Edgewood High School, El Corral, 1995, World Beat 2

Description:	flashIraqi leader Saddam Husseinorders his troops to the borderof oil-rich Kuwait. The U.S.sends 350 warplanes to thearea to support the Kuwaitiforces. By October 11, Husseinorders the withdrawal of mostof his forces.Russian President Boris Yeltsincalls out his poorly trainedmilitary to subdue a rebellionin Chechnya, a southernrepublic the size ofConnecticut. Critics accuseYeltsin of resorting to totalitarian methods of the oldcommunist Soviet regime tokeep the shaky RussianFederation unified.Europes worst flood in thiscentury kills at least 30 peopleacross Europe. Inland floodscaused by melting Alpine snowand relentless rains hitBelgium, France, Germany,and the Netherlands, whosefamous dike system begins tocrumble late in January 1995 inthe face of rampaging rivers.Dutch authorities evacuate250,000 people from thelowlands.Camilla Parker Bowles,allegedly Prince Charlesmistress, announces herdivorce from her husband,Andrew Parker Bowles.Princess Diana is said to benegotiating a divorce fromCharles, who will be free toremarry without giving up thethrone—unless unhappysubjects force a referendum onthe monarchy.More than 900 passengers die,140 are rescued when theEstonia, a 15,500-ton Balticferry sinks off the coast ofFinland in a violent nighttimestorm. The storms 30-footwaves swamp the ship whichlists and sinks in a matter ofminutes.After a peasantuprising in Chiapasand two majorpolitical murders, Mexicogets a new president.Ernesto Zedillo, aneconomist, assumes officeonly to face a stockmarketcrash, a ruined economy,and a loss of internationalconfidence in the wake ofthe North American FreeTrade Agreement.Conservative religiousgroups and those whobelieve in individualrights clash overissues of educationfor women and familyplanning at the U.N.InternationalConference onPopulation andDevelopment in Cairo,Egypt, September 5-On July 25, U.S.President Bill Clintonwelcomes KingHussein of Jordan, right,and Israeli Prime MinisterYitzhak Rabin to theWhite House, where thetwo sign a historicnonaggression pact thatends a 46-year state ofbelligerency between Israeland Jordan.When their Armyhelicopter accidentally strays into NorthKorea in December, ChiefWarrant Officers BobbyWayne Hall and DavidHilemon are shot down bythe communists. Washingtondoes not admit to espionageas the North Koreans want,but negotiates for survivorBobby Halls release byexpressing its sincere regretover the intrusion.Tipper Gore, wife ofU.S. Vice PresidentAl Gore, visitsRwandan refugee camps inZaire in July. Thousands ofrefugees, fleeing ethnicconflict in Rwanda, die ofcholera, dysentery, and otherinfectious diseases. Freshwater supplied by the UnitedStates military greatlyreduces the number ofcholera deaths.Palestine LiberationOrganizationchairman Yasir Arafatreturns to Palestine in July1994 after 27 years of exile inTunisia. Arafat kisses theground in the Gaza Strip, nowa Palestinian autonomouszone under the terms of a1993 peace accord withIsrael.
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