Booker T Washington High School - Graffiti Yearbook (Pensacola, FL)

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A drought spread throughout the Southeast during 1986. lt was the worst dry spell on record. At the peak of the drought, crops wilted from southern Pennsylvania all the way into northern Florida. Even after some rain, many farmers in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia were on the brink of ruin. an, A -S-.. K President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for a two-day summit in October to discuss arms control. The two leaders reached an impasse on testing of the US. Star Wars weaponry. ,,,..?. Deep under Lake Nios in northwestern Cameroon, the earth belched. A bubble of scalding gas rose to the surface and the wind carried it across the land, Within minutes, more than 1700 people were dead, burned by steam and choked by carbon dioxide and toxic gases. Among casualties was a large group of cows. 0 I Page Neuff Among the celebrities who died in 1986 were singer Kate Smith at the age of 79, Benny Goodman, the King of Swingg james Cagney, one of I-lollywoocl's famous toughguysg Ted Knight, television starg and Cary Grant, Hollywood Movie Star.

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X4 'te G69 Q i i 759' V. 1 Iranian Arms Deal creates White House Crisis: After the President's successful surgery, his smile vanished as new revelations about Casey, Poindexter, and North seemed to show that they were aware of Iranian Arms profits being directed to Nicaraguan contrar. Miss Tennessee Kellye Cash, the grandniece of country star johnny Cash, was crowned Miss America 1987, She received the crown from outgoing Miss American Susan Akin. Two Arab terrorists stormed Istanbul's main synagogue on Sept. 6 killing more than 20 worshippers with submachine-gun fire. When police arrived, the terrorist detonated hand grenades and killed themselves. Front Page New:

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t . ght to H mber Gennadiy Zakharov, a Soviet U.N, employee was arrested on a subway platform in New York City and charged with spying. A week later American journalist Nicholas S, Daniloff was arrested on the streets of Moscow and accused of spying on the Soviet Union. Both men were released within weeks and the entire affair set the stage for a superpower Summit meeting in Iceland. U.S, Air Force and Navy jets attacked five targets inside Libya under cover of darkness in April, delivering a response to what President Reagan called the monstrous brutality of Libyan-backed terrorism, Among the targets was the Libyan Naval Academy, shown in the enclosed photo, located in a suburb of Tripoli. Fran! Page Near