Milestones

Sat., Aug. 29, 1998

Ten years ago: On the presidential campaign trail, Democrat Michael Dukakis sought to counter Republican George Bush’s salvos against the Massachusetts prison furlough program, while Bush continued to charge that Dukakis was soft on defense.

Five years ago: Negotiations continued between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, with Israel reported on the verge of recognizing the PLO.

One year ago: Hooded men killed more than 300 people in an Algerian farm village in the worst carnage since an Islamic insurgency began. Japan’s Supreme Court ruled that the country’s Education Ministry broke the law by removing mention of a Japanese World War II atrocity from historian Saburo Ienaga’s high school textbook.

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