Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, January 3, 1993 TAG: 9301030221
SECTION: HORIZON PAGE: F-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: JAY MAEDER KNIGHT-RIDDER/TRIBUNE
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
A LOOK AT THE REST OF THE WORLD, MONTH BY MONTH
Bill Clinton was in for the long haul. Ross Perot was out, then in, then out, then in again, and Dan Quayle went toe-to-toe with Murphy Brown.In the end, the faltering economy spelled doom for President Bush.
Clinton's victory ended 12 years of Republican rule and signaled a change in how campaigns are run in the age of MTV and cable.
The campaign heightened the focus on domestic issues - even as the acquittal of four white policemen in the beating of black motorist Rodney King touched off deadly riots in Los Angeles.
Nature took a heavy toll, as South Florida was devastated by Hurricane Andrew.
The end of the Cold War lessened the threat of global war, but the New World Order spawned smaller, deadly conflicts.
The Balkans erupted with the breakup of Yugoslavia. Violence flared in the former Soviet Union, the newly reunited Germany and India. U.S. and other foreign troops went to Somalia to safeguard food for the starving.
And the British royal family suffered through its worst year in memory, climaxed by the separation of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
January
2: Ex-KGB Gen. Oleg Kalugin says Vietnam held American POWs in late 1970s.
7: Food and Drug Administration calls for halt to silicone breast implants.
8: President Bush, suffering from stomach flu, collapses during state dinner in Japan.
13: Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty to 15 mutilation killings.
17: Gennifer Flowers accuses Bill Clinton of having extramarital affair; Clinton denies the allegations.
31: TWA files for Chapter 11.
Deaths: Actors Dame Judith Anderson, Freddie Bartholomew and Jose Ferrer and legendary Chicago bluesman Willie Dixon, whose songs helped make stars of Elvis Presley and others.
February
1: Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign Camp David declaration stating that Russia and U.S. do not regard themselves as potential adversaries.
10: Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson convicted of raping Black Miss America contestant; later sentenced to six years.
18: Paul Tsongas wins New Hampshire Democratic primary; Bush wins GOP contest, but Pat Buchanan takes nearly 40 percent of vote.
20: Billionaire Ross Perot says he may run for president.
24: General Motors reports record $4.5 billion loss in 1991.
Deaths: Miss America host Bert Parks, "Roots" author Alex Haley, "Bewitched" actor Dick York, Salvadoran rightist Roberto d'Aubuisson, semantics professor and former Sen. S.I. Hayakawa, car painter Earl Scheib.
March
13: Earthquake, 6.2 on Richter scale, rocks Turkey, claiming at least 570 lives.
14: Sen. Edward Kennedy is engaged to lawyer Victoria Reggie.
26: Britain's Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York separate.
29: Clinton acknowledges he experimented with marijuana as a student but says he didn't inhale.
Deaths: Actors Sandy Dennis, Nancy Walker and Paul Henreid, former Israeli leader Menachem Begin and the 8th Earl Spencer, father of Princess Diana.
April
7: Clinton wins New York primary. PLO chief Yasser Arafat escapes death in desert plane crash.
8. Tennis great Arthur Ashe announces reluctantly and emotionally that he has AIDS.
9: Panama's Gen. Manuel Noriega found guilty in Miami of drug trafficking and racketeering.
15: Sanctions take effect against Libya for refusing to surrender suspects in bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. 23-26: Quakes and aftershocks rock Southern California.
29: Four white Los Angeles police officers are acquitted in beating of black motorist Rodney King, touching off days of rioting.
Deaths: Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, sci-fi author Isaac Asimov, shock-comic Sam Kinison, actor Neville Brand, British comic Benny Hill and Indian film maker Satyajit Ray.
May
2: Bush dispatches 4,500 federal troops to Los Angeles.
20: Vice President Quayle calls TV character Murphy Brown irresponsible for having baby out of wedlock.
21: Johnny Carson retires from "The Tonight Show," giving way to Jay Leno.
24: Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept Haitian refugees at sea and return them to Haiti.
Deaths: Psychologist Lee Salk, actors Marlene Dietrich, George Murphy, John Lund and Robert Reed, ex-footballer Lyle Alzado, music man Lawrence Welk, diplomat Philip Habib, Chicago mobster Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo and former Rep. Wilbur Mills.
June
3: Clinton clinches Democratic presidential nomination after six-state primary sweep. Diplomats from 180 countries open Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
4: "Young Elvis" chosen for postage stamp.
15. The last Western hostages - two German relief workers - are freed in Lebanon.
16: Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger indicted on Iran-Contra charges.
