Missouri Western State University - Griffon Yearbook (St Joseph, MO)

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Summer Records and Deaths, Highs and Lows National headlines over the summer announced landings, blast offs, failures, deaths and record lows in every concievable area. Shock waves rocked the nation as the judge read the juryis verdict that John W. Hinckley Jr. was unot guilty by reason of insanitytl on each of the thirteen counts against him in the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan March 30, 1981. The space shuttle Columbia landed on Independence Day before President Reagan and 400,000 Hag-waving Americans. Astronauts Ken Mattingly and Henry Hertsfield were directed onto a 15,000 feet stretch of California concrete for the shuttlels first landing on a paved runway. A California truck driver rigged 45 weather balloons to a lawn chair, strapped himself in and took a 45-minute ride up to 16,000 feet before he got cold, shot some balloons with a BB gun and crashed into a power line. He lived to tell his story to some unamused police officers. The drive to ratify the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, a feminist goal since it was introduced in Congress 59 years ago, failed, still three legislatures short of the 38 that would have made it the 27th Amendment to the Constitution. Figures released by the St. Joseph Light and Power Company showed that the summer of 1982 was 58 percent cooler than average and 64 percent cooler than the summer of 1981. President Reagan served notice that he did not feel bound to keep defense spending for fiscal 1984 and 1985 within the limits of the budget resolution that he had endorsed and Congress had adopted earlier. Henry Fonda, Who became a legend in the American enter- tainment world during a career that spanned more than five decades, died at age 77 in Los Angeles; The Federal Reserve Board lowered its basic lending rate to banks to 10.5 percent from 11 percent, touching off an immediate decline in other interest rates and adding to hopes that credit conditions will ease enough to permit an economic recovery. Former congressional page Leroy Williams confessed that he was lying when he made charges of homosexual relations between congressmen and pages. Williams, 18, said he lied to draw attention to a lack of supervision on the teenagers participating in the page program. An extraterrestrial creature beat the bejabbers out of Little Orphan Annie at the box office. ttExtraterrestriaP means itout- side the earthll and Little Orphan Annie means tttomorrowfl but what i1E.T.lsii bOX-OffiCC victory over iiAnnie means is that Americans these days would rather revel in high-tech fantasy t0 daydreams, lovable weirdos to thick-skinned or- phans and in creatures than in tomorrow. By Sandy Veale IZTSummer London,s Bomb

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For nine months, students stood in lines for everything from meals to movies to registra- tion, found themselves paying $20 or more, , ' for a single textbook, and waited for hours simply to wash and dry their clothes. Yet, with a countless number of parties each week, free entertainment throughout each month, and letters from home, student life was more than bearable. These fun-tilled activities added that special finishing touch to college life. J STUDENT LIFE Student Lifetl 1

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mig'vggjgif Ltaumms 9Ags01dxgiuv London,s Bomb MicHaef fagan ?lt . Xi ??wkinzqham Tallzce A World at War For a summer, of terrorism and war, the beginning was hardly indicative of its outcome. As June neared, Sophia Loren, once convicted of tax evasion, was arrested and' served 1 7 days of her 30-day sentence in a womenis prison in Italy. The actress took advantage of the time to write her prison memoirs. After two months of lighting in the Falkland Islands, Argen- tine troops surrendered on June 21 as British infantrymen overtook the Falkland capital of Stanley. Back in Britain, the victory celebration was soon followed with yet more ringing bells and a 41-gun salute as the British hailed the birth of their new prince, William Arthur Philip Louis. Weeks later Buckingham Palace acknowledged another ar- rival, but this time with no warmth or fanfare. Queen Elizabeth awoke early one morning to find Michael Fagan, an un- employed Londoner; opening the curtains of her bedchamber. After three attempts to get help, the queen finally summoned a chambermaid. The IRA, after months of virtual silence, re-emerged in the news in late June after setting off two bombs in London. The first exploded in a parked sedan in Hyde Park as the Queens Household Cavalry marched past. Less than two hours later, another went off under a bandstand at Regents Park where the Royal Green Jackets were performing. The French had their share of terrorism in late August When a deli in the Jewish district of Paris was attacked by a small anti-Semitist group. Ayatollah Khomeiniis holy warriorsf, with the backing of $30 million worth of Israeli arms, continued their 21-month war against Iraq in early June with an invasion through the Iraqi border. Nearby, Israel waged its own summer-long war with the PLO. After the assassination of their ambassador to Britain in early June, Israeli fighters began an all-out attack on Palestinian posts in Lebanon. By June 28 the Israelis had captured all of southern Lebanon, barricading 6,000 PLO guerrillas in West Beirut. Finally, after 76 days of violated ceaseetires, the PLO ended its 12-year stay in Lebanon when, with the aid of American, French and Italian peacekeeping troops, 14,000 Palestinian fighters evacuated Beirut. By Pam Dunlap SummerH 3