University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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UBOR S ' ON 1984-85: A YEAR OF CHANGE While the UA had in its 100 year history faced more event- ful years, rarely had the school seen a year whose events were so important and far-reaching in their effects. The presidential and local elections of 1984 have shaped the course of the nation and the world for years to come. Con- flict, both large and small, armed or peaceful, have forever changed the shape of the world that existed at the dawn of 1984. However, the year was not without its small stories; sto- ries which may not effect U.S. -Soviet relations or end world hunger, but important stories nonetheless. Stories like that of the Special Olympians, who were unable to participate in the 1984 Olympic Games, but heralded the start of the games by carrying the Olympic flame across America. And sad stories like that of Vicki Lynn Hoskinson, who went to the store one day and did not come home. Sad or happy, big or small, these were the stories that shaped UA environment and the world we live in. CONTINUING THE FIGHT, Phelps-Dodge strikers in Clifton and Ajo commemorated the first an- niversary of the strike, which 2 sparked many DPS-striker clashes. GUNMAN JAMES HUBERTY killed 21 people in a crowded San Ysidro, California McDonald ' s in the worst one-day massacre in U.S. history. U.S. OLYMPIC FANS and team- mates cheer the Men ' s Swim term on to victory, as the United States takes an unprecedented 21 of 29 gold medals for swimming events. OVERVIEW 17

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NEWS Arizona Territory, 1884 No public schools, courthouses, stage, or telegraph lines. Governor Godwin said, ' Build schools. ' The settlers ' answer was simple and honest. ' We cannot build schools and fight Apaches at the same time. ' (Douglas Mar- tin, The Lamp in the Desert.) In the late 1800s much of the news revolved around the fastgrowing West. At that time Arizona was still a Territory and in 1885 a bill was passed which provided for the expenditure of $25,000 for the establishment of a university near Tucson. The early years of the University were marked by the Spanish-American War. However, in 1914 ag- gression multiplied to a global scale resulting in the first World War. The Roaring Twenties were soon to follow but faltered with the Great Depression in 1929. Within another decade, World War II was un- der way. Next came the fifties and the birth of rock music, and the sixties brought with them the divid- ed views of Vietnam. Memories of the seventies are still fresh in the minds of many as we recall Nixon and Watergate. In the eighties, we have witnessed the hostage crisis in Iran and the launching of the world ' s first space shuttle. Many news-making events have both come and gone since the University was founded, but their memories remain with us for well over A CENTURY. 16 REQUIRED FIRE DRILLS at the residence halls and activated fire alarms in academic buildings alter normal procedures, just as news events change our lives. NEWS

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RED SEA, PERSIAN GULF, BEIRUT ENDURE MID-EAST CONFLICTS Not surprisingly, the Middle East was again at the fore- front of the news in 1984. Mines in the Red Sea, the expan- sion of the Iran-Iraq war into the Persian Gulf, an assassina- tion attempt on a Libyan leader, and another U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut simply added to the decades-old list of casualties in the Middle East. PERSIAN GULF: In April 1984, air attacks on tankers near the Iranian oil terminal on Kharg Island made it clear that the Iranians and the Iraqis had extended their war to the Persian Gulf, attacking civilian traffic to and from each oth- er ' s ports in hopes of choking off each other ' s economic bases. Tankers from many nations, including several U.S. allies, were attacked. The Iraqis were especially efficient in their attacks, using the Falklands War-proven Exocet mis- sile. LIBYA: Libyan dictator Muammar Khadafy survived an assassination attempt at his home in Tripoli in May 1984. The London-based National Front for the Salvation of Libya took credit for the attack, describing it as retaliation for the April incident at the Libyan embassy in London. FIREBOATS HOSE DOWN the Saudi Arabian tanker Al Ahood after being hit by an Iraqi missile. The Iraqi Exocets were highly ef- fective anti-shipping weapons. LIKE A NIGHTMARE repeated, the U.S. Embassy East Beirut annex lay in ruins after an explosive-laden truck blew up in front of the build- ing, killing two American service- men. ?-f ' iEm B B M t!