East Lincoln High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Denver, NC)

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Q film r International terrorism spread to the sea in 1985. Pour Palestinian ter- rorists hijacked the Italian cruise-iinen the Achille Laura, while on a cruise in the Mediterranean Sea. Many Americans were angered as one American was killed during the ordeal. After the terrorists released the ship, the Egyptian government agreed to re- turn the hijackers to the PLO. Howev- en the hijackers were intercepted by American jets as they were being flown out of Egypt and returned to Italy to stand trial. isis X ' in 1985' ations ace acts In 1985, racial tension in South Africa reached high levels. The attention of the world was focused on South Africa as many nations questioned the properness of a mod- ern-dayApartheid system, In South Africa, 'riots were an almost 'daily occzirrencefas blacks protested Apartheid. Shown here, a white man runs from a jeeringc groupfgof stone-throwing blacks in downtown Iohan- nesburg aas widespread violence continued to errnpt throughout theicountry. V '4 2 Q X' cz 1 . 1 ' A L ! 'A mg, x--al Terrorists shocked the world once more. A Trans World Air- lines jet with 145 passengers and 8 crew members was hijacked this I une in Athens, Greece. The Sheite hijackers then forced the plane to fly to Beirut, then to Algeria, and hack to Beirut. The majority of the hostages were released within days, but 39 re- maining hostages were held for 17 days. During the hijacking, the terrorists killed one American hostage,

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And a time for tears . . . Disaster Shakes X Mexico A series of devastating earth- quakes rumbled through Mexico City in September leaving mass de- struction. Few ofthe 18 million lio- ing in the metropolitan area escaped the effects of the first earthquake- which registered 8.1 on the Richter scale-on the second, which regis- tered 25. Hometown Tragedy The Passing gf An Age . . .But the tragedy that most directly affected us was the loss of Four prominent actors died in late 1985: Orson Welles, 70, of a heart attackg Llo dNolarz 83 o lun cancer'Rock Hudson 59 o AIDS'and YalBrennen one of our own, Donald Beam, on October 10. y , , f g , , , f , 65, of cancer 1 x ,FX y 145

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of terrorism and violence The war in the Middle East continued through 1985. A distraught Mos- lem hugs his son only mo- ments after they survived a car bomb explosion out- side of a West Beirut res- taurant in late August. Explosions like this are often common in Beirut. They are shown being hurried away from the carnage by another man as cars burn in the rub- ble-strewn street. Y. 9. .W-ff ' ff A. 4' -.qfj '. .ar ' f -'hh-in '.A -11 .sn-L H ' -Q f-, . 'sv so ,! '13's 'Oli ' . ,- , 435-,f-.1 e f ' Q -4 ,, , .4 W' ,M 4 , A, .Y Q ....- vv-Q vm:--A, Q . Q- ,V , H .. V f 5 Pictures like this are typical examples ofthe peaceful life we experience at East Lincoln. We should all be thankful that we have not been subject to terrorism, wan or other tragedies. 147 'ing