Frankton High School - Eaglite Yearbook (Frankton, IN)

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NATIONAL NEWS: PROBLEMS OCCUR ON the national side of the news, the AP voted the President's visit to China as the top news story of 1972. Other top news stories for 1972 were as fol- lows: 2--The attempted as- sassination of George Wallace which left him paralyzed from the waist down. 3--September 4 brought terrorism at the summer Olympics in Berlin taking a toll of nine hostages, five Arabs, and one Ger- man policeman. 4- -A historical land- slide gave President Nixon his second term in the office of presi- dency. 5- -Kissinger’s nego- tiations for peace in Vietnam led to the end of the U.S.A.'s mili- tary combat in Viet- nam. It also brought the question of am- nesty, and an end to the draft. 6- -President Nixon's visit to Russia ranked sixth on the list. It not only limited the strategic nuclear arms, but also brought the U. S.A. and Russia to- gether in such areas as space, ecology, heart disease, cancer and public health. 7--The Eagleton Affair in which Sen. George McGovern dismissed Sen. Thomas Eagleton as his running mate in the presidential elec-

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WAKE UP! ... . It happened to us! Clubs and Classes Ourselves .... We support you . Closing WAKE UP! [ACUTE '73 Volume 24 Published by the EAGLITE staff Frankton High School— 610 Clyde Street Frankton, Indiana 46044

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tions hurt the Demo- Washington announced crats badly. McGovern the resumption of air had stated that he attacks, the mining backed Eagleton of harbors and an ”1,000% even though overall air attack, he’d undergone psychi- Quang Tri was recap- atric treatment, and tured and most other then McGovern forced serious threats were him off the ticket. crushed. 8—The Vietnam war tested the South Viet- 9--Flooding killed namese army when hundreds in several U.S. troops pulled states. Damages are out of South Vietnam. estimated in the bil- When the South's lions. Full recovery forces fell behind, remains years away. 10--The Supreme ty Chairman Leonid Court's outlawing of I. Breznev and Soviet the death penalty car- Foreign Minister An- ried through the Con- drei Gromyko; the stitution's prohibition launching of Skylab; of cruel and unusual ever-increasing meat punishment. costs, taxes-and in- flation problems; and OTHER 1972-73 events the Indian takeover at brought the deaths of Wounded Knee, former Presidents Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson; growing distrust, a result of events as the Watergate scandal; the visit of Soviet par- v- Ac 1' . ' ‘-v V {J V, iV' 0 ro svi,° 1 . t '-1 ‘ 'y .y hoiewie i . cwo ' ,.P(0'est'9 :1e S fi . j„ W S»I Of p -to» r i jhm -v 8 i r»vn Ne