Monacan High School - Legend Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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of friends, Shawn Pfeifer and Trip Mur- ence listens on a as the different phy make up the band Chaos, which bands compete for the $200 first CHAOS. Joining together with agroup Music That Makes Money. The audi- | won first place. place prize. 4 , Drumming Away. While Robby Ritter plays for the band Chaos, his father and others listen on to the heavy met- al and hard rock. ee eel It Takes All Kinds. The Battle of the Bands competition brought together a number of bands with a variety of mu- Sick oo Hag OAR AEB I NNR EE TRC INE A oN INE eet Battle of the Bands 31

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Music Takes a large crowd, gon a guit Dlo. Fugett lets hi 30 Battle of the Bands On April 7, 1984, the athle- tic department sponsored what proved to be the fiercest fought Battle of the Bands ever. Six groups competed for the $200 first place prize ina contest that ended with the smallest margin of victory. in the four year history of the competition. For three and one half hours the battle raged between bands vying for top honors. When it was all over, ‘‘Chaos”’ narrowly beat out ‘‘Skid Row’”’ to emerge victorous with their brand of heavy metal and hard rock. ‘‘Skid Row”’ thrilled and excited the crowd with a vari- ety of music ranging from Led Zeppelin to the Who, and earned $125 for the evening. “Rude Awakening” captured the third place $50 prize. They scored many points for their highly original set — a living A Battle of Words and Music room complete with rocking chair, reading lamps, televi- sions, and a family pet (Fang, the stuffed tiger). ‘“‘Zader’, ‘‘Shatterproof’’, and ‘‘Special FX’’ rounded out the competitors with a blend of music by such bands as Rush, Van Halen, Duran Duran, and others. With such fine tal- ent, it is easy to see why the audience left the show satis- fied.

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Legend Report Trouble at an Doorstep This past year was a time of enhanced involvement in Central America and the Caribbean. American Marines had a frolic through the tropical island of Grenada, using for the most part fiteen year old tourist maps as navigation aids. The ini- tial invasion came under attack (figura- tively speaking) by both allies and adver- saries who questioned the official expla- nation that American students were endangered by the chaos of revolution which threatened to bring an openly pro- Soviet government to power. After over- coming opposition from Cuban airport construction workers, whose shovels seemed to work surprisingly like subma- chine guns, the Marines began to rid the island of large caches of eastern block arms. The interim government is now drawing large amounts of aid from Ameri- can tax payers, and the airport is sched- uled to open soon for tourists (maybe Seniors on beach week?). Additionally, the United States contin- ued to play a somewhat paradoxidal role on the Central American mainland. In El Salvador, the U.S. continued to support the establishment against Sandinista rebels. The small tropical nation had elections, as of late, with the apparent victor, Jose Duarte, following the exam- ple of his supporters in the U.S. adminis- tration by promising to set up a presiden- tial commission to investigate death squads and rebes grievances. Both El Salvador and neighboring Honduras were sites for countless congressional ‘‘fact finding’’ (ie. vacation trips). On the other hand, the contras of Nica- ragua were the recipients of American aid, help which for some strange reason is referred to as ‘‘covert.’”’ ‘“‘Covert’’ aid was a political battlefront between Con- gress and President Reagan, with issues 32 Current Events the year in review such as summer jobs for teenagers, being used to try and sneak through Central American funds. The U.S. shocked the world when it was revealed that the CIA was in the process of mining Nicaraguan harbors. Although Secretary of State Schultz met with Nicaraguan leaders in the spring, relations still remained ex- tremely strained as summer neared. While in El Salvador and Nicaragua are embroiled in a civil war, other countries in Central and South America face a more gradual and less noticeable problem: the debts they owe western banks are so large as to endanger the stability of the banking system in the U.S. and Europe. Soviets abandoned the negotiations de- signed to regulate medium range mis- siles. Then, on the morning of September 1, word reached the U.S. that a Korean airlines jet, KAL 007 had been shot down by Soviet fighters over the military com- plex on Sakhalin island. Two hundred and sixty-nine persons, including a U.S. Con- gressman, were killed in the crash, which brought instant condemnation from the United States. However, as time passed, more details of U.S. activity in the area were revealed. An American surveillance plane was acknowledged to have been in the area, and while the Soviets remained quiet, the administration produced heav- ily doctored tapes to ‘‘prove’’ that the Haitzinger Oberdesterreichische Nachrichten Linz A shot heard Worldwide Much that happened in the last year had to do with East-West relations. In the fall, a continuing crumble of U.S.-Soviet ties involved the placement of new U.S. missiles in Europe, following which the Soviets had fired no warning shots. Only later was it reavealed that the real tapes confirmed the warning theory. While the Soviet explanation proved ludicrous, the fact-filled fight recorder was (big sur- prise) never found, so the truth may never be known. The incident allowed Reagan to push funding for the MX missile, chemi- cal and nerve gas production through Congress while the European peace movement suffered a death blow. How op: | portune. Premiere Andropov’s ‘‘cold’’ of late! summer turned into a kidney ailment from