Wayne High School - Sentry Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Drought hits Southeast the the brink of ruin. Several Ft. Wayne area farmers donated grain and hay. They loaded up semi-trucks and train cars to reach the destined area. (AP photo) A drought spread through- out the Southeast during 1986. It was the worst dry spell on record. Even after some rain many farmers in the Carolinas, Georgia, Ten- nesse and Virginia were on President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gor- bachev met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for a two-day summit in October to discuss arms control. The two leaders reached an impasse on testing of the CJ.S. Star Wars weaponry. (AP photo) American journalist arrested and accused spying Jof P viennadiy Zakharov, a Soviet CI.N. employee was arrested on a subway platform in New York City and charged with spying. A week later American journalist Nicholas Daniloff was arrested on the streets of Mos- cow and accused of spying on the Soviet Union. Both men were re- leased within weeks and the entire af- fair set the stage for a superpower Summit meeting in Iceland. (AP photo) NATIONAL NEWS

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Lookin positively ravishing, freshman Mike Merling decks out in a neato-keen floral print. Werling set a good example for all of the underclassmen who were afraid to go crazy. That was very brave of him because he must have had to put up with a lot of cracks. 1 didn ' t mind though because I had fun. said Werling. The students readily took advantage of the INTERMISSION from the daily mono- tony at Wayne by wearing all the shorts, paint, hats, shades and many more Otherwise il- legal items discouraged of students during any other week. INTERMISSION

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Mets take the World Series in seven games Plew York Mets Gary Carter is lifted in the air by relief pitchier Jesse Orosco following the Met 8-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox in the seventh game of the World Series at New York ' s Shea Stadium. (AP photo) 1 he biggest celebration ever. The city of New York gave the Statue of Liberty a big 1986 bash — a fourth of July festival of song, celebrities and fireworks honoring the great lady ' s first 1 00 years. Dancers, singers, movie stars, and ships from all over the world joined in the celebration. The ships surrounded the Statue in the New York Harbor for the Independence Day Festival. A dministra tion under fire Several other newsworthy events happened in 1986. First their was the crisis in the administration: known by Time magazine as Gippergate. The Iran- ian scam. Part of Reagan ' s administration sold guns to Iranians and then they took the money and gave it to the contra rebels in Nicaragua. Reagan still tells the American people that I was not fully in- formed. Another disturbing factor happened in the United States during 1986 is the upswing of drug use. They call it crack on the East Coast and rock on the West Coast. Whatever its name, this refined, smokeable form of cocaine may have been the most addictive narcotic ever sold on the streets. The death of Len Bias has also caused an increased alarm. Several new bills were introduced this year on drug testing. Several work places and professional sporting teams are now urine sampled. On a more positive note, Caroline Kennedy wed Edwin Schlossberg in Mass., on July 19, 1986. Fer- gie married Prince Andrew at Westminster Abbey in a spectacle of pomp and glory. In the Phillipines there was turmoil; after 20 years of ruling Ferdinand Marcos was forced from office amid new charges of corruption and scandal. The new president, Corazon Aquino, was faced with political and economic prob- lems. NATIO.l AL NEWS