Milestones

Ten years ago: Leslie Manigat was sworn in as Haiti’s president. However, he lost power the following June.

Five years ago: Commerce Secretary Ron Brown acknowledged on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he’d failed to pay Social Security taxes for a domestic worker.

One year ago: The Air Force suspended all its flights in restricted training areas on the East Coast after two close calls between National Guard jets and civilian airliners. Mindful of Boris Yeltsin’s ailments, President Clinton agreed to shift their March summit meeting from the United States to Helsinki, Finland.