Milestones

Fri., Oct. 23, 1998

Ten years ago: Democrat Lloyd Bentsen and the Rev. Jesse Jackson accused Republican George Bush of injecting race into the presidential campaign by focusing on prison escapee Willie Horton a charge a Bush spokesman labeled “absolutely ridiculous.”

Five years ago: An Irish Republican Army bomb exploded in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing 10 people, including an IRA operative.

One year ago: British au pair Louise Woodward, charged with murdering a baby in her care, testified at her trial in Cambridge, Mass., that she’d never hurt 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. The International Whaling Commission opened the way for an American Indian tribe, the Makah, to resume traditional whale hunts for the first time in seven decades.

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