Edgewood High School, El Corral, 1997, World Beat 5

Description:	WilliamJefferson Clintondefeats Republican BobDole and IndependentH. Ross Perot tobecome the 42ndpresident of the U.S.and the last president ofthe 20th century.Clinton is the firstDemocrat sinceFranklin Roosevelt tobe reelected to asecond term.^mk A civil jury finds former football^T^ star O.J. Simpson liable for theJune 12,1994 wrongful deaths of hisex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, andher friend, Ronald Goldman. In aunanimous verdict, the jury awards$8.5 million in compensatory damagesto Goldmans parents. The Brown andGoldman families are each awarded$12.5 million in punitive damages.of Oregons Interstate5, creating a 40-foot-deep sinkhole, intowhich two semitrailer^ Nationwide,^j7 forest firesblacken more thantwice the acreage lostto fires in an averageyear. California,Montana and Oregonare particularly hard hit.The Citadel, SouthCarolinas traditionallyall-male military academy,admits four women, includingPetra Loventinska (left) andJeanie Montavlos. Montavlosand another female cadet laterdrop out, citing harassmentand sadistic hazing.jA All 110 people aboard aT ValuJet DC-9 are killed inMay 1996 when a fire breaksout in the cargo hold. The plane,en route from Miami to Atlanta,crashes and disappears almostcompletely into the FloridaEverglades, making it difficult forworkers to retrieve wreckage.Topsail Beach, a town on anisland off the coast of NorthCarolina, is one of many Easternlocations hit hard by Hurricane Berthain July. Six powerful hurricanes, all withwinds over 110 miles per hour, made1996 a near-record year doing $3.5billion in damage in the U.S.^r.;i^:4^a:Schwarz. Gamma/LiaisonSecurity guard Richard Jewellis investigated as a suspect inthe July Olympic Park bombing. Afterthree months of media frenzy, duringwhich Jewell is a virtual prisoner inhis home, the U.S. JusticeDepartment admits there is noevidence against him.Six-year-old first-grader JohnaPrevette is suspendehis Lexington, NorthCarolina elementaryfor violating the cityschools sexual conduguidelines—he kissed a ferclassmate. Prevette is quiireinstated after a nationscontroversy over the suspNATIONAL
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Collection:	Edgewood High School

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