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Seven astronauts went into
space to repair the Hubble
Space Telescope in December.
A flaw in the main mirror of
the telescope was keeping it
from transmitting clear pic-
tures. The repair, which was
seen as a make-or-break mis-
sion for ASA, was a success.

Di ney wa forced to cut
scene from it movie, Tile
Program, when teenagers in
Pennsylrania laid on the cert-
ter line of a road in imitation
of the film. One died after
being struck by a pickup NAIA/SIPA
truck.

Dodger fan mourned the lo
of two pa t greats this year.
Pitcher Don Drysdale, whose
treak of 58 con ecutive core-
le inning stood for two
decades, died at 56 of a heart
attack. Roy Campanella, the
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fir t African-American catcher
PW leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
in the major leagues, al o died Rabin met in Washington, D.C., in September to sign an
of a heart attack at age 71. interim peace agreement. The agreement, which was to
begin setting terms for Palestine self-rule in Jericho and the
Don Shula, head coach of the Gaza Strip, was lauded as the prelude to peace in the Middle
~liami Dolphin , broke the East, but both sides had to deal with dissent in their parties.
record for most wins by an
In a four-day visit to Denver that culminated in World
t'IFL coach, ending 1993 with
Youth Day, Pope John Paul II met with President Bill
327. Shula's ea on ended
Clinton and addressed 190,000 youths from around the
on a low note; the Dolphins
world. The Pope's Sunday Mass drew nearly 400,000.
lost five traight game and UPI/SIPA
failed to make the playoffs. parent , and eparate jurie Fears about safety, particular- Fred Gwynne, the actor who
declared mi trials in both the ly from German , led to : wa best know for his por-
Erik and Lyle Menendez were brother ' ca es. increases in security at Florida ~ trayal of the lovable Herman
put on trial in Los Angeles for airports and rental car agen- : in the popular televi ion pro-
killing their parents in 1989. Emesto Zedillo was selected as cies after two foreign tourists : gram, Tile Munsters, died in
The brother alleged that the the presidential candidate for were murdered \\;thin one 1993 of cancer. He was 66.
killings were in elf-defense Mexico's governing party after week in eptember.
following years of exual and the ori~al candidate, Luis
psycholo~cal abuse by their Donaldo Colosio, was gunned
down in Tijuana, Mexico.