Brimfield High School - Spectator Yearbook (Brimfield, IL)

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• • tt A O Vssi %° ' W£ ets axe y»- “ y, .o C'X hjviVwet sYtf»v A military council took control of Grenada n tober 19, after killing the Prime Minister and ihr cabinet members. The islands’ new regime k 66 the airport closed to commercial flights making! impossible for American citizens to leave 9 11 On October 25, President Reagan sent troops tn restore democracy and “rescue” the 1,000 o more Americans, including the students at st George's Medical College. President Reaqari declared the mission complete” by November 4 Five weeks later the 6,980 soldiers returned home A total of eighteen Americans were killed and eighty-nine were wounded. American troops in Lebanon were also fired upon. Snipers were a menace in October, as peace keeping troops remained in Beirut. Then, on Sunday, October 23, a terrorist rammed a dynamite-packed truck into Marine barracks near the Beirut International Airport killing 240 American marines. Ironically, these same men would have been on their way home if their replacements hadn’t been sent to Grenada. On the lighter side, Cabbage Patch Kids created havoc at department stores during Christmas. Stores everywhere were sold out of the captivating dolls. No two dolls look alike and each comes with its own history and adoption papers. Some fans were so desparate to get one that they believed two radio announcers’ story that a B-29 bomber would fly over the Milwaukee County Stadium an drop dolls for those who held up their Ameri Express cards for aerial photos — to record ,C Ta'nnUmb« Kiekis an eleven year old boy, Timothy from 'tv ,ire safety tips learned in school and nciQhl.il ann°uncements to save an elderly crawioH - 'rom her burnin9 apartment. The boy th 60 lnt0 the apartment and dragged eighty-n.5;. year old Sarah Sherman to safety. Maybe, if Tim.K Would ,earn ,0 reach out to each other like mothy did, a new meaning to the term “arms race might develop. No °ne Can ,or9e, however, the somber side of the Soviet Union's “reaching out” when a Korean airliner was shot down near Soviet military installations, killing all 269 persons on board. Among the victims was an American congressman. The airliner apparently strayed into Soviet air space on a routine flight to Seoul, South Korea. Soviet soldiers tracked the plane but failed to make contact with the Korean's warning them of their violation. Rescue attempts by the U.S., Japan, and Korea were inhibited by Soviet vessels guarding the area. Saukalin Island is certainly “on the map” in the memories of the victims’ families. One last item might not be “news” but the winter of 1983 had to be one of the coldest winters on record. Blisteringly cold temperatures kept Americans from coast to coast huddling for warmth and stretching their budgets to the break-• DOjnt with heating bills. Brimfield temperatures pre record breaking at Christmas when the wind ®.|l was 75°. At least we weren’t buried under five feet of snow! 9

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fcfc fl LITTLE NEW 5 by Kelley Miller » e ftie A tv% a fot foO As Anne Murray suggested in her hit single “A little good news, it would be fantastic to pick uo a newspaper and read only articles that contain good news. Unfortunately, this is not the cS and good news does not ' me case headlines as much as the bad in an 0 reacb tbe at least once a week, you wilUead ahn, r)ewspaper. arson, war. or kidnapping To remPnd ‘ 8 murder-events from the fall and winter of k°U 0f ,he few of the stories and headlines ?r J9®3 here are a On October 17. the doorS of tKJ° 'paPers. Restaurant (Peoria North ™ th. Skewer Inn following an outbreak o?bo?u,?sm Th0 Closed m Th,rty-seven people who ate at the restaurant between October 14 and 16, had symptoms of food poisoning and were admitted to area hospitals. Botulism causes seouenti,?1396 and makes breathing difficult. Con-few werJLma y vict'ms were on respirators and a zv ess? rdiiio ' sure of the ca.fc th depar,m®nt officials were not dill pickles serf? ?!the 0utbreak. They blamed the Tests then reveaff with pa,,y rnelt sandwiches, real culprits. While = ,he saut©ed onions were the eoria, soldiers werl6 3 ?°c,0rs fought botulism in Grenada. Were Opting another type of war , „ Patch Kid Dollnappei C Grenada Rescue Complete

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10 — Special Events