Milestones
Ten years ago: Opposition party activists in Mexico blocked a bridge linking their country to the United States, charging that Mexico’s recent presidential election was marked by widespread fraud.
Five years ago: President Clinton ended his visit to Japan, then traveled to South Korea, where in a speech to the National Assembly he denounced communist North Korea for raising the specter of “nuclear annihilation.”
One year ago: President Clinton, visiting Poland, announced a successful drive to bring Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic into NATO by 1999. Scientists in London say DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton supported a theory that all humanity descended from an “African Eve” 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.