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Wide World Photos FINAL EDITION 1980-1981 VOL. 1 PG. 3 MOUNT ST. HELENS With a blast comparable to the largest H-Bomb ever tested, Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18. Despite all the warnings, 32 people died and a paralyzing blanket of gray soot dropped over cities, farms and highways as far east as Montana. REFUGEES FLOOD FLORIDA - In a little more than two months, 110,000 Cubans descended upon the United States. The sudden influx forced Florida’s governor to declare a state of emergency. Cuban President Fidel Castro claimed it was to teach the U.S. a lesson for welcoming Cuban hijackers as heroes. THIRD CANDIDATE - Although John Anderson won only a small percentage of the popular vote in the presidential election, he stressed that his campaign was not wasted, “We have put the major parties on notice that they can never again come up with the kind of choices they have this year.” POLISH UNREST - Poland’s striking workers brought down the government and dangerously provoked the Soviet Union. TELEVISION STRIKE Over 1,200 actors went on strike demanding compensation for videocassettes and cable TV. The long-winded strike lasted several months, delaying the new fall programs.
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FINAL EDITION 1980-1981 ★ VOL. 1 PG. 4 HOCKEY VICTORY - For the first time in 20 years, the American hockey team won the hockey gold medal, defeating the world champion Russian team. The American team had only been playing together for five months. ■rvw ] -4 t I jH •• i ‘SHOGUN’ FEVER - The 12-hour television mini-series captured rare top ratings for NBC. Richard Chamberlin played the lead in the story about 17th century Japan. BORG WINS, AGAIN - Sweden’s Bjorn Borg falls to his knees after beating John McEnroe of the United States to the All England Tennis Championship for the fifth straight year at Wimbleton. THE ABSCAM TRIALS Two of seven Congressmen involved in the ABSCAM trials are shown arriving at Federal Court with their wives to deny charges that they accepted money in exchange for political favors from an FBI agent, posing as an Arab sheik. THE RELEASE OF THE HOSTAGES - A surge of relief, joy and patriotism swept the country when the hostages were released from Iran after 444 days in captivity on Jan. 20, inauguration day. OLYMPIC BOYCOTT - Beauty and pageantry couldn’t hide America’s absence from the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. A number of ACTOR DIES - Peter Sellers, a mastermind of disguise, played a variety of characters and was lovable in them all, from Inspector Clouseau in the “Pink Panther” films to Chauncey Gardiner in “Being There.” countries boycotted the Games to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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