University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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The World Around Us: Full of Tension, Tragedy, and Terrorism Right: The war in the Mid-East continued. A distraught Moslem man hugs his son moments after they survived a car bomb explosion outside a West Beirut restaurant in late August. They are shown being hurried away from the carnage by another man as cars bum in the rubble-strewn street. Far right: A Trans-World Airlines jet with 145 passengers and eight crew members was hijacked in Athens, Greece in June. The Sheite hijackers took the plane to Beirut, then to Algeria, and then back to Beirut. Most of the hostages were held for 17 days. One American hostage was killed. Bottom right: A series of devastating earthquakes rumbled through Mexico City in September and the death toll was in the thousands. Of the 18 million in the metropolitan area, few escaped the effects of the first quake, which registered 8. 1 on the Richter scale, or of the second quake, which measured 7.5. 24

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T.V Above: The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in January was the first in-flight disaster in 56 manned U.S. space flights. The explosion killed all seven crew members, including Christa McAuliffe, a teacher from New Hampshire. Far left: President Reagan gives the A- Okay sign from his hospital window in July after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his lower in- testine. The 74-year old President was back on the job within weeks after the operation. Left: The space program moved ahead. Space walker James van Hoften stands tall on the end of the robot arm of the Space Shuttle Discovery after successfully launching the repaired Syncom satellite in September. All photos courtesy of AP Photo 23

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All photos courtesy of AP Photo Above: A resident of Armero, Columbia in the Columbian mountains is helped by the Columbian Red Cross during dig- ging out efforts. Many people were still trapped in mud, and were being rescued with the help of hundreds of volunteers. Left: Four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian crusie liner Achille Lauro while on a Mediterranean cruise. One American was killed. After the ship was released the Egyptian government agreed to return the hijackers to the PLO. However, the hijackers were inter- cepted by American jets as they were flown out of Egypt and returned to Italy to strand trial.