Althoff Catholic High School - Crusader Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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MARCH 1. The President and First Lady mourn alongside the families of the seven astronauts who died aboard the space shuttle Challenger. 2. Challenger ex¬ plodes, 73 seconds after lift-off. 3. Hands Across America |Oins 5 million Americans to raise money for poor 4. Tripoli in shambles after bombing. 5. Soviet dissident Shcharansky is freed. 6. Antonin Scalia fills vacant seat on the Supreme Court. -Premier Olaf Palme assassinated; killing stuns nation, world. -U.S. NEWS 7 WORLD REPORT publishes letter from Andrei Sakharov, famous Soviet nuclear physicist, and impris¬ oned Jewish dissident. -Pope John Paul II visits India. -Adlai E. Stevenson easily wins the Democratic nomination for Illinois governor, only to be stunned by the discovery that two of his running mates were followers of right¬ winger Lyndon H. LaRouche. 18-Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson. 24- U.S. Navy hits Lybian ships. APRIL 2-Arab terrorists plant bomb on TWA jet nearing Athens, kills 4 Americans. -Gorbachev calls for summit on test bans. -West Berlin disco bombing kills 2, one American service¬ man. 14-U.S. bombs Lybian targets in response to terrorist attacks, anti-American protests break out around the world, Rea¬ gan ' s popularity soars in the U.S. MAY -Crisis at Soviet Chernobyl nuclear plant spreads radiation and fear. -Seven-nation economic summit held in Tokyo, meeting termed a success, anti-terrorism declaration issued. -McDonald ' s begins serving Classic Coke again, instead of New Coke. 25- Over 5 million Americans form human chain across coun¬ try — Hands Across America raises money con¬ sciousness about poor. JUNE -Senate begins cable broadcasts on cable T.V. -Challenger crew is buried. -S. Africa declares national state of emergency. -Shuttle commission presents report, blames NASA for ne¬ glecting to address serious problems in program. -Kurt Waldheim wins Austrian Presidency despite Nazism charges. -Fear of terrorism hurts tourism. -Chief Justice Warren Burger resigns, William Rehnquist is appointed new Chief Justice, and Antonin Scalia is ap¬ pointed aid to Contras.

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JANUARY 1986 7-Reagan orders all Americans remaining in Lybia to return home. U.S. cuts all economic ties to Lybia. -Reagan, Khadafy is not only a barbarian, but he ' s flaky. -Soviets blast U.S. films — RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II, ROCKY IV, and RED DAWN. 15-Mikhail S. Gorbachev proposed a world wide ban on nu¬ clear weapons by the year 2000. -South Africa blockades Lesotho. -Gramm-Rudman budget law is triggered. -U.S. participates in MIA talks in Vietnam. 23-Oil prices plunge to a 6-year low. -U.S. commences flight operations over Lybia. -First Martin Luther King holiday observed. 28-NATION STUNNED BY TRAGEDY. American space shut¬ tle Challenger explodes shortly after take-off, all seven crew members are lost, shuttle fleet is grounded, Reagan postpones State of the Union address, makes plea to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle ' s take-off. What happened, he said, was part of the process of exploration and discov¬ ery. -Voyager 2 discovers new rings and moons about Uranus. 26-Bears out Patriots in Super Bowl 46-10. FEBRUARY 7-Jean Claude Duvalier flees Haiti, ends 28-year family rule. 7-Philippine election held amid fraud and violence. -Reagan appoints commission to study the shuttle disaster. 1 1 -Soviets free Jewish dissident Anatoly B. Shcharansky after eight years of imprisonment and forced labor. He returns to Israel. -Marcos is declared winner of Philippine election, Aquino announces active resistance campaign. -U.S. Senate condemns Philippine elections, saying they were marked by widespread fraud. 26-Marcos flees the Philippines hours after inauguration end¬ ing a 20-year presidency. Juan Ponce Enrile and Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos resigned and pledged support to Corazon Aquino, the new president. U.S. promises Marcos a safe haven if he left peacefully. -Reagan asks Congress for $100 million for the Nicara¬ guan contras fighting to overthrow the Sandinista govern¬ ment. 1986-1987 Year of Tragedy Year of Triumph

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JULY •Gorbachev sends letter to Reagan, says he ' s willing to compromise on issue of medium-range missiles. -World Court declares U.S. aid to Contras illegal. -Statue of Liberty ' s 100th Birthday is celebrated. -Britain ' s Prince Andrew weds Sarah Ferguson. AUGUST -U.S. Senate passes S. Africa sanctions - crack explosion alarms nation. -Vatican bars Charles Curran from teaching at Catholic University. 30-KGB arrests U.S. N W R Moscow correspondent Nicholas Daniloff, accused of espionage. SEPTEMBER 5- Four Arab terrorists storm a Pan Am jumbo jet in Karachi, Pakistan. After 16 hours, fearing a raid by Pakistan com¬ mandos, the gunmen opened fire, killing 21 people. 6- Two Arab terrorists killed 21 Jewish worshippers them¬ selves in an attack on a synagogue in Instanbul, Turkey. 12-American reporter Nicholas S. Daniloff was given over to the U.S., the same day that Gennadi F. Zakharov, a jailed Soviet accused of spying in the U.S., was released to the Soviet ambassador. -Women scored major victories in several primaries on su¬ perprimary day . The results helped enshrine 1986 as a year when women who were seasoned politicians broke through in large numbers to run for high statewide office. -82 people were killed as the result of a collision between an Aeromexico airliner a small private airplane over Los Angeles. -Martina Navratilova Ivan Lendl won the singles titles at the U.S. Open tennis tournament. -Philippines President Corazon Aquino arrived in the U.S. to meet with Reagan and to address a joint session of Con¬ gress. Cory scores homerun, while Congress promises financial and economic aid, as well as enthusiastic sup¬ port. -Senate confirms Rehnquist, 65-33 as new Chief Justice, and unanimously voted 98-0 to approve Antonin Scalia as the new member of the court. -First Lady goes on the air to appeal for a national cru¬ sade against drug abuse, launches ' Just say no ' cam¬ paign. 3