Leeds nostalgia: What made the headlines in March 1988? Reagan, Branson and Robocop
Change the year and the newspapers might well have been published this week, as many of the issues remained the same.
Of course, 1988 was still the decade of denim, shoulder pads and the continued evolution of attitudes toward gay people, who were in the headlines because of the AIDS epidemic.
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Hide AdIt was an era defined by films like Robocop (‘part man, part machine, all cop’), The Last Emperor, Three Men & A Baby, the story of, well, three men and a baby… except that they were fish out of water, although they learned to swim by the end. There was also Dragnet, Fatal Attraction and a film called Nuts, starring Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, in a tale about a high class call girl who fights her case in court rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
Ronald Reagan was President of the United States of America and Richard Branson was still a young man.