The Year In Review 136 Keeping busy DROUGHT. The summer of 1988 was hit with the worst drought in many years. Throughout the Midwest, farmers watched helplessly as their crops went dry. -Photo by Associated Press. ~ MARCH 4 - Spring break began. 8 - Super Tuesday, Bush wins 16 of 17 contests; the Democrati c results are split. 16 - Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North and three others were indicted on conspiracy charges in the Iran-contra affair. 17 - Columbia plane crash killed 137. 23 - The Sandinistas and contras signed a cease-fire agreement. 25 - Dr. Burks declared that Thanksgiving break will be a week long beginning in 1988. The faculty unanimously agreed. 1 - TV 12 became TV 19. 9 - John Naisbett, author of Megatrends and co-author of Reinvesting the Corporation, addressed the audience in the Benson Auditorium as part of the American Studies Program. 11 Principals auditions for the Homecoming musical , "Carousel" 16 - Khalil al-Wazir, a senior commander of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), was assassinated in Tunisa. 20 - The two-week-old Kuwaiti hijacking ended in Algiers. 23 - The fifth annual M.A.D.D. dash 24 - Tracy Brown was crowned the 1988 Petit Jean Queen. 29 - Bob Dole dropped out of the l••••••••••L 1 presidAetniapl rRJace.L I 2~..___M_A_Y____, ~ . Spring semester final examinations began. 1 - Spring Sing weekend began. 3 - Three French hostages were released in Lebanon. 8 - President Francois Mitterrand is re-elected in France. 9 - Intersession began. 15 - A Kentucky school bus collision killed 27. 19 - A disturbed woman shot six children and one adult, killing one child and wounding the others in Winnetta, Ill., elementary school. 29 - President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev began a summit in Moscow. ~ JUNE 7 - Michael Dukakis clinches the Democratic nomination with victories in four primaries. 7 - First Summer session began. 28 A special Soviet Communist Party conference opens and adopts sweeping reforms of the Soviet system.
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