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31.1 989 Three Mile Island

Image - Aerial of Three Mile Island (April, 1979).

Image - Stop Met-Ed sign in Middletown, Pennsylvania (April, 1979).

Image - Oblique view of Three Mile Island (April, 1979).

Image - Anti-nuke rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at the Capitol (April, 1979).

31.2 997 The Crisis

Text - Robert C. Ode: FROM Excerpts From an Iran Hostage's Diary (1979-1980)

Image - Philippe Ledru: November 1979: Students Take over the American Embassy and Hold Americans Hostage (November, 1979).

Image - One of the five American Helicopters Involved in the Aborted Attempt to Rescue 53 American Hostages in Tehran, Lies in Ruins Near this Oasis, While Another One Stands Intact Despite Bombardment by Iranian Air Force Jets (April 26, 1980).

Image - Mal Langston: Three of the 52 Americans Held Hostage in Iran Arrive at Rhein-Main Air Base in West Germany After Being Released from Tehran. At the Top is Jerry Plotkin; Waving is Robert Ode (January 21, 1981).

Image - Demonstrators Perched Atop of the United States Embassy Wall, Burn an American Flag, the Fourth American Flag to be Burned Since the Students Seized the Embassy and More than 60 Hostages Nov. 4th. Demonstrators also Burned an Effigy of President Carter, Nov. 9th. (November 9, 1979).

Image - American Hostages are Presented to the Press at the Occupied US Embassy Shortly before their Imminent Release. Left to right; Elisabeth Mantagne, Terry Tedford, Joan Walsh, Lillianne Johnson, David Walter, Lloyd Rawbin, Westley Williams, Terry Robinson, James Hughs and James Vincent (November 19, 1979).

31.3 1003 Women's Movement

Text - Hon. Shirley Chisholm In the House of Representatives, Equal Rights for Women (May 21, 1969).

Text - U.S. Supreme Court: FROM Roe v. Wade (January 22, 1973).

31.4 1007 Cocaine

Text - National Institute on Drug Abuse, Research Report Series: Cocaine Abuse and Addiction (May 1999).

 

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