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| Title | Houstonian, 1995 |
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| Date | 1995 |
| Description | This edition of the Houstonian, published by the students of the university in 1995, is the official yearbook of the University of Houston. |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | LD2281.H745 H6 v. 61 1995 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1158762~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Houstonian Yearbook Collection |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/yearb |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | In Copyright |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | The Classrooms |
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| File Name | yearb1995164.jpg |
| Transcript | peace, poverty, elections, earthquakes, voices, victories, floods, freedom, deception, disaster Russian Hope, Russian leader Boris Yeltsin visited Washington, D.C. in the fall of 1994 to meet with President Clinton. Yeltsin's government has become more centrist in an effort to survive the difficulties of economic reform and is more acceptable to the majority of Russians. But the 63- Moving legislation along... Vice President Al Gore had a 16-year stint in Congress before President Clinton chose him as a running mate. Now, the 46- year-old politician from Tennessee is using that experience on Capital Hill to help his boss move legislation through the bureaucratic maze. year-old Russian president is not without his detractors. Opposition groups ranging from ultrana- tionalists to Communists hope to force Yeltsin, whose term runs to July, 1996, to hold early presidential elections. "There will always be a political struggle in Russia," says one observer. Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin ordered hundreds of tanks and 40,000 troops into the secessionist republic of Chechnya on December 11, 1994. The mission was to crush the predominantly Muslim region's three-year effort for independence. Despite the overwhelming superiority of Russian forces, the military operation quickly bogged down because of stiff Chechen resistance, blunders by the Russian command and the demoralization of Russian soldiers. Drag Queen... RuPaul, drag queen and disco singer, appearing in regular-guy dress on the runway at a menswear show in New York City, announced, "I'm ready to take off the mask." Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson are Mickey and Mallory Knox in Oliver Stone's satire on violence and the American media, "Natural Born Killers," one of the Summer's hottest movies. The Classroom 193 |