Milestones
Ten years ago: The Senate Ethics Committee hired an outside counsel to look into allegations of improprieties against six senators.
Five years ago: Francisco Martin Duran, a Colorado man accused of an assault-rifle attack on the White House, was indicted on a new charge of trying to assassinate President Clinton.
One year ago: The House Judiciary Committee released 22 hours of telephone tape recordings secretly made of Monica Lewinsky by Linda Tripp. Israel’s Parliament overwhelmingly approved the Wye River land-for-peace accord with the Palestinians.