University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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V- embassy attacks Q On Auqi WtheCamdiit itethiubrik rativedirea lewshConjrfs iis QDOEiaai lnove; heaif erliaps ik Pope ish person inn wale the Catifr i any anti-semi stated, If j ryonewasavk- Ctech has igust 7, terror- ist bombs exploded at U.S. em- bassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, taking the world by surprise. For days following the .tragedy, rescuers tried to pull victims out of the rubble, but ;the lives of at least 180 victims .in Nairobi and ten in Dar es Salaam, including 12 Americans, were eventually lost. The in- jured list totaled more than 5,000 in the two cites combined. In January, exiled Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden told ABC News that the African embassy bombings may have resulted from his call to his followers for a holy war against the United States and Israel, but the major suspect in the bomb- ings continued to deny that he ordered the bombings or played a personal role in the organiza- tion of them. In December, he told Newsweek, I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans there, CNN reported. The U.S. followed the alleged bin Laden attacks by conducting a missile attack on his Afghanistan bases. Bin Laden was indicted by U.S. officials for planning the bomb- ings. The purported terror- ist continued his anger toward Americans, and said that this hostility was a religious duty. by Kristin Long tnMcQuade photo courtesy of The Associated Press A suspect in the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, Osama bin Laden denied responsibility for the acts of terrorism. The attacks were made on the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania leaving nearly 200 dead and over 5,000 injured. photo courtesy of The Associated Press South Africa President Nelson Mandela raises his honorary Doc- tor of Laws Degree. Mandela was presented with the honor on Sep- tember 18, 1998 at Harvard Uni- versity. Nelson Mandela was born into a royal family in Africa on July 18th, 1918. He attended the Healdtown Methodist Boarding School and, later, the Fort Hare University College. Mandela later received his law degree and began a prac- tice. However, political activism was his true calling, and he soon began campaigns to help stamp out apartheid in Africa. He was arrested in 1952 under the Suppression of Communism Amendment Act; this was the first of many ar- rests during his career in political activism. Fi- nally, in May of 1994, Mandela was elected the President of the Republic of South Africa. During this past year, Mandela ' s career culminated as he received well-deserved awards for his heroic acts. He received the Congressional Medal of Honor in September. The leader also received an honorary degree from Harvard Uni- versity; having received this degree, Mandela joined the ranks of George Washington and Win- ston Churchill as the only other out-of-season recipients. by Karen McQuade mandela honored srous explosions shook Iraq for three straight nights in December, as U.S. and British forces acted on Saddam Hussein ' s defiance against U.N. weapons inspectors. Operation Desert Fox was launched on the grounds that Iraq was obstructing the work of the weapons inspectors of the U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM). The alleged obstructions included charges of hiding Iraq ' s weapons of mass destruction: chemical and biological weapons and long-range missiles. Al- most all potential weapons sites that U.N. inspec- tors were monitoring were hit in the raids. In announcing the start of the strikes, President Clinton recognized that it would offend the United States ' Arab allies if the attacks began during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The attacks ended before the holy period began. At least 42 Iraqis were killed and 96 wounded in the strikes, which unleashed the most severe fire- power since the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqi forces offered little resistance, other than anti-aircraft fire. In halting the strikes, President Clinton said the 70 hour assault severely damaged Iraq ' s ability to build weapons of mass destruction, and declared the attacks to be successful. Operation Desert Fox involved more than 30,000 troops di- rectly, and 10,000 more who provided support from bases around the world. A spokesman from the U.S. State Depart- ment said the U.S. and British attacks against Iraq could well hasten Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ' s demise. However, Saddam remained defiant, call- ing the U.S. and Britain the enemies of God. The Iraqi leader declared he would not compromise or kneel in the showdown over arms inspections. iraqi defiance Saddam Hussein ' s lack of cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors is met by Lisa Grubka with force Retrospect 139

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WORLD In 1990, the Commu- nist party in Yugoslavia relin- quished its monopoly on politi- cal power and the country di- vided into six republics: Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, and Slovenia. As a result, tensions elevated and widespread fighting broke out across opposing religious and ethnic groups. Since then, wars, riots, and protests continued on as the fight for power prevailed. The Yugoslav govern- ment grew increasingly anxious due to the political unrest and heightening of political and po- lice control. In hopes of resist- ing Western pressures for demo- cratic and economic reforms, the government attempted to tighten their grip on power, of- ten with the use of violence. Recently, Kosovo, a province of Serbia which was about 90% Albanian, fell sub- On September 2 at 10:31 P.M., Swissair Flight SRI 11 crashed off the coast of Peggy ' s Cove, Nova Scotia en route from New York to Geneva. None of the 215 passengers and 14 crew members survived the crash. All 229 victims were posi- tively identified. The cause of the crash was still being investigated by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. As of December 23 about 85% of the wreckage had been recovered. At that time, roughly 19,000 kilograms of wreckage was still unrecovered. Although there were indications that the cockpit area was sub- jected to very high tempera- tures prior to the crash, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada believed that it would be up to two years