1985 Miracle Yearbook

Bhopal, India December 7, 1984. An Indian woman cra- dles her baby blinded by poi- sonous gas which leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide factory in central India. Many people suffered blindness, eye ulcers, and eye irritation. Doctors also reported still- births, and said long-term ef- fects could include perma- nent blindness, partial paraly- sis, lung,liver and kidney dam- age. Loma Linda, California, No- vember, 1984. Baby Fae lis- tens to her mother's voice over the telephone just 13 days after the infant's historic heart transplant at Loma Lin- da University Medical Center. The baby was born with a de- formed heart and without a transplant she had a very small chance of surviving. Doctors decided to experi- mentally replace Baby Fae's deformed heart with that of a baboon. The United States did well in the Summer Olmpics, winning 83 gold medals,61 silver, and 30 bronze. Mary Lou Retton won the all-around gold med- al and led the gymnastics team to a silver medal: she also won bronze medals for the floor exercise and the un- even parallel bars and took a silver medal for the vault. The Soviet Union and other Com- munist countries boycotted the Summer Olympics. Current Event 127