Milestones

Sun., July 5, 1998

Ten years ago: Attorney General Edwin Meese III announced he would resign, saying he had been vindicated by an independent prosecutor’s 14-month probe into his official conduct.

Five years ago: A United Nations team left Iraq after trying for more than a month to persuade the Baghdad government to allow surveillance cameras at two former missile test sites. President Clinton left Washington for a Group of Seven summit in Japan.

One year ago: NASA scientists brainstormed to fix problems that left Mars Pathfinder’s robot rover stuck aboard the lander. Cambodia’s Second Prime Minister Hun Sen launched a bloody coup that toppled First Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh.

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