Milestones

Sun., Sept. 19, 1999

Ten years ago: A Paris-bound DC-10 belonging to the French airline UTA disappeared after a stopover in Chad with 171 people aboard. (the wreckage was found the next day in Niger; a bomb was believed responsible.)

Five years ago: U.S. troops peacefully entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled President JeanBertrand Aristide.

One year ago: Rescue efforts continued off the Philippines for the Princess of the Orient, a ferry which had sunk in a storm, leaving at least 70 people dead and 80 missing. Susan Barrantes, 61, mother of Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, died in a car crash in Argentina. Miss Virginia Nicole Johnson, a 24-year-old diabetic who wears an insulin pump on her hip, was crowned Miss America 1999.

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