University of Wisconsin Platteville - Pioneer Yearbook (Platteville, WI)

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1974 January 3 marked The day ThaT a permiT was issued To begin consTrucTion of The Alas- kan pipeline. The projecT had been blocked by environmenTal IawsuiTs since 4970. The Symbionese LiberaTion Army TSLAT kidnapped PaTTy HearsT on February 4. HearsT was The grand-daughTer of The IaTe newspaper reporT- er William Randolph HearsT. The SLA demand- ed food for The poor as ransom. In March of This year, The WaTergaTe Grand Jury indicTed 40 people involved in WaTergaTe wiTh charges of conspiracy, obsTrucTion of jusTice, and purjury. John D. Ehrichman, Charies Colson and four oThers were indicTed in connecTion wiTh bur- glary of The office of Lewis J. Fielding. On Au- gusT 9, Richard M. Nixon resigned as PresidenT of The UniTed STaTes. Vice-PresidenT Gerald Ford succeeded him. In SepTember, Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as The 445T Vice-Presi- denT of The UniTed STaTes. 1975 On January 4, a jury convicTed Nixon aides, HR. Haldeman, John N. MiTcheIl, John D. Ehrlichman, and RoberT C. Mardran of WaTer- gaTe cover-up charges sTemming from The June 4972 break-in aT The DemocraTic NaTion- al CommiTTee HeadquarTers. The U.S. Clemen- cy program for miliTary deserTers and drafT evaders ends. AbouT 22,500 of The 424,400 eligible signed up for a chance To earn re- Turn To The UniTed STaTes. This occurred on May 27. SepTember 48 was The clay ThaT PaTTy HearsT was arresTed by FBI agenTs in San Fran- sisco afTer '19 monThs of being kidnapped. 1976 America's BicenTennial began. The Win- Ter Olympic games were held in MonTreaI, Canada. In July, mysTerious ailmenT sTruck 179 people aTTending convenTions in Philadelphia, killing 29. On November 2, James Earl CarTer was eIecTed PresidenT of The UniTed STaTes wiTh 50.08 percenT of The popular voTe. Sena- Tor WaITer F. Mondale was eIecTed Vice-Presi- denT. Above LefT: By The end of The '70's, paTrioTism was again on The rise. LefT: Gerald Ford was The firsT appoinTed PresidenT of The UniTed STaTes DECADE 21

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A Decade Of Mixed Feelings 1971 The 'IOOTh session of peace Taiks be- Tween The UniTed STaTes and NorTh VieTnam occured in Paris. Charles Manson and Three of his followers were convicTed on a firsT degree murder charge in California in January. The 26Th AmendmenT To The ConsTiTuTion, which esTablished '18 years as The minimum voTing age was raTified on June 29Th and cerTified in July. 1972 PresidenT Nixon arrived in Peking in Febru- ary for Talks wiTh Chinese leaders including Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En lai. He became The firsT U.S. PresidenT To visiT China while in office. On April 4, major league players began a sTrike againsT baseball club owners in a pension dis- puTe. This sTrike was The firsT in 402 years of organized baseball. The DemocraTic naTionaI headquarTers was The siTe of The WaTergaTe break-in which occurred on June 47. On Sep- Tember 5, 47 persons, among Them 44 mem- bers of The israeli Olympic Team, were shoT To deaTh by Arab TerrorisTs. J. Edgar Hoover, The firsT and only direcTor of The Federal Bureau of InvesTigaTion TFBD in HS 48 year hisTory, died on May 2. On May '15, Governor George C. Wal- lace of Alabama was shoT and seriously wounded while campaigning for The demo- craTic nominaTion for PresidenT in Laurel, Mary- land. In May, PresidenT Nixon Traveled To Mos- cow where he and Russian parTy leader, Leo- nid Brezhnev, signed agreemenTs ThaT puT lim- iTs on sTraTigic weapons. In November, Richard Nixon won The PresidenTiaI elecTion for The sec- ond Time; he carried 49 of 50 sTaTes. Spiro Agnew conTinued as Vice-PresidenT. Florida became The firsT sTaTe To reinsTiTuTe The deaTh penalTy in December. ExecuTions had pre- viously been halTed as a resulT of a ruling by The US. Supreme CourT. 1973 In January, PresidenT Richard M. Nixon was inauguraTed for his second Term, and ex- PresidenT Lyndon B. Johnson died of a hearT aTTack. AbouT 200 armed supporTers of The American Indian MovemenT seized The hamieT of Wounded Knee on The Oglaia Souix Reser- vaTion in SouTh DakoTa and resisTed efforTs To evicT Them. This happened on February 27. AT The end of April, PresidenT Nixon announced The resignaTion of four Top officials in The con- Troversy of The WaTergaTe affair. They are HR. Haldeman, Chief of STaff; John D. Ehrlichman, assisTanT for domesTic affairs; ATTorney Gener- ai Richard D. RleindiensT; and John Dean III, Nix- on's counsei. On May '14, Skylab was launched from Cape Kennedy. Skylab '1 was The firsT orbiTing space sTaTion. in OcTober, PresidenT Nixon ordered special WaTergaTe prosecuTor Archibaid COX discharged, and Attorney Gen- Above: iiGive peace a chance was ofTen heard in The 1970's. eral EiiioT L. Richardson resigned. In December, Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as Vice-PresidenT of The UniTed STaTes. 20 DECADE

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1977 Condemned murderer Gary Gilmore was shoT by a firing squad 0T UToh SToTe Prison, The firsT person To be execuTed in The UniTed SToTes in 40 years. This occured January 'I7. On The 245T of January, PresidenT CorTer grched omnesTy To mosT VieTnom drofT dodgers. 1978 The TTSon of Sam killer, David R. BerkowiTz received maximum prison Term for six murders on June 43. The firsT baby con- ceived ouTside a woman's body was born. The baby was a girl, born To John and Lesley Brown in Oldham, England. The College of Cardinals elecTed Ablino Cardinal Luciani, PoTrioch of Venice, Pope of The Roman CaTholic Church on AugusT 28. He Took The name of John Paul I. He died 34 days IoTer. On OcTober 46, The College of Cardinals elecTed Cardinal Karol WojTylc, Archbishop of Krakow Poland, as The firsT non-lToIian Pope since 4523. He Took The name of John Paul II. Above: Jimmy CorTer believed mm o presidenT should be wiTh his people. RighT: Ronald Reagan is commiTTed To economic recovery of The UniTecI SToTes 0T all cosT. 22 DECADE