Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine - Achilles Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNRTY... Left photo: If the U.S. had a health care crisis in 1994-1995, you couldn't have proved it by Congress. Despite the exhortations of President Clinton and the f irst Lady, reform was not made in the country's health care program. So, another year passed without providing Americans with universal health care. Right photo: Tens of thousands of firefighters fought a summer-long battle against scores of fires that burned more that three million acres of woodlands across the western portion of the United States. Above photo: It was a rainy month in Georgia, where Above photo: President Clinton signed a $30 million floods killed 31 people. Tropical storm Albert dumped crime law. nearly 2 feet of rain upon the Peach State. 26

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TONIGHT, ON HARD COPY... Left photo: The years 1994-1995 involved one of the most famous American murder cases in history. Who would ever forget that unbelievable manhunt for O.J. Simpson? The entire nation ran to their television sets one June evening in 1994 to watch Simpson’s White Bronco lead a line of police cruisers down southern California freeways to his house, where Simpson surrendered after nightfall. Simpson was the suspect in the brutal slashing murder of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Jackson Presley: A match made in tabloid heaven. Lisa Presley said, I do, ' to Michael Jackson in 1994. Elvis must be flipping in his grave (yes, Elvis is dead, people!). Woodstock '94: It rained. Thousands crashed the gates. Portable toilets overflowed. Food occasionally ran short. Drugs were everywhere. Only in America! Left photo: If rock 'n' roll is here to stay, 1994 made it clear that Aerosmith is too. The bad boys from Boston took three awards at the 11th annual MTV Music Video Awards ceremony. Right photo: 21 year old Heather Whitestone from Alabama became the first contestant with a disability to win the Miss America Pageant. Heather is legally deaf. 25

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AND AROUND THE WORLD Above photo: King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on the White I louse lawn and signed an agreement for peace as President Clinton played host. Above photo: Civil war continued to rack Bosnia-Herzegovina through the 1994-1995 school year despite the efforts of the U.N. Above photo: The U.S. went to the brink of invading Haiti. But at the last minute Haiti's military leaders promised the U.N. that they would cede power to Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the duly elected president of Haiti. Above photo: Civil war in Rwanda killed 500,000 of its people. Left bottom photo: Cuban refugees headed north on anything that floated to escape the poverty and hunger in their country. Right bottom photo: Mark Lee and Carl Meade walked in space by using jet propelled equipment 150 miles above Earth. 27