Mazama High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Klamath Falls, OR)

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National News The Challenger America's innocent vision of space travel is gone. It went in a flash and a fiery ball at 11:39-13 a.m., on Jan. 28, 1966. In that instant, seven men and women who dared to break the bonds of Earth simply vanished, their passing marked by a 10-mile-high cloud that hung in the skies for hours. The flight itself was unique. Not only was it the 10th orbital mission ol the shuttle Challenger, but also it was the first flight to carry an ordinary” American into space. Christa McAu- liffc was to have broadcasted lessons from space to televisions across America. It has been said that Christa brought a different kind of lesson into our lives — one of how to deal with death. Many important shuttle projects, in fact all space flights, were can- celled until a special commission ap- pointed by the President could ana- lyze what went wrong with the Chal- lenger and what kind of reforms NASA needs to undergo. The com- mission released its reports in June and NASA has projected flights as early as June. 1987. Charles And Diana In November 1985 the Prince and Princess of Wales visited the United States for a 3-day visit. After weeks of feverish anticipation and frenzied publicity, the world's most glamor- ous and relentlessly observed couple arrived in the capital of what was once their kingdom's richest posses- sion. After Washington, they were set to jet down to Palm Beach, Fla., for a game of polo and a charity ball for the United World College of the American West. They also paid a call to a suburban JC Penney to give the royal seal of approval to the store's Best of Brittain merchandising campaign. East year oil and gasoline prices fell to a surprising low. These prices were welcomed by American citizens, but had damaging effects on various gas and oil companies. Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Astronauts: Ellison S. Onizuka. Christa McAuliffe, Gregory B. Jarvis. Judith A. Resnik, Michael J. Smith. Francis R. Scobec. and Ronald F. McNair. AIDS Epidemic The grim statistics accumulating with the spread of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) has made it medicine's biggest mystery — and challenge — since the lethal virus was first recognized in 1981. Laboratories across the United States and Europe are searching for drugs to combat the AIDS virus. But meanwhile the virus is demonstrating features that can complicate drug treatment and that will have to be overcome if the U.S. Public Health Service is to meet its goal of control- ling and preventing AIDS by the year 2000. The name AIDS comes from the fact that the virus destroys the body’s immune system, the collection of tis- sues and cells, mostly in the blood, that attack invading microbes such as bacteria and viruses. Some people are born with a genetic defect in their immune system, but those infected with the AIDS virus the immune de- ficiency is said to be acquired. No one knows if AIDS will ever go away. If an effective vaccine can be made, it should be possible to slow or stop the spread of AIDS, though perhaps not eradicate it en- tirely. Until there is such a vaccine — or if one is never developed — AIDS could become a vastly greater scourge than it already is. 164-National News

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Chernobyl Accident The Geneva summit, held on No- vember 19-20 between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, was a realistic discussion of nuclear-arms control — and may have possibly made some concrete progress. The four primary U.S. concerns were arms control, hu- man rights, bilateral relations, and re- gional conflicts. In the arms talks, the lack of guide- lines for negotiators could create a new deadlock at the outset over the major U.S.-Soviet dispute: Whether to link cutbacks in offensive missiles to the Kremlin's demand that President Rea- gan halt his Strategic Defense Initia- tive. known as Star Wars. Less predict- able, and potentially less manageable, arc U.S.-Soviet strains that could flare up in regional trouble spots. The Live Aid This year the music industry became a medium with a message. Singers donated their talents for records like We Arc The World. but this year the charitable contributions of music art- ists grew. The Live Aid concert which took place in July, was 16 hours of nonstop rock and raised $70.5 million to save lives in Africa. Then came Farm Aid. a 15-hour show to raise $10 mil- lion for farmers. Later Artists United Against Apartheid released an album and video. Sun City, to support South African activists. But, the fans funded the effort, buying tickets, T-shirts, and records, and rallying in pledges during spin-off videos. chances of a settlement are remote be- cause Moscow, like the U.S. in Viet- nam, is not willing to admit defeat. One boost to stability in U.S.-Soviet relations is the apparent decline in So- viet enthusiasm for investing resources and political prestige to support new wars of national liberation in the Third World. For U.S. business, poten- tial benefit is suggested by Gorba- chev's invitation to U.S. companies to participate in major Soviet projects. The good news from the summit according to Paul C. Warnke, who headed the U.S. SALT II negotiations, is that the two leaders plan to meet again. The bad news, he fears, is that they will not achieve much in those talks, either. The first warning came in Sweden. At 9 a.m. on Monday, April 28. techni- cians noticed disturbing signals blip- ping across their computer screens. Those signals revealed abnormally high levels of radiation, a sure sign of seri- ous trouble. When the Swedes and their neighbors, demanded an explana- tion from Moscow, concerning the high-levels of radiation that was being measured in the area, they were met by denials and stone silence. Finally, at 9 p.m. on Monday, an expressionless newscaster on Moscow television read a four-sentence statement from the Council of Ministers that seemed to raise at least as many questions as it answered. An accident has taken place at the Chernobyl power station, and one of the reactors was damaged. Measures are being taken to eliminate the consequences of the accident. Those affected by it are being given assistance. A government commission has been set up. This was by far the gravest crisis in the troubled 32-year history of com- mercial atomic power. A catastrophe had occurred over the weekend at the Chernobyl plant, 80 miles north of Kiev, where a reactor meltdown and explosion caused untold death and suffering and raised the prospect of long-term health and environmental damage on a far greater scale than any- thing yet unleashed by peaceful nuclear use. Radioactive gases and particles were spread over a vast section of the Soviet breadbasket in the Ukraine, and water supplies for the more than 6 million inhabitants of the Kiev area were threatened with contamination. Milk from local cows will probably be taint- ed for months to come. Although the Soviets politely rejected U.S. assis- tance, Moscow did invite Dr. Robert Gale, a UCLA bone-marrow-trans- plant specialist, to provide medical aid to Chernobyl victims. By week’s end. the administration’s anger at Moscow had grown. In his Saturday radio address, Reagan de- clared, The Soviets owe the world an explanation. A full accounting of what happened at Chernobyl and what is happening now is the least the world community has a right to expect. The Chernobyl disaster is inevitably renewing the debate over the safety of nuclear power plants far beyond Soviet borders. The disaster at the Chernobyl plant isn’t likely to resolve the world’s nuclear dilemma but there is hope that it will at least increase the momentum for international cooperation to deal with the hazards of nuclear power. International News-163

