Milestones

Wed., Sept. 16, 1998

Ten years ago: Hurricane Gilbert slammed into the Mexico coast for the second time in three days, its center sweeping ashore north of La Pesca, 120 miles south of Brownsville, Texas.

Five years ago: A judge in Berlin convicted three elderly former Communist leaders in the shooting deaths of East Germans who had tried to scale the Berlin Wall.

One year ago: Attorney General Janet Reno named Charles La Bella the Justice Department’s new lead prosecutor in the campaign fund-raising investigation.

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