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Cofvsfi Gver.e mei VjryJay, fcecembef 28. 1994 A6 Nation world tamers hps Si 1 994 top stories include Middle East peace, Rwandan genocide planet: quarrelsome and violent, rich and poor, hungry, ignorant, hateful. But looking a little deeper, into hearts and minds, he may aLso find a glimmer of what he wlsheu for, a hint of something better. When he roan'd off toward tlie stars last Jan. 8 to spend I'M in orbit, cosmonaut Valrry I'olyakov LP 1 5 1 1 had a simple wish for his return: "Soe you in a Ix-ttiT world The uplx'ut Russian may fx; let down lwn he catches up on tlx- year Ive missed True, I'M 70 IS NW MONWOE 7SV1444 1 dents, it will be the year when nations joined hands and signed a world trade treaty tearing down business barriers between them To gossip mongers, it's the year of Charles and Di.

But in the next century, it will be remembered as a year when governments, shamed by Bosnia and Rwanda, came together to form the first global court for war crimes. To soccer fans, it was the year of Romano, the star with one name, and Brazil, the team with four World Cut. But it will forever be the year, too, when engineers whose names will be forgotten bridged the isolation of ages with the Knglish Channel tunnel, and when anonymous astronomers finally focused the Hubble Space Telescope on the crxls of the universe Coming home early in '95, Polyakov will find a1 familiar Ytf I OflC-STO. RENTALS President Clinton applauds and watches as King Hussein of Jordan, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands on July 25 alter signing a declaration ending 46 years of war between thoir countries. no Vvrc4435MW As (kt help with wur NEW PUPPY llnwwKrrakini hrving, kiting.

hi I if' lim (nmrmmlrf 1 llrrllnt m' p. Vno 751-W7S diers, militiamen and ordinary villagers of Rwanda's Hutu majority abruptly set about slaughtering the Tutsi minority. It was the latest replay of an ethnic blood feud, and the most horrifying. luven flowed with corpses. Entire towns were dispatched with machetes, bullets and clubs.

"There are no devils left in hell," a Western missionary lamented. "They are all in Rwanda." In this holocaust beyond calculation, only estimates could be made: A half million people were believed murdered. Throughout, the world stood by. wrung its hands A hapless U.N. secretary-general had a word for the international paralysis "a scandal." This question of where and how to intervene in an unruly world vexed the major powers repeatedly in 14.

In his own backyard, Clinton answered with old style gunboat diplomacy, sending an invasion force toward Haiti, intimidating its military dictators at the eleventh hour to make way for an elected president, who was escorted back to power by the Army. Washington also airlifted thousands of trays to Kuwait to face down Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Die threat real or ruse of renewed war in the desert Hut the map overflowed with threats, oppression, dirty little wars And few proposed intervening against the generals who buried democracy tn Nigeria and Burma, for example, or in the nonstop civil war of Sudan. In Somalia, in fact, the Americans threw their intervention into reverse gear, and the United Nations voted to follow suit Hut even Africa, tragedy's homeland, had its helping of hope in UM Mozambique pulled off elections Angola, exhausted by frat ricidal war, tried another truce. And South Africa, sad and desperate South Africa, became hope's own home, a democratic vote giving black people their country-back, and Nelson Mandela the presidency. "The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come," the nationalist hero declared Other chasms, too, were bridged in IM Today's trivia gluttoas may know it as the year of Simpson Hut to tomorrow's history stu I 4 I I it ill SUB-BIDS REQUESTED OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY ACtUTIES SF.RVICES FAR BORN MOTOR TLST LAB BID DATE: JANUARY 10.1994 2:30 P.M.

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The old Kant and the old West worked on their new friendship, NATO offering a 'Tartnrohip for I'eace" to ex adversaries of Eastern Kurnpe, Hussian tnxips Hill inj out of eastern Crrmany and the Rallies. The uncovering of a Kremlin tnole at the heart of the CIA barely chilled the atmosphere "I feel at home," Russia's Hons Yeltsin beamed to host Hill Clinton at a White House dinner. The United States reached across Die Pacific tx, to rebuild on the ruins of old hate, lifting the U.S. trade emhargo on Vietnam. Hut peace's most dramatic galas in I'M came in two places where the strife is rooted in dim, distant history The Palestine Liberation Organization signed a detailed agreement with Israel and took over some Israeli -ixcupied territory, a big step in what, the PU)'s Yasser Arafat called the "march of peace" between Arab and Jew Then, Israel and neightxir Jordan formally ended 46 years of war.

In Ireland, loo. the weight of history eased in 'M, as the Irish Republican Army announced a ceasefire in its bloody 25-year campaign to end Hntish control of Northern Ireland Still, elsewhere, some hearts and minds turned to war, 1L YEAR-END CLEARANCE Rwandan refugee children plead with Zainan soldiers in August to bo let across the bridge separating Rwanda and Zaire. Thoir mother had crossed moments before the soldiers closed the border. Some 10.000 refugees were stuck on the Rwandan side, including these three, who were later reunited with their mother. 5(Q) SAVE UP TO OFF SELECTED ITEMS FROM ALL DEPARTMENTS 116SW3rd 754-0185 M-F 9:30 6.

St. 9:30 5:30 "1 I I in tlx former Yugoslavia, the United Nations ami NATO could not bring an end to three and a half years of conflict In 'M, however, the three doen ars bleeding the 'globe U-caine mere sideshows to thcawe-some atrocities that unreeled, before the eyes of a disbelieving w(-ld. in central Africa An airplane crash killing Rwanda's president was the spark setting a tuition ablaze Sol In Mexico's southern state of Chiapas, Indian peasants rse up on New Year's Day in armed revolt over old grievances On the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen's northern and southern halves fought a vicious two month war Platoons of international mediators gamed little ground in long running civil want in Afghanistan. Liberia and elsew here.

F.ven where they tried hardest. Chiapas rebels still silent jungle. alut 75 nub's east of San Cristobal The Zapatistas, who are demanding better living conditioas and basic rights for Chiapas' impoverished Indians, Live refused journalists ami others access to their territory On The House by Barbara St hies in MM Please note date change fito9 5 to Saturday, The I Saturday.N 1 l4thAnnuall January 28 Bcnton I iGaiettc-Timesw 9 am 4 pm county 1 1 Fairgrounds 1 COMMUNITY Large A 1 BENEFIT 1 Auditorium noswsardM 1 I and Small I corvallis I GARAGE 1 Animal I 1 SALE! lBuildings SAN CKISTOHAI. DK IAS CASAS. Mexico Army troops moved into new positions, Tm day, but it may have Ix-en the si lence of reN-ls that most unnerved residents of southern Mex no who fear new fighting After repeated warnings, the rebel Zapatista Nalumal Libera tion Army last week announced deployment of thousands of fighters in tin state of Chiapas, blocking roads and briefly occupying towns in a sliow of force Since then, the rein-Is have Ix-en silent That has left Chiapas residents wondering if the rebels will launch another New Year's Day uprising, like the one this year that killed 14.1 people.

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