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News Inspires Hope And Despair

The news from the world beyond the defect and debt, had yet to reach the the United States, and resulted in
gates of Pine Crest was a mixture of launching pad. President Carter’s threat to boycott
both good and bad news, arousing the Moscow Summer Olympics if the
In October the world turned its eyes to
feelings of hope as well as despair. troops were not recalled.
the ever unsteady Middle East.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of january 1980 saw the race for the
September 1979 began dramatically.
Iran, had fled his country due to Presidency get into full swing, as the
South Florida residents prepared for
uprisings by the Iranian people, hopeful candidates campaigned down
the worst as Hurricane David bore which were led by Ayatollah Ruhol-
down on the coast. David spared South a path of primaries enroute to a victory
lah Khomeini. The United States, in November.
Florida by veering northward at the
after admitting the Shah into the
last minute. However, Hurricane
country for cancer treatment, found January also saw increasing concern
Frederick, which followed directly
itself under severe criticism from the over the unsteady economy and rising
behind David, devastated the Florida Ayatollah, Anti-American feelings inflation. The value of the dollar
Panhandle and neighboring Gulf
reached a climax on November 4th, continued to decline, while the price
Coast States.
when a group of Iranian militants of gold and gasoline soared to an
stormed the American Embassy in unprecedented high.
At the same time, millions of miles Tehran, taking fifty Americans as
from the Hurricanes' onslaught, hostages. Due to fuel shortages during the
Voyager 2 encountered the giant summer of ’79, lines at gas stations
planet Jupiter, and Pioneer II finally Problems in the Middle East increased became commonplace. Stations began
prepared to rendezvous with Saturn with the invasion by Russian forces of closing early on weekdays and
after a six-year voyage. While these neighboring Afghanistan in mid - remaining closed on weekends. This
two space crafts had gone so far, December. This event caused strong drove gasoline prices over the $1.00
America’s space shuttle, plagued with protests from many nations, including per gallon mark.

Photos
World

Wide

THE SUFFERING OF CAMBODIANS is
typified by this young mother who holds her
baby in her arms as she waits for medical aid at
a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand. Her
child died before she reached help.

AN AMERICAN HOSTAGE, Kathy Gross, is
interviewed by the press shortly before her
release from the American Embassy in Iran,
which was taken over by militant students.

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