Bethel College - Log Cabin Yearbook (McKenzie, TN)

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That was the Year- that was! The presidential campaign was the big news as Bethel began its 143rd year. For the first time in United States history, there was a woman on the presidential ticketg vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. China and Britain made a historical agreement to allow Hong Kong to retain its capitalist style for 50 years after Bri- tain relinquishes control of the colony in 1997. Canada's govern- ment shifted to the right with the election of Brian Mulroney, a con- servative. Salvador Dali caught fire, along with his bed in Barcelona. Rumors of abuse by his attendants surfaced. A second son was born to the Prince and Princess of Wales. Dennis Banks, American Indian activist from the 1970s, surrendered to authorities after eleven years in hiding. We bid farewell to Ernest Tubb, Senator Sam Irving, Writer Truman Capote Un Cold Bloodl, Nikita Khrushchev's widow Nina, and actor Richard Burton. In October, Doonesbury returned to the comic pages of America after a 21 month hiatus. General William Westmoreland's 55120 million law suit against CBS went to court. Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first woman to walk in space. Bishop Desmond Tutu was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent opposition to South Africa's policy of apartheid. Actor Walter Pigeon, and Ellsworth Bunker, former ambassador to South Vietnam from 1967-73 both died in October. In November, Ronald Reagan won the presidential campaign by an unprecedented margin of votes. Jerzy Popieluszko, a Polish priest was killed, allegedly by the Polish military. Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, returned to the USSR after a 13 year detection to the west. Famine in Ethiopia became front page news. On the morning of November 12, Indira Gandhi had spent the morning with two grandchildren. As she left to walk to her office where Peter Ustinov waited to interview her for a television documentary, two of her guards assassinated her. Her son Rajiv picked up the reins of power, but not before a blood bath broke out between the Sikhs and the Hindus. In November Martin Luther King, Sr. died. Disaster again struck India as a Union Carbide plant in Central ln- dia sprang a leak and spread poisonous gas over the city of Bhopal. More than 2500 people were killed and over 100,000 were injured, making this the worst disaster of this kind in history. Sam Peckin- pah, director of 'tThe Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs died. The Cabbage Patch dolls were again big sellers along with a board game called Trivial Pursuit which tested everyone's trivial knowledge iWhat philosopher-author lived on the shores of Walden Pond?j. As Winter quarter began, Rajiv Gandhi and his party were voted officially into ruling India by a landslide. In Poland, in a rare case of justice, the three men accused of murdering Father Jerzy Poipieluszko went on trial. ln the United States Eddie Murphy was breaking box office records with Beverly Hills Cop. Actor Peter Lawford, member of the famous for infamousj Hollywood Rat Pack, died at the age of 61. Time, Inc. announced Peter Ueberoth as Time's Man of the Year. Ueberoth, as organizer of the 1984 Olympics, masterminded an extraordinary spectacle and treated the world to one grand party. Talk of arms talks between the U.S. and the USSR began as the Star Wars Program debate began. 1984 was declared a year of prosperity as the GNP reached 8.6 percent and inflation dropped. United States U.N. Ambassador, Jeane Kirkpatrick resigned. New York's subway vigilante Bernard Goetz, turned himself in to police and admitted shooting a group of youths in a New York subway. Deng Xiaoping's rejuvenation of China policy opened more doors to western influence. John Zac- caro, Geraldine Ferraro's husband, was indicted on fraud charges. The libel case of Ariel Sharon against Time, Inc. went to the jury and the verdict was in Sharon's favor. Actress Myrna Loy was honored for her film roles by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. January saw the deaths of poet Robert Fitzgeralds, Carol Wayne, the Matinee Lady of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, photojournalist Ruth Orken, and Harry Rigby, theatrical producer who coproduced Sugar Babies. In February, a 200 pound male Ostrich escaped from a zoo truck in downtown Las Vegas and it took twenty minutes and four squad cars to capture the fugitive. Jeremy Levin, CNN bureau chief in Beirut, was released