Week of March 8-11, 1995
Driving to work - Two American diplomats are slain in Karachi, Pakistan as
gunmen opened fire on their van.
The House approves landmark legal reform that sets national rules for personal
injury cases - a move which will finally help businesses with costly litigation.
House republican leaders unveil a package of tax cuts that includes a 50%
reduction in the capital gains tax rate.
First Lady Hillary arrives at the U.N. World Summit for Social Development in
Copenhagen. She’ll make a speech announcing a new U.S. initiative to fight
world female illiteracy.
O.J. Simpson double murder trial - Detective
Mark
Fuhrman
takes the stand and describes his actions
during the investigation. He denied being a racist who
may have planted evidence.
The U.S. dollar halts a four-day freefall. Alan Greenspan
told Congress that defeat of a balanced-budget
amendment sent a bad signal to global markets.
Technology -
NASA launches a home page on the World Wide Web -
and computer users can take a virtual reality tour of the
space shuttle Endeavour or see what celestial target the
astronauts are observing at any given moment.
Music news -
Neil Young is back to Reprise Records - signing a five-record deal.
Rapper
Luther Campbell
is in court
again. He allegedly secretly recorded his
telephone sex conversations with a
girlfriend and used some of the graphic
comments in a new album. The former
girlfriend - Nelda Parinas - wants a cut
from the album - “I’ve got SumThin on My
Mind” which sold 4 million copies.