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The Lady Producer David L. Wolper, who staged the extravagant opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics, planned the star studded celebration of the Statue of Liberty's 100th birthday (July 4, 1986). At the ceremony the newly renovated Lady Liberty was unveiled. A 30-barge fireworks display and the simulta- neous swearing in of 25,000 new U.S. citizens were two of the highlights of the ceremony. Hands Across America On Sunday, May 25. 1986, the Hands Across America project (a monumentally ambitious plan to form a human chain from New York to California) took place. The pro- ject hoped to raise $50 million for the nation's homeless and hungry. It would have taken 55 million people to make a complete line along the looping, 4.152-mile route. Whether their contributions of at least $10 apiece and massive corporate assis- tance got the drive to its $50 million goal was not known. Ken Kragen. organizer of Hands Across America and its predecessor. We Are the World, said, It'll probably be three months or four before its all in. Information on local homeless and hunger organizations was passed out to people so that they could get involved. Organizers indicated that 60 percent of the profits would be donated to establish groups and 40 percent would be used to examine the causes of poverty. The line began in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty at New York's Battery Park. It meandered through 16 states and the District of Colum- bia, where it ran across the north portico of the White House and end- ed at the Queen Mary’s dock in Long Beach, California. In between was a cross section of American civilization reflecting the democratic as well as the bizarre. In Battery Park, a priest held the hand of a youth sporting a punk haircut. At the California-Arizona border. Senator Alan Cranston held hands with actress Bo Derek. In Maryland, more than 550 boaters lashed their crafts together and 100 scuba divers held hands underwater to keep the chain intact across the Susquihanna River. Even marriages took place as cou- ples got married in the line in Balti • more. New York. Phoenix, Ham- mond. Indiana, and in Memphis. The caplet replaced the Tylenol capsule. Tylenol Capsule Poisonings After the death of a 23-year-old woman who had taken cyanide-laced Tylenol. Johnson Johnson pulled Tylenol capsules off the market, stopped production of its other cap- sule products, and announced that from now on it would sell its non- prescription products only in pill form. The decision cost Johnson Johnson as much as $150 million to recall its capsules and scrap their pro- duction. To make up for its loss, the com- pany began promoting Tylenol in the form of caplets, which are the smooth, elongated tablets that John- son Johnson began producing in 1983, after seven people in the Chica- go area were poisoned by tainted Ty- lenol capsules. After that incident J J spent $50 million to recall 31 mil- lion bottles of Tylenol capsules. When it reintroduced the product two months later, it was in a more costly, triple-sealed package J J's sudden decision prompted the pharmaceutical industry to re-ex- amine its wide spread use of over- the-counter capsules, which now in- clude dozens of preparations ranging from Contac Decongestant to Dexa- trim diet formula. As J J's night- mare began to subside, another com- pany's may have begun. Consumers in several states reported finding bits of broken glass in Gerber baby food and fruit juice. National News-165