West Ottawa High School - Icon Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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And the Worst of Everything . . . 1987 M, President and Mrs. Reagan greeted Pope Paul II when he arrived in Miami to begin a nine- city tour of the United States. J I' r m5 24. .hu N C .1,s - it it Pi W 34 A 'kfiverisiiwf iLl'LWoN f .4 '52 n in me Mfr? MTl'YiWN rm f ln the six years since Americans first heard ofa mysterious immunity-robbing disease from which no one recovers, AIDS has killed nearly 25,000 Americans, millions of dollars have poured into medical research and President Reagan has proclaimed the plague Public Health Enemy No. I. -L N' as L :lbs J An earthquake that measured 6.1 on the Richter scale hit Southern Califomia in October. lt was not a catastrophic , quake, but the damage was extensive. l '- l r' Qi. 41 Kirby Puckett and Jeff Raerdon of the Minnesota Twins celebrate their World Series victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. The Twins won the seventh and final game ofthe series 4-2. 227

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22 The Dow Jones industrial stock average dropped 508 points, the largest in history, on Monday, October I9. Some called it a crash, others called it a meltdown and others called it Black Monday. Whatever it was, it stripped S500 billion from the market value of U.S. securities. Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North was a key official in the plan to finance anti-government rebels in Nicaragua with money from arms sales to Iran. ln testimony before the Iran-Contra hearings in Washington, North became somewhat ofa celebrity. 6 gg The Year at a Glance . . . The Best President Reagan talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during arrival cer- emonies at the White House. The two superpower leaders held a three-day summit meeting in December and signed a nuclear arms control agreement. ln an effon to keep the Persian Gulf open to navigation, the United States began in July to escort vessels to protect them from Iran. ln September the U.S. Navy blew up an Iranian ship that was caught laying mines in the Gulf. Several mines were confiscated.

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l 1 g ,. , Ui. t If ff' 1 .1 Two of the top entertainers ofthe year were Whit- ney Houston and Madonna. 1 -fs. if-M, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco cel- ebrated its 50th birthday. About 250,000 people jammed onto the bridge for an anniversary walk across the span. Another 500.000 packed the bridge approaches but were denied access because the engineers feared the span could not support the weight. 228 3 UO: cal W Ny t .1 .2 Q-. ,li-.Y . if , Iris. - 2.115 Us 'c-me Television evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker said farewell to the PTL ministry in March. Jim Bakker resigned after confessing to a sexual encounter with a young woman. Tammy Bakker bowed out of the broadcasts to undergo treatment for drug dependency. A barge filled with 3,128 tons of garbage became a national joke and a symbol of the nation's worsening problem with solid waste management. The barge, looking for a place to dump its cargo, was banned by six states and three foreign countries before an ineinerator reduced it to ash.