26: Navy Secretary Lawrence Garrett resigns amid Tailhook sex harassment scandal.
28: Two powerful quakes hit Southern California.
29: Supreme Court rules states cannot ban most abortions, upholding core of Roe vs. Wade. Man receives liver transplant from baboon, lives 71 days.
Deaths: British actor Robert Morley, Mad magazine guru William M. Gaines, ex-Yankee pitcher Eddie Lopat and entertainer Peter Allen.
July
2: Unemployment rate hits eight-year high of 7.8 percent.
3: U.S. military joins international airlift to Yugoslavia.
9: Clinton selects Sen. Al Gore as running mate. Israeli Labor Party leader Yitzhak Rabin forms new government.
11: Jury finds Pan Am guilty of willful misconduct in terrorist bombing of Flight 103.
16: At Democratic convention in New York, Clinton is nominated for president; Perot quits race - temporarily.
23: Scientists announce discovery of virus that may cause AIDS symptoms in people not infected by HIV.
24: Summer Olympics begin in Barcelona.
25: Italian government sends 7,000 soldiers to Sicily in Mafia crackdown.
Deaths: CBS News pioneer Eric Sevareid, Motown star Mary Wells, original Superman artist Joe Shuster and pro-football Hall of Famer Buck Buchanan.
August
5: Federal civil rights charges filed against four policemen acquitted in Rodney King beating.
7: U.S. House votes to overturn Bush's "gag rule" on abortion counseling at federally funded clinics.
12: United States, Canada and Mexico reach a free-trade agreement.
13: In Bush campaign shake-up, Secretary of State Jim Baker is named White House chief of staff.
20: Republican convention nominates Bush and Quayle.
24: Hurricane Andrew hits Florida, causing 55 deaths; it also devastates parts of Louisiana.
Deaths: Grand Ayatollah Abul Qassim al-Khoei, spiritual leader of the world's Shiite Muslims, avant-garde composer John Cage, Watergate judge John Sirica and hockey star John Kordic.
September
6: Troops in South Africa fire on African National Congress supporters, killing 28 and wounding 200.
11: Hurricane Iniki strikes Hawaiian islands; six dead.
19: U.N. Security Council drops Yugoslavia from General Assembly.
28: Magic Johnson announces return to basketball.
Deaths: "Psycho" star Anthony Perkins, famed Ringling Bros. clown Lou Jacobs.
October
1: USS Saratoga accidentally fires missiles at Turkish destroyer in Aegean Sea; five killed, 12 wounded.
4: El Al 747 crashes into apartment complex after take-off in Amsterdam; 43 dead.
5: For the first time, Congress overrides a Bush veto - on cable TV bill.
12: Cairo hit by quake registering 5.9 on the Richter scale; 550 dead.
30: Five American nuns slain in Liberia.
Deaths: British actor Denholm Elliott, Temptations falsetto Eddie Kendricks, former West German leader Willy Brandt, TV commentator Hughes Rudd, actors Shirley Booth and Cleavon Little, sportscaster Red Barber, New Orleans "JFK" prosecutor Jim Garrison and singer Roger Miller.
November
2: Magic Johnson retires a second time from NBA basketball because of AIDS virus.
3: Clinton elected president.
11: Yeltsin says Americans were held in prison camps after World War II and some were "summarily executed" but others live in his country voluntarily.
20: Windsor Castle burns.
Deaths: Hollywood pioneer Hal Roach, former Czechoslovakian leader Alexander Dubcek, actors Jack Kelly and Chuck Connors, the president's mother, Dorothy Bush, "Winnie the Pooh" voice actor Sterling Holloway, country fiddler Roy Acuff, Italian fashion designer Emilio Pucci and socialite Blanchette Rockefeller.
December
3: U.N. Security Council approves military intervention in Somalia.
7: Hindu-Muslim riot follows destruction of 430-year-old mosque; 1,200 dead nationwide.
8: U.S. troops land in Somalia.
9: British Prime Minister John Major announces the separation of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
15: IBM, one-time symbol of corporate power, announces downsizing by 25,000 jobs.
24: President Bush grants pardons to former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five other Iran-Contra figures.
29: Jean Harris, the former girls' school headmistress serving 15 years to life for killing "Scarsdale Diet" Dr. Herman Tarnower, was granted clemency by Gov. Mario Cuomo; The United States and Russia reached agreement on a Start II treaty that would sharply reduce the two countries' stockpiles of long-range nuclear weapons.
Deaths: Ricky Ray, hemophiliac Florida boy who with his two brothers waged a valiant fight against AIDS and public rejection, tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, actor Dana Andrews and violinist Nathan Milstein.
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