Milestones

Ten years ago: Fifty-five Americans who had been evacuated from the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait left Baghdad by car, headed for the Turkish border.

Five years ago: In his weekly radio address, President Clinton explained his decision to impose a two-year moratorium on mining claims on 4,500 acres of federal land near the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park, saying the land was “more priceless than gold.”

One year ago: Attorney General Janet Reno pledged that a new investigation of the 1993 Waco, Texas, siege would “get to the bottom” of how the FBI used potentially flammable tear gas grenades against her wishes and then took six years to admit it.