Milestones

Wed., Aug. 26, 1998

Ten years ago: Republican presidential nominee George Bush denounced Democrat Michael Dukakis’ criticism of Reagan administration drug policies as “an insult,” one day after the Massachusetts governor called U.S. dealings with Panamanian General Manuel Noriega “criminal.”

Five years ago: Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and 14 co-defendants entered innocent pleas in federal court in New York, a day after their indictment on charges of conspiring to wage terrorism against the United States.

One year ago: Former South African President F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize for helping end apartheid, quit as leader of the party that had created the practice.

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