November 30- BISONS BEAT THE BEARS! Harding Bisons defeat the UCA Bears at UCA to take District 17 title. December 3- East German Communist leader Krenz and ruling party Politburo resign after parliament votes to eliminate party's constitutional guarantee of power. December 16- 125 Seniors graduate in the fall commencement ex - ercises. December 20- U.S. Military force attacks Panamanian military bases in bid to oust and capture Gen. Manuel Noriega, who later seeks asylum from the Vatican embassy in Panama. December 22- After a week of violently suppressed protest, a popular uprising drives Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu from power. Ceausescu and his wife are executed . January 1- The 90's begin! January 3- No.riega surrenders to U.S. troops outside the Vatican embassy in Panama. January 10- Spring semester classes begin. Dr. Burks announces in chapel a 1.6 million donation from Robert and Sandy Brackett of Vero Beach, Florida towards the new library. January 12- The S.A. hosts the annual "Welcome Back" party. Comedian Craig Anton performs to the completely packed Heritage banquet rooms. January 18- Raymond and Peggy McMartin Buckey are found notguil ty of 52 child molestation charges in the nation's lengthiest (33 inonths) and costliest ($15 million) trial. January 19- An Eastman-Kodak jet crashes in Little Rock killing seven. January 21-24- The second annual Student Lectureship becomes the College Church's Spring Meeting. January 28- The San Francisco 49ers demolished the Denver Broncos for the NFL championship in the Super Bowl by a score of 55-10. 90' s • Ill Effect February 4- 200,000 Soviets march on Moscow demanding the end of the Communist rule. February 7- The Soviet government votes to end the 70-year Communist Party monopoly on power in the USSR. President Mikhail Gorbachev proposes a plan for an elected president and a multi-party system of government. February 11- Nelson Mandela is freed in South Africa after nearly 30 years in prison . February 12- The 1990 Petit Jean goes to press in Visalia, California. The Year In Review 39
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