Esperanza High School - Quetzal Yearbook (Anaheim, CA)

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Solidarity leader Lech Walesa appears in church with his wife Danuta after being released by Polish government authorities. Walesa released Solidarity Union leader Lech Walesa after eleven months in detention, was re- leased late in November by the Polish government of General Wojciech Jar- velski. Solidarity was formally banned by the Po- lish government on October 8, and some say that Walesa had to make agreements with the government to be released. I did not sign anything, did not resign from anything, made no commitments, ational Artificial heart recipient Barney Clark exercises in his Salt Lake City hospital room after making medical history. Clark died 112 days after the artificial heart's implant. Mechanical heart implanted Barney Clark, a retired dentist from Se- attle, Washington, made medical history on December 1 by being the first human recipient of an artificial heart implanted by doctors in Salt Lake City, Utah. For several weeks after the implant Clark was heavily sedated on medication to keep his body from rejecting the heart. He suffered seizures and uncontrollable nose bleeds and other complications but doctors were able to stabilize his condi- tion enough so that he was moved from Intensive Care and was able to grant media interviews. 1 I2 days after receiving the heart, Clark died of circulatory collapse due to multi- organ failure. Also making medical his- tory was I5 month old Jaime Fisk who underwent a successful liver transplant. by Poles said Walesa. In the spring Walesa returned to work at the government owned shipyards. Upon his return to work Walesa faces imprison- ment and possible death if he, a govern- ment employee, takes part in any out- lawed Solidarity activity. In May Walesa was arrested along with six other Solidarity members. I-Ie was re- leased within several days. Seven die from cyanide Seven Chicago area residents died in early October after taking Extra-Strength Ty- lenol capsules that had been laced with cya- nide. Police suspected that the poisoning took place after the drug was placed on the shelves in stores. johnson and johnson, the producer, immediately removed all of its products from stores until the source of contamination was found. Haig resigns In mid-summer U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig resigned because of dispar- ity with other cabinet members. George Schultz was appointed upon I-Iaigls resignation. Schultz spent much of his time dealing with the problems in the Middle East and in South America. news - Q3

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Embassy bombed 57 killed The U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon was bombed in April. At least 57 persons, in- cluding I7 Americans, were killed in the blast. More than 100 were wounded. Ten minutes after the blast an anonymous phone call warned Agence France-Presse that the strike was part of the Iranian revolution's campaign against imperialistic targets throughout the world. The caller identified himself as a member of the Isla- mic Tihad Organization, an obscure pro- Iranian group made up of Shiiite Muslims loyal to Ayatullah Khomeini. Within the day two other terrorist groups had also claimed responsibility for the bombing. This bombing came after months of ten- sion in the Middle East. Since September U.S. Marines had occupied parts of Leba- non in an attempt to maintain order after a massacre of 400 Palestinians allegedly killed by Lebanese Christian Militia forces allied to Israel. On September I4 Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel was assassinated adding to the political instability. I-lis brother Amin took his place and was sworn in as Leban- on's president. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon was forced to resign that position after the Bei- rut massacre but was able to maintain a seat on the Israeli cabinet. 92 '- YICWS International g 3 NV U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Robert Dillon shows damage of the bombed Embassy to U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz late in April. Nazi diary ruled fake In April 60 diaries purported to be the diaries of Adolf Hitler were found in a barn in West Germany. Experts analyzed them and some papers printed exerpts of the diaries. Many first thought them to be authentic. I-Iitler's diaries were flown out of Berlin just be- fore the fall of the Third Reich. The plane carrying them crashed in what is now West Germany, a Wehrmacht offi- cer hid the books in a hayloft. Two years ago Der Stern, a West Ger- man weekly magazine, began to buy the 60 volumes through one or more middle- men. It was later announced that the diaries were fakes, written on paper pro- duced after the end of WW II. ! Q i . XJ 'i 1 W Q, I 4 f, X MMM, .1 Hans Booms, President of the West German Federal Archives, holds one of the faked Hitler diaries and a book from which their text was copied. Nicaragua asks for aid As a result of the civil war in El Salvador that is spilling across the border into Nicaragua, that country requested from the United Nations Security Council that a United Nations' peace keeping force be sent to patrol its borders.

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New politicians elected In November elections Republican Attor- ney General George Duke', Deukmejian defeated Los Angeles Mayor Democrat Tom Bradley in a closely contested race for the governor's mansion. Post election analysis showed one reason that Deukmejian, who is white, was able to defeat Bradley, who is black, was due par- tially to an anti-black vote. Bradley, who was also defeated in his first bid to become LA's first black mayor by an anti-black vote, will consider challenging Deukmejian at the next opportunity. San Diego Mayor Republican Pete Wilson EPA upset Jolted by the horror of New York's Love Canal, and, closer to home, Riverside's Stringfellow Acid Pits, as well as other rev- elations of chemicals seeping into America's earth and water, Congress created a 51.6 billion super fund enabling the EPA to purge toxic dumps environmentalists called ticking time bombs. Despite the urgency the EPA took over 2 W years to identify the 418 hazardous sites. Of those it had cleansed only five. Criticism prompted two congressional sub- committees to investigate charges that the EPA made sweetheart deals with pollut- ing companies and delayed cleanups for political reasons. This investigation led to the ousting of EPA Head Anne Gorsuch when she re- fused to turn over subpoeaned documents and brought about the firing of Anne La- velle when she refused to resign at President Reagan's request. 94 - news Politics defeated former Governor Jerry Brown for the US Senate seat vacated by Republican 5.1. Hayakawa who decided not to seek re- election. in Congress the House gained 26 Demo- cratic members bringing the number to 269 Democrats to 166 Republicans making President Ronald Reagan face stiff opposi- tion over the 2 to 1 Democrats when he wished to have legislation passed. This was evident in Reagan's difficulty with Con- gressional support for his budget, the MX Missile and support for increasing military aid for the civil war in El Salvador. Newly elected Governor George Deukmejian eats cake at a Republican reception. Newly elected Chicago Mayor Harold Washington takes the oath of office as former Mayor jane Byrne looks on. Washington is Chicago's first black mayor. Chicago's machine defunct Incumbent Chicago Democratic Mayor jane Byrne was upset in the Democratic Primary for that position by Democrat Congressman Harold Washington who defeated Republican Bernard Epton to become Chicago's first black mayor. Byrnels defeat brought an end to the machine politics that have been synony- mous with Chicago since the turn of the century. Unwilling to admit defeat Byrne announced she would not chal- lenge Washington as a write-in candi- date, changed her mind and said she would and finally withdrew from the race. Chicago Democratic strategists feel that Chicago's political machine is dead because Washington would not rebuild it.