Agoura High School - Quixotian Yearbook (Agoura Hills, CA)

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had trees sprouting yellow ribbons in the United States, and the nation and its leaders prayed, protested, and pursued solutions. Nothing helped. A secret rescue mission was aborted when three helicopters broke down. As the U.S. servicemen left an Iranian desert, two aircraft collided, and eight men died. Finally the ordeal ended, as the negoti- ations reached an agreement, and 52 happy Americans boarded a plane for Wiesbaden, West Germany to the cheers of the world. An earthquake racked Algieria, leaving 400,000 homeless, and at least 10,000 people dead or missing. Another 200,00 lost their homes and 3,000 their lives when an earthquake devastated South- ern Italy. Two hotel fires in a week - one in Las Vegas, Nevada, one in White Plains, N.Y. - killed 110 people. We thought about fire safety. A summer of 100-plus temperature in much of the nation claimed more than 1,200 lives. The heat and Drought turned tender stocks of grain into tinder in over a dozen states, doing some 12 billion in damage. A thirty-six hour rampage at the New Mexico State Penitentiary at Santa Fe left 33 inmates dead and revived the old question-what are we going to do about overcrowding in our prisons? Toxic shock syndrome, a sometimes fatal disease caused by a common bacte- rium, was linked to tampons, but more -I ar- 4 4 , ' 'fs xr Dafa Q0- WAFI TRAINING An Iranian mullah wearing a turban fatigues and running shoes trains a group of holy warriors in the arts of warfare in Iran s embattled Kermanshah Province UP SHE GOES - Mount St. Helens roars to life on the morning of Oct 17 sending a plume of smoke and ash skyward. The volcano is located 45 miles north-east of Portland Oregon in Washington Next to Mount St Helens is Mount Rainier, a dormant volcano. The plume was estimated to be 50 O00 feet

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Violence, Emotion, - The Year That Was As I sit here on the day of March 13, I Lok back on the year of 1980 and see at we grimaced, we smiled, we wept, we rughed. We hated we loved. The year flickered across our faces, but randed our hearts. We saw injustice. We saw violence. We aw nature kill thousands of our neigh- ors. And mankind, too. But still, we hope and we prayed. We hoped through all 31,622,400 sec- -nds that a bearded religious man would ee 52 of us held hostage in a distant und. We enter the next year still hoping. We hoped we could jail a worldwide ickpocket-inflation. And we hoped we -ould kick the oil habit. There were reasons for hope. We were Earning more about our bodies and the avens, finding new limitations and new otential. And we found out - finally - who hot that TV oil baron named J.R. The second hand had spun. Nature wrote plenty of headlines . . . The earth moved Italy. And belched in Jashington state. Ferocious winds fed timberland fires in outhern California and homes were con- lumed. Soaring temperatures in the Unit- d States parched crops and claimed lies. Floods and storms took land and es from California to India. . . and mankind wrote a few head-lines, oo. A grisly prison uprising in New Mexico, 're FBl's Abscam inquiry, race riots in iami, war between Iran and Iraq, Soviet adow' in Poland. Republican Ronald Reagan, former Elalifornia governor and actor, became e oldest man elected president in the J.S. history-at the age 69- by defeating immy Carter. Independent candidate ohn B. Anderson won few votes, but se- ured a footnote in history by making bal- Pts in every state. Republicans took con- ol of the U.S. Senate for the first time in o decades. Among Democratic losers ere such longtime senators as George cGovern, Frank Church, Birch Bayh and arren Magnuson. Some 125,000 Cubans streamed to lorida on the Freedom FlotiIIa with Fi- el Castro's blessing. A few were disap- ointed with the land of the free-six flights ere later hijacked to Cuba in the worst pate of air piracy in 11 years. At year's nd, some 6,000 Cubans were in a resett- ment camp, and thousands were in pris- n. The year had its disheartening mo- ents Our standard of living eroded. Inflation .Jas not to be roped. The U.S. economy ank into recession, and the recovery was haky. Interest rates rode a roller coaster. Buyers stayed home. Mount St. Helens lew its top, turning a lush pine forest into lumberyard. Mountain Man, Harry Tru- an wouldn't leave, and became a leg- nd of sorts in death - a fate shared by tome sixty others. Ash hurled 11 miles High and drifted and turned day into night w Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The capitivity of 52 Americans in Iran, , ., ...,. ...iwwvx . A . KEY WEST, FLA. MAY 17 - GUARDED POSITION - A Coast Guard patrol keeps an eye on a shrimp boat loaded with refugees as it makes it way to port in Key West. Federal Authorities are siezing all boats returning from Cuba with refugees and stopping all boats planning to go to Cuba. l Q l ,,aF BALVANO, Italy, NOV. 24 A rescue team goes through the debris toward the church that col- lapsed burying some 50 people. The strong quake that struck Southern Italy killed at least 400 people. ' JOHN LENNON SLAIN IN NEW YORK - The Beatles, with John Lennon at right perform in I New York in September of 1964. Lennon was ' shot and killed in New York outside his apart- ment building. Other Beatles in picture are from left, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr on drums.

