Columbus High School - Discoverer Yearbook (Columbus, NE)

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Two Lebanese Shiite Moslem “National Resistance fighters, armed with Russian made AK-47 assault rifles and a U.S.-made light anti-tank weapon (LAW), move along a hillside near the southern Lebanese city of Tyre which is under Israeli occupation. The fighters agreed to show themselves and to be photographed for the first time only if their faces were covered. Mollie Wilmont smiles as she gets her first clear view of the ocean beyond the Mercedes 1, a grounded Venezuelan freighter that is gradually being dragged away from her sea wall. The ship had been stranded behind her posh Palm Beach mansion since Thanksgiving. World Evenrs 9 U5. Defense Minister Casper Weinberger and his West German counterpart Manfred Wocrncr take a close look at a U.S.-,‘Patriot ' surface-to-air-missile recently introduced for the U.S. troops in Germany. Firefighters pour water on the smoldering wreckage of a light airplane that crashed and burned, killing six people, including tamed balloonist Ben Abruzzo.

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World Events A Bolivian “Leopards” special police squad, which was set up by the U.S. government to control drug traffic from Bolivia, raids a cocaine paste factory making arrests and confiscating illegal cocoa leaves in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The raid is part of an effort to dismantle the billion dollar cocaine drug trade in Bolivia. Ethiopian refugees carry boxes of cooking oil which were sent from the Netherlands as part of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ appeal worldwide relief program at Kassala. A biplane stands on its nose on a Panama City, Fla. street, February 10, after the plane crash-landed after being caught by a strong wind. 8 Student Life An aerial photograph released by the Department of Interior in Washington shows Heather Island in the right foreground and Columbia Glacier winding back up into the mountains in the rear. Columbia Glacier in Alaska is now undergoing the disintegration and drastic retreat that was predicted in 1980 by US. Geological Survey scientists. The 40-milc-long glacier is expected to retreat 20 25 miles upstream over the next few decades.

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Columbus had a busy year Governor Kerrey takes time out of his schedule to visit Columbus during his campaign. A Gerhold concrete truck overturned on Nov. 1. 1984. On Feb. 18, 1985, a broken axle caused a train to derail in the center of Columbus. Hy-Vec, the first store to open up in the new shopping mall, opened its doors on Feb. 12, 1985. 10 Student Life