Logan High School - Amphion Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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' Haig Resigns ' Victims of the Palestinian Massacre lie in the streets of West Deruit. ( E.P.A. Scandal ) On o Saturday night in Tel Aviv, ten percent of Israels entire population joined in a single act of frustration and anguish. They had come to mourn for the Palestinians, victims of the massacre in West Deruit. And they hod come to chont for the resignation of their own Prime Minister. Menachem Degin. Degin did not resign on that fateful night, but soon after his Defense Minister. Ariel Sharon was forced to resign from his place on the cabinet. Degin imediately named Shoron a Minister Without Portfolio. thereby minimizing the domoge to himself ond to Shoron. Degin then appointed Moshe Arens, os Shoron's replacement at the Defense Ministry. Despite expressions of grief from both the government ond the opposition they were unable to agree on o joint statement condemning the killing. The ruling Likud coalition passed o resolution colling the public to act in the spirit of Jewish tradition of love thy neighbor os thyself”, while the opposition declared that the Greenzweig hod been murdered os the result of o criminal attempt to attack freedom of speech ond the foundations of democratic life. £ In o frantic effort to control domoge from the spreading EPA controversy, the EPA Administrator, Anne Durford, flew to Times Deoch. Mo., where she informed residents that the government hod decided to buy out their toxics-poisoned town. Then the administration abruptly announced the forced resignations of two high-level EPA officials—ond there were indications that other dismissals would follow. Dut the Wednesday-afternoon massacre foiled to quiet the continuing storm over the EPA. Although there were stil no specific charges of wrongdoing, the Justice Deportment ond six congressional committees intensified their investigations. ENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CUftREI (Palestinian Massacre) He hod threatened to resign three times before the Senate even completed hearings on his nomination to be Secretory of State—ond so often after his confirmation that the senator once told him that he should hove the government Printing Office prepare a standard form that read.'I, A! Hoig, hereby resign my post os Secretory of State’, then he told Haig to send it to him not to the White House or they might not decide to renew his option. The prediction proved to be devostotingly accurate. One week Hoig charged into the Oval Office to insist that the President moke dear who was in charge of foreign policy. The answer he received did not satisfy him and for the first time in seventeen months there was no talking Hoig out of quitting. The next day a visibly distressed president onnounced to o stunned medio that he was accepting Haig’s resignation, with great regret,” and immediately nominoted George Schultz, o former Secretory of Lobor. ond Treasury to replace him, 5iT Alexander Haig resigned as Secretary of State. George Schultz replaced him Current Events 23

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Reagan Sends Marines ( Economic Outlook ) Prodded by the Federal Reserve's rapid expansion of the money supply, interest rotes fell throughout the lost half of 1962. That hod o tonic effect on several long depressed sectors of the economy. New home starts surged 36% in January to the highest level since September 1979. Soles of U.S. moke cars were up 8% from the some period lost year. Overall industrial production jumped by .9% in January, it s first sharp rise in eleven months. Real growth—after adjusting for . inflation—in the gross notional product 3 reached o healthy annual rote of about 5 4.5% in the first three months of the yeor. o compared with a 2.5% decline in the lost | quorted of 1982. The economists expected growth to stay in the 4% to 5% range for 6 the rest of the yeor. That would be slower Ui § than the 7% growth averaged in the first 8 yeor following previous postwar recessions. 5 but foster than the 3.1 % rote for this yeor that was forecast by the White House. President Reogon shokes hands with Republicans who braved the rain to see him in Hooper. Utah 1IWNT EVENTS CUfWNT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT FVFNTS CUIWNT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CUf U.S. Marines stand on guard duty in the commercial area of Beruit. 22 Current Events French paratroopers arrived by ship. Next, 100 Italians steamed in oboord o frigate. But when they cought sight of Israeli troops, they decided not to land. Israel refused to withdraw entirely from West Beruit. insisting that its men should maintain o presence at o few key points. Sending in the Marines was only port of Reagans effort to get the Mideost peace process bock on track. The President also hoped to drum up Arab support for his new initiative, which colled for a federation between Jordon ond the West Bonk Palestinians.•JftT Orrin Hatch campaigned for re-election at our school The Palestinian Massacre in Beruit sidetracked Reogon s peace initiative for the Middle Eost ond hod undercut Washington’s credibility with the Arab world; it also forced Reogon to put American lives on the line by ordering 800 U.S. Marines to Beruit os o port of o revived multinotionol peacekeeping force. Loter. to help keep the peace, 3,000 French. Itolion ond American troops were ordered bock to Beruit. The first 350

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JRftENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CURRENT EVENTS CU ( Computer Impact ) By itself, the personal computer was o machine with formidable capabilities for tabulating, modeling or recording. Those capabilities could be multiplied almost indefinately by plugging it into o network of other computers. This was generally done by attaching o desk top model to o telephone line. One could then dial on electronic doto base, which not only provided oil manner of information but also collected ond transmitted messages.—electronic moil. Beyond the computer hardware loy the virtually limitless market for software, oil those prerecorded programs that told the willing but mindless computer whot to do. The most visible aspect of the computer revolution, the video gome, was it's least significant. Nonetheless it was o remarkable phenomenon, about 20 corporations sold over $2 billion that year. According to some estimates, more than half of oil the personal computers The Princess Diono holds her son. Prince William of Woles ot Kensington Poloce He is six months old. ( Tylenol Killings ] I 5 £ O I I Terror spread across the notion when seven people in Chicago died from taking cyanide laced Extro-Strength Tylenol. As in o nightmare, the most innocent action—reaching for o painkiller to relieve o headache, something that Americans do millions of times every doy—hod become fraught with menace. By week's end Johnson Johnson, the maker of tylenol. stopped all production in capsule form. They come out with o tamper resistant lid, but cautioned that nothing could be mode tomper-proof. • » Artificial heart recipient Borney Clark, smiles up ot Dr 'fc the surgery ( First Artificial HeorF) Dr. Borney Clork. o retired dentist from Des Moines, Washington, received the first artificial heart in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was so close to death that they hod to move the surgery to ten hours ahead of schedule. After the implant, he mode on impressive recovery. He joked with the nurses, listened to topes of music ond even begon doing light exercises. liom DeVnes leader of the medical team the performed sitting in bed ond swinging his legs. A week after the operation he hod seizures for o 2 Vi hour interval, but the heart kept pumping 90 beats o minute, without a pause. Doctors attributed the seizures to o chemical ond fluid imbalance. because of a minor kidney failure Clork experienced just before surgery. The artificial heart helped them through the time of crisis Dustin Hoffmon felt thot by ploying Tootsie he become o better mon. 24 Current Events