Milestones

Ten years ago: As the Persian Gulf crisis deepened, American forces began taking up positions in Saudi Arabia; Iraq announced it had annexed Kuwait; President Bush warned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that “a line has been drawn in the sand.”

Five years ago: President Clinton ordered all companies doing business with the federal government to report the pollution they cause.

One year ago: Opening a new attack on the Republican tax-cut measure, President Clinton warned the nation’s governors at their meeting in St. Louis that the $792 billion package would trigger “huge cuts” in Medicare, farm programs and other spending critical to their voters.