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magazine. In Seventh, were two political debacles. Ex-Sen. Gary Hart dropped out of the race, because of disclosures of his relationship with a model, Donna Rice. Reporters had spotted them at a Washington town house. Joseph Biden, also withdrew from the race for the Democratic nomination after he was found to have lifted material from other campaign speeches. In December, Hart re-entered the race saying, Let the people decide. Eighth, the spread of the AIDS virus.Between 1981 and the end of 1986, the federal government had recieved reports of some 30,000 cases of AIDS. That figure grew by 20,000 during the past year alone The year also recorded 11,000 AIDS deaths. At year's end no cure had been found for AIDS. But treatment improved with the governments approval of the drug AZT, which retards the virus although it is expensive and has dangerous side effects that limit its use. Other experimental agents showed promise. Doctors also began the first human trials of vaccines to prevent further spread of AIDS. Ninth, were airplane crashes in Detroit and Denver, both on takeoff. In Detroit, Northwest Airlines Flight 225 crashed Aug. 16 and tumbled in a fireball onto a highway interchange, killing 156 people, two of them motorists. A 4-year-old girl, Cecelia Cichan, was the only passenger to survive. In Denver Nov. 15, Continental Airlines Flight 1713 flipped over and broke into three pieces when a wing tip scrapped the runway. Rescue of some victims took longer than six hours: 28 of the 82 on board,were killed. Two other disasters, the crash of a Pacific Southwest Airlines plane in California, in which 43 people died, and the sinking of a Philippine passenger ship, with some 1,500 lives lost, occurred after the top-10 ballot was distributed In 10th place was the story that captured the heart of the nation in October- the rescue of 19-month-old Jessica McClure from an abandoned well in Midland, Tex. It took rescuers 58 hours to drill through solid rock to reach the tot. When she was released, healthy, a month later from the hospital, her father spoke for thousands of Americans whose contributions paid Jessica's 550,000 hospital bills: By the grace of God and some heroic men, we have our baby back. The editors' and broadcasters' ballots were returned in mid- December, and so did not include any subsequent news events. These are the second group of 10, with points in parentheses: 11. Peace process involving Nicaragua. t543I. 12. Pope John Paul Il's visit to America. l527l. 13. The bicentennial celebration of the U.S. Constitution.t463l. 14. Changes within the communist giants: glasnost in the Soviet Union: westernization moves in China.l431J. 15. Revolt of Cuban inmates at iail centers in Atlanta, GA. and Oakdale, La.t409l. 16. Surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead loses in Baby M case in New Jersey. 12033. 17. The earthquake in Los Angeles. 11883. 18. Shootings by frustrated motorists on California freeways that left five dead. 1146l. 19. New immigration law goes into effect with its amnesty provision. 11401. 20. National Football League strike Q R - -, ,V L: O ef 1 1? X 9 .N J Q . I, M I ' f g, - lnl - -fl ' T, , -: ia - , .!..v llllllll iii Z , H :Hill !iE!:EE!v WI, gs : --: : xr D .. X f f 'Es A G Q 5 H ' ' ug in 'T cg 17 ' I' ,ff N I I Q 1 .5 ij 1 aw, Y , , - n , ' 911 lllll - - I I I 5' I :Lisp TA ' ' '- ll ' . I x 4 I-I i iilllll Qiliilllea 'Of Y I ,sig E: :- ' 'z S ' I Q4 -23,1 D :-.,-I x ' 5 5 : All' diSaSt9I'S 81 Heal' ITIISSES eV-ICA s vw . Co ' :N 44 ebb xl? 3 'bi 2 ' 2, 2+ J ' sl 4 ' +1 if 'V' v we gzfix Mr- ,,-Ig, Q t '9 xv' ffl ' 'A by 'A UsT V- San Diego Crew Wins ,W 1- M .il 'iff , , . Mm . Le -I , ,,., .gm ,...Pf ,w. , I I , az liq tfym 4. x:,f-X i ,X . fi .ty -Y - - - - f tlllllllihaggguf Homeless Thank You, Star Free Press 61

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Top Stories 1987 BY JULES LOH AP SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The IFBI1-C0l'lfI'a heafll'lgS, which shook an administration and -briefIy- made Oliver North a household name,ranked as the top news story of 1987 in a year-end poll of Associated Press member newspaper editors and broadcasters. The year brought news as diverse as a summit conference, terrible airplane crashes, troubles in the Persian Gulf, scandals in politics futile efforts to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, a stock market crash and the rescue of a little girl from an abandoned well. and TV SVSDQBIISITI, two The STOCK market Cl'aSh Came in a close second to the Iran-Contra hearings in the voting on the years top 10 stories. The hearings ended with Lt. Col. North a momentary hero, and the man who may have masterminded the operation, CIA Director William Casey, dead. The sessions took most of the summer and received testimony from 500 witnesses, among them Adm. John Poindexter, the former national security adviser, and Secretary of State George Shultz, who complained that North and Poindexter had deliberately kept him in the dark. North who was fired from the National Security Council for his role, admitted he had misled Congress and shredded documents. He lectured the members of Congress on the morality of his actions. His former secretary, Fawn Hall, told the committee that there were times when one must go above the written law , but then retracted the statement. 