Morton High School - Top Hat Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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■5coop Highlight Cult commits mass suicide in cvies • Superman •Animal Meuse • Meaven Can Wait •Crease •Cocky Merrer One of the most devastating acts of suicide and murder occurred at Jonestown, Guyana. More than 900 members of the Peoples Temple religious cult died. The California-based religious sect was located at Jonestown, Guyana in the jungle on the northern coast of South America. Reverend Jim Jones, a once respected Indiana-born humanitarian, headed the colony. Visiting Americans, including California Congressman Leo Ryan, three newsmen and one defector from the colony, were ambushed when trying to board two planes that were leaving Guyana. They had been checking the cult’s strange doings. Rev. Jones, upon hearing of the ambush, felt that the colony was being threatened and ordered a destructive suicide. The followers sipped a lethal drink concocted of potassium cyanide and potassium chloride. Purple Flavor-Aid sweetened the potion. Parents and nurses squirted the poison onto the tongues of babies with syringes. Gacy charged. Hears! freed First he put handcuffs on himself and unlocked them. Then he persuaded his victims to try the cuffs on but failed to teach them the trick in releasing them. In this way, John Gacy alledgedly trapped 32 young men and boys and strangled them. Gacy alledgedly buried most of the victims under his house and garage, and threw five into the Des Plaines River. If his confession to 32 murders is true, he will be the worst mass murderer in U.S. history. After thousands of calls and letters, President Carter and the Department of Justice decided to act upon the requests to free Patty Hearst. Her sentence of seven years for her part in the S.L.A. bank robbery was commuted, and she was released five months before parole eligibility. 24 — National, Local

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To entertain the Land of Light people, Clowns Neil Wilson, Sue Boilek and Robert Wolanin perform circus tricks. Because it may contain the location of the Golden Periwinkle, Melinda (Cecilia Stojan), Lulu (Pam Magginnis), Benjamin (Kevin Laurion), Lady Sunshine (Paulette Szczepanski) and Thaddeus (John Swanson) look in the flower book. Plays — 23

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Kenny L«g:g1ns...Blneis Straight-legs, vests, spikes complete wardrobe The key word in high school dressing this year seemed to be vests. There were down- filled vests, tapestry vests, satin vests, ... Straight leg western-style jeans made from corduroy and denim were often worn with them. Designer jeans were a big interest. Calvin Klein, Sassoon, GaVinci, ... were names dropped on the backs of these jeans. Ruffled collars, preacher collars, and small pointed collars swept into the limelight and on to the backs of countless girls. New colors, or dusty variations of old colors, came into existence this fall. Khaki green and khaki tan also frequented halls and classrooms. Accessories took some drastic turns and tumbles. One such change occurred with shoes. Three to four inch heels, along with clogs, and last year’s knee high boots scuffed floor and stairs. Long scarfs, neckties, and pouches were hung around necks. Double wrap belts made their debut on the high school waistline. Brothers ...To . Heading the list of some of the top albums of the year were Billy Joel’s “52nd Street”, Foreigner’s “Double Vision”, and Steve Martin’s “A Wild Crazy Guy”. Pledging their proceeds from “Too Much Heaven”, the Bee Gees helped with the United Nation’s fund. Also top artists such as Rod Stewart, Earth Wind and Fire, and John Denver donated a song. John Belushi teamed up with Dan Akroyd, both of Saturday Night Live”, to form the Blues Brothers. On their album “Briefcase Full of Blues”, their single “Soul Man” was successful. Disco music came alive with Village People’s “Macho Man”, and Donna Summer’s “MacArthur Park”. 1 f H g © f Carter probes crises After 13 days at the Camp David Summit, Host President Carter, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat emerged from secrecy to television cameras. From the summit, two documents were drawn up that outlined plans for Middle East peace. After signing the agreement, old enemies Sadat and Begin embraced, climaxing the spirit of Camp David. In 1949, the Chinese government split and Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan to establish the Chinese Nationalist Party, while the mainland remained Communist China. The United States then recognized Taiwan as the official Chinese government and failed to acknowledge mainland Chin ountr jnti December 1978. President Carter nullified a 24-year-old defense treaty with Taiwan and established a new bond between the United States and People’s Republic of China. When China’s Vice Premier Teng Hsiaso-p’ing visited the U.S., Taiwanese Americans became in inflamed with demonstrations protesting the betrayal of the once Taiwanese ally. His honest attempts to westernize Iran failed to outweigh his lavish way of life when angry Iranians compared the Shah’s good and bad points. Fearing assassination, the Shah fled the country, ■ leaving Bakhtiar in power. Still not satisfied with the government, Iranians looked to Ayatollah Khomeini to lead them in a revolution. National, Local — 25