Milestones

Ten years ago: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir arrived in Washington, D.C., with what he called new ideas for Middle East peace talks, despite maintaining a hard-line on Israel’s retention of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Five years ago: An independent U.N.-sponsored commission released a report blaming the bulk of atrocities committed during El Salvador’s civil war on the country’s military.

One year ago: Surgeons at Bethesda Naval Medical Center repaired a painful torn knee tendon in President Clinton’s right leg. The injury had been caused by a freak middle-of-the-night stumble at golfer Greg Norman’s Florida home.