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The U.S . rescuing a satellite in space made headlines
on Time magazine .
Newsmakers Make Impact

M any things were in the news but Summer Olympics were held in Los
certain ones made a lasting impact Angeles . For two glorious weeks, the
on local, national and world events. Olympics were a TV extravaganza watched
In Politics, a barrier was broken when a around the world. Although Russia chose to
woman ran on a major party's national boycott, there was still good competition
ticket. Geraldine Ferraro was that first from other countries. The U.S. walked away
woman and first Italian American to run for with 17 4 medals, including 83 golds.
Vice-president on the Democratic ticket. Cubs fans had their moments of glory
Jesse Jackson was the first serious black after years of disappointment but their
presidential candidate to help make black hopes were dashed early as the San Diego
Americans a political force. However, Padres took away their ticket to the World
Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide victory was Series . However, they, in turn, were
everything but unexpected. defeated by the Detroit Tigers . In the
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, Superbowl, the Miami Dolphins were
was assassinated by two of her body- defeated by the San Francisco 49'ers.
guards, members of the Sikh minority. Locally, the battle over whether to
World wide attention was given to famine keep or do away with video lottery games
plagued African nations that have had little in Bellevue continued as well as the issue -
rain since 1982. of legalized gambling.
New advances in medicine involved The Commonwealth bank in Lincoln
heart experiments. After the death of col~sped with millions of dollars of
Barney Clark, the artificial heart was people's hard earned money. As a result,
attempted again more successfully with tax payers may have to help repay the
William Shroeder. Then a big ethical investors. ·~
controversy was raised over the issue of
Baby Fae . For the first time a baboon's
heart was used to replace a defective
human heart. Baby Fae died after 21 days
from effects of her medication.
For 20 years NASA felt women lacked
the needed stamina to walk in space . In
October, Kathryn Sullivan made a walk in
the weightless environment for three and
a half hours while working with another
astronaut. In November, shuttle astronauts
retrieved two $35 million satellites from
space .
Coming back down to earth, the 23rd

26 In the News In a debate aga inst Vice -Pres ident Bush, Geraldine
Ferraro presents her views on politica l matters.