Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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telligence reports said the killers entered the country through Cana- da, but Gaddafi claimed that all of the reports were vicious lies. Closer to home, Reagan was more worried about a deepening reces- sion and a rising unemployment rate in this country. As merchants geared for the Christmas rush, the only bright spots in the economy were falling mterest and inflation rates. The unemployment rate kept rising, reaching 8.9 percent, the highest it has been since 1975. Reagan still defended his supply- side economic program. He insisted that the second-stage income-tax cut of 10 percent would help lower infla- tion, as well as unemployment and interest rates. Our administration is a clean-up crew for those who went on a non-stop spending binge and left the tab for us to pick up, Reagan said. Hi Ligh national unemployment rates nit Indiana especially hard. In December, Indiana reported the fourth highest unemployment in the nation. One reason for Indiana ' s problems was that cities like Koko- mo, Marion, Anderson, and New Castle depend heavily on the ailing auto industry as sources of employ- ment. Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors, the big three auto makers, reported that 1981 sales had drop- ped more than 30 percent from 1980, making it the worst sales year in the past 20 years. Auto industry analysts blamed the sluggish sales on the continued high interest rates. In response, the automakers offered their own fi- nance plans with interest rates as low as nine percent. The big three also offered rebates up to $1,000 on some cars. As the automakers sputtered, the space shuttle Columbia was flying high around the earth. Though a dead fuel cell cut the second voyage of the Columbia to only 54 hours, astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truxly still accomplished many of the tests which they set out to per- form. One of the tests was checking the shuttle ' s mechanical arm to make sure it functioned properly. It did. Scientists were pleased with the performace of the shuttle, noting that it lost less than a dozen of its 300 heat-resistant tiles. The first trip of the shuttle was plagued with tiles falling off. I n sports, the Hoosier football team finished the year with a dismal 3-8 record. One of the few bright spots of the season was the Hoosiers ' 21- 17 victory over Purdue. The win re- turned the Old Oaken Bucket to lU for the first time since 1977. In basketball, one of the stars of lU ' s 1981 NCAA championship team, Landon Turner, made his first appearance in Assembly Hall since bemg injured in a car wreck in July. Before lU ' s exhibition with the Yugoslavian national team. Turner was brought out to midcourt in a wheelchair. The crowd gave him a five-minute standing ovation as he held his fists up hign. Turner was paralyzed from the waist down after suffering a broken vertabrae in the accident. In soccer, lU ' s nationally ranked team made it to the NCAA quarter finals before losing, 0-1, to Phil- adelphia Textile. It was the sixth straight season that the team had reached the NCAA finals. Senior Armando Betancourt received the Hermann Award, given each year to the nation ' s top college soccer player. A Ldam Allerhand, chairman of lU ' s Department of Chemistry, alleged that the chemistry building was a health hazard to students and faculty. He said laboratories were poorly ventilated and designed and chemicals were improperly stored, causing a potentially dangerous situation. Inaction by the state caused Allerhand to resign his position as chairman. (See page 84.) In another development, the State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana discovered that it had failed to award $3,143,135 set aside for stu- dent aid. The money was later re- turned to the state ' s general fund. Kick DelVecchio Space shuttle landing

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4 7 ■«. . -«. inu ' rtr Sfltfflf ;dL Fall news E gyptian president Anwar Sadat did not want to attend the October 6 parade commemorating the 1973 Egyptian invasion of Israel. He was complaining of fatigue to his vice pres- ident, Hosni Mubarak. Sadat did attend, though, only to be gunned down by four Egyptian soldiers who jumpecf from a passing army truck. The soldiers fired automatic weapons into a crowd of dignitaries, killing six people and injuring dozens more. One of those assassin- ated, the main target, was Sadat. The world was stunned. U.S. President Ronald Reagan called Sadat a champion of peace. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said that he had lost not only a part- ner in the peace process but also a friend. However, in Libya and in other Arab nations that opposed the Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, people poured in- G to the streets to celebrate the death of Sadat. At Sadat ' s funeral, the United States was represented by three for- mer presidents: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter. Mubarak, Sadat ' s successor to the presidency, vowed to carry on the peace process. I will continue the olicy President Sadat started, ' ubarak said. We are going on with Camp David and the autonomy talks. Israel, however, put strains on the peace process in December when it annexed the Golan Heights, a strip of land it had occupied since the 1967 Six-Day War with Syria. Begin moved the annexation bill through the Knesset, Israel ' s parliament, in only six hours. Normally, a bill re- quires at least three days of delibera- tion. The angriest reaction came from the Reagan administration, it sus- pended the U.S. -Israeli strategic cooperation agreement signed just three weeks earlier in Wasnington. Most of Washington ' s attention, however, focused on the situation in Poland, where the government im- posed martial law on December 13 to crack down on the Solidarity trade union. Hundreds of Solidarity lead- ers were jailed while restrictions were placed on the people. (See page 24.) X he Reagan administration also stepped up its rhetoric against Libya ' s Muammar Gaddafi follow- ing reports that Gaddafi had sent a team of assassins to the United States to kill government leaders. Among those allegedly on the hit list were President Reagan, Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State Alex- ander Haig, and Secretary of De- fense Caspar Weinberger. U.S. in-

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