Poway High School - Odyssey Yearbook (Poway, CA)

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Presidenf Reagan and Gorbachev disagree during The summiT. STar Wars Sinks SummiT Images of peace were hopefully on The hori- zon when PresidenT Reagan and Mikhail Gorba- chev held a series of meeTings in Iceland. Nego- TiaTions halTed when The Two couldn'T come To an agreemenT over 'lSTar Wars, a space- based shield of anTi-missile saTelliTes. Corn shriveled in The souTheasT because of droughT. Llncurable Killer A.l.D.S., or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Took iTs Toll in The UniTed STaTes. Already, 4 To 4.5 million Americans are ThoughT To be infecTed wiTh The virus. The numbers conTinue To escalaTe. The Public l-lealTh Service predicTs ThaT by The end of iTs firsT decade, 4994, 480,000 A.l.D.S. vicTims will have died. ScienTisTs conTinue To look for possible cures. Sailing To Fame Adding one on To The 432-year winning sTreak, Dennis O'Connor sailed The Sfars ana'STripes back To iTs homeTown of San Diego for celebraTion over winning The America's Cup back from AusTra- lla. Racing besT ouT of seven, Sfars ana' Sfrpes Took The firsT four and any chance of reTaining The cup from New Zealand's Kookaburra. irrw vig ' 3 Dennis O'Connor broughT The America's Cup back To America. Current Evenls 321

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lorld lvlilesfones lronscom Presidenf Ronold l?eogon's se- creTive movemenfs involving orms soles To Iron builT up To on explosion when The duesfioned ocTiviTies were discovered. By breoking lows ond going ogoinsT UniTed SToTes policy, he beTroyed The TrusT ond foiTh of Americons. Deniol ond igno- ronce ron rompid Through The VVhiTe House officiols which led To o mojor invesTigoTion ThoT uncovered evenTs occuring since before 4985. The chronology included numerous unoufhorized drms soles To iron, oThers supposedly posed on The re- leose of Americon hosfoges held copTive in BeiruT. The lronscom in- vesTigoTions hod olso reveoled for- mer Nofionol SecuriTy Council member, LT. Colonel John NorTh's VViTnesses breok down fdcTs in The lron-ConTro heorings. 320 Current Events efforTs To funnel did To The Nicoro- guon confros, collecTing did from privoTe sources ond oTher coun- Tries. These figures were olso odded To by some did provided by con- gress. Cn Jonuory '12, 4987, sources sold ThoT of leosT S110 million goTh- ered for The rebels remdined unoc- counTed for. PresidenT Reogon, when osked obouf The deolings, onswered duesfions To The besT of his knowl- edge. He supporfed invesTigoTions olfhough They seemed To be in- criminofing him. The presidenT sold he hired The besT men for The No- Tionol Securify Council, ond didn'T woTch over Their shoulder ond criTi- cize The woy They did Their job. Ac- cumuloTing reporTs showed him of foulT more Thon The execuTors ond policy breolcers. The iron-ConTro of- foir proved To be The greoTesT con- Troversy since Nixon's VVoTergoTe Scondol. Sod Hdrvesf, No Horvesf ThroughouT The food belT formers were pushed To exfremes. ln The souTheosT sToTes, The lock of woTer led To sTunTed, burnT-up crops ond unworkoble soil. However, The i'lucky formers of The middle eosT- ern sToTes who hod successful crops losT ouT olso. The yeors of overobun- donce of mony foods ond producTs coughT up. Formers sold Their form mochinery in oucfions for o frocfion of Their price ond bonks foreclosed on mony who could noT mdke Their morTgoge poymenTs.

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by Noel Mellon GeT SmarT . Campuses all in over Son Diego showed The laTesT fashion Trend: The uGeT SmarT buT- A is ssl1ll'l Ton. Channel EighT sponsored The AnTi-drug cam- paign in our schools. San Diego also did iTs parT in The naTion's fighT againsT drugs. By vviTnessing marches, rallies, and special pro- grams, The counTry increased iT's awareness of The problem. VolunTary drug TesTing became popular in governmenT, businesses, and even in schools. AfTer decades of abuse, America had finally Taken The firsT sTep Towards TerminaTion: awareness. uVVe musT make drug use The Top iTem in The naTional dia- logue, sTaTed PresidenT Ronald Reagan. YeT Amer- ica sTill has a vvay To go in ridding The counTry of abuse. AlThough laws have TighTened around push- ers and smugglers, pounds of narcoTics pass Through our borders undeTecTed. c ,iibiiuii ,M .gill , '. T ' sl f .HL ,,, fr ' - ' . 1.9 f I Il I STudenTs sporT popular UG-eT SmarT buTTons. Moonlighfing sTars Shepherd and Willis named man and woman of The year. in memory of Ronnie Robenson, sophomore, who passed away. He had a hearii candiTion. 322 CurrenT Evenis Woman of The Year Philippine Presi- denT Corazon Aauino, named woman of The Year by Dme magazine, sTands proud as The leader of The SouTheasT Asian counTry including 56 million peo- ple and more Than 7000 islands. As The vvorld looked on she led a campaign To overThrovv former presidenT Ferdinand Marcos and Then resTored The pride of her counTrymen. AIThough a naive po- liTical leader aT This poinT, she conTinues To learn and has never booked down from her imporTanT posiTion. Happy BirThday Harvard Harvard, one of The UniTed STaTes' oldesT and mosT presTi- gious privaTe universiTies puT The 350Th candle on iT's cake This pasT year. The school has graduaied many powerful people such as John F. Kennedy, Frank- lin D. Posseveli, and John Adams. IT has received 29 Nobel prizes Thus Tar. Har- vard's ouTsTanding repuTaTion of ex- Corazon Aauino confidenTly rules The Philippines VH