Carroll College - Hilltopper Yearbook (Helena, MT)

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Around the World in Eighty-five Nineteen eighty-five will be remembered as a year of great diversity, it saw the best and the worst of humanity and nature. Millions were affected by the many tragic events, but others shared and received from cite growing awareness by international brotherhood and compassion. In September, a series of earthquakes rumbled through Mexico City with the death tolls numbering in the thousands. Few in the area escaped the effects of the first quake, which registered 8.1 on the Ritchter scale. In June a Trans World Airlines jet with 145 passengers and eight crew was hijacked in Athens. Greece. Most of the hostages were released within days but 39 were held for 17 days One American hostage was killed. The Indian Cruse liner Achilk Liuro was hijacked by four Palestinian terrorists while on a 30

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 Mediterranean cruise. One American was killed. After the ship was released the Egyptian government agreed to return the hijackers to the P.L.O. However, the hijackers were intercepted by American jets and returned to Italy for trial. In August a Delta Airlines jer crashed near Dallas killing 137 people. Widespread violence broke out in South Africa as tensions grew between Whites and Blacks over Apartheid. The year also included some very significant bright points. The music industry banded together to attempt to help the world hunger situation. To accomplice this was the Live Aid Concept. Under the direction of Bob Geldof two concern were held on two contents tying billions of people together throughout the world. This event brought more people together for a single event than at any time in history. It did not stop there. Many anises wait on to Farm Aid and other events of the same kind.