Milestones

Tue., May 9, 2000

Ten years ago: President Bush and congressional leaders announced plans for emergency budget talks, with tax increases and spending cuts on the negotiating table.

Five years ago: Kinshasa, capital of Zaire, was placed under quarantine after an outbreak of the Ebola virus. The United States returned 13 Cuban boat people to Cuba, the first to be sent back under a new policy bitterly protested by Cuban-Americans.

One year ago: A chartered bus carrying members of a casino club on a Mother’s Day gambling excursion flipped off a highway in New Orleans, killing 22. Chinese hurled rocks into the U.S. Embassy in a second day of protests against NATO’s bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia.

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