University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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The Year That Was: 1983 October: After the bomb blast in Lebanon we laid our heroes to rest. WINTER- ... a time to love, a time to hate, a time for war, a time for peace . . . : A plot is discovered to kill Pope John Paul II . . . President Reagan fires director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency . . . Ma Bell locked in anti-trust battles . . . Split in OPEC . . . One of the worst blizzards in history . . . The economy seems to be inclining towards a recovery . . . Hindu mobs butcher Muslim villagers in Assam . . . After 1 1 years, it ' s farewell to the M A S H gang . . . SPRING- Reagan ' s new nuclear strategy is anti-missile defense . . . Campaign ' 84: new black power at the polls . . . Soviet ' s reject Reagan ' s interim step toward eliminating U.S. and Soviet Union missiles in Europe . . . AIDS: Epidemic of the 1980 ' s . . . New Disneyland opens in Tokyo . . . Rock Video brings a new life to the record industry . . . New, improved Space Shuttle . . . H KW i .r ■ - ■ i.:.:i:iiii ' j| m HJyiJ Jil Mi! • .iJ! di fM H :. «i»5;» ' ; V. ' ' t j On the march on the island of Grenada in late October. 18

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SUMMER- American Embassy bombed in Beirut . . . Hitler ' s secret diaries are a hoax . . . Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, says he will resign . . . Sally Ride, first American woman in space . . . Anarchy in Lebanon . . . Thousands of people march in Washington to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. . . . The MX missile: one step closer . . . Martial Law lifted in Poland after 586 days- July 22, 1983 . . . Spain is first nation in Europe to legalize the use of marijuana . . . The Drought of ' 83- from Indiana to Texas . . . Soviets shoot down South Korean flight 007 . . . The Soviet military shot down a civilian airliner. A UTUMN- Presidential campaign winds into high gear . . . Osborne Computer Corp. files for bankruptcy petition . . . U.S. loses the America ' s Cup . . . James Watt resigns as secretary of the Interior ... 161 Americans die in Beirut blast . . . U.S. invades Grenada . . . Reagan sends a naval task force to protect Americans trapped on the island of Grenada . . . over 200 marines killed- Lebanon ' s suicide terrorists kill many . . . Rev. Jesse Jackson is officially running for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination . . . The Day After nuclear nightmare come to T.V. . . . Bomb blast at the Capitol . . . AT T breaks up on January 1, 1984 . . . Greyhound bus drivers strike temporarily . . . Syrian gunners shoot down two U.S. Navy jets in the first American air strike in Lebanon . . . Finally, security was intensified in Lebanon.