Milestones

Sun., Jan. 30, 2000

Ten years ago: A judge ordered ex-President Reagan to provide his personal diaries for an Iran-Contra trial. (The judge later reversed himself.)

Five years ago: The Smithsonian Institution dropped plans for an exhibit on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, yielding to critics who charged the exhibit would have portrayed America as the aggressor in World War II.

One year ago: NATO authorized military action in Yugoslavia if the warring parties failed to negotiate an agreement for autonomy in Kosovo.

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