Courtf~Y Wid f World I'ho tos When the world came to America in February for the XIII Winter Olympic Games , the Uni ted States hockey team and Eric Heiden stunned them all. With an average age of 22 years, the hockey team played their hearts out against mostly older and more experienced opponents. Coming from behind in each game they played, the Americans tied Sweden, defeated Czeckoslovakia and advanced to the final game in their division against Ru ssia. Handling Russia 4-3, the team , which had been organized for only seven months, advanced to the gold medal game . Trailing Finland 2-1 at the second period break , the Americans came on strong in the third and fourth periods with three goals as the partisan crowd shouted, "We want gold! We want gold! " The victory was America's and so was the gold medal in hockey, the United States' first hockey gold since 1960. Speed skater Eric Heiden en tered the Games as the heavy favorite in all his events . Showing his true strength, he skated five times, setting four O lympic and one world record and collected five gold medals. He became the first man ever to win five individual golds in either the Summer or Winter Games. Heiden 's and other American victories had the nation singing with joy and also heightened the debate on the v iability of the United States not sending a team to Moscow for the summer O lympics because of Soviet " involvement in Afghanistan. Earlier in 1979 Tracy Austin became the youngest player to win the U. S. Open tennis tournaments. Pittsburgh became the "City of Champions" as the baseball Pirates' victory in the World Series was followed by the footba ll Steelers' Super Bowl victory . Alabama won another national championship in collegiate football , this t ime outright , clinching the tit le by defeating Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl. Pittsburgh won again in the Super Bowl, becoming the only team to win four National Football league championships since the league's merger with the American Football league. ttl:! S cenes: Going for the gold 42 1. PIRATES' Willie Slru);t'l1 IllaSls tI I!P/li( ' 1"/111 Ol 'er 1111' f ellCt ' ill Ille f illtl ! >: 1111 /1' Ilf till' W,lrld Series "X" illst Iii ,' Orill/es at B' l /lilllO/",'" Ricl. Delllpsey ca ldles for 'he Orioles. 2. DEFEATED hy Iht' Y'Jl IIIX, 'SI play .. ,. erer 10 will I II!' U. S. OpI' I! . def cl1dill>{ ci /ll/lIVio ll CI,r is E"t'rl · L!nYII CI) IIX ,"ullllulcs T rucy A list ill . her SHcceSSt)r . 3. REPRESENTATIVE E,IBet/lll11e of SCl/rC.1I lIiSC II SSl'S I II" rolt' n{ /I {res/mlllll CIIIIXn 'SSII IIII I . World Scenes The campaign for the 1980 elections had one of the earliest starts for presidential campaigns. Taking Jimmy Carter's example of an early , Jow-key start, candidates quickly lined up for the race. With President Carter experiencing tremendously low popularity ratings, Senator Ted Kennedy decided to challenge the incumbant. For the Republicans nine men , including former governors, senators, representatives and a former CIA chief, sought the loyalties of party members. The Iowa caucuses whi ch had first established Carter as a serious candidate in 1976 became a veritable battleground of politicians. Kennedy campaigned personally in Iowa while Carter refused to leave the White House as long as Americans remained hostage in Iran. Hardly entering the state, frontrunning Republican Ronald Reagan was upset by George Bush with a highly-organized campaign. The absent Carter defeated Kennedy soundly as he rode a wave of national support in the wake of the Iran cri sis. For the first primary Reagan decided to join the figh t more fully in New Hampshire. Kennedy tried to draw Car ter from Washington with constant verbal barbs about the President's leadership. Kennedy only succeeded in arousing the ire of many _ Americans who had rallied around Car ter with the turn of events in the Mid-East. In the primary Reagan came back and defeated the only close challenger, Bush, by a surprisingl y large margin. Without ever leaving the White House, Carter handed the wounded Kennedy campaign its second defeat by taking 49 percent of the Democratic vote. As February end~d Reagan and Bush had tallied the same number of delegates for the Republican convention, and Kennedy slightly trai led Carter in Democratic delegates. In his effort to clearly show the USSR that his angry warnings were not idle threats, President Carter urged Congress to reimplement draft regist ration in response to Soviet involvement in Afghanistan. Carter called for the registration of males and fema les. The response to the President 's plan on campus seemed largely in favor of the reg istration process itself. However, opinions were wide-ranging about female registration and about the possibility of drafting following registration. Steve Stamatis, 19, thought that draft registration was needed to show the Kremlin how strongly America disliked their aggressive movements. He said, however , that he did not think it should be necessa ry for women to regi ster.
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