Saks High School - Saks Echoes Yearbook (Anniston, AL)

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A solemn moment. Marines, to Grenada as a “precau- tionary measure. At 5:36 a.m. on Tuesday, October 25, 1983, the strike Iwgan with a force that had grown to over 6,000 men. The 700 American medical students on the island tx'gan to be evacuated on Wednesday, October 26. Before the attack was over, several hun- dred Cubans had been taken prisoner and huge amounts of Soviet-made weapons and ammuni- tion had been captured by the American forces. As stated in Time magazine, “The final paradox is that the ones who put Grenada's controversial new airport to military use were not the Cubans, who built it, but the Americans themselves ' Those shocking memories of that horrible day in 1963, when, on the streets of Dallas, Texas, Presi- dent John F. Kennedy was assasinated reminded us that an era has ended and a new has begun. There were several memorials in- cluding a television movie, Ken- nedy, about his life, in association with the twentieth anniversary of Kennedy's death. There will lie a shock to our pocketbooks since the largest monopoly on the face of the earth has broken up. In the place of old Ma Bell stands the “new At T and seven regional telephone holding companies. This breakup will affect all Americans with higher bills and some say, “We are trading in a Cadillac for a Ford. In 1983, the shocking saga of The Day After hit nearly every tube in America. The television movie, about the way a small mid- western town in the United States dealt with a nuclear holocaust, left an aftermath of controversy as Tornado destroys Winn-Dixie grocery store Jesse Jackson strong as nuclear war itself. Political shocks came as Jesse Jackson began a campaign for President. A boost in his campaign came from the unexpected success of his trip to Syria to seek the release of Navy flyer Lieut. Robert Goodman, who had been held cap- tive by Syria for a month. And then again as Calhoun County's Gerald W illis began a campaign for President, but later decided to seek the vice-presidency instead. Not only did we see the suddenly shocking death of hundreds of soldiers this year, but we also lost Jessica Savich and Frank Rey nolds, both network news anchors. Closer to home, Gerald Johnson, the postmaster at the Anniston post of- fice, lost his life in a shooting in- volving a labor dispute. And no one will ever forget the horrible night at Blue Pond when a tornado rip- ped that community apart while taking the lives of two innocent people in its path. Orwell fans were shocked that a year they have all been an- ticipating is here, and they wonder if “Big Brother is watching you. For a year that began in record high temperatures and ended in record lows, 1983 has surely been a trying and action-filled year that none will forget. Ross B. Vaughn New 19

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