Cal State Fullerton - Titan Yearbook (Fullerton, CA)

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WORLD BEAT

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Time spent working and learning often provides a stark contrast to the precious time spent playing. Since striving for a higher education can be exhaust- ing, time to relax and unwind is always well deserved. Whether it consists of blowing up asteroids in the arcade or participating in intramural sports, play time is the best time.

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NATIONAL I 5 The U.S. Army issues strict new policies for drill instructors and female trainees, as hundreds of complaints of sexual harassment are revealed in Nouember. Drill instructors are now required to leave their doors open if a female is inside, and women must travel in pairs. Binti Jua. a gorilla at Chicago ' s Brookfield Zoo. becomes a hero when she rescues a 3-year-old boy knocked unconscious after falling 1 8 feet into the ape enclosure. The boy suffers brain contusions but soon recovers. Former U.N ambassador Madeleine Albright is nominated for Secretary of State by President Clinton on December 5. Confirmed in office in January 1 997, Albright is the first vuoman to head the State Department. Robert Allison. Contact Press Images After thousands of veterans complain of illnesses since the 1 991 Persian Gulf War, the Pentagon warns they may have been exposed to chemical weapons. The Pentagon reveals that up to two tons of sarin nerve gas may have been released. Six-year-old beauty pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey is found murdered in the basement of her parents ' Colorado home the day after Christmas. Her death raises a nationwide awareness of controversial youth beauty pageants. Speaker of the House Nevirt Gingrich (R-Georgia) is fined $300,000 in a bi-partisan vote after the House Ethics Committee ' s year-long investigation into alleged financial improprieties. J Seven-year-old pilot Jessica Dubroff IS killed when her Cessna airplane crashes shortly after take-off in bad weather from the Cheyenne, Wyoming airport. Her flying instructor and her father the plane ' s two passengers, are also killed in the April 1996 crash. WAmA - - -r - One of the T longest armed stand-offs in U.S. history occurs outside Jordan, Montana between the FBI and members of an anti- government group calling itself the Freemen. The 81 -day siege ends peacefully in June. C Theodore Kaczynski, alleged 1 to be the Unabomben who killed 3 people and wounded more than 20 others with mail bombs since 1978, is arrested in Montana in April 1996, Information provided by Kaczynski ' s brother leads to the arrest. On August 1 1 , a boater rescues 1 0-year-old Taylor Touchstone from the snake- and alligator- infested waters of a Florida swamp 1 4 miles away from where he disappeared August 7. Although exhausted and badly scratahed, the autistic boy recovers fully Af-;Wide Wufiu