Booker T Washington High School - Hornet Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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-lowhere is safe Misery of human loss seemed to crowd in on us everywhere we turned. As e thought of the innocents slaughtered in the Middle East, we comforted ,rselves with the knowledge that death and destruction were outside of our lls, seven thousand miles away. Walls don't stop them. n a morning in the end of November, as people mindlessly went about , ir business in the MGM Grand hotel, fate took a left turn. ln less than thirty nutes, the entire building was engulfed in smoke. Over eighty people were led by smoke inhalation alone, few died from burns. This started a rash of ecking hotel alarm systems all over the country because most of the blame ' the destruction was given to the inadequate number of sprinklers in ms. ach autumn, brush fires are a common feature in Southern California. rted by arson, an onslaught of such fires destroyed 150,000 acres of land d inumerable homes in late November and early December. Four people d, but the great tragedy lay in the thousands of homeless. eath and destruction did these first two disasters solo, they got together a duet stint in Italy. ltaly's worst earthquake in sixty-five years took over .000 lives and made some areas of western ltaly no more than recognizable rubble. Much of the blame for the death wasn't given to only E quake, though. Blame fell from all sides onto the bureaucratic ptitude of the current government. The survivors may have been alive, t they still had the loss of homes, family and friends to contend with. x-Beotle John Len o loin EW YORK lAPl - Former Baa- uid he and um ummm me new gg John Inman. who catapulted ta a atudm what the Romadflam in lniam with the lou-haired Bfllllh lllldimlmrller in the aveninlfand I gmup ln the lima, was shot to that len at mm pm? un- lll NUM!! MUN Wllidl' NH lux- non aaldhe was going io get a bile to atartmenl building on lllanhal- eat ami go home. Douglas aaid. 'A 'wrr Wrll Side. vollrrould, A nynander, Sean . irub. said he uihnriliea said Lennon, 4 . was had :ll a polls: car to Rounztla Ra-lated uw: ol B-6 S ll- 'N 'W' '0 waawalklnammnnaar1!ndS7fQ:t Vlfllll lu heard tour alum. Ra nld a cama around Ihr corner to Central Park Wm and saw Lennon batng Wt Into the hack of a police car. Bama sn-nple lhf.-K heard all thou Ind aaid olm ral ll!vlk't. S1fub aldi Polite said he was hh ln the , .. sl ah I D mu ahortly after arnvlnl 'ollrr said the shooting ncviirnd side tha- Dakota, the century-old ury apanmanl hnuae is-here Len- and his wife, Yoko Ona. lived Boas the slrrt lrom Central ls alice said th y had a suspect and crlhed him an a local arnn-A l with no apparent maine for mum: llmmn ,wi-wmv.. m.:,:.:..:t:,:.':.v::vm:.mx .l rn an mg Ihr asaallanl lirvd . ' l eauapm-t,a pndK5' ind ack Douglas. I4-nnon 1 producer. 91 35 W ,w WU, Um win, . l H '-4 'i -' v- Us 27' th rim- M-il Om- h- rr fi i nf 1 r-m-nmilimn annum.-f-ii.i.'zw tiviirihm .N :nfl -1 If-' -W'-1 hlwifd for ll 'vw ffr..,i. ..-fI.i.ff5f.l1.. til-it f....ii. ... Z..i,f.l -7 mm C 'r ' mimi- in ...,..f.lii -.,,fl.,..-.leur llenid mum an me mm mid him the auallanl had been Urrouch- fnirlnrf lu lllkull, many of P espite the millions who died this year, with or without disasters or war, the ute number of big names seemed to matter more to us: One of the world's st versatile actors, Peter Sellers, who had created such screen sonalities as Dr. Strangelove and Inspector Clouseau and given form to zy Kosinski's Chance, the gardener, John Lennon, musician, artist, and nywrite, shot outside the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan, Mark vid Chapman was accused of the murder, Led Zeppelin drummer, John nham, causing the break-up of the eleven-year old band, actor Gearge Raft .o had lent his face as the stereo-type tough ex-con, Marshall McLuhan, hnology age journalism wizard, typical hard-exterior-but-soft-inside boy, Richard Boone, chicken king, Colonel Sanders, Mae West who had athed comedy into sex, former Soviet Prime Minsiter Aleksy Kosighin, and ve McQueen, all-star prison camp escapee.

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.4 f?? :JV As we went in our m happening in the rest o know had a Social and polit American country, the rightist terrorists battl between with 8,400 hands. Chances g The Middle East has the intense static b shifted a few degrees neighbor, Iraq, in ope reports from each cot No you're not! -.i l Fallen ange erry circles here in Democracy, things wel fthe world that some of the voters didn't eve n effect on who or what they were voting fo ical chaos made EI Salvador, a small Centr. scene of promiscuous bloodshed. Leftist an d it out with the centrist ruling junta stuck i I Salvadorian and six American deaths on i1 ew greater everyday for an all out revolution been a traditional hotspot for violence duet tween Israel and Egypt. This year the troub1 ast as the all too familiar Iran engagedwith il ly declared war. After a while, the conflictin mtry began to sound like a kindergarten pla nd so on. There were even false rumors th: ground arguement: 'm winning! No, I'm winning! Yes I am! Ayatullah Communism, the In Poland, on the rv Lech Walesa sp Most of us just without Soviet interve Moscow, but, as the ha Soviets were always w Soviet troops were put any overly aggressi On the east, from 1 Proletarian Cultural R responsible for the li and included Mao Ts year. Madame Mao's fa sat calmly listening to Disfavor fell on M homeini had died in the early stages of wa working man's father, felt some iconoclasti stirrings on either side of the Soviet Unior est, a shipworkers' strike in Gdansk lead b ead to approximately 150,000 workers alon the northern coas wondered skeptically how this could happe ntion. Poland was said to be independent a ppenings in Afghanistan showed last year, th llmg to lend a helping hand. As expecte on alert all along the Polish borders in case 3 ve action on the part of Solidarity, the unio behind all the rebelliog 966 to 1977, China went through the Gre volutionf' The Gang of Four, who had bee eral disposal of counterrevolutionary artist -tung's widow, Jiang Qing, went on trial thi e became a familiar sight in the news as sh er accusers and answering questions with ' don't remember. o himself and posters bearing his face wer taken down all over China

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