Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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Jackie Gleason was among some of the Hollywood greats to leave us this year. in Reagan was further diminished . . . Then Reagan didn't fare any better with his second nominee, Douglas Ginsburg, who hastily withdrew after routine ques- tions drew the response that in the past he had sometimes smoked marijuana . . . The ridiculed president, after two bad swings, was very careful to not strike out. His third nominee, Anthony Kennedy, was appointed to the Supreme Court . . . Support for Reagan had dipped so low in 1987 that he was blamed by many for the worst financial disaster in recent history -the October 18 crash on Wall Street, when the stock market plunged a record 508 points, causing world stock prices to collapse also. Many Americans felt that Reagan finally did something tight for a change when he was able to negotiate a summit meeting with Soviet leader Gorbachev in Washington D.C. The two leaders signed a historic nuclear arms reduction treaty which eliminated medium-range missles and more important- ly opened the door to what many anticipated as a new and better era in U.S.- Soviet relations . . . Epilogue f 19871: Fred Astaire kicked up his heels for the last time on June 22 . . . Jackie Gleason from Honeymooners fame died of cancer June 24. , , Henry Ford II, legendary auto king, died in September, 1987 . . . And finally, closer to home, Chicago Mayor Harold Washington died suddenly from a heart attack, stunning the city and throwing its govemment into turmoil . . . AIDS swept across the nation infecting over 3 million people, baffled the experts, and continued to be a deadly killer without cure . . . This is what shaped the class of 188. Dow's 500-point crash H 3, 13 - 'x .- Apwzf- z Xxx . X51 V, A . g ' I . ,- 1 ., X HR- 2 1 is -115, X 1 si .X: V I ,K ,X ,,.h5s,c- Ai i g - ' , 173s.41' Dow Jones industnal is H , average, Monday Q Fridays iOa.m. Noon Y 2 p.rn.m TT 4 pm, CVOSD ' ' '- qi Qi Pope John Paul ll greets a crowd in Miami, Florida.

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In the News . . Judge Robert Bork attempted to convince the Senate that he was the right, man. Only God knows the fate of the PTL and Jim and Tammy Bakker. What headlines does the class of '88 recall? Many events in the world were unexpected, unprece- dented, and unusually bizarre. The Iran-Contra Af- fair, the worst government scandal since Watergate, caused Ronald Reagan, America's first film star tumed president, to act like he had forgotten some lines. The drama featured some other lead characters: Col. Oliver North played hero, and his secretary Fawn Hall was the paper-shredding sex symbol . . . Speaking of sex, presidential candidate Gary Hart withdrew from the race in May, 1987, af- ter joumalists discovered his liason with a model, who had even joined him for a weekend cruise on the aptly named Monkey Business. Hart wasn't the only husband in the wrong bed. Evangelist PTL leader Jim Bakker was defrocked by rival minister Jerry Falwell after someone tattled about Bakker's adulterous encounter with a young church secretary. Women were the downfall of not only Bakker. . . but also of the U.S. Marines. Three of them stationed at the U.S. embassy in Moscow were caught in a Usex-for-secrets espionage case. It resulted in Sgt. Clayton Lonetree's court-martial, which was the first such sentence in Marines history . . . And somebody finally called the exterminators when that same embassy was found to be riddled with electronic bugs. In other parts of the world, U.S. military forces cautiously walked a tightrope across the Persian Gulf, refraining from official involvement in the Iran- Iraq war . . . In South Africa, after twenty-three years in prison, Govan Nbeki, former leader of the African National Congress lBlack Liberation Partyl, was released in November of 1987 . . . And in the Philipines, President Corizon Aquino maintained a fragile hold on democracy in the face of attempted military coups . . . Returning to the U.S., Pope John Paul II toured the United States fvia the bulletproof pope-mobilel, in the first such visit of the decade. He was somewhat upstaged, though . . . by a birthday bash that was held the same week in September, honoring the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution . . . Later in the fall of 1987, an embarrassed Sen. Joseph Biden withdrew from the presidential race after some sharp listeners informed the public that he had plagiarized parts of his speeches . . . Biden turned his attention to chairing the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Robert Bork, President Reagan's controversial nominee to the Supreme Court. After weeks of heated debate, Bork was rejected and respect for 5

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