Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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retardesetting tahdihg. g W? '33 .43 gee, 3W 9.. 4' I The aneratt Voyager thes aver Edwards ith Force Base hear Maia ve, Can't. as thousands at spectethrs tine the dry iaitehed to witness its Top ten in iitinbis Here are the Top ten iih'neis news stories of 1936, as selected in voting by Associated Press newspaper and broadcast stations in the state: I . Two discipies of 1. yna'an Lahouche win March primary and wreak phiiticai ham. 2. Fioodtng causes more than 3100 miiiion damage in hhrtheastem iiiihois. 3, Gav. Thompson beats Stevenson in November election. 4. father Lawrence Jenco is released by his captors in the Mid-East 5. Legisiature passes insurance reform. 6. Gov. Thompson metres cuts in the state budget. 7. mt sets up undercover probe at corruption in ChicagoIs city hati. 3. UAW-Ceterpiiiar reach contract agreement without strike. 9. Mayor Hamid Washhwton wins control at Chicago's city council after three- year flight. 10. Thomas Odie convicted in murders of famihi membets. 24 611:: New hlurk Entree. Vol. 4 New York City, NY December 23, 1986 Voyage Ends for Voyager Voyager ended its historic unretuied, non-stop trii around the worth with a safe desert tending after ninee'ay flight beset by storms, engine problems, ah worries aver tuei. The lightweight tri-tuseiage plane with front an rear engines covered heart y 26,000 mites, ett'ectivei doubting every hbn-stop, unreftteteb' distance recur in aviation history The Voyager was accompanied by three chas pianes as it appeared through clouds over the deser it siawiy descended, doing severai victory passe before touching dawn on a dry iaire bed watched E 15,000 spectators. Storm-battered pilots Dick Rutan, 49. and teen Yeager, 34, were heipea' from the Voyager after ti landing at E dwara's Air Force Base. Both had setter: tram bruises when Voyager was tossed around t turbuience over the indien and Atlantic Oceans at over Africa The ihght had been reheatedhl deiayed amid war ings that it it didn't take at! by rnid-ilecethbetr i next oppartuhihi would be in spring. Yeager had ti iiu when the plane taoii hit on Dec. 14. dragging! fuei-heavy wings on the desert runway and shavii at least a tout hit each Styrofoam wingtip. 0n the second day at thyht, concerns about In consumption arose as Voyager went farther th; expected to avoid a typhoon hear Guam. but h typhoon feet guage has misied the crew into thinht they might run out at gas. The teiibwing days were met with storms ma the! fears, and fatigue from being cramped into phene-heth-shed cabin which aiso ted to engine av: heating when the piiats target to cheat oti bressu fer hearty a day and a hait. but they quichh soiv that Dec. 20. by hand-pumping 1.? quarts of oil in the engine. At one point, the Voyager iost 3.400 teat attitude caused by engine failure due to vapor im Fuel ieaked into the cockpit during the ordeal. tom the pilots to put an oxygen masks to prevent be overcome by fumes. Rutah and Yeager cleared a tuei line and restart a hunt engine, which had been shut dawn to n serve tuei ariginaiiy. This incident occurred as the piahe made its H northward toward the Pacific coast oi the Um? States. From there, it was smooth saiiing anti! toe down in California,

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em mhehingtem tweet Vol. 2 Washlhgton, 0.6. Oct. 12, 1986 Summit Ends in Deadlock; N0 S.D.i. CompramISe the summit meeting between President Ronald Regan and Soviet leader Mihhaii Gorbachev aaitapsed tonight after the two leaders had reached sweeping potential agreements to reduce nuclear arsenals, hut deadlocked ah the crucial issue of restructuring the MS. based missile defense program known as Star Wars. Roth Secretary of State GeorgeP. Shhttz and Gerhachev painted a bleak picture at the 0.5. So viet retatiOhs and said that the talhs had ruptured ever the fundamental differences between the superpower eh EDI and the ABM treaty. Gorbachev charged that Reagan's insistence on deploying SDI had frustrated any opportunity for further agreements. Reagan felt that hath leaders had me ved tewam' an agreement on reducing the numbers at intermediate range missiles in both Europe and Asia and in reducing strategic arsenals, hat that they couldn't agree on the American SDI program. Shuttz relayed that the headers had reached a contingent agreement to eliminate alt nuclear battrlstic misshes within t0 years and also made progress on human rights issues. The two days of talks to tcetand ended without agreement because, according to Shuttz, the Soviets