Milestones

Tue., Sept. 15, 1998

Ten years ago: Thousands of coastal residents from Mexico to Louisiana were fleeing to higher ground, a day after Hurricane Gilbert pounded the Yucatan Peninsula.

Five years ago: Former 60s radical Katherine Ann Power, who spent 23 years in hiding, surrendered to authorities to face charges stemming from a 1970 bank robbery in which Boston police officer Walter Schroeder Sr. was killed. She received a five-year federal term, to run concurrently with an eight- to 12-year state sentence.

One year ago: Two of the nation’s most popular diet drugs - dexfenfluramine and fenfluramine - were pulled off the market because of new evidence they could seriously damage patients’ hearts.

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