60 In their final report on the affair, two congressional committees concluded that Reagan had failed in his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law. The president let it be known he felt personally wounded by the criticism of his leadership. At year's end, grand juries were still investigating, and criminal indictments were possible. The S500 billion market collapse of Black Monday, Oct. 19, the worst market panic of modern times, seemed to catch even Wall Street experts by surprise. In retrospect, analysts noted the bull market had been slipping since it peaked in late August. Stock prices, in fact, began falling sharply in the week preceding the crash when the government reported the nation's trade deficit had worsened, triggering worries about inflation and the dollar. The nation was stunned, however, when Black Monday's crash eclipsed the crash of 1929, which ushered in the Great Depression. In the month of October the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 602.75 points and slid 159.98 more in November. By late December the Dow had recovered more than 200 points from its October low, but still was 500 under the year's high. The consensus of economists, however, was that no major recession was in sight. The third story on the top-10 list was the three-day summit meeting of Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in December. The leaders of the two superpowers signed a treaty to ban medium-range nuclear missiles and proclaimed it a historic turning point. The two shared trumpet fanfares, artillery salutes and champagne toasts, and wound up calling each other Ron and Mikhail. Most liberals praised the treatyg many of the president's fellow conservatives denounced it. Fourth, was the phase in Persian Gulf violence that began with the reflagging of Kuwaiti oil tankers so they could travel under U.S. Navy escort. In May, lraq's air force attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark, killing 37 Americans. Iraq said it was an accident and the United States accepted the apology. Through the summer and fall, one reflagged tanker hit a mine, U.S. helicopters sank an Iranian minelayer and a speedboat, an Iranian missile hit one of the reflagged tankers, wounding its American master, and U.S. warships and commandos destroyed three Iranian oil platforms in retaliation. Fifth, was the drawn-out and acrimonious effort by President Reagan to appoint a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell. His first choice was Robert H. Bork, an appellate judge favored by conservatives. Liberals lined up against him and the Senate finally rejected Bork 58-42.- When it was discovered that Reagan's second choice, Douglas H. Ginsburg, another appellate judge, had smoked marijuana in the 1960's and 1970's, Ginsburg asked that his nomination be withdrawn. Sixth, was the story that broke in March with the disclosure that TV evangelist Jim Bakker engaged in a motel room tryst back in 1980 with a church secretary, Jessica Hahn, then 21, and allegedly paid her hush money to keep the affair quiet. Bakker was defrocked and his PTL ministry was turned over to another TV evangelist, Jerry Falwell. Later the ministry filed for protection under the bankruptcy laws, and Hahn sold her story-with nude pictures of herself-to Playboy

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Buena Vista covefs all Bulldog issues Buena Vista Staff-Front Row: Vickie Gibbs, JoAnn Mayer, Charlotte Lopez-Rojas, Heather Siple, Gillian Dickens, Fton Valerie Gibbs. Row Two: Krista Vett, Tanya Souza, Jennifer Sajonia, Julia Decaen, Stephanie Garrett, Mariko Thompson Lewenberg, Heather Draughon. Row Three: Matt Levitz, Tom Hall, James Beebe, David Cotner, Jett Gomez, Kip Buis, Jacobs. Row Four: Mark Goldberg, Jennifer Loting, Karen Lile, Jason Stowell, Advisor Mr. Pease. 3 1 Tanyanashes EDITORS KNElELlNG. Editors in chief Beebe, i 1 , , ROW TWO: Business Manager Sajonia, Graphics W m'n9 Smfle' 2' Humor Cotner, Features Lewenberg, News Gibbs 81 BACK ROW: Sports Gianelli 81 Hall, Managing Buis, Heather writes news article, Gomez.