Chattahoochee High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Chattahoochee, FL)

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Decade in Review Above: In 1972 Richard M. Nixon was reelected President. Above Right: New source of energy — Nuclear — proves threat. Right: Space program is continued with Space Shuttle Enterprise. Seventies End in Controversy Pittsburgh Pirates defeat Baltimore.Orioles to win World Series. ———

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Status Quo Above: Area surrounding JIM WOODRUFF DAM provides rec- reation. Below: Tracks at River Junction serve as terminal for Seaboard Coast Lines. Introductioni 5

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As students looked back on the seventies, they remembered many events which brought back memories of better times to some, and events which caused controversy and unrest to others. These events are: 1970 — Shootings at Kent State ... Vietnam War spreads to Cambodia . . . Terrorism spreads across the U.S. ... Arab guerrillas hijack four jetliners . . . November U.S. elections . . . Re- cession and inflation... G. Harold Carswell rejected from Supreme Court. .. pollution growing . .. Ter- rorists kidnap and kill in Canada. 1971 — Red China admitted to the United Nations . . . Nixon’s wage price freeze.... The Pentagon papers... Conviction of Lt. William Calley, Jr.... Apollo 14 and 15 moon landings . . . Attica prison violence takes 43 lives... troops withdraw from Vietnam War . .. school bus- sing issue . . . More than 60 die in California earth- quake . . . Nixon’s foreign aid authorization bill voted down. 1972 — President Nixon’s visit to China ... attempted assassination of Gov. George C. Wal- lace ... Terror at the summer Olympics . .. Presi- dent Nixon’s reelection . . . Kissinger’s mission to end Vietnam War ... Nixon’s visit to Moscow ... signing of the first strategic arms limitation agree- ment . . . Vietnam War .. . Flooding killed hundreds in 10 states . . . Supreme Court rules 5-4 that capital punishment is unconstitutional. 1973 — Investiga- tion and effects of Watergate scandal. . . resignation of Spiro T. Agnew ... end of Vietnam War ... re- lease of prisoners of War . .. U.S. economy . . . Mideast War. . . energy crisis . . . Slaying of 27 boys in Texas . . . Death of Lyndon B. Johnson . .. Skylab space mission . . . revolution in Chile. 1974 — Climax of Watergate scandal . . . President Nixon’s resignation ... U.S. economy . . . energy crisis . . . Below: The United States is honored by visit of Pope John Paul II.