Northview High School - Viking Yearbook (Covina, CA)

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Shocking News For The Year Of 1983 1J% . The Middle East was an old conundrum that, for Americans, suddenly seemed closer to home Soldiers sifted the rubble of the US Marine headquarters in Beirut after a suicide attack, which killed about 249 men, and 63 died in the earlier bombing of the CJ S Embassy. In Central America, the dead were laid out in lines, as revolution met counterrevolution, Micaraguan Sandinista soliers swept the foothills of Matagalpa. defending against (JS- backed contra rebels, while in El Salva- dor the anonymous death squads claimed nine more victims. Thirty-eight years after his death, Adolf Hitler made head- lines when the West German magazine Stern began to pub- lish the rSazi Fuhrer ' s purport- ed diary. Within days it was un- veiled as a fraud. An accused forger was reportedly paid $3.7 million. 4» After three years of exile, Filipino oppo- sition leader Benigno Aquino disembarked from a plane carrying him to Manila. Min- utes later, he was shot dead. A worldwide uproar and violent protests in the Philip pines further stained President Marcos ' 18 year, iron-rule regime. Karen Carpenter, 32, plagued by career pressures, suffered from anorexia nervosa, starving herself and using laxatives for over nine years. She shrank to 85 lbs. after separating from husband, Tom Burris. She tried to regain weight, but she died of a coronary attack on February 4. Current Events 145

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Cum Events Reveal Devastating, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became III on a flight from Minnesota to South Dakota. Later, auth- orities searched his bags and scored less than a gram of heroin. The late Senator ' s son, 29, checked himself into a drug treatment center. Everyone was in a state of shock when a Soviet fighter shot down a Korean airliner in October of 1983. This news filled the U.S., Korea, and the rest of the world with feelings of rage and bewilderment. Two hundred and sixty-nine people were reported dead and the Soviet Union denied knowing the fact that it was a commercial flight. 144 Current Events

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