Alcala Yearbook 1998

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• Arare ur ntornado prowls through ~ iami on May 12, uprootin trees, hattering windows dsnapping power Jin s. Fortunately, the stor innicts only minor inj ries.

Attorney General Janet Reno refuses to nameanindependent prosecutor Lo investigateClinton administration fundraising, causing friction with FBI Director LouisFreeh.

Bobbi McCaughey, Carlisle, Iowa, gives birth November 19 lo seven babies, the U.S.'s rirsl living septuplets. McCaughey and her husband Kenny now have eight children.

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• Terry Nichols is found guilty of conspiracy and manslaughter in the 1995 klahoma City bombing. Nicholsis spared afederal death sentence ·nJanuary 1998, but still faces Oki homa state charges.

UFO enthusiasts gather in Roswell, New Mexico, to celebrate the 50111 anniversary of the alleged UFO crash there in July 1947.

At the Internet/Online Summit in December,Vice President Al Gore announces government initiatives to protect young Internet users from online pornography.

The al-male Promise Keepers movement inspns praise and COIIIIIMISJ fur ils messap af spirilual rem! and ..... responsMly fur ffll!IL .. Odobel; the group holds a giant raly in W~D.C. Once-secret tat,.. rt(OHIIIIIIS al fanw 1Nesidedls Kenn.ly and flxon are released publdy. The tapes provide an mwamished, and sanmnes •lllalbn& llin1Pl8 inlo the ho 1Nesidenls' actions and -satiallS in the Whb House.

On October 25, at least 300,000 African-American women gather in Philadelphia for the Million Woman March. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is one of the speakers.

• Fast-food giant Burger King is forced to stop servingburgers when supplier HudsonFoods recalls25 million pounds of hamburger suspected of contaminationwith£. coli bacteria. It is the biggest beef recall in U.S. history.