La Salle University - Explorer Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Ill Mideast Peace Accord ' fiii , The sight you see before you . . . was im- ' £i ' ' - ' possible, was unthinkable, just three years li ago, Israel ' s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ■ y.,.. told those present at the East Room of the ' M{i White House. ;-SS ' The sight was the September 28, 1995, i signing of an accord between Israel and the V; PLO that would end Israel ' s military occu- ' ;{ pation of West Bank cities and lay the foun- ■■ dation for a Palestinian state. ' S S President Clinton presided over the cere- XiXi ' l mony which featured two hours of speeches ' :t ' i ' ° and pageantry before an audience of diplo- XiXii mats, foreign ministers, Cabinet secretaries jj.j ' -j ' and members of Congress. ' :-:!.il The agreement outlines the process for ' 4 ' ° ' gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops and •;■ transfer of governing authority for Palesti- ;•! nian self-rule in 30 percent of the west Bank. ? -, It also allows for Palestinian elections and the ••; .,. release of 5,000 Palestinian prisoners being S ' X held by Israel. . ' ' - ' P ' Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assas- ' ' ' ' •• ' MWi sinated by a Jewish extremist in Israel on Sat- ■V;, } urday, November 4, 1995. O.J. Simpson Verdict On October 3, 1995, the long-running, real- life soap opera played its final episode. In the trial of the century, O.J. Simpson was acquitted in the June 12, 1994, stabbing murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Americans followed the trial for more than a year, listening to testimony, digesting the evidence and speculating on whether the for- mer football superstar and film actor was guilty. The jury reached its verdict in less than four hours deliberation, after listening to 133 days of testimony and considering more than 800 pieces of evidence. It was a case that would leave Americans with many lasting images: — A white Ford Bronco leading a police chase; — Simpson trying on the murder gloves in court; — The testimony of prosecution witness ; Police Detective Mark Fuhrman, whose cred- ■ ibility was later destroyed when it was shown [ that he lied under oath about his use of racial ' epithets. i In a statement made soon after his acquit- ' ; tal, Simpson vowed he would dedicate his life ' , to a search for the real killers. •vS vSv?J S

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