European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 sunday monday january 1/2,1995 israeli foreign minister Shimon feres signs the Middle East peace pact As Flo Leader Yasser Arafat behind Peres and president Clinton watch. Joyous haitians celebrate the return of president Jean Bertrand arts tide whose exile was ended thanks to mediation by former president Carter and the arrival of thousands of .  stories around the Globe a chosen by executives from newspapers news agendas and radio and to stations outside the United states surveyed by the associated press. Voters from 42 countries submitted 111 ballots. 1. The Mideast peace process. R 2. Rwanda s ethnic massacres and refugee crisis. 3. South Africa s elections. 4. Bosnia a civil War. O 5. The . Congressional elections. 4. North Korea s nuclear crisis and the death of Kim Sung. 7. The estonian ferry disaster. 8. The . Intervention in Haiti. 0. Northern Ireland peace prospects. 10. Elections that ousted Italy a scandal plagued parties. A. A a. A a. A. A amps Ken Georg the body of a Young girl lies alongside a Road near the massive a Ehigie Camp in Goma Zaire. . Forces were sent to the area to Aid the refugees from Rwanda a bloody civil War. A nation from Page 9 year. That was on the Agenda at least for Clinton whose vow to overhaul the health system glittered in his 1992 bid for the White House. His wife Hillary Rodham Clinton and a legion of he took on the task. Helpers doctors insurers businesses Small and Large found their proposal too much to Swa Jow. Soon the Public threw up its hands democrats threw in the Towel and when Congress disbanded nearly 40. Million americans still had no health insurance with no Relief in sight. 8. The 6.7 Shaker that awakened Southern californians at 4 31 . On Jan. 17 was More shocking and shattering than most in that quaking state. The reason the earthquake a a epicentre was suburban Northridge just 25 Miles Northwest of downtown los Angeles. Many among the 61 people who died were crushed under collapsed buildings or trapped in burning Homes. Felt As far As Las vegas and san Diego the quake also brought Down seven freeway Bridges paralysing a Region that drives to live and vice versa. With property losses a whopping $20 billion Suburbia has turned ghost town with boarded up Homes and apartments. Freeways reopened but Southern California continues to struggle to recover its sunny self. 9. Only a Day after he still unexplained plane crash april 6 that killed the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi civil War erupted in Rwanda. The ensuing Bloodbath left More than half a million people dead. Then when More than 2 million ran from the rebel army that seized Power in july cholera consumed those who fled. A horrified world scrambled for maps to locate the tiny Lush country of farms in Central Africa and tried to keep straight who was after whom Hutu or Tutsi. More baffling was the human butchery that for a time paralysed would be rescuers scared to enter that place of death and madness. 10. Plo chairman Yasser Arafat a arrival on palestinian soil july 1 to run the Gaza strip and Jericho marked Many turning Points. For Arafat an end to 27 years in exile and Start of his Job transforming the Palestine liberation organization from an army of guerrillas into a civil bureaucracy. For Israel Arafat a presence and new Roje meant relinquishing control after three decades. For palestinians who waged the seven year uprising it was seen As a step toward an Independent state