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Milestones

Ten years ago: Iran said it would honor an immediate cease-fire in its eight-year-old war with Iraq.

Five years ago: The city of St. Louis found itself besieged by the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, which had swelled to record levels after months of flooding in nine Midwestern states.

One year ago: The National Cancer Institute reported that fallout from 1950s nuclear bomb tests had exposed millions of children across the country to radioactive iodine. President Clinton lifted a 20-year-old ban on the sale of high-performance aircraft and other advanced weapons to Latin America.