Week of February 1, 1994
A group called the Business Roundtable - a group of top business leaders,
endorse a rival health plan to President Clinton’s health reform and his could be
in trouble.
President Clinton orders an end to the 19-year trade embargo against Vietnam.
The President says he made the movie as means of resolving remaining
questions about the fate of missing U.S. soldiers.
The Federal Reserve Board hikes interest rates ¼% to 3.25%.
A large caliber shell slams into an open-air marketplace in Sarajevo, killing over
60 people and injuring more than 200. It’s the worst attack in the Bosnian capital
since the civil war began. President Clinton says U.S. retaliation has not been
ruled-out and warns that it stands ready to support NATO air strikes in the
Bosnia-Herzegovina civil war.
Thirty-one years later -
Byron
de La Beckwith
is convicted of
murdering civil rights leader
Medgar Evers
in Jackson, MS.
Technology -
The FCC approves rules for
narrow band PCS (personnel
communications service) a
technology it says will
“contribute to the development
of the national information
infrastructure.”
America Online (AOL) - with some 600,000 customers and growing, says that its
computers are so overloaded that it must limit the number of customer during
peak evening hours. It says it will take between 60 and 90 days to resolve the
overload.
Some best-selling books -
The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Weller
Disclosure - Michael Crichton
Bad Love - Jonathan Kellerman
Slow Waltz In Cedar Bend - Robert James Waller
Smilla’s Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg
