Rogers High School - RYB Yearbook (Michigan City, IN)

 - Class of 1974

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Blasting Area in 1972 PreStdent NtxOn promtsed t0 'brmg us together 'T Not one to renege on a promtse he dut lust that JS Amenrahs antttitpatent each new devele opment ITT Watergate Watergate: a thtrdvrate bur gldry of Democratic headquarters mushroomed mm the i.1rgestsr,artdal m Amerlr w Dolmtal htsto ry It contamthated the Whtte House removmg many of NtxOhts staff and advusors vacttmtztrm Richardson tmtddTe ?em Ruckleshaus, and Cox tlower tCYTT. .md creeomg ttrmllv t0 the Pre'asutents door The scandal ehttuled re$lertattorts. tapes nusyng tapes trtmgmary tapes. dozens rut spews: prosec utors and grand tunes Few Americans had tut! understdndmu 0t W..atergates romptexny hot to mention the many people Involved who mm ho IOQJ ot what had 3Ctudliy transpired The IRS also had a busy year checkmg Into ter- mer Vlce-preSIdent Agnew's tupDer tettt records Agnew reaghed before he was removed atthough he was placed on probatnon and tuned 3:10.000 tor tax evasmn President Nixon's tax records xmd campatgn contributions were 3180 auduted and Nixon was presented a $400 000 bllt tor back tttxes The cry for impeachment rang out tupoer rtghtt Aprt129th ended transcrtpts ot the eluswe arm :1th trovetSta! Prestdehttal thes were tlrtaily wrestled by Subp0end from ttae Premtent s grdsp From these thr- House Judetary Commtttee womd tleterrmne whether there was ewdwue to Death tmm-at hment Dtoceedmgs against thtmrd Mulhouse Ntxcm Stttl on the natnonal scene. political kidnapping reared Its ugly head. ponghantly demonstrated by the abductmg ot Patrtcm Hearst. daughter of mu! Itonatre Wlllldm Randolph Hearst III by members of the Symbtonese Ltberdtuon Army On the Internattoml stage Henry Kissinger played the world peace angel The smouldering ashes of an ancnent and relentless feud burst mto wolent LOmDUSTIOFT as Egypt With the amt of other Arabuan COUTTYHES crossed the Suez Canal mto Jewe ash held temtory on Yom Kippur. October 16th tlower rtghtt Unluke the Stxeday War, netthEr come batdht wort GECTSIVE VICTOFy nelther lost deCISIvely both arqmesced to .m uneasy truce. arranged by Henry Kussmger For Great Britain and Europe the year was an absolute down. oohtwally and economucally Strikes. strikes and more strikes squeezed England unto vts severest terms gume VVdfld Wm ti. and Br: ttahers were forced to endure gm unsattstvrne three- dav work week Imuddlet The U.S. and Russia C3I'l'l8d on then detente. agaun thanks to our Secretary of State However, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, wmner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for LITGVEHUTE became a Russnan GXI'e. thrust from the Sowet Union because of his subverswe The Gulag Archipelago. Meanwhile the productnon of atomtr overktll continued 80 the pulse of .3 world and natnon beat on

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Turn down . . . slow down . . . turn off Early in the year a new expression crept into daily conversation: energy crisis. It soon be- came an overworked cliche as the news media warned of oncoming hardships. As fuel sup- plies supposediy dwindled and the Arabs cut off exports to the United States. the cry went out to conserve energy . PreSIdent Nixon appeared on television one cold Winter eve- ning, and the effect of the crisis became .tper- fectly clear . He asked the country to turn down to 68 and slow down to 55: while Henry Kissinger played petroleum politics with King Faisal. Back on the home front independ- ent truckers struck to protest high prices and low speed limits tupper rightt. Those of us with patriotic fathers grabbed a sweater and added another blanket. Sweatshirts. coats and even mittens appeared in classrooms as the school system initiated its program for conserving fuel tlower rightt. Those who had wanted 16 years to own their own cars had to wait a bit more e in line at the gas pump. Consequently bikes tmiddlei and economy cars became more popular and more expensive. Week- end trips out of town and 'Sunday drives' were curtailed when gas stations closed on Sunday tupper lefty

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