main competition to Ted Turner ' s Ca- ble News Network; the Enter- tainment Channel, a potpourri of original variety programming and commercial network reruns; and The Weather Channel, cre- ated by ABC Weatherman John Coleman which is just what the name implies — 24 hours-a-day of nothing but weather. New Shows The new network fall season brought little innovation and several failures. CBS presented the first musical television se- ries, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. While the jury is still out on this one, ratings had been lukewarm. NBC hearlded the debut of the comedy Cheers, set in a Boston bar. The Thursday night tandem of Cheers and Taxi proved to be a letdown for NBC as a lead-in to the strong Hill Street Blues. Nonetheless, NBC renewed the program for another season. After the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark, TV producers decided that they were going to try and cash in on the glory. ABC presented Stephen Collins ( Star Trek: The Movie ) in Tales of the Gold Monkey, while CBS tried Bruce Box- leitner in Bring ' Em Back Alive. If the Nielsen ratings are any indicator, there is no substi- tute for Indiana Jones. Both shows were underdogs to survive their initial seasons. Music Television Possibly the most successful cable network to start up in the last two years is Music Televi- sion (MTV), which in 1982 tri- pled its subscriber base from close to 3 million to almost 9 mil- lion by infiltrating such major markets as New York, San Fran- cisco and Boston. MTV, owned by Warner Amex, devotes most of its pro- gramming hours showing rock videos provided it was free of charge by record companies for promotional purposes. The overhead of MTV is nominal and thus, it is predict- ing that it may be in the black financially by 1983. All Copy By Howard Burns 1882 veiu the! Afon found it