before a report could be published. ject to intense war and blood- shed due to its numerous ethnic mixtures. In an eight month Serbian offensive last year against ethnic Albanian rebels seeking independence for Kosovo, tens of thousands of civilians were left homeless and more than 1,000 died. Since then, U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright warned Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic of possible ramifica- tions of his campaign of vio- lence against Albanians in Kosovo. Although the U.S. had no immediate plans for armed intervention, Albright was quite strict in her belief of the United States ' need to act quickly and efficiently. She stated that the U.S. would not make the same mistakes they made in 1991, which led to a prolonged war in Bosnia. They would not sit back, allow Serbian authorities to con- tinue killing ethnic Albanians, and let them get away with it like in Bosnia. The U.S. would not tolerate a return of the poli- tics of divide and rule any- where in the former Yugosla- via. political unrest by Jessica Lewis saint stein Pope John Paul II made a bold and ground-break- ing move this year when he can- onized Edith Stein, a person of Jewish faith; Stein was the first Jewish person to ever become sainted in the Catholic Church. This courageous move by the Pope was heavily influenced by his desire to stamp out anti- semetism everywhere, as the religious leader lost many good friends of Jewish faith to Hitler ' s tirades. Pope John Paul II de- scribed Stein as, a great daugh- final descent Canadian Coast Guard members are handed a piece of debris from the wreckage of Swissair flight SRI 11. The MD-11 plunged into the At- lantic September 3, 1998 killing all 299 passengers. 138 ' World ter of Israel and of the Carmelite Order. Despite this, Abraham Foxman, the executive director of the World Jewish Congress, implied that this canonization was a political move; he sug- gested that perhaps the Pope sainted a Jewish person in an effort to disassociate the Catho- lic Church from any anti-semetic acts. Foxman stated, If you show that everyone was a vic- tim, then the Church has no responsibility or guilt in the Holocaust. uses in Siii is Satan For da jti OUt of by Karen McQuade to Africa I bei raises I - . sDej teed with i photo courtesy of The Associated Press

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SPORTS coupe du monde photo courtesy of The Associated Press Vy 12, soccer devotees partied all night. The stadium in Paris was the epicen- ter and waves of national eu- phoria spread all around the country. Anywhere between 800,000 and 1.5 million giddy supporters celebrated France ' s 3-0 defeat over the reigning four-time Champions Brazil in the World Cup. It was the culmination France wins the 1998 World Cup Soccer Tournament, beating Brazil in the final game. Brazil had won the tournament for the past four years. of a tournament that nearly the whole world was watching. Even in London, supporters danced in the fountains of Trafalgar Square until dawn. One Parisian daily, France-Soir, called the victory a tricolor orgasm - one that blended seamlessly into Tuesday ' s Bastille Day festivities. Waving flags, painted faces, honking car horns; more than a million people crowded around Champs Elysses late Sunday night. Few thought France could do it. But the team with the best player in the world (and 10 others not far behind him) was beaten by a less star- studded team, one with enough determination to pull an impos- sible dream. These two images were remembered by the world. President Jacques Chirac, draped in a French scarf, kissed victorious players as the Star Wars the me competed with fans singing the Marseillaise. Only a few thousand Brazilians gath- ered around the giant television screen, accepting their defeat on Copacabana Beach. The Bra- zilian coach, Mario Zagallo ad- mitted, France had the entire nation before them. That was something we couldn ' t over- come. The beauty of the World Cup was that sometimes David could still defeat Goliath. by Jessica Hermenitt locked out isions ran high as the NBA play- ers and owners failed to reach any agreement on the salary-inspired lockout, called the NBA La- bor Dispute, that halted action of the NBA for the 1998-99 season. The lockout, which took effect at midnight on June 30, banned all regular season games until an agreement could be reached. NBA Deputy Commissioner Russ Granik explained that the collective bargaining agree- ment between the NBA and its players had been continuously unsuccessful. The controversy sur- rounded the percentage of league revenue that the players would receive and a maximum salary cap that was to be established at the desire of the league. Negotiations finally ended with an agree- ment between the two parties, announced at 6 A.M. on January 6. The season was barely salvaged after the three month loss with a short playing schedule of 50 games to begin in the first week of February. Jeff Hornacek of the Utah Jazz was quoted as saying, I wouldn ' t blame the fans if they didn ' t come back. Neither side is coming out of this thing looking good. by Virginia Hiltz clean sweep The New York Yankees defeat the San Diego Padres in all four games of the World Series, bringing home their second title in three years The 1998 New York Yankees went down in history as one of the greatest teams ever when they beat the San Diego Padres four games to none in the 24th World Series Champi- onship. It was the Yankees ' first sweep since 1950 and their sec- ond title in three years. Accord- ing to TIME magazine, the Game 4 victory gave the Yankees 125 wins, a total that ranked up there with all the other big numbers put up in Major League Baseball in 1998. Their 114 regular-sea- son wins were the most ever for a Major League Baseball team. This is the most determined team I ' ve been around, Yan- kees manager Joe Torre said. I don ' t know if we have the best team of all time, but I do know that we have the best record. Third baseman Scott Brosius was an unlikely hero in the series. Brosius went 8-for- 17 with six RBIs and, fittingly, handled the last ball of the year, a grounder by pinch-hitter Mark Sweeney. Brosius said, There ' s nothing better than coming up and seeing the play- ers ' eyes and that sense of achievement and accomplish- ment and excitement. The in- fielder was named the 1998 World Series ' Most Valuable Player. , , . ,., i by Jamie Weitzel 140 Sports