What’s Going On In the World... For people from all over Alabama, the biggest game of the year is not the Sugar Bowl—it is the Iron Bowl. Alabama and Auburn enthusiasts gathered at Legion Field in Birmingham to root for their favorite team. The victor of the Iron Bowl has a full year to gloat over the win and this year’s winner was Auburn, 10-0. The World Series pitted the American League champ, the Minnesota Twins, against the National League victor, the St. Louis Cardinals. The Twins took the championship in a 4 to 3 series. The biggest drop in the stock market since the crash of 1929 had Wall Street in an uproar last fall. Many investors lost millions of dollars due to the crash, but the effect on the common consumer has not yet been felt. Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union and the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, had another summit. This meeting was held in the U.S. in Washington, D.C. and was highlighted by the signing of a interme- diate range missile treaty calling for the destruction of all such missiles. Closer to home, Montevallo exper- ienced a gas station explosion late last summer. Bubba’s, a popular convenient store in the Vallo Plaza, blew up when a car’s ignition sparked a fire in an open pump being serviced. Bubba’s remod- eled and reopened in the fail. President Reagan is enthusiastic about the upcom- ing summit and missile negotiations at a pre-sum- mit press conference After the fire was put out, the fire-fighters clear “-»m the pumps and assess damages.
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What’s Going on in the Everything from the Washington World? a Redskins winning the Superbowl to the continuing Iran-Contra affair took place in 1987 and 1988. Hostil- ity continued throughout parts of the beuiliisn cecil fodisines at a world; the Iran and Iraq war contin- Khomeini government ued and closer to the U.S., Nicara- guans battled Contras. In March of 1988, American troops were sent into Central A merica to aid the Contras. Arms talks continued between the U.S. and Russia, although not much was accomplished. The Aids epidem- ic rapidly spread, leading the public school systems to inform the younger generation. 1988 was and will be a year to remember with the summer Olympics and presidential election still to come. Some of the 1988 candidates Republicans-Bush and Robert- son; Democrats Dukakis, Jack- son, Cumo, and Gore The Saddle Dome was the sight for many Olympic vents in Calgary, ia
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