Milestones

Ten years ago: In the wake of the Iraqi attack on the U.S. frigate Stark that claimed 37 lives, the Senate approved a proposal requiring President Reagan to send Congress a report detailing the threat to U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf.

Five years ago: The Coast Guard announced that high-seas interdiction of Haitian refugees was being scaled back drastically because refugee camps at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, were filled.

One year ago: At least 615 people, many of them teenagers, drowned when an overloaded Tanzanian ferry capsized on Lake Victoria.