Ladue Horton Watkins High School - Rambler Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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lllui Men and women help To find survivors On SepTember 49, 4985 an earfhauake sfruck Mexi- co CiTy in souThwesTern Mexico killing more Than 20,000 people. EarThquakes along Mexico's wesTern coasf generally resuIT from The movemenT of The oce- anic plaTes. Tremendous sTress buiIT up and The final resulT was an erupTion. Thousands of Mexicans were IefT homeless. Many losT loved ones because of buildings col- lapsing from The quake. Many people were buried alive or res- cued by The many people who in The rubble of The Mexican earihquake. came To Mexico CiTy To help in Time of disasTer. The governmenT seT up dwellings To shelTer The homeless, buT only a fracTion of The people could be accomo- daTed. lnTernaTional relief funds from WashingTon and The Ameri- can Red Cross were readily ad- minisTered To The homeless Mexi- can people. UnforTunaTeIy, due To Mexico's poor, inflaTed econo- my people felT This money was being misappropiaTed. ScienTisTs conTinually Try To learn how To predicT fuTure earThauakes. They hope To learn enough abouT The auakes so The effecTs will noT be as disasferous. This year Halley's comeT appeared in mid-February. Edmund Halley calculaied The orbiT of The comeT in 4682. He sTaTed The comeT was The same one ThaT appeared in 4534, 4607, and predicTed iT would appear in 4758. The comeT appears every 76 years. A rupTure in The righT rock- eT boosTer of The space shuTTle was suspecTed To be The cause of The explosion ThaT desTroyed The Chal- lenger and killed iTs crew Jan. 28, 4986. Space officials suspecTed ThaT whaT apparenTly was a rupTure in The rockeT causing had The ef- fecT of poinTing a Torch aT The side of Challenger's fuel Tank. The explosion killed seven crew members: Dick Scobee, Michael SmiTh, JudiTh Resnik, Ellison Oni- zuka, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis, and ChrisTa McAuliffe. Sco- bee was The shuTTle commander. Resnick was The second woman in space and on board for her eIecTrical equipmenT back- ground. Onizukafs mission would have been To deploy a saTelliTe To sTudy Halley's ComeT. McAu- liffe, a school Teacher from Con- cord, N.H., was selecTed To be The firsT Teacher in space. Her job was To describe space flighT in or- dinary language and Teach saTel- liTe classes from The Challenger. The disasTer, The worsf in The 25-year hisTory of manned space flighT, could force a revaluaTion of The human crews in space. 5 World

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K Qoll Around The World . . . Today, There is a growing apprehension of a fairly new virus noT yeT fully un- dersTood. This virus is known as AIDS, or ac- quired immune deficiency syn- A sTarving boy in Africa sifs among The famine of his naTive land. The famine has drome. Basically, AIDS causes a person's immune sysTem To col- lapse, and as iT does, leaves The paTienT open To various infecTions or viruses. Several hospiTals and clinics around The counTry are pulling To- geTher in an efforT To Try and ar- resT This debiliTaTing disease. AT This poinT, docTors have a few Theories as To how The virus spreads once conTracTed. ln simple Terms eiTher The virus kills The cells ThaT iT invades, or iT divides and reproduces, There- fore producing more of The virus. The groups mainly associaTed wiTh This deficiency are: homo- sexuals, drug addicTs, Transfusion recipienTs, and malnourished Afri- cans. Hundreds of babies are be- ing born Today wiTh This faTal dis- ease, and iT is predicTed ThaT The number of cases will double by The end of The year. This conTroversial disease has also led To The unforTunaTe ban- ning of children from school. Par- enTs and children alike fear ThaT children infecTed wiTh The virus should noT be exposed To The resT ror has lefT many in a panic due To The lack of informaTion of This dis- of The children. A widespread Ter- 14 World many people malnourished. ease. Many people have been in- fecTed wiTh The disease. Among Them is Rock Hudson, who died from AIDS in 1985. ElizabeTh Taylor obTained The Woman of The Year award for her work wiTh AIDS fund raising. Many performers are banding TogeTher To help raise money for research in fighTing This debiliTaTing disease. On July '13, 1985, The Live Aid concerT was held To benefiT hungry people in Af- rica. The concerT was acTuaIIy Two in one. SimulTaneous shows were held in Wembley STadium in Eng- land and John F. Kennedy STadi- um in Philadelphia. The concerT lasTed 44 hours in The U.S. and 10 hours in England. SixTy-one acTs performed and The evenT aT- TracTed a Television and radio au- dience of 4.5 billion. Bob Geldof, a member of The BoomTown RaTs, coordinaTed The concerT and raised S65 million for food To aid The African people. A second concerT To benefiT needy people was Farm Aid. This show Took Ten weeks of prepara- Tion and included performances by rock and counTry groups. Some of The counTry perfor- mances were done by Willie Nel- son and The group Alabama. The concerT raised S40 million To aid The farmers of America.

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Those who have The youTh have The fuTure. Jenni Silbersiein and Jenny Novak Take a break from playing Tennis To show Thai They are inTo Risky Business. .fiople