Suffolk University - Beacon Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Harvey Brown Nathaniel Brown General Studies Michael Bruen Accounting Vincent Buchanan Carter ' s answer to the invasion was predictable: What can we do about it? Finally, he sent a reply. Ameri- can athletes would not go to the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow that year. However, during the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Carter rallied behind the American hockey team that took the Russian team by surprise, and captured a gold metal. Carter likened their win with na- tional feelings, he was denying summer athletes the same chance to win. Our athletic finest will not go this summer; Afganistan is still occu- pied. December came and went. Janu- ary and anew decade loomed on the horizon and still, the hostages were not released. Edward Kenne- dy ' s bid for the Presidency was now a lesson in futility. Carter hid himself behind the walls of the Rose Garden. February, March, and April rolled around. Carter was beating Kennedy in almost every Democrat- ic primary, doubling his delegates with every vote. He did this by draping a flag over his shoulder, and sending representatives to all politicall functions. The hostages spent Christmas, the New Year, and Easter (or Passover) in captivity. 26

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As the last of the school year was winding down, students had to face the world outside of Suffolk ' s small campus. Draft Fever was a very catchy disease in Congress, and pent up emotions of an entire na- tion over the hostage crisis prompted a very disasterous move by President Carter. While the United States slept one April night, helicopters flew into Iran in an Entebbe style raid. They never reached the embassy. Somehow, three of the ' copters crashed into each other and the mission was scraped. Eight charred bodies were left behind, the result of an ill timed, ill equipt mission. After a public display of the bodies in an Iranian town, they were finnally returned to the U.S. for burial. But it took intervention- ists from several European churches to negotiate for their re- turn. Carter took the blame, but he could not give the lives back, nor did the hostages come home. (Cyrus Vance resigned; eleven young people were trampled to death in Chicago at a WHO con- cert; and Pink Flloyd was selling millions of albums about someone building a wall around himself to hide. Larry Bird soared for the Celtics; the book They Call Me Assassin , pointed out the wrongs of profes- sional football; and two movies about the horrors of Vietnam, Apocalipse Now and The Deerhunter, were breaking box of- fice records. One received an Acadamy Award.) A maverick from Illinois named John Anderson left his Republican cohorts to grab his presidential bid on the Independant ticket. Ted Kennedy refused to let go of his faltering hopes, and Carter beemed ear to ear. Iran was forgotten for the moment. H. Michael Carney Journalism James Caruso Philosop hy Mary Jane Cassiani Crime and Delinquency Claire Cameron Marketing Andrew Campbell Government Thomas Cannata Management 28