Milestones

Tue., May 4, 1999

Ten years ago: Oliver North was convicted of shredding documents and two other crimes and acquitted of nine other charges stemming from the Iran-Contra affair. His convictions were later overturned on appeal.

Five years ago: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a historic accord on Palestinian autonomy that granted self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

One year ago: Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was given four life sentences plus 30 years by a federal judge in Sacramento, Calif. In Vatican City, the commander of the Swiss Guard, Alois Estermann, and his wife were found shot to death in their apartment; an inquiry concluded that a corporal, Cedric Tornay, had shot the couple and then himself.

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