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

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-nf' LOS ANGELES, JAN. 13 - JUST FOR LAUGHS - President-elect Ronald Reagan laughs and points during light moment of lucheon in Reagan's honor in Los Angeles, It was Ronald Reagan Day in Los Angeles. Ninety years of white rule and ten years of civil war ended when Rhodesia became the independent nation Zimbabwe. Robert Mu- gabe, a black leader, was elected prime minis- ter by a landslide. The government stepped in to help relocate over 700 families at Love Canal, long a chemi- cal dump. The leaking toxic wastes caused chromosome damage, the Environmental Pro- tection Agency said. It was a year of returns . . . Pierre Elliott Trudeau, ousted as Canadian prime minister in 1979, won his old job back. lndia's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, ousted and indicted in 1977 was swept into office with a clean slate. Bernardine Dohrn and Cathlyn Wilkerson one-time members of the Weather Under- ground, surrendered after hiding for a decade. Another fugitive radical of the anti-war move- ment, former yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, also surfaced. exile The Soviet Union's Andre Sakharov, a No- ble laureate, was sent to internal exile for criti- cizing Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and supporting the Olympic boycott. .. . acquittals .. . Former U.S. Budget Director Bert Lance, was found innocent of bank fraud charges - three years after resigning amid controversy over his personal finances and practices as head of two Georgia banks. Ford Motor Co., was acquitted of reckless homicide in a case brought by relatives of three Indiana teenagers who burned to death when their 1973 Pinto was hit from behind by a van. QQ Six Klansmen and Nazis were acquitt charges they murdered five communists Death of the Klan rally in Greensboro, in 1979. and deaths Former Beatle, John Lennon was gu down, and millions spent a silent 10-mi mourning the singer-songwriter and the demise of the Beatles, the most succ rock group of all time. Twenty black children were killed in Atl and two were missing. Blacks and joined a search for the killers. The exiled Shah of Iran died in Egypt guslavian Josip Broz Tito died in the co he led for 35 years. And Col. Harland San the fried chicken king, died at age 90. Alfred Hitchcock, the director of film made millions sweat, jump and shiverg J Durante, a comedian whose bulbous nos came a trademarkg and Mae West, b queen of the double entendre, all died as genarians. But the careers of two other top actors cut short. Steve McQueen died at fifty heart attack after surgery for the canoe had ravaged his body: and Peter Seller cumbed at 54 after a third major heart in 16 years. We suffered, We rejoiced. But we always hoped. We enter the next 31,536,000 secon hoping. WASHINGTON, JAN. 20 - REAGAN TAKES OATH - Chief Justice Warren Burger administers the office to Ronald Reagan at the Capitol. Reagan's wife Nancy holds the Bible. Outgoing President Carter and his wife Rosalynn are at right. Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., is third from left.

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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

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