The Aerie, Yearbook of University of North Texas, 1995 Page: 74
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Japan Earthquake
New York (AP) - Japan's nightmare of a disastrous urban
earthquake came true on January 17, 1995 when a powerful quake
tore through several western cities, toppling hundreds of buildings,
touching off raging fires and killing more than 5,000 people.
The country had been rattled by a series of strong quakes since
late December, when the quake with a magnitude of 7.5 jolted
northern Japan.
The city of Kobe, the site of the worst destruction, is a gateway
for more than 12 percent of Japan's exports.
Civil War in Bosnia
New York (AP) -- Civil war continued to rack Bosnia-
Herzegovina in 1994, despite the efforts of a United Nations
peacekeeping force.
The conflict, as complicated as it was savage, began in 1992
when Bosnia's Serbian minority rebelled against a decision by
Yugoslavia's Muslims and Croats to secede. After two-and-a-half
years of fighting, more than 200,000 people were dead or missing.
The war was notorious for "ethnic cleansing" -- the successful
Serbian campaign to drive Muslims from northern and eastern
Bosnia. Of about 2 million people uprooted by the war, 750,000
were non-Serbs from those areas.
Bosnian Serbs had to contend with NATO air strikes. Also,
United Nations sanctions and diplomacy appeared to put some
distance between the Bosnian Serbs, who rejected an international
peace plan and their allies in Serbian Yugoslavia.
In October, in recognition of increased cooperation from
Belgrade, the U.N. lifted some of the sanctions imposed on Yugo-
slavia. But U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry asserted that the
Bosnian Serbs were still getting war supplies from their fellows
across the border.74 News
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