Concordia Lutheran High School - Luminarian Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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One of the decade ' s most dramatic moments was the October, 1979, visit of Pope John Paul II to the city of Chicago during a whirlwind six-city trip to the United States. (AP Laserphoto) Reviewing the 70 ' s: International It was 10 years of news, good and bad that changed the world. This was the decade that . . . Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Noble Prize in Literature. . . . the Palestinian Army slayed five Israeli Olym- pic wrestlers. . . . formal U.S. involvement in the Vietnamese war ended. . . . Israeli forces drove into Egypt during an 18-day war which ended in a negotiated truce. . . . ships began moving through the Suez Canal for the first time since the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. . . . Britain ' s Princess Margaret and her husband. Lord Snowdon, separated after 16 years of mar- riage. . . . Bjorn Borg enticed millions to tennis. . . . Leonid Brezhnew became head of the Russian state as well as general secretary of the Communist party. . . . Mrs. Leslie Brown gave birth to the world ' s first test-tube baby. . . . Margaret Thatcher became Great Britain ' s first woman prime minister. ... in Guyana, Peoples Temple leader, Jim Jones, triggered the assasination of a U.S. Congressman — and then coerced 900 followers into mass sui- cide. . . . many Cambodian boat people died. . . . Romania ' s Nadia Comaneci won hearts and offi- cials ratings of perfect 10 ' s. . . . the world ' s worst air disaster took 592 lives when two jet airliners collided in Tenerife. . . . Mikhail Baryshnikov soared to the summit of dance. . . . Iranian students captured the American Em- bassy in Teheran and took at least 60 American hostages. During the ' 70 ' s we said goodbye to these people: Pablo Picasso, Golda Meir, Pope John Paul I, Pope Paul VI, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Howard Hughes, Karl Wallenda, Aristotle Onassis and Charles A. Lindbergh. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance waves to a colleague as U.S. Defense Secretary Harold Brown, left, and U.S. Permanent Am- bassador to NATO Tapley Bennett look on at Brussels. NATO , defense and foreign ministers were meeting in a joint session to discuss the deployment of new nuclear missiles in Western Europe. (AP Laserphoto) international 15

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Many thousands of Iranian women clad in their traditional ' clador ' join their menfolk on a march towards the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, already under occupation by Kho- meini soldiers and holding some 50 Ameri- can citizens hostage. They carried larger than life size picture of their leader. (AP Laserphoto) On December 27, 1979, 25,000 Russian troops invade Afghanistan to gain access to the Persian Gulf. After this appalling action, the U.S. threatened to pull their athletes out of the 1980 Olympics and to cut off Russia ' s economic sanctions. (AP Laserphoto) M international

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A final salute; Nixon says goodbye to his staff and boards a helicopter on the White House lawn following his resignation in August, 1974. A Kent State student screams for help over the body of a fellow classmate slain in a con- frontation with Nation- al Guardsmen in June, 1970. The Three Mile Island power plate near down in a reactor, a cloud of radioactrv Harrisburg, Pa., was the site in 1979 of a steam was accidently released, near disaster when after a partial melt- 16 national