Assumption High School - Assumption Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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All photos courtesy Quad City Times. Tradmg hostages «or arms . .... nnd their sponsors. According to Ro» £ began Aug not.onalsecurdy o ' by Pres,dent 6 1985 w1thameet.ng et Ronald Reagan and objective Initially the ties with mod- was to establish d.plorn erate Iranian eleme t w(th |ran. Rea- ing our shaky relat'° Pish this through gan planned to ac against Iraq, selling arms to.Iron or rts w) w 0 a it sooned evoWed °;apPBysell.ngarms'o hostages- or-arms wnP ti0n contrOd'0t' —terror,s,s 3 „ was also discovered and their sponsor wasillegal- that money horn rag00n contras. ly diverted to ,n this political de Two major char n(jMotional Secu- bacle, Col. O J£xttri refused to rity Adviser,J the Fifth Amendment. CIA testify, pleading offered a cancer director William Case nQ avail' OUS brain tumor, Reagan never ad 3Je to testify- nn conduct of his -t'ed,00Tcyye nd claimed not to have News briefs Liberace, the flashy Las Vegas en- tertainer, became a victim of the AIDS epidemic ... Len Bias, first round draft choice of the Boston Celtics, died at the age of 22 of a crack over- dose. His death focused even more attention on America's drug problem Ivan Boesky, stock market arbitra- tor, was arrested on charges of using illegal inside information in buying and selling stocks. He was fined $ 100 million and agreed to cooperate with an investigation ... The Meese Com- mission on Pornography urged pri- vate citizens to take action against stores which sell soft core magazines and called for legal action against the hard core porn .. On April 14 Ameri- can F-l I Is bombed the Libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi in retaliation for Muammar Kaddafi's sponsorship of terrorism ... The third Monday of January has now become a federal holiday. The holiday honors Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrates his contribution to the civil rights move- ment ... The Vatican censured Arch- bishop Raymond Hunthausen for his liberal views that conflict with church teaching. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops sympathized with their brother but acknowledged the Vatican's authority. aqu»1'' nrv of 'be Aqb r'° The first anniversa V took place me m February tont poW her most-nf' ding land re 's xzSxx an » oopu'°ce 'n „,,id allow Ph,UpPonst.tut-on that new constit in office Mrs- Aqoioo t p(e Qwarded mmi-mag

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enin9s’ it comes, orroujs, Around the world in nine days On December 14, 1986 the in- ly by a small group of dedicated vol- trepid crew of the Voyager set out unteers, with no financial support from Edwards Air Force Base intend- from the government. Burt Rutan, ing to circle the globe without re- the pilot's brother, designed the fueling. The plane almost didn't get flying fuel tank. Its lightweight con- off the ground because of the struction, extreme range, and resis- weight of the fuel. Walter Boyne, tance to radar will undoubtedly former head of the Smithsonian In- have military and commercial appli- stitution's Air and Space Museum, cations. said this of the 26,000 mile flight: In On December 23 Dick Rutan and terms of human endurance, this Jeana Yeager, with fuel to spare, re- probably is more demanding thon turned to Edwards successfully any flight that's been done. completing their daring mission and The historic plane was built entire- setting new aviation records.

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vcith the the The music industry had always been an exciting one, and '86- '87 did not disappoint. Many changes took place: Madonna's hair got shorter, Duran Duran got back together and the only Jackson heard from was little sister Janet, but the real stories were in the old and the new. First the old. Comebacks were made every time you turned around, as careers repeated themselves all over. Perhaps the most surprising was The Monkees, who came back to life after MTV resurrected the old shows to a new audience. Boston picked up where they left off seven years ago when their Third Stage LP went to number one in the fall. The charts were filled with albums by artists two and three times the age of the teens who bought their music. Peter Gabriel and Steve Winwood scored the big- gest hits of their long careers with Literally lost in music, junior Monica Viren sorts through her records. ot£ So and Back in the High Life re- spectively, while immortals like Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, Pete Townsend and Billy Joel continued their long-term success. While the past made itself the pre- sent, the future of music was well worth listening to. Ears opened to new acts such as Whitney Houston, who sold an incredible 7 million re- cords. Rap was introduced on a world level when Run DMC remade Walk This Way and received huge radio air play. Rap was then combined with raucious metal guitar in the party mu- sic of The Beastie Boys. The Wallets brought a new style of music when they injected accordion and saxo- phone into their danceable tunes. Many new English bands crossed over to the American market. Bob Geldof broke from his old band, Boomtown Rats, to hit with Deep in the Heart of Nowhere , while The Housemartins, Screaming Blue Mes- siahs and Big Audio Dynamite took control of college airwaves. Home- grown bands such as The Smither- eens, David David, Georgia Satel- lites and Timbuk 3 turned heads with their own individual styles. Two photos courtesy of Quad-City Times. mini-mog What in the world of SPORTS A major part of the national sports scene in the good 'ol U.S.A. was made half way around the world, off the coast of Australia. It was here that the Ameri- ca's Cup, lost to the Australian team in 1983, was held. Dennis Conner went Down Under to avenge himself and his country and ended up on top. Conner skippered the 12 meter yacht Stars and Stripes through almost four months of trials, up to the finals with the Aussie defender Kukaburra III. Conner's crew swept the best of sev- en series in four races. Closer to home, the World Series, America's annual piece of apple pie, went the entire seven games before being decided. The New York Mets won the series at home to cap off a dominating season. The Boston Red Sox didn't go down easily though. They opened the fall classic with two consecutive wins in New York, then proceeded to drop two at home. Mets third baseman Ray Knight proved too much for the Sox though, as he hit a tie-breaking home run in