Northampton Area High School - Amptennian Yearbook (Northampton, PA)

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Ceremonies were held at various times during the year at the Vietnam Memorial in Washigton to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Saigon goverment in Vietnam. The Vietnam Memorial is inscribed with the names of more then 58,000 dead or missing soldiers from the Vietnam war. Riots were an almost daily occurence in South Africa as blacks protested Apartheid. In this photo, a white man runs from jeering group of stonethrowing blacks in downtown Johannesburg as widespread violence continued to breakout throughout the country. A series of devastating earthquakes rumbled through Mexico City in September and the death toll was in the thousands. Few in the metropolitan area of 18 million escaped the effects of the first quake, which registered 8.1 on the Richter scale! or the second quake, which measured 7.5. Cyndi Lauper bops to her top selling hit Girls Just Wanna Flave Fun . Lauper manages women’s wrestling champion Wendy Richter.

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Darryl Hall and John Oates show the crowds thpir Grammy Award winning style. Phil Collins grins at the audience between songs. He was the only performer to appear live at both Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. The space program moved ahead. Space walker James van Hoften stands tall on the end of the robot arm of the Space Shuttle Discovery after successfully launching the repaired Syncom satellite in September. President Reagan, with his wife Nancy, gives the A-Okay sign from his hospital window in July after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor for his lower intestine. The 74-year old president was back on the job within weeks after the operation.

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Blue-collar troubadour Bruce Springsteen was the undisputed Boss of rock n’roll. His songs about Vietnam veterans. steelworkers and factory workers hit many responsive chords with all ages of Americans. Duran Duran's John Taylor and Simon LeBon perform in London before dividing into Power Station and Arcadia. Four prominent actors died in late 1985; Orson Welles. (T-L) 70, of a heart attack; Lloyd Nolan, (T-R) 83, after a battle with lung cancer; Rock Hudson, (B-L) 59, after a battle with AIDS; Yul Brynner, (B-R) 65, of cancer.