Milestones

Ten years ago: F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as acting president of South Africa, after P.W. Botha resigned due a power struggle within the National Party.

Five years ago: Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the terrorist better known as “Carlos the Jackal,” was jailed in France after his capture in Sudan.

One year ago: Twenty-nine people were killed by a car bomb that tore apart the center of Omagh, Northern Ireland; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claimed responsibility.