Milestones

Ten years ago: The Labor Department reported the nation’s unemployment rate for September 1988 fell to 5.4 percent.

Five years ago: President Clinton ordered more troops, heavy armor and naval firepower to Somalia.

One year ago: Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee investigating fund-raising abuses, accused the White House of “a clear pattern of delay, foot-dragging, concealing.”