Top News Stories from 1993
Clinton agrees to compromise on military’s ban on homosexuals (Jan. 29).
Federal agents besiege Texas Branch Davidian religious cult after six are killed in raid (March 1 et seq.). Fire kills 72 as cult standoff in Texas ends with federal assault (April 19).
Five arrested, sixth sought in bombing of World Trade Center in New York (March 29).
Two police officers convicted in Los Angeles on civil rights charges in Rodney King beating (April 17); sentenced Aug. 4.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg appointed to Supreme Court (June 14).
US agents blamed in Waco, Tex., siege (Oct. 1).
House of Representatives approves North American Free Trade Agreement (Nov. 17); Senate follows (Nov. 21).
Clinton signs Brady bill regulating firearms purchases (Nov. 30).
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In 1986, when the Soviet Union belatedly announced a serious nuclear accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine after Western nations reported detecting unusually high radioactivity levels, it did so in one paragraph. The New York Times stated that[3]
The terse Soviet announcement of the Chernobyl accident was followed by a Tass dispatch noting that there had been many mishaps in the United States, ranging from Three Mile Island outside Harrisburg, Pa., to the Ginna plant near Rochester. Tass said an American antinuclear group registered 2,300 accidents, breakdowns and other faults in 1979.
The practice of focusing on disasters elsewhere when one occurs in the Soviet Union is so common that after watching a report on Soviet television about a catastrophe abroad, Russians often call Western friends to find out whether something has happened in the Soviet Union.