Tokay High School - Tokay Yearbook (Lodi, CA)

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1 i i l l lll l l lllll ll l From the remains of the lran-Contra hearings to the battles of election year campaigning, many Americans heard and would remember the year filled with political controversy and scandal. The nation's attention was captured in July when Lt. Colonel Oliver North took the stand in the lran-Contra hearings on Capitol Hill. Although Lt. Col. North related a story of repeated lies and a White House plan to deceive Congress, he came out of it all almost a national hero. Ollie T-shirts, bumper stickers, sandwiches, and dolls hit the streets as Lt. Col. North admitted that he had been named to be the fall-guy to receive the blame if the secret Con- tra-aid program and the profits from the Iran arms sales ever became a scandal. July also brought an opening in the Supreme Court after Associate Justice Lewis Powell stepped down, sparking the next great contro- versy of the year. Rea- gan's first nominee for the position, Judge Robert H. Bork was neatly rejected by the Senate in a 58-42 vote, after months of debate and campaigning both for and against Judge Bork. He was defeated by both his own controversial record and the tactics of his foes, who claimed Judge Bork would vote to overturn the court's approval of abortion rights and that he would cause loss of black support for southern senators. After Bork's rejection, Reagan nominated Anthony Nl. Kennedy, a federal appeals court judge from California who was approved by the Senate in February. Sports headed the news in October as World Series speculation was narrowed down and the players of the National Footbal League went on strike. The issue was free agency, the opportunity to leave one club and play for another, but the owners thought that free agency would produce wild bidding wars for players and result in great salary increases. The players believed that if the owners could relocate franchises, they should have the same freedom of movement. As the negotiations raged and stalled, the game went on in the form of scab ball, where strikebreakers, most not up to NFL standards, played in place of the strikers. The strike ended at the end of October without a contract when the union filed an anti-trust suit against the league. After a slow start in the playoffs, the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the San Francisco Giants to face the Minnesota Twins in the World Ser- ies. The Twins stunned the Detroit Tigers in American League play- offs, before going on to a 4-3 game victory over the Cardinals in the seventh game 7 of the Series. November brought new problems, with the col- lapse of the stock market, which fell even further, relatively, than the prices in the crash of 1929. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 13 percent of its value and closed nearly 800 points below the heights of August. Despite the magnitude of the fall, which was followed closely by another drop, polls showed that Americans were only vaguely concerned and even economists did not expect another Great Depression, although they believed the fall was a sign of a weak world economy. World spirits were raised in December by the

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