Vincennes University - Le Revoir Yearbook (Vincennes, IN)

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PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS Drew Barrymore and ‘‘Friend”’ starred in the smash motion picture of 1982. Prince William was nearly two m onths old by the time school began. Lady Di and Prince Charles seem to be adjusting well to parenthood. Artificial heart recipient Barney Clark, 61, smiles at his surgeon, Dr. William DeVries, one day after the historic surgery. Lech Walesa with wife, Danuta, addresses the crowd outside his home in Gdansk, Poland, shortly after the Solidarity labor movement leader was freed from government ordered confinement. Sally Ride and Guion Bluford are astronauts who will make history. Ride was chosen to be the first American woman to go into space. Bluford was selected to become the first American black man to go on a space shuttle flight. 15

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YEAR IN REVIEW It is easy to be so involved in studies and campus activities that one forgets what is happening in the “‘outside world.”’ To place the 1982-83 school year in perspective, the staff has utilized photographs depicting news events from the files of Wide World Photos, Inc. The first reusable space vehicle, Columbia is shown as it makes the final landing approach at Edwards Air Force Base. Columbia’s return to earth was as smooth as any commercial airliner. Scott Thompson of Johnstown, Pa. looks over his ex- periment — a study of convective liquid flows driven by surface tension — that was carried aboard the fifth flight of the Columbia Space Shuttle. Employees of the Chicago Health Department test — Tylenol medications for deadly cyanide that killed vat ——? seven area persons who took the capsules. 2 . : While the stock market is booming indicating possi- ble recovery (the New York Stock Exchange reported the Dow Jones Average reached a high of 1,065.59 on November 3, 1982) demonstrators picketed in Lafayette Park across from the White House to protest high unemployment. Was the economy recovering? It depended upon who you were asking. WE WANT JOBS COAL - UMW AUTO -UAyy 7 STEEL-US)

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TROUBLED TIMES Some of the 800 U.S. Marines leave a landing craft as they take up their peace-keeping duties in the war- ravaged port of Beirut, Lebanon. 70 Israeli military were killed when their head- quarters at Tyre, Lebanon was leveled by an explosion. Argentinian soldiers captured at Goose Green in East Falkland are guarded by a Royal Marine shortly after their surrender ended the conflict between Great Bri- tain and Argentina. An American flag and a U.S. Marine stand in the foreground as rescue workers sort through the ruins of the American Embassy in Beirut. The blast caused by a terrorist bomb killed many.