Dana Hills High School - Mast Yearbook (Dana Point, CA)

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is year also saw the departure ot all Soviet lops from war-torn Afghanistan. The new !alth bomber was unveiled, supposedly a ve- ;le to put the U.S. in the arms race. However, 3se blacl boomerangs seemed to have some 3jor flaws, including their snail ' s pace speed, 5ir enormous price tag, and new technology it makes the bomber, according to some, a offin on wings. sports, the Dodgers won the World Series d the ' 49 ' ers beat the Bengals to become perbowl champs. The big sports news was inadian Wayne Gretzky coming to the Kings. ack, that deadly killer, became so infamous at the government tried everything to stop its read. Nonetheless, the drive-by-shootings d skyrocketing murders throughout the na- n attested to the fact that we seemed to be ;ing the war against the drugs. en there were the events that caught every- e ' s eyes. For one, Oprah Winfrey no longer 3d the picture screen; she lost 65 pounds on r highly publicized diet. What can be said lOut Geraldo? His sensationalism cost him a oken nose when white supremacist punks igled with black leaders. Speaking of fight- 3, Mike Tyson just didn ' t seem to know when stop. According to most standards, the box- only fights in the ring; Tyson was fighting two luts, one in the ring, the other in the bedroom, the end, Tyson won in the ring but the judges ve Robin Givens the $125 million decision. This year also saw the box officers bombarded with movies of every sort. From the controver- sial Last Temptation of Christ and Mississippi Burning to the every thought-provoking Police Academy Six (that many?) and Nal ed Gun, we were exposed to movies, movies, and more movies. And look out for Batman. And to think, all of that happened in a mere ten months. It only shows that the old adage Time flies when you ' re having fun still rings as true as ever (unless you don ' t like school), -e.c. 1. Greg Louganis took home a pair of gold medals and seven catgut stitches for his performance. 2. Like an alien meteorite, one of Pan Am ' s engines lies in a crater in the town of Lockerbie, Scotland. Unfortu- nately, the gore was strewn everywhere else. 3. The AK-47 lies on the Stockton road where four inno- cent children were mowed down by a deranged luna- tic. 4. Images of fear were forever etched in the faces of the survivors of the Stockton school yard massacre when a deranged man killed tour children with an assault rifle. 5. A haggard Michael Dukakis tried to salvage his elec- tion, only to be defeated on Nov. 4. 6. The butt of many a political joke in ' 88- ' 89: Vice- President Dan Quayle. 7. Mikhail Gorbechev surveyed the devastation in Soviet Armenia after the earthquake. 8. Yussiv Arafat ' s insistence on addressing the U.N. made the entire council go to Geneva, as President Reagan and Secretary Schultz wouldn ' t allow him in the country. 9. Bush ' s nominee for secretary of defense. John Tower, was rejected by Congress, a blow to the new adminis- tration. 10. The new President speaks of a kinder and gentler nation. I 369 m

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