Corunna High School - Sphix Yearbook (Corunna, MI)

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Events Shape the Year’s News Since Americans first heard of the mysterious disease from which no one recovers. AIDS has killed nearly 25.000 Americans and millions of dol- lars have been poured into medical research. In other news. Gary Hart dropped his bid for Presiden- cy after it was reported he was romantically in- volved with Donna Rice Hart re-entered the race saying Let the people decide. President Reagan greeted Pope Paul II in Miami and the Golden Gate Bridge celebrated its 50th birthday. About 250.000 people jammed the bridge. An earthquake that measured 6.1 on the Richter Scale hit Southern California in October. Nancy Reagan came back to the White House after successful breast cancer surgery.

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Social, Political and Economical Marine lieutenant colonel Oliver North made most of the headlines in 1987 with his role in the Iran-Contra affair. North was a key official in the plan to finance anti-government rebels in Nicaragua with money from arm sales to Iran. To some. North was a hero — to others. North was a villian. In an effort to keep the Persian Gulf open to navigation, the US. began in July to escort vessels to protect them from Iran. In Septem- ber the U.S. Navy blew up an Iranian ship that was caught laying mines in the Gulf. Several mines were confiscated. The Senate rejected President Reagan’s nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court by a 58-42 vote, which ended a long contentious debate over a judge alternately portrayed as a brilliant jurist and a dangerous extremist. The Dow Jones industrial stock average dropped 508 points, the largest in history, on Monday. October 19. 1987. Some called it a crash.” others called it Black Monday. Whatever it was. it stripped $500 billion from the market value of U.S. securities. Television evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker said farewell to the Praise the Lord ministry in March. Jim Bakker resigned after confessing to a sexual encounter with a young woman. Tammy Bakker bowed out of the broadcasts to under go treatment for drug dependency.

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Other Events That In sports, the Minnesota Twins captured the World Series with a victory over the St. Louis Cardi- nals in the 7th game of the series. In other sports, the N.F.L. players went on strike for 24 days while owners hired “scabs” to replace them. Dennis Conner, the man who lost the America’s Cup in 1983, won it back four years lat- er. The Stars Stripes complet- ed a 4-0 sweep over Australia’s Kookaburra III. In other news, Miss Michigan. Kayne Lani Rafko was crowned Miss America in 1988. The year was not without its tragedies although. Fred Astair, Liberace, John Huston, Lee Mar- vin, Jackie Gleason and Lome Greene all passed away during the year. Their contributions to America will always be remem- bered. Two of the top recording art- ists were Madonna and Whitney Huston. A barge filled with 3,128 tons of garbage became a national joke and a symbol of the prob- lems of solid waste management. The barge was banned by six states and three foriegn countries before the garbage was inciner- ated.