Barnesville High School - Senrab Yearbook (Barnesville, OH)

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1985-1986 Current Events Four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro while on a Mediterranean cruise. One American was killed. After the ship was released the Egyptian government agreed to return the hijackers to the PLO. However, the hi- jackers were intercepted by American jets as they were flown out of Egypt and returned to Italy to stand trial. The space program moved ahead. Space walker James van Hoften stands tall on the end of the robot arm of the Space Shuttle Discovery after successfully launching the repaired Syncom satellite in September. Hands Across America Was Organized to Raise Funds for Our Homeless and Hungry Citizens. Current Event cont. on p.p. 102-103 Current Events 5

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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

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o g CO D t 53 CA 6 Student Life John Fogerty