Edgewood High School, El Corral, 1997, World Beat 4

Description:	NATIONAL^X Binti Jua, a~Y* gorilla atChicagos BrookfieldZoo, becomes a herowhen she rescues a3-year-old boy knockedunconscious after falling18 feet into the apeenclosure. The boysuffers brain contusionsbut soon recovers.The U.S. Army issuesstrict new policies for drillinstructors and femaletrainees, as hundreds ofcomplaints of sexualharassment are revealedin November. Drillinstructors are nowrequired to leave theirdoors open if afemale is inside,and women musttravel in pairs.^^ Former U.N. ambassador^^^ Madeleine Albright isnominated for Secretary of State byPresident Clinton on December 5.Confirmed in office in January1997, Albright is the first womanto head the State Department.frican-i churchmostly in the Soua serious problem1996, as hundredchurches are burrdown. Residents c, Oregonte damagele a church affAfter thousands ofveterans complain ofillnesses since the 1991Persian Gulf War, thePentagon warns theymay have been exposedto chemical weapons.The Pentagon revealsthat up to two tons ofsarin nerve gas may havebeen released.Six-year-old beautypageant queen JonBenetRamsey is foundmurdered in thebasement of her parentsColorado home the dayafter Christmas. Herdeath raises a nationwideawareness ofcontroversial youthbeauty pageants.Ji Seven-year-old pilot Jessica^~^^ Dubroff is killed when herCessna airplane crashes shortlyafter take-off in bad weather fromthe Cheyenne, Wyoming airport.Her flying instructor and her father,the planes two passengers, arealso killed in the April 1996 crash.Speaker of the HouseNewt Gingrich (R-GeorgiaJis fined $300,000 in abi-partisan vote after theHouse EthicsCommittees year-longinvestigation into allegedfinancial improprieties.,^ One of the^i^ longest armedstand-offs in U.S.history occurs outsideJordan, Montanabetween the FBI andmembers of an anti-government groupcalling itself theFreemen. The 81-daysiege ends peacefullyin June.(^-m. Theodore Kaczynski, allegedto be the Unabomben whokilled 3 people and woundedmore than 20 others with mailbombs since 1978, is arrested inMontana in April 1996. Informationprovided by Kaczynskis brotherleads to the arrest.On August 11, aboater rescues10-year-old TaylorTouchstone from thesnake- and alligator-infested waters of aFlorida swamp 14 milesaway from where hedisappeared August 7.Although exhaustedand badly scratched,the autistic boyrecovers fully.Jk
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