This Day In 1970's History: Wednesday December 10, 1980
- The accused murderer of John Lennon was taken to the prison ward of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric observation after his arraignment in the slaying of the Beatles star. The cell of the accused man will be checked every 15 minutes to prevent him from taking his life. [New York Times]
- The new Secretary of the Treasury expected to be designated tomorrow by President-elect Ronald Reagan is a major figure in the financial community. Senior transition officials said that he Is Donald Regan, chairman of Merrill Lynch & Company, the investment concern. Among the other selections expected to be announced are William Casey, former chairman of the S.E.C., as Director of Central Intelligence and Caspar Weinberger as Secretary of Defense. [New York Times]
- A convicted Congressman resigned from the House. Representative John Jenrette, Democrat of South Carolina, announced he was stepping down at once to halt House proceedings arising from his conviction of bribery and conspiracy in the Abscam investigation. A House ethics panel was considering recommending his expulsion from Congress. [New York Times]
- The Senate bowed to a veto threat by President Carter and deleted from a stopgap financing bill a prohibition on Justice Department intervention in lawsuits involving busing to achieve school desegregation. But the action was viewed as only a temporary truce as the anti-busing forces vowed to revive the issue in January when Congress would be more conservative and they would deal with a President who opposes busing. [New York Times]
- A television programming coup has been achieved by a new cable network that is to begin operations in January 1982. The British Broadcasting Corporation has agreed to make available to the network, which is a new division of Rockefeller Center Inc., the BBC's several thousand hours of programming a year on an exclusive basis in this country for 10 years. The loss of BBC programming could be a major blow for the financially troubled Public Broadcasting Service. [New York Times]
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