Edgewood High School, El Corral, 1996, World Beat 3

Description:	m■■■An earthquake kills 51 peopleon the resort-studded Pacificcoast of Mexico. The quakemeasures 7.5 on the Richterscale and is felt 330 miles awayin Mexico City.ewe)Utaltistisaveted;ecificThe first U.S. president to visit Northern Ireland,President Clinton receives a warm Christmaswelcome for his show of support for peace betweenIrish Protestants and Catholics.Hurricane Marilyn inflicts millions of dollars ofdamage in the Virgin Islands in September. Windsup to 127 miles per hour severely damage half thehomes on St. Thomas.In November, the Republic ofIreland narrowly passes areferendum calling for an endto the countrys 1937constitutional ban on divorce.While competing in aninternational balloon race inSeptember, two hot airballoonists. one English andone American, are shot downwhen their balloon floats offcourse over Belarus. TheBelarussian army sees theballoon as a security threat andfires without warning. Theballoonists fall to their death.More than four years afterDesert Storm, Iraqs PresidentSaddam Hussein remains inpower, though two of hissons-in-law defect to Jordanon August 8 and call forHusseins overthrow.Hope blooms for peace in Bosnia when Bosnias PresidentIzetbegovic (left) shakes hands with Serbias President Milosevicon the opening day of the November cease-fire talks in Dayton, Ohio.Croatias President Tudjman looks on. The ensuing Paris peaceagreement of December sends 60,000 NATO peacekeeping troops tothe war-torn country.orldiseitaryetheizesiceQuebec, Canadas largely French-speaking province, defeats anOctober referendum on Quebecindependence by a margin ofless than one percent.In July, without publicexplanations, Burmas militaryrulers free the countrys mostfamous political prisoner, DawAung San Suu Kyi, leader of thepro-democracy movement andNobel peace laureate, after sixyears of house arrest.Russian figure skater SergeiGrinkov, 28, collapses and diesfrom a heart attack duringpractice with his wife-partnerEkaterina Gordeeva onNovember 20. The pair won twoOlympic gold medals and fourworld pairs titles.Great Britains Princess Dianashocks Buckingham Palace witha tell-all BBC interview. Defyingroyal protocol, she discusses hermarriage to unfaithful husband,Prince Charles, her struggle withdepression and bulimia, and anextramarital affair. The majorityof English people express theirsupport and sympathy.Securities trader NicholasLeeson is arrested in Germanyin March 1995 for fraud, forgery,and breach-of-trust. Leesonracked up a $1.32 billion lossthat caused the collapse ofBarings PLC, the 233-year-oldBritish bank.
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Collection:	Edgewood High School

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