Gwinn High School - Gwinner Yearbook (Gwinn, MI)

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Overturning a Presidential Veto of Sanctions Against South Africa. The president lobbied furiously. Me said he was second to no one in detesting apartheid. He appointed a new black ambassador to South Africa. Me insisted that economic sanc- tions would only hurt Africa's blacks. But by a 78 to 21 vote the Senate overrode the president's veto of sanctions agains South Africa. The House had rejected the veto 3 days before. In 1986 while political unrest killed over 1,300 South Africans — most black — Americans began to see apartheid not as a foreign- policy issue by a question of civil rights. Demonstrators picket- ed S. African embassy in Washington and college students across country called for U.S. divestment of holding in S. Africa. By the end of the year some two dozen corporations pulled out such as IBM. Honeywell and Coca Cola. Hostage American journalist Nicholas Daniloff spent the week in a Soviet prison, an un- willing pawn in a superpower stalemate. Moscow accused him of spying, but its real goal was to engineer a swap for a Soviet agent. The capture of Eugene Hasenfus, from Marinette, Wisconsin, in Nicaragua has lift- ed the veil on the shadowy world of Ameri- can mercenaries. A Reign of Terror in Paris With a dreadful roar, a terrorist bomb exploded on the Rue de Remnes in Paris killing and maiming women and children. An outbreak of similar bomb- ings turned the City of Light into a City of Fear, but despite a massive manhunt, the terrorists eluded the police. Pan-Am Flight 73 Boeing 747 in Pakistan killing and wounding more than 100. It is suggested that mid east terror- ism may be moving to new killing grounds. 8

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— $69 Toxic chemicals spilled into the water of the Rhine river during a fire at a Sandoz chemical plant in Basel, Switzerland on No- vember 1st. On the March A hugh demonstration in Shanghai marked the cli- max of three weeks of campus agitation in favor of the modest democratic reforms suggested by Deng Xiao- ping. But the demonstrations seemed too spontane- ous, causing Chinese leaders to worry that popular democratic aspirations were getting out of hand. 100 Years Old The Statue of Liberty's 100th birthday million renovation. Stephanie Is High On Lowe Princess Stephanie of Mo- naco may have finally met her match, actor Rob Lowe The Chernobyl Syndrome In a chilling account of human misjud- gement, Soviet officials in Moscow gave their first detailed explanation of what went wrong at Chernobyl to trigger the world's worst nuclear accident. 22. Stephanie is Monaco's favorite royal model, cloth- ing designer, and new mov- ie star.

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Secret Dealings With Iran and Millions for the Contras. President Reagans biggest diplomatic disaster became visible the day he, in a brief appearance before the White Mouse press corps, stated that he had not been fully informed about his aides activities in the sale of weap- ons to Iran. Attorney General Edwin Mcese dropped the bombshell discovery that up to $30 million in secret profit from the weapons deal had somehow been divert- ed to the support of Nicaraguan Contras. This led to 3 investigations on Capital Mill and led to the appointment of a special prosecutor but few convincing answers to the question. What did the president know and when did he know it? The two men who seemed to know most, na- tional-security adviser John Poindexter and former staff- er Oliver North, were taking the 5th amendment — and Reagan's credibility was in tatters. Reagan's Iran Connection A cloak-and-dagger tale from the Middle East blew the cover off Washington s secret campaign to patch up its differences with Iran. The administration has secretly permitted shipments of U.S. military equipment to Tehe- ran in return for help in securing the release of Ameri- cans held by pro-Iranian terrorists in Lebanon. The reve- lations spotlighted Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, a swashbuckling White Mouse aide, pointed to a power struggle in Iran and overshadowed the homecoming of released hostage David Jacobson, who has been held for seventeen months. Breaking Down Faces said it all. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev emerged on October 12 from the last ses- sion of their Iceland Summit looking crest- fallen. I don't know what else I could have done, said the Sovi- et leader as they part- ed. You could have said yes, said Rea- gan. During a 2 day preparatory sum- mit, Reagan and Gor- bachev nearly achieved a historic breakthrough on arms control, with heavy cuts in strategic nuclear forces and the elimination of me- dium range missiles in Europe. For one moment, the leader even contemplated the abolition of all nu- clear weapons. But brokedown as Reagan rejected on all-or- nothing Soviet pro- posal that included strict limitations on his Strategic Defense Initiative, the anti- missile program bet- ter known as Star Wars. With arms con- trol dead in the water, at least temporarily, Reagan and Gorba- chev couldn't agree on a date for a full- fledged summit. On the Attack The crisis of a house divided continued to plague the Philippines last week. Gestures from President Corazon Aquino had Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile step up his attacks on a government he saw as dangerously soft on communism. The Importance of Talking About A Dreaded Disease. Roy Cohn could never bring himself to name the dis- ease that killed him. His medical records, leaked to the press, were more revealing: Cohn had died of AIDS. De- signer Perry Ellis also died of AIDS. He declined to say what ravaged him. Talking about the disease became an issue even U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop recom- mended that sex education about AIDS begin in elemen- tary school. The facts covered will be grim: 15,757 Ameri- cans have died from AIDS. The number is expected to rise to 179,000 by 1991. In 1986 the only celebrated victim willing to discuss AIDS was Jerry Smith, a former Washington Redskin star, who gave an interview to help others understand, I want people to know what I've been through and how terrible the disease is. said Smith, I don't want anyone to go through this.