St Louis Park High School - Echowan Yearbook (St Louis Park, MN)

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World In Review The event of the summer, in international social circles, was the Royal Wedding. At St. Paul's Cathedral on July 29. Lady Diana Spencer and Charles the Prince of Wales were wed amid royal splendor. Not to be left out. Nancy Reagan flew to England. For those unable to attend, the networks had live coverage, but we had to get up at 4:30 a.m. In Ireland, hunger protests raged on. The number of deceased protestors rose to ten. and riots continued. Britain's Parliament refused to listen to the protestors’ pleas for political prisoner status. Unrest was the natural state of affairs in the Mideast. On October 6, Anwar Sadat was assassinated by a group of terrorists during a ceremony commemorating an Egyptian victory in the Suez. Ten days later another warrior-turned-peace-maker died. Moshe Dayan died of a heart attack on October 16. The world mourned the deaths of these leaders. Across the world in Japan and the U.S. scientists worked at developing artificial blood. Fluosol. a milky fluid, could be frozen for storage and then thawed quickly in a microwave oven. This 'blood' was tested on about 300 people in Japan where it was manufactured and in California where it kept five people alive. Here at home President Reagan scored points with women's groups with his nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court. The Senate approved the nomination and made O’Connor the first female Chief Justice in our history. Reagan may have been an actor but he was no magician. Try as he might, the high interest rates wouldn’t disappear. Instead, he made social services and programs disappear by drastically cutting their funds. Finally Reagan was forced to cut the defense budget, much to the chagrin of Casper Weinberger. Secretary of Defense. Even Reagan's tax cuts caused doubt; experts feared the cuts would further inflation. Meanwhile Nancy Reagan bought the White House $ 1.000,000 worth of new china. Supposedly the old stuff was too shabby. ▲Just prior to Sandra O'Connor's nomination to the ▲Supremo Court. First Monday In October, a film about the first female Chief Justice, was released. ►British merchants capitalized on the Royal Wedding by selling souvenirs like mugs, calendars and boxes of candy bearing the royal couple's likenesses. FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER ▲A virulent strain of fruit fly. the Medfly. attacked crops in Florida and California, disrupting the fruit trade. ►With the deaths of Anwar Sadat and Moshe Dayan the continued strength of Arab-lsraeil peace was uncertain. 4 Productions

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