Missouri University of Science and Technology - Rollamo Yearbook (Rolla, MO)

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An entire city block was destroyed in Philadelphia Police tried to evict members of the radical group MOVE from their fortified rowhouse by drop- ping a small bomb on the building. A fire was started by the device and about 60 houses were destroyed. A series of devastating earthquakes rumbled through Mexico City in September and the death toll was in the thousands. Few in the metropolitan area of 18 million escaped the effects of the first quake, which registered 8-1 on the Richter scale; or the second quake, which measured 7.5. w Til 9 rim vin i k Trs W -v.

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A Delta Airlines jetliner crashed near Dallas in August, killing 137 people. The plane was on a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Los Angeles with an intermediate stop at Dallas-Fort Worth, Thirty-four people survived the crash but five died of injuries later. The plane encountered a severe wind shear as it plunged to the ground. A resident of Armero in the Colombian mountains is helped by the Colombian Red Cross during digging out ef- forts, Friday, November 15. Many people were still trapped in mud and were being rescued with the help of hundreds of volunteers. 24

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Ceremonies were held at various times during the year at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Saigon government in Vietnam. The Vietnam Memorial is inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 dead or miss- ing soldiers from the Vietnam war. President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev talk in front of a fire place at the Fleur D’Eau Tuesday, November 19, in Geneva. 26