Milestones
Ten years ago: U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar met twice with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in Amman, Jordan, trying to negotiate a solution to the Persian Gulf crisis.
Five years ago: At the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles, Judge Lance Ito ruled the defense could play only two examples of police detective Mark Fuhrman’s racist comments from taped conversations with a screenwriter.
One year ago: Detroit’s teachers went on strike, wiping out the first day of class for 172,000 students in one of the largest teachers’ strikes in years.