Stephen F Austin State University - Stone Fort Yearbook (Nacogdoches, TX)

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Reagan is treated for skin cancer. Car bomb kills two in West Germany. Japan Flight 123 crashes, killing 520. The Challenger returns to earth. November September Patrick Ewing signs a record $17 million multiyear con- tract with the Knicks. In New York City, parents demonstrate to keep a 7-year- old AIDS victim out of school. October The worst earthquake in decades hits Mexico City. Washington accuses the Kremlin of developing their own Star Wars system. Israel raids PLO headquarters in Tunisia. F-14 ' s intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying four Pales- tinians who hijacked a Mediterranean cruise ship, Achille Lauro, and murdered Leon Klinghoffer. Mud slide in Puerto Rico. Prince Charles and Princess Diana visit the United States. French treatment for AIDS stirs both hope and controver- sy. Soviet sailor defects to United States, but is returned to the USSR. Marcos calls an election. Columbian volcano -- Nevado del Ruitz - erupts leaving at least 20,000 dead or missing. December Reagan and Gorbachev talks Haley ' s comet comes into view. Corazon Aqurno enters race to unseat Marcos. Chartered jet crashes killing 248 US troops heading home for Christmas.

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The year in review January Peter Ueberroth, organizer of the XXIII Olympiad, is vot- ed Man of the Year. Geneva talks -- discussion over Star Wars. Reagan ' s Inauguration Donald Regan, Secretary of the Treasury and James Ba- ker, Chief of Staff, switch jobs. Abortion clinic bombings increase. February Reagan gives his State of the Union Speech. Farmers ' losses increase Shevchenko, top USSR defector, tells story of USSR life. March Star Wars technology tops $39.4 billion in military re- search projects. General William Westmoreland drops libel suit against CBS News. Earthquake in Chile leaves at least 150 dead. Body of murdered US narcotics agent found in Mexico. Konstartin Chernenko, USSR General Secretary, dies and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev. Labor Secretary Raymond Dono van resigns having to face trial for larceny and fraud. USA for Africa makes its recording. Americans are evacuated from Beirut after a bombing takes 75 lives. Iran Iraq war heats up again. April Iraq triumphs over Iran, but Persian Gulf Was continues. 12 A CBS cameraman is killed in Lebanon. President Reagan wins MX Missile vote. ABC is sold $3.5 billion. William E. Brock becomes the new Secretary of Labor. President Reagan stirs controversy when he flies to Germany to visit a West German cemetery where 47 SS men and 2,000 Nazi ' s were buried. May Coke changes its formula and creates a new Pepsi chal- lenge. Reagan accepts budget that slows his military build-up. Sikh terrorists unleash a new cycle of violence in India. Nigeria orders the mass expulsion of 700,000 illegal aliens. June TWA Flight 847 is seized by Palestinians. In Brazil, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor responsible for sending 400,000 to their deaths at Auschwitz, is proved to be dead. July Reagan has surgery to remove a concerous colon growth. West German, Boris Becker, 17, is the youngest man to win Wimbledon. August Rock Hudson is discovered to have AIDS. OPEC cuts the price of oil again. India reaches a settlement with the Sikhs. A boatload of Americans is hijacked in Nicaragua. Bishop Tutu defies the ban of mass funerals.

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Quotable quotes We scared the hell out of the hurricane and it went elsewhere. -- New York Mayor Edward Koch ' s reaction to Gloria. At last ... we can live again. - Marie-Helene de Rothschild, after viewing the latest Yves Saint Laurent couture collection. Yeah, I hit her, but I didn ' t hit her more than the average guy beats his wife. - singer Ike Turner, commenting on reports that he had mistreated ex-wife Tina Turner. If only I could sing properly and squeeze myself into denims, I might achieve much more. - Prince Charles, promoting his Prince ' s Trust, which gives grants to unemployed youth. I always wanted to be somebody. I see now that I should have been more specific. -- comic Lily Tomlin, in her Broadway show. I heard him do what he calls singing. It ' s some thing like the noise a dying buffalo makes. -- voice teacher Robert Lansing, on Bruce Springsteen. When others kid me about being bald, I simply tell them that the way I figure it, the good Lord only gave me so many hormones, and if others want to waste theirs on growing hair, that ' s up to them. - Senator John Glenn (D-Ohio) Any man who watches more than three consecu- tive (football) games on TV in one day can be de- clared legally dead. -- psychologist Dr. Joyce Broth- ers. My problem for the first few years was that they kept dying on me. -- Ronald Reagan, on why it had taken so long to arrange a meeting with a Soviet counter- part. I ' m old-fashioned, but I just think a spy ought to be shot. - Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), introducing a bill to allow capital punishment for conviction of peace- time espionage. excerpted from Life January 1986. 14