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Show ) I 1 1 : f i I i ; i n 5 5 F. !. Summer brought wind storms that caused much damage to equipment, both in English Village and the Ditto area. Dugway retrospect Looking at the past and into the future By SGT D. L. Pinnick 1980 was a year of many faces and interesting places. It s the year Mt. St. blew its top, we got a new president and inflation went into dou- ble digits. 1980 was another year of captivity for 52 Americans in Iran, further Soviet troop increases into Afghanistan, as well as the erup- war with Ameri- tion of the Iran-Ira- q gasoline purchasers losing both I ft X . , 1 , ' -- .J s v i ''I , TV' ' . XY r. , J " E ' V .V . s : - f s v. S . , Y ' , v : i" i ' . : V ' . X X: H u r i hundreds in Italy. Stateside, a fire in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas claimed 84 lives. Death also claimed former Beatle, John Lennon, as-- a ranged autograph seeker gunned him down in front of his apartment, The Summer Olympics were held in Moscow, without the U.S. and sev-an- d eral other of her allies, in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; . ? de-IIele- ns and Voyager 1 sent back mind-ca- n boggling pictures from Saturn that left the experts alternately, drooling with pleasure, or scratching their ' if '"I j ' - t - I . , S ' T-- t'A s' A i v s' ? V. ' - ? J & n. 'r J ' Vr 'I , --v-- , j i V ; v 1 1980 saw political leaders and - VVr.;v : :. r. ' .vs. ;3V X i!Y , V L , ways- - ' """w. SSS government officials Abscamed, and Polish workers striking against the Communist leadership for more pay and better working standards in their native country. 1980 saw more Vietnamese boat people risk their lives to win freedom, and Cuba sent surplus population, as well as empty some of its jails and mental wards in a Caribbean version of the Dunkirk sea-lift, only to have some refugees riot and wreak havoc when they arrived here. In 1980 the Shah of Iran died in exile, while earthquakes killed ! j . v'v v-- v a; .N . t; .Vj . . f s - . n v v'.- iL : C' .m' , - t- : ft Vr j" ;. - . ' 1 . fy t 5 .'.?, .V , s ; ' '? ! tl, f' H I V ' C11 " .' ... i 7 J 7 5 ' 7 f.-.- i T . '; M ' f - . - ' , i ", - . I ,v rf a possibility in the near future. ' ; t $ r J -' . . ;r.;. J :V. - . f all-ye- ar '.h - s . , ' Vra ... As part of the Quality of Life program, Dugway had a bubble put over its swimming pool making swimming6 , i r ' ' .. '. , , ! s 1 . .j - - "Is. - l . u - - Vv.'-: i s. . Km.i iI. . r it ylu S' 1 ? - . C--'YY- '' -' ' ? : , f .V - ' ' s v'1 s. lY'fVf - h arf1 i A.r'-rt. .rX - aiftnriMMaiMMani - - ' i s M V PHIL if AA.U'11 Dugway Days crowds thrilled to an airborne rapelling demonstration by members of IIIIC . f 'x, The DriU and Transfer System (DATS) left Dugway after completion of its mission and went on to Aberdeei Proving Ground. jP . , . . .i swift . ' ,i- - asraNsnuuaajUtlrftftftjppipaaatm . .tin-- .'V 'Xi.J. J - "r |