Milestones

Tue., Sept. 8, 1998

Ten years ago: Two nuclear-missile rocket motors were destroyed in Texas; they were the first U.S. weapons eliminated under an arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union.

Five years ago: German tourist was killed by a woman firing from a van as he and his wife drove away from the Miami airport. The gunwoman and an accomplice received life prison sentences; the van’s driver received 87 years. Black gunmen in South Africa launched a series of attacks on black commuters, claiming two dozen lives.

One year ago: Commuters in and around San Francisco faced huge traffic jams a day after workers for the Bay Area’s commuter rail system went on strike. America Online acquired CompuServe.

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