DePaul University - Depaulian Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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.www E. morwaenrw ' . 4mm . .m mew n we ,.. ,e-ewbwgwngw waat;vn- a e America demonstrated its capacity to adapt in 1976. Old faces reappeared and new faces stepped fonlvard to provide new hopes. The Win- ter Olympics, Surveyor's Mars photos, the national political conventions and the election of Jimmy $ Carter dominated the news and TV screens. The U.S. t t: began to celebrate our 200th birthday. Marijuana was decriminalized in California, a new investi- gation of the Kennedy and King assassinations e was begun, and in Congress a new scandal began M: e as a result of Elizabeth Ray's revelations. Mean- t while, old faces made one last appearance as Eldridge Cleaver returned to the US. for trial, Mao died in China, and King Kong returned to New York in an oil tanker. ,A , W10 i-51a95;'w ;Nx4

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In 1975 the United States began its adjust- ment to a world where events seemed to out- run our capacity to absorb them. While Rocke- feller began investigations into the misdeeds of the CIA and Ford announced the U.S. was in a recession, the Bicentennial celebrations officially began. In April, Vietnam again entered the news as the re- , maining U.S. personnel had to be evacuated from Saigon. Meanwhile, New York City was in the midst of financial crisis. The danger of aerosol sprays to the atmosphere, an assassination at- tempt on Ford, the UN declaration of t' Zionism as a form of racism, and the ' dictatorial emergency in India were other newsworthy

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Extremes in weather continued in '77. East- ern blizzards resulted in floods, natural gas . shortages and blackouts. Western drought bred a rampant fires and water rationing. Newa-elected President Carter faces such issues as energy con- servation, the Concorde, the B-1 bombertcruise mis- sile controversy, Panama Canal and Laetril debates. ldi Amin, Roots and black independence brought Africa into the news. To many, the deaths of Elvis and Groucho signaled the end of an era. Despite mass kidnappings, the KLMtPan Am crash, Washington imprisonments and gay rights tensions, hopes for the future appear- ed in movies like Star Wars, the Alaskan pipeline, the Space Shuttle and improved Cuban relations.