by terrorists after 343 days of captivity. One of Levin's first questions was, Who's the President? The board game Clue was made into a mystery movie. Frank Oppenhiemer, one of the physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project, James Hadley Chase, British mystery writer, and Clarence Nash, the voice of Donald Duck, died.in February. Protests against South Africa's policy of apartheid took to United States streets and college campuses. In March, Henry Cabot Lodge, politician and diplomat from Massachusetts, Rudd Weather- wax, Lassie's trainer, Robert W. Woodruff, head of Coca-Cola from 1923 to 1955, and Alexander Scourby, actor and narrator died. Scourby recorded more than 400 Talking Books for the Blind, in- cluding the complete King James Bible, War and Peace, Shakespeare and James Joyce's Ulysses. Spring quarter began with the death of Soviet leader, Konstantin Chernenko. His successor was Mikhail Gorbachev, the youngest leader in Soviet history at the age of 54. Gorbachev, described as energetic and personable with a quick and clever wit, was seen as a new kind of leadership for the USSR. On the 25th anniversary of the massacre at Sharpeville, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, blacks gathered to remember and to protest. Police moved in and at least 19 black protesters were killed. President Reagan met with new Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, at what was termed the Shamrock Summit. Members of a CBS News team were killed in Southern Lebanon. ABC was purchased by Capital Cities Com- munications, a company one-fourth the size of ABC. Ten states banned Happy Hour. IBM stopped production of their PCjr home computer. Clara Peller of 'tWhere's the Beef fame found it in CampbeIl's spaghetti sauce, but lost it with Wendy's. She was fired. Billy Joel and model Christie Brinkley were married in April. Patricia Roberts Harris, the first black woman to serve as a U.S. Am- bassador, Michael Redgrave, British actor died in April. China declared war on adultery, blaming the new increase in divorce mostly on third-party interference. Marc Chagall died at his home in France. Vietnam Veterans were finally honored ten years after the United States pulled out of a war that nobody wanted to remember. Catherine Crowell Webb recanted of her rape charge against Gary Dotson after six years. Dotson had spent the last six years in prison. William J. Schroeder, the second recipient of a permanent artificial heart was discharged from Humana Hospital in Louisville. The singing nun, Jeannine Deckers, died in Belgium. Koko, the talking gorilla mourned for her pet kitten for a year. In April she received a new kitten and both were reported happy. John Lennon's 19-foot yellow psychedelic Rolls Royce went on sale for over S200,000. Ringling Brothers circus unicorns were brought into the spotlight by the ASPCA, who said that the unicorns were goats itruej which had had their horns moved together ftrue, againj. Wham! went to China and police had to move in to restrain the youth. Senator Jake Gann of Utah went into space in April aboard the space shuttle, Discovery. Ted Turner made a bid for CBS. Coca-Cola changed its formula after 99 years of success. Pepsi was thrilled. President Reagan's proposed visit to a cemetery in West Ger- many caused controversy. Campus demonstrations against South Africa's policy of apartheid gained strength in May as a new ac- tivism swept college campuses. Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte last sur- vivor of a family that for 107 years presented the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain, died. Harlem's Apollo Theatre celebrated its 50th anniversary. Bruce iThe Bossj Springsteen married Julianne Phillips in a private semi-secret ceremony. Actor Edmond O'Brien and Chester Gould, creator of the Dick Tracy com- ic strip died in May. Selma Diamond the gravelly-voiced actress on Night Court, died from lung cancer. Margaret Hamilton, the wick- ed witch in The Wizard of Oz and Abe Burrows writer of Guys and Dolls died in May. Philadelphia police bombed the west Philadelphia headquarters of MOVE, a terrorist group. Two city blocks were destroyed, sixty-one homes were gutted and 250 peo- ple left homeless. I A father-son spy team was revealed in Washington. The first royalty check from We Are the World was 36.5 Million, but sen- ding the relief to Africa proved difficult because politics interrupted the flow of aid. Israel exchanged 1,150 prisoners for three lsraeli soldiers held in Syria.

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