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A year to remember The year of 1984 1985. What hap- pened throughout the world during that time? It was a year of disap- pointments, of defeats A year of accomplishments, a year of cnange Change. There were many changes that year The world read headlines that told them of the emergency surgery that failed to save the Prime Minister of India. Indira Ghandi. after she was gunned down by two of her own security officers, outside her home. Headlines that hinted at an- other change in the Russian govern- ment when Premier Konstantin Chernenko became too ill to run the country, which left the world waiting to see if Mikhail Gorbachev would succeed to power Defeats. 1984-1985 also had many defeats. Ethiopia A country raW aged by famine. A country where more than one million of its people succumbed to starvation and died Stirred by images of starving chil- dren and tormented Ethiopian mothers, the world reached out to the now-skeletal country's plea for help The people of the music indus- try gathered m recording studios in England, Canada, rand the US to do what they do best; they sang, with aH the profits going to aid the starv- ing country. Nations throughout the world sent food, medical supplies, and their people to help ease the suffering in Ethiopia. The world watched as the people in Bhopal. India struggled to overcome the horrible aftereffects of a deadly cloud of gas from a leak at the Union Carbide checmical plant that spread across the city, claiming 2,500 lives and maiming another 100.000 in what was. then, the worst industrial accident known to man Disappointments. That year had its fair share of disappointment The disappointment in the knowledge that there were places in the world that knew no peace. The world stood by in horror and sorrow as the people of Cambodia ran scared, fleeing the Khmer Rouge and the Communist Vietnam's terror rule, and spilled over into neighboring countries. In Brighton. England, the world felt the anger of the Irish Re- publican Army when they launched a terrorist attack on British Prime Min- ister, Margaret Thatcher, by bomb- ing her hotel. An attack which left her shaken, but fine and killing four others But each year has its accomplish ments and that year was no differ- ent. It was the year of the Olympics, during which the whoieworld tri- umphed in one way or another, through medals one and renewed patriotism It was the year the world cheered as Bishop Desmond Tutu, of South Africa, armed only with his faith and a Bible, started a crusade against the apartheid rule in South Africa and won the Nobel Prize for Peace It was the year the world welcomed Prince Henry, Charles. Al- bert. David, the newest addition to Britain's Royal Family, fondly known to all as Harry. 1984-1985 was a year of triumphs and tragedies It was a year to re- member
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