Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 1979, Page 49

Description:	(Continued from page 46)American republic had been ripening forrebellion for many years under the repressive rule of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Thisyear was the year for its discontent toexplode.The 1978-79 year was a troublesome onefor those living in Iran. In December theShah fled Iran, leaving Ayotallah RuhollahBakhtiar in charge as prime minister. Moslem leader Khoemeini returned to Iran atthe demand of his people, after 15 years ofexile. He immediately appointed Bazarganas prime minister; Bakhtiar resigned andwas arrested.England welcomed the birth of LouiseBrown, the first test tube baby. One criticsaid, In biology, as in politics, power isexpanding faster than ethical understand-J-In national news the countrys worst airdisaster occurred in September, leaving144 dead. Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight182, on a commuter run from Sacramentoto San Diego, collided with a single-engineplane bearing only a student pilot and hisinstructor, over San Diego, Calif. The Boeing plowed through a block of houses in SanDiego and then exploded a few blocks later.At a National Transportation SafetyBoard hearing, a former controller testifiedthat 16 months earlier he had warned airport officials of the potential for collisionsover San Diego but was ignored.Nov. 26, San Francisco mayor GeorgeMoscone and city supervisor Harvey Milkwere slain in a city hall meeting by DanWhite, a former city supervisor. White hadresigned his job as supervisor; and when hetried to get the job back, Moscone and Milk,an out-of-the-closet leader of the San Francisco homosexual community, blocked hisway. When arraigned, White pleaded notguilty by reason of insanity.Muhammed Ali was still the greatestafter losing and then recapturing the WorldBoxing Associations heavyweight title. Alibecame the only man in history to win theheavyweight championship three times.Renowned politician Hubert Humphrey,the happy warrior, died of cancer at age66. Margaret Mead—anthropologist, socialcritic, lecturer, and author, also died fromcancer, at age 76.Patty Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, wasreleased from prison in early February,after serving several months for involvement in the SLA bank robbery.In April an accident at the Three MileIsland nuclear plant in Pennsylvania alertedthe nation to the potential danger of nuclearexplosions.• Jt - d
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