~ 8 April 1985

We didn’t go to Iowa after all because my father wasn’t feeling good enough.

I just got done writing a book I started last April. It’s called Harriet M. Welsch and it has 25 pages with no pictures. I might type it later.


What's Happening in the World
  • On the radio: One More Night (Phil Collins), Crazy For You and Material Girl (Madonna); on TV: Three's a Crowd ends and Mr. Belvedere debuts
  • Soviet fear leads Reagan Administration to restrict exchange of unclassified scientific information, DOD screens papers and attendees for engineer meeting
  • Sudanese President Nimeiry ousted in bloodless coup; India files lawsuit against Union Carbide over Bhopal gas tragedy, world's worst industrial disaster
  • Wham! holds historic concert in China, a first for a Western pop group