European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 8 the stars and stripes in review sunday monday january 1/2,1995 Susan Smiths tearful account of How a Carrack or. Kidnapped her children gripped people from All Over America a until she admitted she and killed her two Little boys blaming a failed love affair the whole nation watched As of. Simpson a football legend and american hero faced murder charges in the deaths of his second sex wife and her Friend. O.j., baseball fans express their views of the impending strike. The strike did come and it wiped out the world series. The National hockey league season became a victim of labor strife by Arlene Levinson the associated press in a year of murderous rampage abroad and electoral upheaval at Home the biggest Story of All was a double homicide a the mesmerizing Case of of. Simpson according to the annual associated press Survey of news executives. \ a close second said 357 newspaper and broadcast executives was the elections. With a furious twist of their ballot levers voters flipped America s political landscape upside Down. The labor disputes that struck out baseball and then shut out hockey were ranked the third biggest Story of the year. It was a the sensational eclipsed the serious when tabloid headlines vied with the stuff of history. The rest of the lop 10/in descending order were two Small boys drowned by their Mother Susan Smith who lied to Boot Nancy Kerrigan is Tonya Harding Haiti National health cares dead end the quake that Shook Southern California Kwanda and palestinians governing the Gaza strip and Jericho from the top 1. A Rich woman and her waiter Friend lie slashed to death outside a los Angeles Condo her sex husband on the Jam that Story from the june 13 police log sounds intriguing. It proved irresistible when the Man on the run turned out to be former football Star ,consumed the nation what made headlines in the . Busan Smith results of the associated press . Survey of the top stories of 1994 1. Of. Simpson. 2. The . Elections 3. Baseball and hockey labor troubles. 4. Susan Smith who drowned her sons and claimed they were kidnapped. 5. Nancy Kerrigan Tonya Harding. 6. Haiti. 7. Failed health care Reform. 8. Southern California earthquake. 9 Rwanda. 10. Palestinians replace israeli occupiers in Gaza strip and Jericho. 11. South Africa s first democratic elections make Nelson Mandela president. 12. Ongoing War in Bosnia. 13. Richard Nixon dead at 81, 14. The United states signs Gatt the world Trade treaty 15. The rash of . Plane crashes. 10. Jackie Kennedy Onassis dead at 64. 17 six interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. 18. Lorena Bobbitt deemed not criminal but crazy when cutting off her then husband s Penis. _ 19. Cia Veteran Aldrich Ames and his wife Rosario confess to Selling . Secrets to Moscow a 20. American Michael Fay caned for vandalism in Singapore Simpson of All people. race Angle Simpson is Black the victims White the Domestic violence Angle the bizarro Angle millions of to viewers watching police Chase Simpson in a Ford Bronco the can to touch my Angle with Simpsons cry of innocence behind his Wall of lawyers. Savage tragic and awful the Story invites comparisons to Shakespeare Othello and soap opera. 2. Some say its Only a phase our. Native fickleness Sec if it lasts past �?T96, they say. Others behold a voters revolt intended to reverse the new peal born philosophy of government As protector and provider. Whatever it was the cataclysm occurred nov 8, when republicans won control of both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years a rebuke to democrats Bill Clinton liberalism Washington and government As usual. At the state level we Crit democrats Long prevailed Republican governors now number 30 and Republican lawmakers control More Legislatures than they have since the late 1960s. And if virginians did no to Send Oliver North to the . Senate and if Michael bluffing Tony a $27 million buy a Senate scat from and if Mario Cuomo erstwhile potential president and supreme court Justice was deposed by a a. A. Quot a. Is amps an unknown upstate the election did create a fascinating National figure in Newt Gingrich r-ga., who As House speaker will be two heartbeats from the presidency. A Spring got started if nervously summer dragged hot and restless. Then on aug. 11, baseball players went on strike., the world fell out of Sytch and this became the year they called the whole thing off. Unable to say it Ain t so in sept. 14 acting baseball commissioner. Bud Seisig cancelled the season and the world Serif Safiy first time since 1904.money what else was the Issue when team owners pleaded they needed see nation on Page 9 ss57_
