Hialeah High School - Hiways Yearbook (Hialeah, FL)

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,f49' Y Q . . . a year of loss and change Ft 3 i - -.j 'M .cal n V? ' e 1 f A ' - 'f tl - ihum-Qsdldvsn' . ABQ! rQl-In ai-1 'X ,rr 5 ,gg W Q . The vaT of deaTh siTs on a plank walkway aT The People's Temple in JonesTown, Guyana, wiTh The bodies of some of The more Than 900 vicTims of The murder- suicide ploT on The ground. The vaT conTained an ade drink laced wiTh cyanide. PhoTo: Frank Johnson, WashingTon PosT, via Wide World PhoTos. zjgnvgsgs A flaming Pacific SouThwesT Airways Boeing 727 plunges To The ground. crashing inTo a residenTial area oT San Diego, Ca. The ieT and a small plane col- lided and crashed, killing I5O persons. In Retrospect X 357

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V l978-79. . . Phillip Qualls T-Bred sTudenTs were sTill Talking abouT The Tinal game loss To Nor- land in TooTball season. when They were shocked by The Tragic deaTh oT senior Phil Qualls. Phil died in an accidenT November I8, l978. Hialeah High will always have Tond memories oT him. 356 I In Retrospect HC' . W, vvdagrwd. Mrs. Norma DelaTorre ioined Hialeah's adminisTraTive sTaTT on January 29, I97'-?, as an AssisTanT Principal oT AdminisTraTion. Mrs. DelaTorre has worlceo Tor The Dade school sysTem Tor I7 years, in various posiTions. wi! 1. A242 ,,,f NoTed anThropologisT, MargareT Famed wire-walker Karl Wallenda Mead, died in Nov. I978. In plunged To his deafh while walking a addiTion To auThoring numerous TighTrope. PhoTo: Gary Williams, books, Mead was Tamous as Wide-World phoTos. speaker and lecTurer.

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ln a bloody revolufion, followers of fhe Ayafollah Khomeini overfhrew lranls leader, fhe Shah. Spinning ouf of confrol, fhe revolufion caused full-scale evacua- fion of Americans from lran and a sfoppage of oil imporfs fo fhe US. ,W .f i R Cami gg Fidel Casfro's decision fo allow 3.000 polifical prisoners fo leave Cuba had greaf impacf upon Miamis Hispanic populafion. The prisoner offer, plus fhe pledge fhaf exiles in fhe U.S. could visif Cuban relafives, resulfed in many family reunions in Miami. Wifh Carfens announcemenf fhaf fhe U.S. and China would begin normal diplomafic relafions, Vice-premier feng l lsiaop'ing visifed fhe US. fo learn modernizafion fechniques - fhen wenf home fo sef up an offensive againsf Vief Nam. Egypfian Presidenf Anwar Sadaf and Israeli Prime Minisfer Menachem Begin embrace as Presidenf Jimmy Carfer applauds during a Whife House announcemenf fhaf fhe fwo Middle Easf nafions had agreed on fhe Camp David agreemenf. Shorfly afferward, Sadaf and Begin had a few nof-so-peaceful words fo say abouf each ofher over fhe Nobel Peace Prize awarded fo fhem bofh. 358 X In Retrospect