Milestones

Ten years ago: Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole resigned to devote herself to the presidential campaign of her husband, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole.

Five years ago: Germany cut key interest rates for the first time in five years, an action the United States and European Community nations had been urging to help spur a world economic recovery.

One year ago: Bosnians went to the polls in their first national elections since the three-and-a-half civil war that ravaged the Balkan republic. Tara Dawn Holland of Kansas was crowned “Miss America.”