Davis High School - Olympian Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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fm gh., . T, g AA cross The naTion This year, shoppers wenT Trying To geT a hold of The newesT Toy craze iiTTle people grown in The cabbage paTch. ons of children begged Their parenTs To lopT a Cabbage RaTch Doll. The pudgy ba- s came wiTh birTh cerTificaTes and adopTion iers. A compuTer designed every doll's face arafely To insure ThaT no Two were alike. Fin- E, Toes, and even belly buTTons were de- ,d. The creaTor of This craze, Xavier RoberTs, used all The frenzy by saying, l'ln an age of eracTive Toys, Theres a need for a doll ThaT -sn'T weT, cry or roller skaTe. n The morning of Sunday. OcTober 23, an aTed 2,500 pounds of TNT were driven inTo U,S Marines headauarTers in BeiruT. The resull ToTal desTrucTion of The headauarTers and loss of more Than 200 lives. Many memories we To people aT ThaT Time, buT The mosT prev- il was This one: They were JUST kids. The ble facT was now realized ThaT no one and Duilding in BeiruT was ever safe lT would be iy weeks unTil The crisis IifTed, buT unTil Then, all merica would sTand behind The marines and hope for The day when They could go ie. Uwe pasT year held many firsTs, buT one of osT Terrific was Vanessa Williams f The firsT k Miss America. ln realiTy, Vanessa was seen Enly as The 5oTh Miss America, buT as a sym- f social change MosT of her days in The pasT ' have been full of Things To do. Said one of VVilliam's companions, 'lYou can'T sneak her anywhere, she's always recognized, liTh a 38-O Superbowl loss, The VVashingTon skins saw The besT Raiders Team ever Jghouf The game, The Redskins were domi- ld by The Raiders - parTicularly Raiders Run- Back Marcus Allen VVashingTon Fullback John Riggins desperaTely aTTempTed To do someThing wiTh The ball, buT his efforTs were fu- Tile. Because of The Raiders' upseT, The STock markeT in New York wenT down, some Las Ve- gas bookies wenT broke, and counTless argu- menTs and fighTs occurred around The UniTed STaTes. Raiders Howie Long sTaTed, l never had l-log before. TasTed good. 5. One of The mosT shocking evenTs of The year Took place when a U.S.S.R. war plane ruThlessly shoT down a helpless civilian 7417, Korean Air Lines FlighT 007, killing 269 people, including al Ameri- cans. The world was appalled by The SovleT violence and inTimidaTion. AT firsT, The Soviefs denied any connecTion wiTh The Tragedy, buT laTer acknowledged shooTing down The airliner because of fears ThaT iT was a spy plane or The like This was a barbaric and senseless acT, said PresidenT Reagan. IT shocks The sensibiliTies of people everywhere. The weeks To follow would be filled wiTh demonsTraTions of The world's anger Toward The U.S.S.R. 6. A fury of nuclear debaTe was creaTed by ABC's Television movie The Day AfTer Aired on November 20, The movie aTTempTed To show The aspecTs of nuclear war' No escaping, no hope, and no happy endings. ABC sTaTed be- fore The movie was aired, IT is hoped ThaT The images of This film will inspire The naTions of This earfh, Their people and leaders, To find The means To averT The TaTeful day. 7. ln a lesson of forgiveness for a chaoTic world, Pope John Raul ll pardoned his would-be assas- sin, Mehemel Ali Agca. The Ponhff mei The man in his Rebibbia prison cell in Rome. According To NME magazine. John Paul Tenderly held The hand ThaT held The gun ThaT was meanT To kill him AT The end of The meeTing, Agca eiTher kissed The Ropes ring or pressed The Popes V8 hand To his forehead in a Muslim gesTure of re- specT. The Pope hoped his meeTing would acT as an example To The world of The healing pow- ers of forgiveness. 8. Videos made Their major impacT on The US. This pasT year. Videos became one of The hoT- TesT iTems for a musical group To produce. ln- creasingly. American audiences demanded each song have a 'lfull audiovisual confronTa- Tian. Many popular videos were performed by Donna Summer, Michael Jackson, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Billy Joel, Van l-lalen, Rick Spring- field, and in The picTure, Quief Riof. Q The invasion was TexTbook smooTh, JusT days afTer The BeiruT bombing, a mulTinaTlonal force of paraTroopers sTormed The island of Grenada To rescue iTs inhabiTanTs and prevenf a possible Iran-sTyle hosTage siTuaTion. l'BuT even before The discovery of arms caches and Sovi- eT-Grenada miliTary TreaTies, The 'rescue mission' had become a preempTive sTrike againsT an- oTher CommunisT ouTposT in The Carribean. Ac- cording To UFE magazine, when 'lOperaTion Ur- genT Fury ended, T8 Ll S servicemen were dead and Ol wounded. ln The picTure, a flag aT half-masT in WashingTon, DC., honors The ma- rines in The invasion T0 The year marked The debuT fllghT of The Eu- ropean-builT Spacelab l. Following an almosT flawless launch, asTronauTs sTarTed To acTivaTe The 72 experimenis inside and ouT of The 23- fooT-long module and on Themselves. De-spiTe being plagued by many problems in The shuTTle and on The ground, The mission came ouT a land- mark success for space-age Technology World EvenTs TOO

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