University of Massachusetts Lowell - Sojourn / Knoll Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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-IAPPENINGS HAPPENING HAPPENING HAPPE It was the most celebrated wed- ding of our times, as Prince Charles Arthur George took for his lawful wife the Lady Diana Frances Spen- cer in a glorious fanfare of pomp and publicity. The wedding translated into thirty-four languages and was seen around the world. It became the most publicized wedding of all times. Royal invitations were extended to most every prominent personage in the world, with only a very few refus- als. People began gathering along the procession route as much as three days before the wedding. Lady Di, looking very much the bejeweled fairy princess in her resplendent gown, made her appearance on the arm of her father, Earl Spencer. In the presence of literally billions of ,I . t, N . ei onlookers, she became the Princess of Wales and mother-apparent to the new heir to the throne. All in all, it was a pageant of color and happiness as the Prince and Lady Diana made their way back to Buckingham Pal- ace through the cheers of onlookers. In August, the U.S. Air Traffic Controllers launched an illegal fed- eral strike. By the weeks end 5100 of the 13000 strikers were given dis- missal notices by the F.A.A. Five lo- cal union leaders were sent to jail, and federal judges were fining the union up to a million dollars a day for as long as the strike continued. However, air traffic flow continued without too many complications. Military people were assigned, to posts and others were being trained. PATCO was concerned with three issues. They wanted a large wage in- crease, the work week to be reduced from 40.to 32 hours a week, and an earlier retirement age with higher pension benefits. PATCO received little public sym- pathy, being taxpayer-supported with relatively high salaries. The ACLU did support PATCO stating, The right to strike is a fundamental civil liberty and should not be denied 1 V 30 to public employees any more than to public ones. On June 11, the Baseball Player's Union went on strike because of dis- agreements with baseball owners. They wanted more control over their Q :F r 5 Zigi. r 5,1 yi-iff. gp Et, 4 ,ii . .s s - izgiefjlfqif - if,-17'C': X' X I careers. They wanted more say about when they would be traded and how much they were worth. The strike caused the season to be split in two. Many fans lost enthusi- asm because of this, and ticket sales were sluggish. They called it an historic occasion. Arizona's Sandra Day O'Connor, 51, was the first woman to be a Justice of the Supreme Court. She was, she said, a firm advocate of judicial re- straint and a strong believer in the family as the hope of the world and the strength of our country. O'Con- nor indicated support for the death penalty and she thinks for herself that abortion is simply offensive. But, she added, 'Tm over the hill, I'm not going to be pregnant again. It's easy for me to say now. Senator Strom Thurmond, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, arranged a candlelit dinner in her honor. Justice O'Connors swearing-in was Sept. 24, 1981. On august 31, while patroling an open ocean missile exercise over the Mediterranean, two U.S. F-14 Tom- cat fighters intercepted two Soviet built Libyan SU-22 fighters with the intention of escorting the two jets through the missile exercise zone. But, as the F-14s approached the Libyan jets, one of the Libyans fired an air to air missile. Seeing the smoke from the missle, the two U.S. fighters violently broke away, evad- ing the missile and wheeling sharply around to come in behind the Lib- yans. U.S. rules of engagement per- mit pilots to shoot back if fired upon, and each of the F-14s triggered a sin- gle heat seeking sidewinder missile, each scoring a hit on a Libyan plane. The engagement lasted less than one minute. 14 n

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HAPPENINGS HAPPENING News of the incident reached Washington within six minutes but officials there decided to wait SV2 hrs., until the President was awake, to notify him. guy'-i In September, the Rolling Stones started a U.S. tour for the first time since 1978. They started off by stay- ing at a recording studio in Massa- chusetts. They made a surprise ap- pearance at Sir Morgan's Cove in Worcester under the name of the Cockroaches. The tour was expected to pull in between 30 and 40 million dollars. Also, Jovan Inc. paid the Stones a large sum to have its name stamped on concert tickets. Racing toward Saturn, the sixth planet of our solar system at 54,000 miles per hour, the 1,800 pound spa- cecraft arrived at the ringed beauty after four years of space travel. Voy- ager 2 conducted experiments and took pictures. Of particular interest to NASA scientists are Saturn's weather, Saturn's moons, and her rings. Voyager's arrival at Saturn was a beautiful finale to two decades of U.S. unmanned space exploration. Voyager 2 is now on its way to Ura- nus. The newspapers headlined an- other assassination and the world reeled in shock. Since 1970, 22 world 9 .fi ,XXX , if A , U. 1 ' it 'f 97f K 1 W l y -l'-I To 1- -PM ' L leaders have been assassinated but none who were so well known for their fight for peace as Anwar Sadat, Egypt's 62 year old president. His ca- reer was not always peaceful, he was an ex-terrorist. But, all will remem- A-f ,. 9' -J E w. HAPPENING ber him most for the gigantic step he took to restore peace in the middle east. A man dedicated to peace, Sa- dat made the first step to end Egypt's age old war with Israel, and won the 1979 Nobel Prize. With all these accomplishments, it would seem unlikely that on October 6, 1981, four suicidal killers would suc- ceed in slaying Anwar Sadat. Those of us who hope for eventual world peace will truly miss the great mind of this man of peace. Moshe Dayan died early in Octo- ber of a heart attack at age 66. By that time, he had changed his image of a warrierfhero to an advocate of peace. Dayan was a realist and yet a poet. Henry Kissinger observed, 'KI always thought he would be one who could make peace because he was the one who understood the Arabs. Prime Minister Begin said: He was one of our greatest fighters of the ages. He was the rarest of heros- a soldier who could wage peace as fiercely as he waged war. This year, ice cream has become big business. Americans produced over 798000 gallons of ice cream in all grades last year, and we eat more of it than any other country, with Australia and New Zealand a distant second and third. I si Sr , ' f' 5 5. X 15, A 1 38 ' 5 ' M uf f -9 I.- f J 1 ,Ar 'L -' J. HAI