Milestones

Fri., May 1, 1998

Ten years ago: Newsweek magazine reported that, according to a memoir by former White House chief of staff Donald Regan, astrology had influenced the planning of President Reagan’s schedule.

Five years ago: President Clinton held a strategy session with top military and foreign policy advisers on Bosnia. Violence erupted during a May Day protest in Moscow. A suicide bomber assassinated Ranasinghe Premadasa, the president of Sri Lanka.

One year ago: Britons went to the polls in a national election that gave the Labor Party a resounding victory over ruling Conservatives. John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of slain child beauty queen JonBenet, declared their innocence, and asked for the public’s help in finding her killer.

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