University of San Francisco - USF Don Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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The World Around Us

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Extremes in weather continued in '77. Eastern bli zards resulted in floods, natural gas shortages and blackouts. Western drought bred rampant fires and water rationing. Newly-elected President Carter faces such issues as energy conservation, the Concorde, the B-1 bomber cruise missile controversy. Panama Canal and Laetril debates. Idi Amin, Roots and black independence brought Africa into the news. To many, the deaths of Elvis and Groucho signaled the end of an era. Despite mass kidnappings, the KLM Pan Am crash. Washington imprisonments and gay rights tensions, hopes for the future appear ed in movies like Star Wars, the Alaskan pipeline, the Space M Shuttle and improved Cuban relations. The World Around Us 14 IT

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r a 1979 ushered in significant leadership changes in many nations with whom the United States deals. The Shall of Iron was forced from power by the Ayotollah Kohmeini. Samosa was defeated by the Nicaraguan Sandmista. and Id. Amin was chased from Uganda. The final s.gningof the Israeli.Egyptian Peace Treaty and the rescue of Vietnamese Boat People unproved the U.S.'s efforts at bettering world conditions, while the return of gas lines and double digit inflation hurt the economy. Meanwhile, technology was giving many people con- A-NJ corn with the Three Milo Island disaster, the falling of Skylab, and the grounding ingof OC 10's. Two prominent Ameri LjV? cans. John Wayne and Nelson Rockefeller died in 1979, but the fascination with King Tut and rollerskating provided enter- £ tainment to many Americans The World Around Us 16