Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 1978, Page 127

Description:	Imissions, the two spacecrafts will continue outward from the solar system andacross the boundary of the wind ofcharged particles (solar wind) thatstreams outward from the sun.Octobers top news items included theSupreme Courts hearing of argumentsin the Bakke reverse discriminationmedical school admission case; theSupreme Courts lifting of the ban onConcorde supersonic flights into NewYorks Kennedy Airport; and the storming of a hijacked airliner at Mogadishu,Somalia, by West German commandos,freeing 86 hostages.In November the United States dropped out of the International Labor Organization as a protest of political bias.Former CIA director Richard Helms wasfined $2000 and given a two-year suspended sentence for failing to testify fullybefore Congress on covert activities inChile. A dam broke in Toccoa, Ga., inheavy rains Nov. 6, killing 37 people.Egyptian President Sadat made a landmark move Nov. 9, when he offered tovisit Israel to discuss Mideast issues.Israeli Prime Minister Begin took Sadatup on the offer and invited him to Israel.Both Sadat and Begin addressed Israelsparliament, vowing no more war.Tragedy struck Dec. 4, when a plane,believed to have been hijacked, crashedin Malaysia, killing 100. Just days afterthe warm Sadat-Begin meetings, relations between Egypt and most of theother Arab nations were broken off. Arableaders, meeting in Tripoli, Libya, weredismayed with Egypts friendly gesturetoward Israel.Another domestic strike, though not aswell organized as the devastating coalstrike, hit the nation in early December.A small number of the nations farmersstruck and refused to work their fields.The farmers were protesting the lowmarket prices they were receiving fortheir grain. Many farmers were forcedout of business due to bankruptcycaused by the low prices. In one demonstration, farmers drove their tractors toWashington, D.C., to make their dilemmaknown to Congress and the White House.TOP: During the extended coal strike,police escorts were needed when nonunion coal loads were transported inIndiana.BOTTOM: Israeli Prime Minister Mena-chem Begin discusses peace treaty negotiations at a news conference. (Photoscourtesy of the Bloomington Herald-Telephone)News 127
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