Milestones

Wed., Dec. 16, 1998

Ten years ago: President-elect Bush chose former Texas Sen. John Tower to be his secretary of defense, a nomination that went down to defeat in the U.S. Senate.

Five years ago: President Clinton announced the nomination of Bobby Ray Inman to succeed Les Aspin as defense secretary. (Inman, however, later withdrew.)

One year ago: U.N. weapons monitor Richard Butler left Iraq after failing to persuade President Saddam Hussein to open his palaces to inspections. A Pentagon-appointed panel concluded that the Army, Navy and Air Force should segregate male and female recruits in their earliest phases of basic training.

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