University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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Copy by Lori Garner Photos courtesy of Associated Press On September 21, 1993, President Boris Yeltsin disbanded the Russian legisla- ture, leading to an attempted coup led by Vice President Alexander Rutskoi. Upon Yeltsin ' s orders, troops removed the deviants from the parliament building as the world watched it burn. When the fires were extinguished and the smoke cleared, the rebellion was over and its leaders were in jail. Yeltsin ordered a commision to create a new legislature and to schedule elections for a new parliament. Two days later, another world-watching event occurred. President Clinton led enemies Arab Yasser Arafat and Jew Yitzhak Rabin toward their new roles as peacemakers. The two shook hands just minutes after their own two organizations signed a peace treaty in recognition of their rights to live and represent their own people peacefully. +. Year In Review

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The barbaric civil war in one-time Yugo- slavia moved through its second year, as the alliance between the Croats and Muslims dissolved due to turf battles between them in the second half of 1993. By October, 1993, as many as 200,000 people, including 10 United Nations relief workers, were either dead or missing. Although much of the world ' s attention has been focused on the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, life in the other comunities is as bad or worse. People are living underground in shattered towns throughout Bosnia. The world ' s eye has also been drawn to Somalia. Warlord Ali Mahdi Mohamed and his rival Mohamed Farh Aidid each took over a sector of Mogadishu, leading to a full-scale war for power that killed 350,000 people and induced a famine. After Aidid ordered an attack on a group of peacekeepers, (J.N. forces hunted for him, but stopped after an October 4 battle that killed 18 Americans, one Malaysian, and more than 300 Somalis. MB Copy by Lori Garner Photos courtesy of Associated Press Year In Review

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Copy by Lori Garner Photos by Matt Cashore mmui fjmafe ' ly . aia umni, ara fri?Sds see toqa-cla jga-clad Zanm freshmen go through such traditional acts as the reading of the Book of O ' Hara, more commonly known as DuLac. The rituals are led by Odin, who is based on a Norse god and pre- sides as the symbolic leader of the dorm. Odin and his Guards lead the newcomers through the reflection pool for their baptism into the Zahm community and then through mud pits on the way to their first pep rally. Zahm Hall co-president Kevin Jandora explained that at first the freshmen are uneasy about the ritual. However, by the time they reach the pep rally, they are excited to be a part of their new family and proud to be following in the footsteps of previous Zahm residents. Year In Review