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ope John Paul II visits New
rench transportation workers strike against P Jersey, New York and
F their government throughout the month of Maryland, and addresses the
December, shutting down the airlines and the United Nations. He speaks out
metro system, after France increases the on social, economic, political
retirement age from 50 to 55 and lengthens and moral themes.
the work week from 37 to 39 hours in efforts
to cut spending.
AP/Wide World

G. Korganow, Gamma/Liaison
rap artist Christo creates
W “Wrapped Reichstag” for
the city of Berlin by covering
the former home of the German In late May, a doctor performs
parliament with one million
square feet of silver fabric emergency surgery aboard British
in June.
Airways flight 32 using a coat

hanger, a knife and fork, and a
scissors sterilized in brandy to save
a woman whose life is threatened
by a collapsed lung.

eads of many of the 186
H member nations gather in ahitian protests escalate
New York to celebrate the 50th T into riots after France
anniversary of the United detonates a nuclear test device
Nations in October. 750 miles from the South Pacific
island. France’s September
Schneider Pool from Gamma/Liaison
resumption of tests after a
three-year moratorium brings
global condemnation.
Philippe Giraud, Sygma

In a powerful address to the East Marxist Cuban President Fidel
U.N.’s Fourth World Conference Prime Minister Castro abandons his Havana Madman Shoko Asahara, leader Fifty years after the end of World
on Women in Beijing, China, Rabin is shot and killed cigar and military fatigues for a of the Japanese apocalyptic War II, Japan remembers those
attended by 30,000 women from while leaving a peace rally in Tel suit and tie on a diplomatic visit religious cult, Aum Shinrikyo, is killed by the atomic bomb
180 countries, U.S. First Lady Aviv November 4. His murderer, to New York in October, where arrested on May 16 and charged dropped on Hiroshima. A solitary
Hillary Rodham Clinton declares, Jewish extremist Yigal Amir, he tries to convince the U.S. to with the Tokyo subway nerve-gas building left standing after the
"Women's rights are human fanatically opposes peace lift its 33-year-old trade embargo attack that left 12 people dead blast, now a memorial called the
rights,” to a desk-thumping, negotiations with the Palestine on still-communist Cuba. and injured 5,500 more in March. Atomic Bomb Dome, symbolizes
applauding audience. Liberation Organization.
the horrors of war and the price
of peace.