Mount Union College - Unonian Yearbook (Alliance, OH)

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— VICTORY — DEFEAT — VICTORY — DEFEAT — VICTORY — President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush sought re-election in 1984. He vowed not to raise taxes and ran on his record of the previous four years. President Reagan won re-election with the big- gest electoral vote in the nation’s history. He won 49 states with 49 percent of the total vote. The photo shows President and Mrs. Reagan at the victory celebration on election night, No- vember 6, 1984. Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mon- dale made history when he chose a woman, Ger- aldine Ferraro as his vice presidential running mate. Mondale and Ferraro were nominated on the Democratic ticket at the party convention in San Francisco in July. He announced early in his campaign that to lower the federal deficit in- creased taxes would be necessary. ELECTION ’84

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COVER STORIES 1985 COVER STORIES 1985 COVER STORIES 1985 Section Credit: AP Wide World Photos ' The Statue of Liberty celebrated her 98th birthday in 1984 and she began to show y CHEERS TO her age. The statue was worn from constant pummeling by wind, salt air and acid THE FUTURE rain, and the iron ribbing supporting the copper covering was badly corroded. A See a two-year restoration began in July 1984. It included a new gold-plated torch.

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The United States Marines arrived in Beirut in 1982. Lebanon was torn by | civil war and foreign invasion. In 1984 when the Marines left, more than 260 | Marines were dead, Lebanon was still at war with most of its territory occupied by foreign troups and its government tottering. The price of President Reagan’s commitment was too high and the Marines left Beirut. — WARK AND PEACE — WAR AND PEACE — WAR AND PEACE — Pope John Paul II was traveling pope in 1984. In May he went to South Korea, Thailand, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands; in June he went to Switzerland; in September to Canada and in October to Spain, Domini- can Republic and Puerto Rico. The photo shows the Pope in Mt. Hagen, Papua New Guinea where he met some of the 200,000 natives that turned out to welcome him in the highland jungle country. After years of civil war, elections were held in El Salvador in 1984. Jose Napoleon Duarte, was elected president in what international observers called the most open and free election in that country in 50 years. The photo shows a soldier reading a newspaper at the Rio Lempa checkpoint near El Salvador, the headline was “There is Faith in the Electoral Process.” 19