Milestones

Tue., March 30, 1999

Ten years ago: “The Heidi Chronicles” by Wendy Wasserstein won the Pulitzer Prize for drama; in the journalism category, the Anchorage Daily News won the public service award for its reports on alcoholism and suicide among native Alaskans.

Five years ago: Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end their war in Croatia while Bosnian Muslims and Serbs continued to battle each other. The Clinton administration announced it was lifting virtually all export controls on non-military products to China and the former Soviet bloc.

One year ago: Rolls-Royce was purchased by German automaker BMW in a $570 million deal.

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