Barnesville High School - Senrab Yearbook (Barnesville, OH)

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1985-1986 Current Events cancerous tumor from his lower intestine. The 74-year old president was back on the job within weeks after the operation. Halley’s Comet Returns The comet made its once — every 75 year visit to our solar system. Best view: April 11, 1986 as far south as possible. Next show: 2061 Number 2 T-Shirt: If you’re pushing forty, that’s exercise enough. The war in the Mid-East continued in 1985. A distraught Moslem man hugs his son moments after they survived a car bomb explosion outside a West Beirut restaurant in late August. They are shown being hurried away from the carnage by another man as cars burn in the rubble-strewn street. Current Events 3

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1985-1986 Current Events REAGAN VOICES WORRIES ABOUT SPIES OF ANY NATION. Former CIA Analyst Arrested and Accused of Spying for China. Washington Stunned When Prized Catch From KGB Returns to Moscow. Family Spy Scandal — Navy Father and Son Arrested for Selling Secrets to the Russians. President Reagan, with his wife Nancy, gives the A-Okay sign from his hospital window in July after undergoing surgery to remove a Number 1 T-Shirt: A Delta Airlines jetliner crashed near Dallas in August, killing 137 people. The plane was on a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Los Angeles with an intermediate stop at Dallas-Fort Worth. Thirty-four people survived the crash but five died of injuries later. The plane en- countered a severe wind shear as it plunged to the ground. 2 Current Events

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1985-1986 Current Events 240 Servicemen Die in Crash in Newfoundland in December. An entire city block was destroyed in Philadelphia. Police tried to evict members of the radical group MOVE from their fortified rowhouse by dropping a small bomb on the building. A fire was started by the device and about 60 houses were destroyed. A series of devastating earthquakes rumbled through Mexico City in September and the death toll was in the thousands. Few in the metropolitan area of 18 million escaped the effects of the first quake, which registered 8.1 on the Richter scale; or the second quake, which measured 7.5. 4 Current Events