From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
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Subject: Re:      Do you remember 1970 to 1980?
Date: 16 Nov 1992 18:00:41 GMT
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In article AA06353@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com, GCTHORNE@idbsu.idbsu.edu () writes:
>
>      As part of an impromptu research project, I'd like to know what
>  YOU think the single most important ( dramatic, traumatic ) event of`
>  1970 to 1980 was.
>
>
>           ????

In article <1992Nov14.210816.29846@eagercon.com> eager@eagercon.com writes:
>At first I couldn't think of anything from 1970-80.  I must have been dozing.
>
>I don't know what is most important, but here are a few:
>	
>	Bombing of Cambodia, followed by demonstrations and the shooting
>		of students at Kent State 
>	Watergate
>	Resignation of Richard Nixon
>	Arab Oil Embargo
>	Death of Cecil, my pet squirrel monkey
>
>(Did anything happen between 1975 and 1980?  I may have been out at the mall.)

You all must have been asleep!  The 1970's was one of the most momentous
decades in human history, except for the 1990's, the chief event among which
was that Pesident Nixon brought an end to Vietnam, and to the Cold War which,
apart from a brief relapse in 1979-1987, held fast.

The American government had it's first truly serious crisis in 1972-1974.

A spell of bland conservative female fashions afflicts the world and holds
fast until 1987.

The oil embargos of 1973 and 1979 severely crippled the American economy
causing simultaneous inflation and unemployment both times, and leading to
loss of power of the party in office in the following elections.  The
economy never recovered since.  An energy crisis takes place between
1973 and 1980 with gas lines and conservation, with a brief respite as
Carter takes office.  A big recession hits between 1973 and 1981, also with a
brief respite during Carter's presidency.

Several moon landings took place.  Nixon visited China in early 1972.  Civil
war led to the dissolution of Pakistan and the creation of a nearly stillborn
Bangladesh.  The first mass starvations take place.

The space program falls apart, wimps took the place of visionaries, and NASA
confines itself to near orbit with the timid shuttle program, all while letting
its fledgling space station fall from the sky.  Star Trek gets martyred only
to rise in greater glory years later.

Britain fell apart and homes went without power a few times.  Baseball had its
first strike.  Americans refused to buy meat for a week, and gradually
came to stop eating red meat over the next 20 years.

Nixon ended the Vietnam war.  A couple years later, the communists break the
agreement, resume the war and invade the south anyway.  Cambodian communists
also take over and initiate a program of mass genocide, putting egg on the
faces of anti-war protestors.

Nixon went to Moscow.  The Cold War was ended in June 1973.  The Soviet and
American space programs initiated a combined mission in the next 2 years.

The Vice President fell.  Nixon turns into a Clintoneque moderate with a
hauntingly similar 1974 State of the Union speech.  Nixon fell within the year
as the campaign tatics, which enabled him to steal the 1972 election, finally
catch up with him.

Sadat invaded Israel.  Four years later, he made the Arab-Israeli peace
under the moderation of Carter.

New York city went bankrupt.  Ford loses the debate as he lets slip the
little-known fact that Eastern Europe had already drifted away from the Soviet
Union, as proved to be the case.

Carter gets elected on populist appeal.
Good dance music gets popular again.  Good dance music gets corrupted by
oversized record companies and falls into disfavor basically until 1987.

Carter loses the debate to Reagan as he gets ridiculed by historically
naive fools for stating the seriousness of the nuclear war issue, only to
see it become issue #1 a couple years later.  The Republicans win their
3rd election in the last 6 tries, and improve that record to an overwhelming 5
out of 9 by 1992.  (Technically, 1980 is part of the 70's since it's the last
year of the decade).
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