Anita High School - Spartan Yearbook (Anita, IA)

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Reagan Falls Ronald Reagan. 72. U S. President, had a very good year — until October. The U.S. economy had bounced back, relations with allies were good. Then came the Marine Massacre in Lebanon and the con- troversial Grenada invasion, giving his Presidency its worst crises. The campaign for a Democratic nominee for president has been a major event in ‘83-‘84 Eight Demo- crats started the run for President in '84 Mondale. Hart. Jackson. Glenn. Hollings. Cranston, Askew, and McGovern. Only three of these men were able to stay in the long run for the Democratic nomination Former Vice-President Walter Mondale. Sen. Gary Hart, and Rev Jesse Jackson. These three are shown in Pic. 1 as Gary Hart holds up a copy of his book A New Democracy . When asked by In Popularity The U.S. government had to borrow almost $200 billion to make ends meet in the 1983 fiscal year Some say the government need for loans squeezes out private borrowers, raising interest rates and slowing the economic recovery Others disagree step on toes the other two candidates to provide the beef for his new ideas and proposals during a debate sponsored by the Chicago Bar Association in Chicago. The debates this year, as usual, consisted of a lot of jabbing at the opponents In fact. Hart and Mondale seemed to be more concerned with who got the last word In than with the issues. Jackson, although not really competitive, did stick to the issues in this political dance without stepping on toes. Candidates Child Stealing Finally Gets Attention Johnny Gosch used to be the big news in child stealing He now shares that extinction with tens of thousands of other children each year These kidnappings aren't what they used to be A ransom wi no longer free a child; the criminals want only the children - alive or dead Adam was a television movie shown in the fal of 1983 and again in the spring of '84 depicting the life of the parents after the child is taken. At the end of each of these showings, a long list of photos of missing children was broadcast Many of these chil- dren were found, but even more were left unfound. Steps have been taken to decrease tragedies The Missing Children's Act requires that the FBI 1st missing children m a national computer. Communities. like Anita, started programs to finger- print their children as an aid to police If the youngsters should ever be missing Chid Find is a group set up to take responsibility to find these children. These people and organizations are all working for the result shown in the above picture. It is the reuniting of Richard and Diane Poland to their daughter Lori. 3, who was kidnapped in front of her home in Sheridan. Colorado. She was found at the bottom of a toilet pit at a park near Denver 4 N»wi

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1984 — An Olympic Year Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, was the site of the Winter Olympic Games in 1984 The United States had many hopefuls who turned up gold Bill Johnson — downhi skiing; Scott Hamilton — figure skating; Steve and Phil Mahre — gold and silver in slalom skiing The women's figure skaters were hopeful for the United States, but Katharina Witt from East Germany won the judges' favor with her charm and took the gold Rosaline Sumners received the silver. Tiffany Chin placed In the top ten. Elaine fought the handicap of only half of a left foot at the Olympics. Scott Hamilton also fought the handicap of i health all of his life to end up m Sarajevo. He snatched the gold from all competition and is shown in Pic. 1. In a very emotional moment on the winners' podium between Canada's Brian Orse who won the silver and Czechoslovakia's Josef Sabovtchik (to the left) who took the bronze The Summer Olympics were threat- ened even before they started Russia led the boycotting of the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of a lack of protection and security for its athletes. All but one of the Communist countries followed suit. Surprisingly enough, there were more countries entered In the Summer Olympics than ever before Ride and Bluford: Firsts in Space SaHy K. Ride. 32. and Guion S. Bluford. Jr.. 41. became the first American woman and the first American black astronaut to travel in space. Both were mission specialists, she on the seventh space shuttle trip (June 18-24) and he on the eighth (August 30 - September 5). Pic. 3 shows Ride as she talked with mission control in Houston during the six day space flight of Shuttle Challenger New 3

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1 Lines Flight 007 Shot Down Korean Air K of eon Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down over the Soviet Union on August 28 with the loss of 269 lives One of them was Mary Jane Hendrie. a young Canadian on her way to a job in Japan Nations around the world condemned the killing of innocent passengers Soviets first said the plane was on a spy mission ' iater said a mistake had been made While no one could explain why the plane was off course. U.S said the Soviets could not have mistaken a 747 for a military plane Later. U.S. intelligence said the Russians probably did not know the plane was civian Near Wars Rock U.S. Invasion of Grenada: American civ ions were evacuated as U.S. and Caribbean troops landed on October 25th. President Reagan said Carib- bean nations asked help to overthrow Grenada's Marxist government, which seemed to be forging close ties with Communist Cuba and Soviet Union. Many nations condemned the U.S. action Some said it would weaken opposition to Soviet role in Poland and other countries. Grenada's Marxist Prime Minister. Maurice Bishop, killed by rivals before the Invasion, warned last April U.S. would invade Death In Beirut came to 230 sleeping U.S. Marines. October 23. A terrorist on a suicide mission smashed an explosive-laden truck into the Marine Base U.S. officials said a fanatic group of Iranians may have been responsible. The Marines, part of a U.S.-French-ltalan force, are in Beirut to help keep peace between rival Lebanese groups. U.S. says Lebanon's collapse could bring Syrian control — and new Soviet influence — in the area. Moslem Lebanese say the U.S. protects only the minority Christian government. After the massacre. President Reagan said Marines would stay, but it was clear that military steps were being taken to prevent another terrorist assault (pic 2 3) New» 5