Mount Union College - Unonian Yearbook (Alliance, OH)

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— QUEST — ACCOMPLISHMENT — QUEST — ACCOMPLISHMENT — i Br eh ae il ai “@ ipxdte Fak, Princess Diana gave birth to Prince Harry in late 1984. The photo shows Prince Charles and his other son, two-year old Prince William. Mission specialist Bruce McCandless takes a walk in space in early 1984. In the photo he is seen using the so-called manned ma- neuvering unit as he moved away from the Shuttle Challenger during the eight-day space mis- sion.

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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

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| — CELEBRITIES — CELEBRITIES — CELEBRITIES — CELEBRITIES — Robert Duvall received an Oscar for his role as a washed-up country singer who overcomes alco- holism in the film “Tender Mercies’. Shirley MacLaine won for best actress and Jack Nichol- son won best supporting actor as an eccentric mother and pot-bellied ex-astronaut in ‘Terms of Endearment,” which also won the best picture award. The best supporting actress Oscar went to Linda Hunt for her role in “The Year of Living Dangerously”. The photo shows Ma- cLaine and Duvall the night of the Oscars. Mm Mm Mm MM Mm MK Vanessa Williams was forced to surrender her title as Miss America at the | Michael Jackson conducted his so-called Victory Tour to more than a request of pageant officials because she had posed nude for sexually dozen cities. The original ticket policy, which required fans to mail in $120 explicit photos. She became the first of 57 Miss Americas to be forced to postal money order for four tickets with no guarantee that they could resign. Suzette Charles, the first runner-up became the 58th Miss America. receive tickets, was shelved after much criticism. She crowned Sharlene Wells, Miss Utah, at the Atlantic City Pageant in September.