University of Arkansas Monticello - Boll Weevil Yearbook (Monticello, AR)

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ideological differences contribute a certain excitement to We haven't yet had to deal with machine gun-weilding terrorists in Monticello. Lucky for them. Most homes are a veritable fortress. One can count upon an average of a shotgun or rifle or two for every male over the age of eighteen and a respectable, if not downright formidable assortment of handguns. the future is questionable. Many of the urbane and few misguided to the current rise in violent crime is U.S. probably would not have Reagan would probably still have had an attempt upon his life. Fortunately he (the oldest — ever U.S. President) made a speedy, near miraculous, recovery. A Turkist terrorist used a Belgian 9-mm to shoot Pope John Paul Il, who also survived. It is unusual that the most powerful secular and religious leaders in the world were shot within a month of one another. The killing goes on. Genocides in Cambodia, war in Iraq and Iran, and renewed IRA —British hostilities, the apparently eternal conflict between Israel and every arab nation except Egypt, the razing of Afghan villages. As of this writing, twenty-seven black children have been killed, usually asphixiated, by one or more maniacal killers in Atlanta, Georgia. Los Angeles has recently been granted the dubious distinction as the murder capitol of the U.S.A. Miami, in the midst of an ongoing drug war, rivals L.A. John Lennon was senselessly assasinated. Inflation shows no signs of abating. Interest rates rise and fall, Ameri- can cars are having difficulty competing with imports, particularly our otherwise sheltered lives at home. The status of handgun ownership in Southerners feel that the only solution a total ban of handguns. A ban in the changed the course of history. Ronald Japanese. Have hope, though. They say that things will someday be better. On the bright side, American technology, fabled for its advanced position among world technology, took its first step visibly foreward since the end of the Apollo program. After numerous bureaucratic snarls = NYET! You RoLL A FOUR. LAND ON | EL SALVADOR.NO =| | Buy supply GUNS! | | T Rol SEVEN, LAND ON POLAND. YoU RoLL- Buy LiByA. I Rove-Anal | Pass GO, COLLECT EIGHT MILLION MOSLEMS. Now 1 BVY TwoO HOTELS FoR AFGHANISTAN] i pee at and years of construction, testing, and reconstruction, the space shuttle Columbia was tested. Solid and liquid- fueled rockets, the most advanced in the world and partially resuable, lifted the world’s biggest glider into space. The shuttle, a snub-nose cosmic pickup truck, maneuvered about in space then glided to earth Time Capsule 113 i ......... . rr eee

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112 Time Capsule ime Capsule This is the ‘Time Capsule’, a condensation of the events that made news during the year and a sort of ersatz State of the Union message. News is usually pretty bleak. It seems as though the positive things always wind up somewhere near A- 16 in the newspaper. What makes good front page news? Embassy Seized at Tehran. How about ‘Rescue Attempt fails: Eight Airmen Dead’ or ‘Hostages Released’? Chances are, if you watched TV or picked up a newspaper anytime during the 444 day seizure of the American Embassy in Iran, you’d have been brought completely up to date on the hostage crisis. Thankfully the crisis is over. Now we can read that the Soviets are still in Afghanistan, massing on the Polish border and East Germany to quell the unrest sparked by the Solidarity movement, or that guerrillas in El Salvador are getting guns indirectly from the Russians. We've also read that the Russians have the most powerful war machine ever and that our defense budget is going to increase accordingly. Paltica and SS S RS S SS =

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