Esperanza High School - Quetzal Yearbook (Anaheim, CA)

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MX blocked in Congress President Reagan's proposal for prevent- ing nuclear war is to deploy Ioo huge new MX Intercontinental ballistics mis- siles in a Dense Pack cluster near Chey- enne, Wyoming. To bring Reaganis plan to reality would cost S26 billion and Congress, from the start, was more than reluctant to approve the plan. Citing statistics that Russia's military might would soon surpass that of the US, Reagan called the MX, . . . the right missile at the right time. Reagan faced substantial difficulty get- ting an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress to approve this plan, and Con- gress, in December, said no to his plan forcing the president to try to seek a compromise. As late as May Congress was still refus- ing to agree to the MX plan and Reagan was still being forced to compromise. Out of work Pittsburg steel workers take part in an unemployment demonstration on Capital Hill to pressure Congress for more jobs. Leonoid Brezhnev President of the USSR died of heart disease early in November he was replaced by Yuri Andropov A host of others celebrities and news makers also died during the past year In mid September two immortal ac ly died Bergman died of cancer and Kelly the Princess of Monaco was killed in a car crash after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage Veteran actors and actresses Henry Fonda Arthur Godfrey Gloria Swan- son ack Webb Dolores Del Rio Bust- er Crabbe all died during the year. In a sensationalized helicopter accident while filming a new movie actor Vic Morrow was killed when the helicopter crashed into him and two child actors. Singer Karen Carpenter died of a heart attack complicated by a recent bout with the eating disorder anorexia ner vosa Hollywood Director George Cukor died he made films during Holly wood s heyday directing such greats as Hepburn and Tracy and Ingrid Berg man Pianist Artur Rubinstein died in anu ary Noted ragtime composer and lyri cist ames Hubert Eubie Blake died of pneumonia at age Ioo Blues musl clan Muddy Waters also died during the past year Called Americas greatest playwright Tennessee Williams author of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and the Glass Men- agerie also died. Singer Ethel Merman suffered a brain tumor but was recovering as was Kath- erine Hepburn recovering from hip surgery. Brezhnev, Bergman die tresses, Ingrid Bergman and Grace Kel- . i 1 ' J cr - sa - ,J 7 7 , it , New sex law, new disease Under the Reagan administration, a new law, nicknamed the Squeal Law , was put into effect and shortly thereafter chal- lenged in courts across the country. The new law made it mandatory for feder- ally financed birth control clinics to in- form the parents of minor girls who re- ceived birth control devices. Experts say that this law would result in fewer minors using birth control, the same number of minors having sex and an increase in the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions. Ironically, a minor requesting an abortion from the same clinic need not have paren- tal permission to have that abortion. Also in the news was an ancient disease which has reached epidemic proportions in the US. Coined the VD of the Ivy League or Jerry Falwell's Revenge, Herpes II, an incurable disease, has affected more than zo million Americans. Some say the herpes counter revolution may be ushering a reluctant, grudging chastity back into fashion. This fast moving, incurable disease has set victims spinning into months of depres- sion and self-exile. Support groups com- prised of fellow Herpes victims have sprung up across the nation to offer some solace to victims and to try to educate the public. news - Q5

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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.

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Sir Richard Attenborough's production of C1handi walked away with a majority of the Academy Awards. Besides Best Direc- tor the film took Best Actor, Ben Kingsley, and Best Picture. Meryl Streep captured the Best Actress award for her portrayal of a Polish immi- grant in Sophie's Choice . Best Support- ing Actress was won by jessica Lange for her performance in Tootsie . She was also nominated for Best Actress for her role in Frances . Ghandi beat out such notable films as Tootsie , Missing , The Verdict and NET . Streep beat out other actresses De- bra Winger, Sissy Spacek, Julie Andrews and Kingsley was selected over Jack Lem- mon, Paul Newman, Peter O'Toole and Dustin Hoffman. Ghandi, Streep big winners Lou Gossett jr. won the Best Supporting man to win a best acting award, the first Actor award for his portrayal of a train- being Sidney Portier for best actor in ing officer in the film Officer and a Lillies of the Field . Gentlemenn. He was the second black Sir Richard Attenborough, Meryl Streep and Ben Kingsley display their Oscars for their work in W K'Ghandi and Sophie's Choice . Entertainment, sports local Toxic waste causes death Relatives of a San Clemente resident who died after being exposed to hazardous waste from the Kellogg Terrace toxic dump site, filed a wrongful death suit in Orange County court against the Shupe Trucking Company alleging that the driver of the truck, whose job it was to deliver the toxic waste being taken from the dumpsite near the school campus, did not take precautions to wash out the waste at the legal dumpsite in Kettleman Hills. The driver allegedly drove his truck back to San Clemente and cleaned the truck there. Charles Dunston, who lived adjacent to the area where the truck was hosed out, report- ed respiratory problems and died at Camp Pendleton's hospital within 48 hours of be- ing exposed to the waste. 96 - news Members of the group Alabama display their Grammy awards. They, along with Toto, Pat Benatar and Men At Work, were among the most notable groups receiving Grammys. CHS After almost a decade of black hu vision s most popular situation comedy came to an end at the end of the 1982-83 season. Such char- acters as Hawkeye Hot Lips BJ Klinger Radar and Col. Potter are forever relegated to re-runs. M 'A'l'S 'I'I d mor set in Korea, M 'A :S fH, tele- Sex to gore: teen trends ere is a e ini e ren ein seen Th df t t d b g by movie critics. A trend away from the horror-gore hack-a-teen-to-pieces films that invariable starred unknown actors with the exception of Horror Queen jamie Lee Curtis, to teen 'fsex ploitationn films. Chicago critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert see this trend as unhealthy in the way that relationships are sacrificed for blatant sexual jokes and in the portrayal of women as little more than sex objects. Movies such as Porky's , Fast Timesu, Losin' lt , My Tutor , Private Les- sons and Joysticks are some of the movies falling into this category. None of these movies show a healthy, normal relationship between teens.