Milestones

Fri., Oct. 31, 1997

Ten years ago: Noburo Takeshita, leader of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, was elected party president in his first official step toward replacing Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.

Five years ago: It was announced that five American nuns in Liberia had been shot to death near the capital Monrovia; the killings were blamed on rebels loyal to Charles Taylor.

One year ago: In Pontiac, Mich., Dr. Jack Kevorkian was charged with assisting three suicides since June 1996 (he was later acquitted). Also in Pontiac, Jenny Jones testified at the trial of one of her talk show guests, Jonathan Schmitz, who was accused of killing another guest, Scott Amedure. A Brazilian Fokker-100 jetliner crashed in Sao Paulo, killing all 96 on board and three on the ground.

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