Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 1984, Page 46

Description:	1984 predictions: violence, but hopeThe predictions about 1984 made byGeorge Orwell in his book did not provecorrect; nevertheless, the 1983-84 yearwas full of violence and scandal, as wellas elections and new hope.U.S. electionCandidates for the DemocraticPresidential nomination competed inprimaries and caucuses throughout thenation, winning delegates for theDemocratic convention in San Franciscoduring the summer.Ronald Reagan, riding on the mostpopularity a President has had for sometime, was unopposed for the Republicannomination.As the contests started, two candidates—Sen. John Glenn of Ohio andformer Vice President Walter Mondale ofMinnesota—were expecting a two-person race.The people in Iowa, however, in the firstcaucus of the season, destroyed this notion by not giving Glenn a second-placeshowing as expected but instead choosing dark horse Gary Hart, senator fromColorado.Hart was not a dark horse for long.Riding on support from the product of thebaby boom, Yuppies (Young Upwardly Mobile Urban Professionals), momentum, popularity, and an image seen as analternative to Mondale, Hart wonprimaries in states all over the nation, including Indiana.Altnough Mondale received endorsements from most of the Democraticestablishment and the AFL-CIO, NationalEducation Association, countless governors, mayors, and Speaker of the HouseTip ONeill, it looked for a time as if Hartcould defeat him at the convention inAugust.Of the eight candidates who started therace, only three went on to the convention. The third was Rev. Jesse Jackson.Jackson had worked with Rev. MartinLuther King, Jr., during the 1960s andhad been a major black leader since then.He excited black Americans and gotthousands of blacks registered to vote.ArgentinaRaul Alfonsin, of the Center-LeftRadical Civic Union party, was electedpresident of Argentina in 1983. Alfonsinwas the first person elected in that nationin 38 years who was not a member of thePeronist party. At the start of his term, heput many former government officials andmembers of the military on trial for themurder of thousands of members of theopposition in Argentina.LebanonU.S. forces were pulled out of Lebanonin February 1984, ending major U.S. involvement in that region. The troops werepart of a four-nation peacekeeping forceplaced there after the pullout of Israeliforces that invaded Lebanon to stop PLOattacks. On Oct. 23, 1983, 41 Marineswere killed in a car bomb attack in thatnation.GrenadaU.S. forces invaded the island nation ofGrenada after a bloody coup overthrewthe government. The government overthrow (headed by Maurice Bishop, whowas killed) was disliked by the Reaganadministration because of Cuban forcesstationed there. The coup was staged bymembers of the military who wanted tospeed up the construction of an airstripwith which the Cubans were helping. TheU.S. invasion was staged to stop construction on the airstrip and to rescueabout 1000 U.S. medical students there.(Continued on page 47)PRESIDENTIAL candidate Walter Mondale shakes the Indianapolis Chrysler electric plant. (Photohands with UAW member Joe Haag while visiting courtesy of the Indiana Daily Student)
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