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  Bush and Yeltsin proclain a formal end to the cold war
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  British House of Commons approves European unity pact
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  US sends ferces to persian Gulf.
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  US rescues mexico's economy with $20-billion aid program.
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  Britain alarmed by an outbreak of "mad cow" disease.
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  Two convicted in New York Trade Center bombing.
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  Starr Report by independent counsel outlines case for impeachment proceedings against President.
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  US Senate opens impeachment trial of President Clinton.
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  U.S. sailors on Navy destroyer Cole die in Yemen terrorist explosion.
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  Bush signs new tax-cut law, the largest in 20 years.
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  Boston archbishop Cardinal Bernard Law resigns as a result of the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandals and cover-up of priest-child molestation.
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  In one of the most important rulings on the issue of affirmative action in twenty-five years-the Supreme Court decisively upholds the right of affirmative action in higher education.