European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Michael and Alexander Smith were killed and Mother Susan admitted doing it. President Clinton presided at talks Between Jordan s King Hussein left and israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Jeffrey Dahmer Richard m. Nixon Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Kurt Cobain a cuban refugee pleads for coast guard Aid off the Florin coast. The . In 1994 Shock and aftershock do not enter a freeway near los Angeles is shutdown by january s earthquake. . And Nicole Brown Simpson in 1993. Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson tour Paris. Continued from Page 15 muscled themselves to the top of the nightly news. Because of a baseball strike the world series was cancelled for the first time since 1904. Newspapers printed old Box scores simulated real games by computer and waited for other diversions such As the pro hockey season. Which was delayed by a labor dispute. Michael Jordan who retired from basketball after the 1992-93 season became a minor league outfielder albeit one with a bodyguard stationed near the foul line. He hit an anaemic .202 for the Birmingham Barons made $10,000 and remained the nation s highest paid athlete thanks to $30 million in endorsements. At 45, George Foreman knocked out Michael Moorer and became boxing s oldest and fattest heavyweight Champ. In politics the Art of the possible nothing seemed impossible. A Republican controlled Congress was elected for the first time in 40 years and the victors talked of filling orphanages and emptying one whole congressional office included Foley the first speaker of the House since 1864 turned out by the voters Back Home Dan Rostenkowski chairman of the House s most powerful committee who was charged with stealing nearly $700,000 from the government and Cuomo governor of new York for 12 years and presidential Prospect for almost As Long. Given a Republican landslide in the congressional elections what were the Odds the democratic survivors would include Ted Kennedy and Chuck Robb immigration was a big Issue. People sailed North from Cuba and Haiti a Small part of the biggest influx of immigrants in almost a Century. Multicultural lists coincide entry declared the melting pot obsolete. In California which voted to restrict illegal immigrants Access to Public services both Senate candidates were accused of improperly employing immigrants. It was a year when a few knew a Little about Gatt the new world Trade agreement and Many knew much about the caning of a Young american in Singapore for Graffiti. But those who looked carefully saw history being made. A nation founded and settled by the gun edged toward Domestic arms control a ban on some assault weapons and a waiting period for purchasing a handgun. After a rash of shootings provoked by realistic looking toy guns Many stores stopped Selling prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan enemies for six decades Shook hands at the White House. Out of Alt the Days of my life the King said i Don t believe there is one such As there was the Day Clinton lifted the 19-year-old Trade embargo with Vietnam and the one he gave an entry permit to Irish nationalist Gerry Adams fostering a truce in Northern Ireland. Clinton deactivated the last . Troops in Berlin. Russian legislators studied at Harvard s Kennedy school of government. The space shuttle discovery carried a russian cosmonaut around the Earth. America and Russia agreed to reduce their nuclear stockpiles to fewer than 3,500 warheads apiece. The last nuclear missile was pulled out of South Dakota. There were so Many big surprises that Small ones got lost in the shuffle a v. V a. ,-.".t developers got final approval for 250 hew houses at love canal site of the notorious toxic dump. A woman \ who died on sept. 28 won the nov. 8 election for clerk of Cherokee township Kan. The cartoon network a new Cable to Channel Drew an audience bigger than esp can or arts & entertainment. Heidi Fleiss the Hollywood Madam was convicted of pandering Sydney Biddle Barrows the erstwhile Mayflower Madam wrote for the new York times Book review. --,.-.- / v. The Pope had a bestseller. So did Howard Stern who entered and dropped out of the new York governor s race and talked a listener Down from the George Washington Bridge. \ / a Gary Larson cartoonist of the far Side announced his retirement perhaps because it Vas increasingly t difficult to out weird the rest of the newspaper. Amid thie surprises there was the usual ballast. The United states and Japan bickered Over imports and exports but stopped Short of a Trade War. The Buffalo Bills lost the super bowl Richard Nixon the 37th president died at 81 reviving controversy Over a Public life that spanned half the Century. A democratic congressman said he d oppose plans for a Nixon stamp. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis widow of the 35th president died at 64./ she was an image of Beauty and Romance said lady Bird Johnson who needed a Cane to hobble up the Church Steps for the funeral. She leaves an empty place in the world As i have known Kurt Cobain was 27 when he shot himself to death another Rocker dead too soon. He s gone and joined that stupid club his Mother said told him not to join that stupid club John Wayne Gacy was executed for killing 33 men and boys most of whom he buried beneath his House. Jeffrey Dahmer a serial killer who ate some of his victims was murdered by a fellow prison inmate. Arkansas carried out the nation s first triple execution in 32 years and Congress passed a $30 billion crime Bill. But no one Felt much safer. Rosa Parks whose refusal to give up her seat in the front of a bus in 1955 helped touch off the civil rights movement was robbed and beaten in her Detroit apartment. The Fri reported that because of a pronounced increase in random killings by strangers every american now has a realistic Chance of murder violence across Borders. A jewish doctor from Brooklyn opened fire in a mosque on the West Bank killing 29 an Arab lebanese gunman fired at a Busload of hasidic students on the Brooklyn Bridge killing one. A pro life activist shot a doctor and his bodyguard to death in an abortion clinic parking lot. By year s end some people were ready for anything. In november several weeks after Susan Smith s confession a Baltimore woman was charged with killing her two daughters in a House fire. A neighbor told a reporter she was appalled and saddened. But no she said she was not surprised. 16 the stars and stripes wednesday december 28,1994 the stars and stripes 17
