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CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO.. TEXAS
THURSDAY 3 JANUARY 1980
the grim d
If yon could condense the
whole decade of the 1970's,
compress It to manageable bulk
and pack It Into one capsole
which yon could swallow In a
single gulp, It would be a
terrible jolt to your system.
It wasn't too easy to take in
small doses spooned out over
the entire 10-year period, eith-
er. All things considered, the
1970's have not been the
brightest years for the American
nation.
The brightest time did come
in mid-decade, when we cele-
brated the 200th anniversary of
our Independence as a nation,
climaxing the event with a
gigantic national birthday party
on the Fourth of July 1976.
Bells were rung across the
land, and the Tall Ships sailed
majestically down the Hudson
and around the tip of Manhattan
Island in a spectacular display of
sail from our storied past. For a
few splendid moments, the na-
tion forgot the horrors of Viet-
nam and Watergate in our
immediate past, and looked to
an immediate future that prom-
ised more triumphs than it
delivered.
A Few Bright Moments
The Seventies did produce a
few other bright moments...
mostly and literally "out of this
world." Major Alfred M. Wor-
den left his Apollo 15 Spacecraft
on August 5 in '71 and became
the first human to walk in space;
and Moon landings by Apollo 14
and IS ended lunar exploration
for the decade as space scien-
tists began to look farther afield.
Vikings I and II landed on Mars
in the Bicentennial Year and
found nobody at home; and in
the final year of the decade.
Whatever You Need
For Building, Remodeling
WE
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Voyager spacecraft rendezvous-
ed with Jupiter in March and
Pioneer flew by Saturn in Sep-
tember.
Skylab was launched in 1973.
faltered, was repaired in space,
and finally crashed to Earth
seven years later, in July 1979,
with no casualties...a minor sort
of triumph in itself.
The final Camp David Summit
meetings in 1978 were a sort of
American triumph, as Egypt's
Sadat and Israel's Begin met
with President Carter to ham-
mer out what appear to be
still-lasting Middle East peace
accords between their two na-
tions.
But the most memorable
events of the 1970's were not
moments of pride, and the
decade will be most lastingly
categorized for most Americans
by the final debacle of Vietnam
in its beginning years, the
trauma of Watergate in the
middle years, and the crisis in
Iran at the end.
Decade of The Hostage
One of the hallmarks of the
R
Seventies has been the plight of
the Hostage...and the domi-
nance of the Terrorist American
prisoners of war being treated
as hostages in Vietnam. Heiress
Patricia Hearst being held host-
age in 1974 by the Symbionesc
Liberation Army in California
and. in a reversal of roles,
joining them and becoming
herself a fugitive; nine hostages
and 39 inmates dying as one
thousand state troopers quash-
ed a five-day rebellion at Attica
Prison in New York in 1971;
eighty-six hostages rescucd
when German Commandos
stormed a Lufthansa plane
which had been hijacked and
landed in Somalia; 134 hostages
released (but one young black
student reporter killed) when
Moslem terrorists seized two
Washington buildings; 160
hostages rescued (and a handful
killed) when Dutch police
stormed a commuter train seiz-
ed by Moluccans in Holland; 103
hostages rescucd by Israeli
commandos at Entebbe Airport
in Uganda; and 26 school chil-
dren and their bus driver rescu-
ed in California after being
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ONCE UPON A TIME
LONG, LONG AGO
I hose arc magic words. I hey can conjure up the
fascinating world of make-believe. It's fun to
escape over the rainbow. Hut. when illness strikes,
it s important to lie firmly entrenched in the world
of practical things, like knowing without a doubt
that you will be getting the liest possible health
care.
Vou can always count on us for accurate, quick
convenient service. That's because our main
concern is the health and welfare of this
community and every single individual in it is
imiMirtant to us.
YOUR DOCTOR CAN PHONE US when you
n' * med,cinf pick «P your prescription if
shopping nearby, or we will deliver promptly without
ex ra charge. A great many people entrust us with
their prescriptions. May we compound yours?
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kidnapped and held ho
ransom in their bunc
bus for 36 hours.
Rescues were
dramatic, and often cosj
the comedy of militar
which followed Ca
seizure of an American I
in southeast Asia in 11
38-membcr crew of
aguez was released u4
but 38 American Navy,
and Air Force men dl
misguided rescue assaJ
wrong island, and fin
Americans were wmindj
And the end was not)
at year's end. fifty
diplomats were still
hostage, after two mfl
what had been the
embassy in Tehran,
Iranian students who
embassy in % iolatioa
international convent*
continued to hold it inj
of all international
and with obeisance toI
tollah Khomcnei. their j
leader.
From Vietnam to Wi
The decade dawned
Vietnam War still in
and American protest^
policy still in full cry.
itself was cscalatec
beginning year of the i
President Nixon sent
troops into Cambodiaj
dent protests here
ended in tragedy at
University in Ohio
where national #ua
fired on and killed
student protesters in
which opened sores
from the My Lai
Vietnam in the final
the 1960s.
But youth protests ¡
Nixon administrationj
jected overwhclminj
national elections of
Richard Nixon and
picked vice-prcsidej
Agnew were re elec
landslide...although
gate Time Bomb wl
rock the nation a fe
later was already tic
the character of the
dent was about to be
a taker of pay-offs in j
sleaziest of scandals
high American officii
resigned to escape p*
became briefly a '
word" but not a polit
was succeeded by
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 1980, newspaper, January 3, 1980; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184151/m1/12/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.