Milestones

Tue., March 28, 2000

Ten years ago: British customs announced it had foiled an attempt to supply Iraq with 40 American-made devices for triggering nuclear weapons.

Five years ago: In Japan, Mitsubishi Bank and the Bank of Tokyo agreed to a merger to create what was then the world’s largest bank.

One year ago: NATO broadened its attacks on Yugoslavia to target Serb military forces in Kosovo in the fifth straight night of airstrikes; thousands of refugees flooded into Albania and Macedonia from Kosovo.

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