Week of May 1, 1993
President Clinton decides to commit U.S. military forces to try to end the civil war
in Bosnia.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic bows to threats of Western military
strikes and signs an international peace plan.
President Clinton calls the Bosnian Serb assembly’s rejection of a peace plan a
disappointment and demands that the international community agree to “act
quickly and decisively” against the Serbs.
Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin assures Secretary of state Warren
Christopher that Russia would commit its troops to a NATO-led force to police
the Bosnian peace plan, should it be approved.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and 24 others were arrested after noisy protesters
blocked the lobby of the National labor relations board for about an hour in
Washington.
Former Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy, deeply stung by allegations if
impropriety over an interest-free loan he took from a businessman friend,
commits suicide. He was 67.
Passing - Wine baron
Julio Gallo
- dies after
his jeep plunged off a remote hilltop road in the
(Ca) San Joaquin County.
Sports -
The San Francisco Giants win six-in-a-row and
Barry Bonds - as Barry Bonds hit a run-scoring
single in the 11
th
inning - beating Montreal 4-3.
Al Unser Jr. got a big break after Davey Allison
ranout of gas in the final turn of seventh
International race of Champions even at
Talledega, Ala.
Technology -
Paul G. Allen - a co-founder of Microsoft - said
in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing
that he may seek control of America Online - a fast-growing computer dial-up
service in which he already owns a 25% stake.
Week of May 1, 1993
Television news -
CBS is talking to Garry Shandling about doing a show following David Letterman.
On Dave Letterman’s NBC show - is “
Conan
O’Brien
- the man who will succeed him on that
show. O’Brien was working as a writer-producer on
“The Simpsons” when he was chosen for the NBC
job and had been a sketch writer on “Saturday Night
Live” for five years.
Top TV -
Movie-Fried Green Tomatoes -
23.8
Cheers - 20.8
Seinfeld - 20.1
60 Minutes - 19.7
Home Improvement -
18.7
Murder, She Wrote - 17.7
Roseanne - 17.0
Coach - 15.0
20/20 - 14.6
Movie-Moment of Truth - 14.2
PrimeTime Live - 14.1
48 Hours - 13.3
Fresh Prince of Bel Air - 13.2
Total Recall - 13.1
Movie-Blind Spot - 13.1
Full House - 13.1
Matlock - 13.1
Rescue 911 - 13.1
Wings - 13.1
Murphy Brown - 12.9
Unsolved Mysteries - 12.9
Delta - 12.7
L.A. Law - 12.4
Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper - 12.3
Good Advice - 12.2
The Simpsons - 12.2
Step by Step - 11.9
At the movies -
Indecent Proposal
Sidekicks
Indian Summer
