University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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FACES - PLACES - E E TS arch started out with increased ten- sion between Mexico and the U.S. when the bodies of U.S. drug en- forcement official Enrique Ca- marena and his pilot Alfredo Zavala were found a month after they were kidnapped. Mexican drug traffickers were blamed for the murders. On March 10, Konstantin Chernenko was the third Soviet leader to die in 28 months. Mikhail Gorbachev took over the next day. At age 54, he is the youngest Soviet leader in sixty years. Back in the U.S., a song recorded by 45 of America's biggest rock stars calling them- selves USA for Africa was reach- ing its peak in popularity. All pro- ceeds from the record, called , We Are the World, were sent to Ethiopia to aid famine victims. In Ohio, privately owned sav- ings and loans were closed after with strong opposition from CBS who re- sisted his takeover. During the last two weeks of April, na- tional attention was focused on the tenth anniversary of the fall of Saigon - the end of the Vietnam War. Retrospectives in newspa- pers, magazines, and on television explored the events and legacies of iithe only war America ever lost. The end of April and the beginning of May saw protests against the South African gov- ernment's policy of Apartheid come to a head. Students on college campuses across a stop at a concentration camp to try smooth over the political riff that was c ated. In early May, a Chicago housewife canted her testimony in a 1977 rape ca Cathleen Webb disavowed her claim tl she was raped by Gary Dotson and he v released from jail after serving six years of sentence. As Ul students were wrapping up 1 spring semester, news of a huge fire Philadelphia shocked the country. The was started when a police bomb v dropped on a house occup 55 by a radical group called MO' 7 gg.- At least eleven MOVE memb were killed in the blaze and We are the world -+- We are the houses were destroyed, leav children - We are the ones to make afilif-if 0 0 7 250 people homeless. The FACES if PLACES brighter day so let's start giving. g,g.g lgggg g from WE ARE THE WORLD a S S 7 EVENTS reviewed here co , .. - serve either as a crash course those students who were the failure of a Cincinnati savings '- and loan caused depositors to start a run on withdrawals. This caused a temporary drop in the value of the dollar on the world mar- ket. The end of March brought news of the- worst epidemic of food poisoning in U.S. history. Contaminated milk from an Illinois grocery chain was blamed for 4,000 cases of salmonella poisoning in five midwestern states. ln April, media mogul Ted Turner proved the rumors right when he announced his bid for a hostile takeover of CBS. Turner offered S3 billion for 677, of CBS stock but was met l' tAbovei Gary Dotson walks with his mother Barbara Dotson outside the Markham, illinois courthouse, lAP Wirephotol iRighti Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the U.S. House of Re- presentatives, meets with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gor- bachev. lAP Wirephotol the country urged those institutions to divest their stock in companies doing business in South Africa. The University of Iowa was no exception. May 2, 137 protesters were ar- rested when they refused to leave President Freedman's office in Jessup Hall. President Reagan's 10 day trip to Europe for an economic summit in West Germany was overshadowed by a controversy over one of his side trips. Reagan was scheduled to lay a wreath at a German military cemetary containing the bodies of Hitler's Waffen SS troops. The anger from American lews and holocaust survivors prompted Reagan to add , Q paying attention to world h. penings or as a reference for use in the fut since the current events of today will me up the history books of tomorrow. - Nancy Armentri tTop Righty Director of student employment at lumbia University, Robert Galliane, reads a cour' straining order to students protesting against schools ties to South Africa. CAP Wirephotol iRightJ lohn Kaderabek, perishable foods manager lewel Foods store dumps milk down the drain fol' ing a new wave of salmonella poisoning cases. Wirephotoi x 18 FACES 0 PLACES ' EVENTS

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l , XL,. , l 1 I I Q OVEMBER 6Ronald Reagan wins the presidency with a landslide victory over Democratic candi- date Walter Mondale. 1 1 Vietnam Veterans Memorial becomes a national monument. 16 Space shuttle Discovery completes the first ever salvage mission of inactive sat- ellites. 28United States pledges 5103 million to aid the victims of the Ethiopian famine. This relief comes after broadcasts of the tragedy on network television. 0 indes- Bhopal, India Kills 2,500 and injures 100,000 r ' - 2 1 Ar'- ' . . . es 0 I 3-A fatal gas leakiat the Union Carbide plant in more. 0 E i Bernhard Goetz shoots four black youths in self defense in a New York subway becoming a vigilante hero in the eyes 0 of the nation. f ANUARY 7Secretary of State George Schultz meets fwith Sfiviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromy- ko to discuss United States-Soviet relations. L Bad weatlier is the reason for the can- cellation of the presidential inaugura- tion ceremonies and parade. FEBR ARY 14 jeremy Levin, news reporter for CNN, escapes his captors in Lebanon and re- turns home safely. Murray Haydon becomes the third re- cipient of an artificial heart. 18 General William Westmoreland with- draws his 5120 million libel suit against CBS FACES ' PLACES ' EVENTS 17

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