East Central Community College - Wo He Lo Yearbook (Decatur, MS)

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Tl-IE WORLD - IN THE NEWS As we sttitift.. rwwrked. and played, the world .i to stand idle and ctriiiplact-tw' ,xii the day that we would .ts-. places among society Yet. .1 Q4 same time. we would be wrong that the world simply pgs-1.. ,lr 'nfs during our school year of j.4w.t,'-,- As adolescents we watched the price ot gasoline increase fourfold and the price ot' video games decrease fourfold, while words like valley girls , com- puters , energy crisis were fast be- coming standards in our breakfast-table vocabulary. We saw political unrest as we learned the identities of Khadafy and Marcos. And by the time we were trying to decide on a major at ECJC, terrorism', nuclear war , Challenger , and AIDS were already worn-out words that had replaced the peace , space shuttles . and health awareness of our innocent past. Change is nothing new to our age . . . Disasters abounded - both natural and unnatural. A series of devastating earthquakes rumbled through Mexico City in September and the death toll was in the thousands. Few in the metro- politan area of 18 million escaped the effects of the quake which registered 8.1 on the Richter scale, or the second quake which measured 7.5. A Delta Airlines jetliner crashed near Dallas, TX in August, killing 137 peo- ple. Thirty-four people survived the crash, but five died of injuries later. Riots were an almost daily occur- rence in South Africa as blacks protest- ed Apartheid. An entire city block was destroyed in Philadelphia. Police tried to remove members of the radical group MOVE from their fortified rowhouse by drop- ping a small bomb on the building. A fire was started by the device and about 60 houses were destroyed. A Trans-World Airlines jet with 145 passengers and 8 crew members was hi- jacked in Athens, Greece in June. Most of the hostages were released within days, but the remaining 39 hostages were held for 17 days. One American hostage was killed. Four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro while on a Mediterranean cruise. One American was killed. After the ship was released, the Egyptian government agreed to return the hijackers to the PLO. However, the hijackers were in- tercepted by American jets as they were flown out of Egypt and returned to Ita- ly to stand trial. The space program was of national interest. Space walker James Von Hof- ten stood on the end of the robot arm of the Space Shuttle Discovery after suc- cessfully launching the repaired Syn- com Satellite in September. A high school teacher, Christa McAuliffe was chosen to go into space with six other astronauts in January 1986. Disaster was imminent as the space shuttle ex- ploded within 90 seconds after take-off. The shock of the outcome was revealed as many Americans nationwide mourned the deaths of all seven crew members. On the lighter side, blue collar trou- bador Bruce Springsteen, was the un- disputed Boss of rock n' roll. His songs about Vietnam veterans, steelworkers, and factory workers hit many respon- sive chords with all ages of Americans. President Ronald Reagan underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his lower intestine. The 74 year old president was back on the job with- in weeks after the operation. fri - V . V-Q--.....,, ,4,,.ll. .... 'WY 'W fn... .M L N., ,,,., . , ,,.,4. , .4......vm.,,1a.-. --- as Tf' ' .,,. fe W' - - 4 ..- 1 .none 'Niu-

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