North Kansas City High School - Purgold Yearbook (North Kansas City, MO)

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-f ..-we-aa-rw' -f 1:- ' f' snr an in i 1983-84 Calendar , he 1983454 school year was filled with military action. ln Qctober, 239 U.S. marines were killed at Beirut lnternational Airport when a terrorist drove a truck bomb into the U.S. compound. ln November, U.S. troops invaded Grenada, fearing communist infiltration from Cuba. Trouble in the Mideast, including Iran, lraq, and Lebanon, kept U.S. servicemen busy patrolling the shores on Navy ships. More trouble in Central America caused the U.S. to send military advisers and other aid to those countries - a controversial move. Deaths during the 84 school year included Alabama Football coach Paul Bear Bryant, age 69, T.V. newscaster Jessica Savitch dead at age 35. joe Delaney, the Chiefs, running back, died at age 24, in an attempt to save some drowning children. On the positive side, sales for the game Trivial Pursuit reached 570 million by the end of 1983. Challenger astronaut Bruce McCandless was the first man to leave a spacecraft without a life line. He used a gas-powered jet pack. Left to righq top row, the world was in disbelief when, on September 1, a Soviet air ro air missile shot down a commercial Korean airliner, Mehmet Ali Agca, Pope john Paul Us attempted assassin, is ,-2.-xr.: I forgiven by his victimg In Novem ben ABC television aired The Day After, a controversial movie about nuclear destructiong Cabbage Patch dolls were so popular at Christmas time that those people lucky enough to have possession of one were often selling them for major prohtsg US President Ronald Reagan, and Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov were named TIMES' Men of the Year, Bottom row, the Raiders overran the Redskins in the Superbowl, 38-93 the '84 Winter Olympics were held in Sarajevo, F 575' ris Yugoslavia, where the U.S. team earned 4 gold, and 4 silver medals, on February 10, it was announced that Yuri Andropov was dead - he had died 22 hours earlier, In May, the Soviets told the world it would ti not participate in the Summer Olympics at Los Angeles. 2 I msrrevoeil-www-Fees? ezfir-'ev'-Qvseausawqae anlfdir ,M 2 ff' A ' N ' ' V faseaa-a.'fr1f:., Fw-' r- f - nf-1 V-fe'-er' ff --1 -A -if fe... W A V . - . ' I - - M . -. , .. . . 'ff f V 7' - 91 1 me Y- 'f f'.f::ii?7'l'-'I '1 1 ' - - . .A , ....,.,,,,AwAA,W, A ,Mlm W, V. . A. V , a .,,, ,,., A ,, -V V V F , , .,,i,g , E .- 4 .. v - - .rf -.L . . . , - ,ft 2, - , , -,A . 5- WE r 0 QA

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