P108 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                                              * 13 February - Konstantin Chernenko  succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as  General Secretary of the Communist  Party of the Soviet Union  * 14 February - Torvill and Dean win a  gold medal for ice skating at the  Winter Olympics.  * 20 February - The Manchester  alternative rock band The Smiths,  fronted by Morrissey, release their  first album, The Smiths.  * 26 February - The United States  Marine Corps pulls out of Beirut,  Lebanon.     100-Contents 101-Headlines   Next       Prev       Home        End