Roosevelt High School - Rohian Yearbook (Virginia, MN)

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V, C‘ A }h} y 1976 ... The 200th birthday of the United States, a presidential election year, a leap year, the Olympics in J Montreal. Any one of these events is special in itself. But 1976 is also the year 264 seniors will graduate from Roosevelt High School in Virginia, Minnesota. There have been few years as memorable, and few graduating classes as unique. The staff of the 1976 Rohian has tried to capture this memorability and uniqueness in its 172 pages.

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A Closer World? International ‘‘There can be no peace among men unlit there is peace within men , but 1975- 1976 wasn’t the year men found this inner peace. After thirty years of conflict in which millions lost their kves. the Wai m Indochina came to an end The peace wasn't peaceful. Within weeks. Communist forces stormed over Viet Nam. smashed its army, forced the resignation of President Thieu and drove out the last Americans. War took many lives in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, and young American men grew uneasy at the thought of a renewed draft to assist Angola One major undertaking proved to strengthen a weak bond between the USA and the USSR, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The orbital link-up of a Russian Soyuz and an American Apollo, flawlessly executed, was an aid to detente. US astronauts were even made to seem like heroes in the Soviet Union. The 1976 Winter Olympics were held in Innsbruck. Austria Dorothy Hamill was the heroine of the United States with her gold figure skating medal, and Cindy Nelson from Lutsen took bronze medal in skiing. Steve Sertich. a Roosevelt graduate, the captain of the American Hockey Team, scored a hat-trick in their game against the Yugoslavs. National 1975 1976 was dominated by an epidemic of loathsome crimes for money and political gam The kidnap On September 18 the world’s most famous kidnap victim, Patty Hearst. was found in San Francisco after months of involuntary (or volun- tary) bondage with the SLA. Her sanity ruling lasted six weeks after the arrest, during which time Sarah Jane Moore tried to shoot the President. All beat Frazier. New York's troubles grew worse as far as finances went. Generalissimo Franco lay on his deathbed and President Ford fired his CIA chief and reshuffled his top staff. Another kidnap victim. Jimmy Hoffa, Teamster leader, was presumed dead after months of absence. President Ford barely survived his first full year as the United State’s first appointed president, escaping two assination attempts. Lynette Squeaky Fromme. a iollower of Charles Manson. called attention to the Manson cult by pointing a gun at the President. She testified that Manson had ordered her to do this from his jail cell. The once secret goings-on of the CIA are a secret no longer. The CIA's special status was and still is an important factor in national security. A Senate committee, a House commission, and Vice President Rockefeller were at work digging up well kept secrets. It seems Fidel Castro and Patrice Lumumba of the Congo had been marked for murder 8 times, involving CIA hiring of mafia members. The CIA interfered in the election of Allende to the Chilean presidency. The agency opened over ?00.000 private letters to and from the Soviet Union. They used humans for drug experiments which resulted in several hushed-up deaths. And these are the men responsible (or our security? 8 NEWS