Cal State Fullerton - Titan Yearbook (Fullerton, CA)

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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

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WORLD BEAT

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William Jefferson Clinton defeats Republican Bob Dole and Independent H. Ross Perot to become the 42nd president of the US, and the last president of the 20th century, Clinton IS the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be reelected to a second term. - A civil |ury finds former football T star 0- J Simpson liable for the June 12. 1994 wrongful deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brovun Simpson, and her friend. Ronald Goldman, In a unanimous verdict, the jury awards $8,5 million in compensatory damages to Goldman ' s parents. The Brown and Goldman families are each awarded $12 5 million in punitive damages. tKoftfe mgestaTies sny,S, ctarsnilsJs Mrtana itietHani SI J Nationwide, f forest fires ■lacken more than «ice the acreage lost 3 fires in an average ear California, lontana and Oregon ire particularly hard hit. cuncy guara Hichard Jewell investigated as a suspect in the July Olympic Park bombing. After three months of media frenzy, during which Jewell is a virtual prisoner in his home, the U.S. Justice Department admits there is no evidence against him. X Carolina ' s traditionally alknale military academy, admits four women, including Petra Loventinska (left) and Jesnie Montavlos Montavlos and another female cadet later drop out. citing harassment and sadistic hazing. All 110 people aboard a r ValuJet DC-9 are killed in May 1 996 when a fire breaks out in the cargo hold The plane, en route from Miami to Atlanta, crashes and disappears almost completely into the Florida Everglades, making it difficult for workers to retrieve wreckage. - Topsail Beach, a town on an T island off the coast of North Carolina, is one of many Eastern locations hit hard by Hurricane Bertha in July Six powerftjl hurricanes, all with winds over 110 miles per hour, made 1996 a near-record year doing $3,5 billion in damage in the U,S, [-year-old first ipy,, grader Johnathan Prevette is suspended from his Lexington, North ' Carolina elementary school , ' for violating the city schools ' sexual conduct guidelines— he kissed a female classmate. Prevette is quickly reinstated after a nationwide controversy over the sus - ' ■■■■ ' - ' ' P p NATIONAL