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Milestones

Ten years ago: At the start of a three-day conference in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, the crown prince of Kuwait promised greater democracy for the emirate if it were freed from Iraqi occupation. In Lebanon, rebel Christian Gen. Michel Aoun ended his mutiny against the government.

Five years ago: British physicist Joseph Rotblat and the anti-nuclear group he founded, the Pugwash Conference, were named winners of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize.

One year ago: The Senate defeated the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, 51-48. In Boulder, Colo., the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work with prosecutors saying there wasn’t enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old’s strangulation.