The screen goes dark for 2,000 Tektronix employees when the Beaverton oscilloscope maker announces another round of layoffs. Aldo's Restaurant closes two months after one of its backers, Martin Allen Johnson, is busted with more than 10 pounds of cocaine .
Police think the restaurant was being used to both market the drug and launder the proceeds.
A promising young filmmaker named Gus Van Sant releases his first film, Mala Noche . A conservative police lieutenant named Bob Koch upsets incumbent lefty Margaret Strachan for City Council. Strachan says Koch misled voters about her plans to impose street-maintenance fees. The Reagan administration's covert deal with Iran to trade weapons for hostages was supposed to be top secret. Brenneke becomes an instant celebrity when The New York Times reports on his role in the swap.