Florida State University - Renegade / Tally Ho Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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™» ' - ' - Ti MM irm tiuvsu;m5U2i:sjutu, V ViS r The World Around Us J i 1977 i« % Extremes in weather continued in ' 77. East- ern blizzards resulted in floods, natural gas shortages and blackouts. Western drought bred rampant fires and water rationing. Newly-elected President Carter faces such issues as energy con- servation, the Concorde, the B-1 bomber cruise mis- sile controversy, Panama Canal and Laetril debates, idi 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 KLM Pan 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. ' f ' .-( e. A I., • joB f — i2

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r The World Around Us «• t 1976 America demonstrated its capacity to adapt in 1976. Old faces reappeared and new faces stepped forward 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. began to celebrate our 200th birthday. Marijuana was decriminalized in California, a new investi- gation of the Kennedy and King assassinations was begun, and in Congress a new scandal began a result of Elizabeth Ray ' s revelations. Mean while, old faces made one last appearance as Eldridge Cleaver returned to the U.S for trial, Mao died in China, and King Kong returned to New York in an oil tanker.

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r ■ XJl . . The World Around Us 1978 o. The drought was over, but the storms that followed were, in many parts of the country, blizzards and floods. President Carter ' s popularity was on the downswing because of his foreign policy and the releasing of the Panama Canal. The court rules for Bakke, but condones affirmative action. The nation watched as Californians staged the Great Tax Revolt, better known as Proposition 13. Champions of world peace were weary with the loss of two Popes, the Russian spy trials, the People ' s Temple mass suicide and murders in Guyana, and continued tension in the Middle East. Issues still pending were the ERA, the Neutron Bomb, the Self Rule plan in Rhodesia, paraquat poisonings, Cuban tension and the threat of Cold War. Muhammad All was upset and all of America caught Saturday Night Fever. .♦•: % ' i C oz L« ' lIU aj jaliiWwPW ' % - i-!! Pf - ' ' ' SS- 0j wl •vy: - %J kV, m WcL i -. ZM.