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

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JULY --Eighteen illegal Mexican immigrants, trapped for 14 hours in a boxcar in Sierra Blanca, Texas, suffocated to death. -Iran-Contra hearings continued. AUGUST --More than 200 dolphins washed ashore beaches from New Jersey to North Carolina. Bacterial infection was suspected as the cause of their deaths. -Cecilia Cichan was the sole survivor of a Northwest Airlines crash during takeoff in Detroit. --Iran-Contra hearings ended. -10th anniversary of Elvis Presley ' s death. -Miners were on the largest strike in South African history. SEPTEMBER -The worst forest fires since 1910 occurred in California, Or- egon, Washington and Idaho. -Micheal Jackson opened his 15-month world tour. -The NFL went on strike for three and a half weeks. -Pope John Paul II arrived for a 10-day visit to seven states and Northern Canada. -A meeting of East German Communist leader Erich Honecker and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was held. -The 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution took place. -The U.S. Open tennis matches began. W JL ' Aill Caricatures by Jay Carr Oliver North Fawn Hall - ,v l came here to tell you the truth - the good, the bad and the ugly, said Lt. Col. Oliver North during the Contra hearings. His secretary Fawn Hall also testified. OCTOBER -The Minnesota Twins beat the St. Louis Cardinals in the se- venth game of the World Series. -The worst earthquake to hit California since 1971 shook the state. 10 — NaXi Hol New -Tania Aebi made a solo trip around the world in a 26-foot sloop.

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Gary Hart Donna Rice - Launching his candidacy, Hart made a strong pitch for family values. Then five weeks later there was all the monkey business involving model Donna Rice. Judge Robert Bork - To supporters, he is a brilliant jurist who is faithful to the Constitution. To critics, he is a right-wing zealot. APRIL --Gary Hart announced his presidential candidacy. -Texaco, in its battle against Pennzoil, was the biggest U.S. company ever to file for bankruptcy. -Congress voted to allow states to raise the speed limit to 65 mph on rural interstates. MAY -The 50th anniversary of San Francisco ' s Golden Gate Bridge was celebrated. -The Supreme Court ruled that the males-only Rotary Interna- tional must admit women in states with public accommodation laws. -Former Labor Secretary Raymond Donavan was acquitted of larceny and fraud after a nine-month trial in New York City. -The Iran-Contra hearings opened in the Senate Caucus room in Washington D.C. -In South Korea, anti-government protests broke out at Kwang- ju ' s Chronnam University and spread across the country, forcing a government shake-up. -A twister destroyed the town of Saragosa, Texas. JUNE -Kurt Waldheim paid a controversial call on Pope )ohn Paul II. -Margaret Thatcher won her third straight election to become first British Prime Minister to win three elections since 1826. -The Madonna tour began. -Lewis Powell retired from the Supreme Court. NaXio aL AW — ,

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The Summit — The largest arms reduction in history took place when President Reagan and Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorba- chev signed a treaty to ban nuclear missiles from Europe and Asia. The Stock Market - Havoc on Wall Street lead investors to pull out of the Stock Market. --Twenty-eight people died when a Continental Airlines jet crashed during takeoff in a snowstorm at Denver ' s Stapleton International Airport. --Seventeen Arab league leaders met in Ammon for their first summit in five years and appealed for the end of the Iran-Iraq wars. --Cuban detainees at prisons in Louisiana and Georgia rioted and seized 120 hostages. --A fire in the Kings Cross Station of the London Underground occurred. -The Baby M custody case began. NOVEMBER -Reagan and Gorbachev met in Washington, D.C., for a cere- monial farewell to 2,000 nuclear missiles. -Following a year of demonstrations in South Korea, four major candidates ran for office in the first direct presidential election in 16 years. -The hearings on judge Anthony Kennedy ' s nomination to the Supreme Court began. -A Pacific Southwest commuter plane from Los Angeles to San Francisco plummeted out of a clear sky, killing 44. DECEMBER -The stock market crash occurred. -The crisis in the Persian Gulf occurred. -Baby jessica McClure was trapped in a well in Midland, Texas and rescued. -Robert Bork was rejected for Supreme Court judge. -The AIDS epidemic caused 6,500 deaths in U.S. during the year of 1987. Nati tuit Htm