Raising the Palestinian flag – cautious sighs of relief.

Changes in the world, this November 13, 1995.

Thousands of Palestinians lined the streets of this West Bank city this day, dancing, singing and firing shots into the air to welcome busloads of Palestinian police who moved in after Israeli troops withdrew. The Palestinian flag went up in front of the former Israeli army headquarters in Jenin after Israeli troops pulled out before dawn. Officers climbed onto bus roofs, waving victory signs and tossing sticks of gum to schoolchildren who crowded the streets. The Palestinian anthem “My Homeland, My Homeland,” blared from loudspeakers, and people climbed trees and rooftops, waving flags and cheering. “I have waited for this my whole life,” said 18-year-old Amr Kamal, celebrating in front of the headquarters building.

“It is the best day of my life.” Jenin is the first West Bank town to come under Palestinian self-rule under the Israel-PLO agreement signed in Washington in September by PLO leader Yasser Arafat and the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Meanwhile, back on Capitol Hill – Moments after President Clinton vetoed a bill raising the government’s borrowing authority, the administration took the first emergency steps to avoid defaulting on the nation’s debt. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin announced a series of moves aimed at assuring the government will make good on $102 billion in principal and interest payments c due Wednesday and Thursday. The Treasury scheduled securities auctions to raise the money and broadly hinted Rubin would effectively expand the government’s borrowing authority temporarily by drawing on two huge government-run retirement funds.

And two explosions, possibly from car bombs, destroyed a building housing American and Saudi military personnel today, killing six people and wounding about 60. Four of the dead were Americans. The blasts set off a fire that engulfed the modern three-story building, sending out huge plumes of smoke seen across the city. At least one burned-out car and several damaged cars were parked around the wreckage. Twisted metal the side of one dows in nearby blown out. There was no of responsibility, known if Americans were the targets Saudi National center. building’s tangled protruded from building, and winbuildings were immediate claim and it was not or Saudis of the attack on Guard training center.

And that’s a small sample of what happened on November 13, 1995 as reported by The CBS World News Roundup.