Milestones

Wed., Feb. 3, 1999

Ten years ago: Alfredo Stroessner, president of Paraguay for more than three decades, was overthrown in a military coup.

Five years ago: President Clinton lifted the 19-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam. The space shuttle Discovery lifted off, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a U.S. spacecraft.

One year ago: The state of Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker for the pickax killings of two people in 1983; she was the first woman executed in the United States since 1984. A U.S. military plane sliced through the cable of a ski gondola in Italy, sending the car plunging hundreds of feet, killing all 20 people inside.

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