Milestones

Sun., Aug. 20, 2000

Ten years ago: For the first time since Iraq began detaining foreigners, President Bush publicly referred to the detainees as hostages, and demanded their release. Three former Northwest Airlines pilots were convicted in Minneapolis of flying while intoxicated.

Five years ago: In northern India, 348 people were killed when a passenger train rammed another that had stopped on the tracks after hitting a cow. The remnants of an American peace delegation headed home from Bosnia-Herzegovina with the bodies of three diplomats killed in an accident.

One year ago: The CIA pulled the security clearances for former Director John Deutch for keeping secret files on an unsecured home computer. Three Japanese banks announced a plan to create the world’s largest bank group with assets of over $1 trillion.

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