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Nancy Kerrigan won a silver
medal in figure skating. finish-
ing mere percentage points
behind Oksana Baiul of the
Ukraine. In January, Kerrigan
was clubbed in the knee in
what was later found to be a
plot byTonya Harding's ex-hus-
band and a former bodyguard.

: M1V moved its popular but
.
: controversial show, Beavis and
: Butthead, to a later time slot
: after an Ohio mother alleged
: that references on the show
: caused her five-year-old son to
: ._ I fie that kled his
PltOTOREPORITRS Doug~ ~ younger sister.

: Nolan Ryan, considered by
: some to be the hardest·
~ throwing pitcber in baseball,
: retired at the age of 46.

: November saw the passage of
: two lligJIIy-debated bills by
Congress: NAFfA, a trade
treaty between Mexico,
Canada and the U.S., and the
Brady Bill, which puts a five-
day waiting period on the
: purchase of handguns .
.

~ North Carolina barely edged
.
: Louisiana Tech to win the
women's NCAA basketball
championship, 60-59. A
three-point shot by Charlotte
Kurt Cobain, lead singer of : muter train. Six ~ : Manassas, Va, was the scene Smith with less than a second
Nirvw, died of a self-inflict· : were kled and 19 were : of one of the most closely- remaining on the clock gave
ed gunshot wound. Cobain, : injured. Police believe the attack : watclled trials this year. the Tar Heels the victory.
reportedly missing for six ~ was racially motivated because ~ Lorena Bobbitt, charged with
days, was discovered in his : letters expressing dislike for : malicious wounding for sever- :
Seattle home April 8. ~ whites,Asiansandsome ~ ing her husband's penis, was ~
: African-Americans were found : found not guilty by reason of :
Long Island residents were hor- ~ in the gunman's possession. : insanity. Her husband had
rifled when Colin Ferguson : earlier been found not guilty
opened fire on a New York com- : : of marital sexual assault.