University of Southern Mississippi - Southerner Yearbook (Hattiesburg, MS)

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PECTRUM The overall look at big news events... wpus Xboiei Nlarine l.t, Col, Oliver North. was a key official in the plan to finance antbgovernment rebels in Nicaragua with money from arms sales to Iran. ln testimony before the Iran- C, onir.i hearings in Washington. North became somewhat of .i eelebrity, l, pper Righti The Don Jones Industrial Stock Merage dropped SOX points. the largest in history. on Mon- day Oetober 19. Some ealled it a crash others called it a 'tmeltdotx nu and others called it Black Monday. Whatever it mis, it stripped S500 billion from the market value of US. seeiirities. Right' A barge filled with 3.l2X tons of garbage heeame ti national joke and zi sy mbol of the nation's worsening problem it ith solid waste management. The barge. looking for .1 plaee to dump its eargo. v-as banned by six states and three loreign eouniries before an ineinerator reduced it to ash. life 1.

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SPECTRU . -V ol-, , ' ' i - X-.V 0 V 35.15 -- '. - ,-3 .. Q - 22 People if I 0 'Q' E. Right: Miss Michigan, Kaye Lani Rafko, a nurse who shook up the talent competition with a Polynesian dance, was crowned Miss Amer- ica 1988, Above: Dennis Conner, the man who lost the America's Cup in 1983, won it back four years later. The Stars and Stripes com- pleted a 4-0 sweep over Australia's Kooka- burra lll in the race that took place in Austra- lia. is we .. ,IJ Y N-I