Piedmont College - Yonahian Yearbook (Demorest, GA)

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Signs. . .Farmers Protest 4) Artoo-Detoo and See-Three- pio, characters from the year ' s most successful movie, Star Wars, were partially respon- sible for an upturn in trading and price of Twentieth-Century Fox stock. A second success titled Close Encounters of the Third Kind reinforced Americans ' be- lief in contact with alien beings. 5) U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the controversial Panama Canal Treaty during a meeting of the Organization of American States. The treaty, which will enable Panama to eventually take complete control of the canal, faces stiff opposition in the Senate where a two-thirds vote is needed for ratification. 6) Farmers making up an alliance known as the American Agricul- ture Movement went on strike Dec. 14 to protest low farm commodity prices. The above tractorcade in a Kansas town was one of many staged to call attention to farmers ' plight and promote the idea of parity prices for grain and livestock. Photos Credit Uniled Press International

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Yonahian 1978 Piedmont College Demorest, Georgia Karen L. Blackwell Editor