insisted on a change in the 1972 ABM Treaty that would have limited Reagents Strategic Defense Initiative ehitmissite pragram th iah research. hg Freshen! Reagan appears hetere reporters at the White House py alter ehnouncmg he writ meet mth Sims! teader, Mikhalf Gerber Wt t'hev m tteyttjawh, Ireland, Vol 3 Washington, tilt: Feb. 2 1937 rid , e 05 he ni- Ch! Director Casey Steps Down: Setters tram tumor ht CIA Director Wham E. Casey, rem verihg from surgery for a brain tumor, has reamed and witi be replaced by his deputy, Robert Gates, a 20-year veteran of the spy agency the White House anneuhcea' Feb. 2. The resignatibh came at a time that many questions were being asked about the GM '5 middleman rate in 73' clandestine arms sates t0 trah. Some members of Congress maintain the agency tailed to comply with laws requiring that ihteth'gehce 7 committees he kept abreast of such dealings. Casey, however, held that he did not hreatt the law. Casey, 73, was named to head the spy agency in 1981 after hehJihg manage Reagan '5 campaign to! the Presidency. Earh'er he served as chairman at the Securities and Exchange Commission and had held other pests during the Nikon and Ford administrations. Gate; who first joined the CIA in I 956 as an ihteittgehce analyst, has been serving as acting director since Casey was hespitatized in December. He whit continue to run the agency ah an acting basis. Casey entered the hospitat and underwent surgery tor a brain tumor on Dec. 18, shortly before he was to return to Capital Hit! to continue testihrihg about the tran-Contre Affair. 0n Capital Hill. Casey had testitied at iength ahaut the CM '5 in arms shipments to hen. He conceded that the intelligence agency became in valved hr the secret dealings with Iran in the summer and the tati of 1985, before Reagan issued format authorization. Howaver, Casey said he did not learn until October 1986 that preh'ts from these shipments may have been diverted to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels and that he did not knew for certain until told by Meese on Nov. 24. Casey's testimony prompted some members 0! Congress to criticize his apparent lack of knowledge about the diversion of funds, which reportedly began in early 1986. I-HL,L.- -Lnl 23

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ray I ted ch- hhe mhhhmglhm huh Vol. 5 Washmgton, 0.6. December 18, 1986 North Only One Who Knew Alt Attorney Genera! Edwm Meese ttt says he now has more details on the diversion to Mcaraguan rebels ot prohts from Iran arms sates and Lt. Cot. Oliver North stht stands stone as the scheme's prime mover, But Meese admits he still can't trace the money trait of the arms prohts, and can't be sure the Contra rebels math! renewed the moneyt Members at the Senate Intelligence Committee continue to debate whether North, a mtd-tevet aide on President Reagan is Nattanat Security Council, acted atone or was spurred by higher authority when he sought to holster the Contra rehets with arms sales pmh'ts. Senators familiar with the investigation said Meese strtt g3 ve them no hard facts that would indicate money tram Iran went to Central America. One source said Meese apparenth reveateo' the diversion scheme in November based sateh' ah EUH'VEFSEHDHS he and his aides had with North and Woe Adm. John M! Pothdexter, then national security adviser. fired hatfaoat security ante, ti. Cut Ohm North pause: to lath with reporters and photographers as he leaves his GtEat fatrs. Wrgrma home. SA TODAY Vol. 6 Washington, 0.6. April 14, 1987 Rural Interstates Bumped Up to 65 MPH The speed limit on tthnais' mat interstate: mitt he humped up to 65 mph at the end of Apnt, 36611!ng to state transportation and puttce othctah. The new speed limit wilt he attowed for cars, vans, and pickup tracts about 1.400 mites at rural and semf-urhan interstate. The current 55 mph hmit wilt apply to art vehicles an alt other state high ways. Trucks weighing in at more than tour tans, campers, tratters, and motor homes will he limited to 55 mph even on interstate: where the 65 mph speed ts allowed tor cars. State Transportation Department workers will begin putting up 55mph speed limit signs ah Aprft 27 and have the fab completed by April 29. At the same time, poh'ce will begin tougher enforcement of the seat heft taw, issuing :25 tickets instead ot warnrhg: for first time attenders. troopers witt enforce the seat hett taw only it they stop a motorist for another he the violation The W speed hrmt. allowed m tttmurs and at! other states because ate recent change In tederat tam W m ! the same 550 tine set how for drmng over the med him!