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NON KILLED - This is a 1980 handout photo of former Beatle John Lennon, left, with his wife Yoko Lennon was shot to death outside his New York apartment building. Soviet troops entered Afghanistan and the United States responded by halting grain ship- ments to Russia. The President called for - and got - a U.S. boycott of the Summer Olympics in Moscow, and the events became a Soviet romp when 36 nations stayed away. Rioting broke in Miami streets after an all- white jury acquitted tour former police officers in the fatal beating of a black man. 18 people died, and the S100 million in damage made it the most costly urban disorder in U.S. history. Undercover FBI agents offered bribes on behalf bogus Arab shieks, paying out almost S500,000 to public officials, in the largest in- vestigations of political corruption in FBI histo- ry. A U.S. senator and six members of the U.S. House were indicted because of the Abscam inquiry, and trials successfully tested the FBl's newest type of evidence -videotapes. The senator was not up for re-election in Novem- ber, and voters rejected five of the six con- gressmen. The year 1980 also it's heartening moments Although it seemed nothing could be done for most of the hostages, six Americans es- caped Iran after nearly three months in hiding in the Canadian Embassy, United States citi- zens cheered their northern neighbor. And the Iranians freed hostages Richard Queen because of an illness they couldn't ex- plain. It was multiple Sclerosis, and he's OK. In one ofthe most dramatic scenes in Lon- don since World War ll, commandos stormed the Iranian Embassy and rescued nineteen people. Three of the terrorists, members of the Arab ethnic minority in sourhern Iran, were killed. The terrorists killed two of their hos- tages during the six-day siege. The cruise ship Prinsendam caught fire in the cold, stormy waters of the Gulf of Alaska, and in the largest rescue at sea in recent histo- ry all 500 passengers and crew members sur- vived. The luxury eventually sank. Maxie Anderson and his son, Kris, became the first to traverse North America nonstop in a balloon. The elder Anderson promptly made plans for a nonstop balloon around the globe. The world gots its best view ever of the solar systems sixth planet when Voyager I skipped through Saturns rings. Scientists found a way to produce interferon in commercial quantities. But after touting in- terferon as possibly THE cure for cancer, sci- entists backed off. Studies continued. The gutsy U.S. hockey team won the gold medal at the Olympic Games at Lake Placid, N.Y., besting, among others, the top rated Soviets. And a muscular 21-year-old Ameri- can, named Eric Helden, won five Golds in speed-skating - a record in Winter competi- tion. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Dec. 30 - MOV- ING TOWARD LAUNCH PAD - The space shuttle - Qolumbia begins it's 3V2 mile journey from the Vehi- cle Assembly Building to the launch pad, for final preparations before it's March lift-off. This is Ameri- ca's first reusable space craft and will carry Astro- nauts Robert Crippen and John Young on it's maid- en flight. 77