Milestones

Sun., Sept. 24, 2000

Ten years ago: The Supreme Soviet voted to give preliminary approval to a plan for switching the Soviet Union to a free-market economy. South African President F.W. de Klerk met at the White House with President Bush.

Five years ago: Israel and the PLO agreed to sign a pact at the White House ending nearly three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities. A 16-year-old boy in Cuers, France, killed 13 people before killing himself.

One year ago: Oregon teenager Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents and gunned down two classmates at school, abandoned an insanity defense and pleaded guilty to murder. (He was later sentenced to 112 years without parole.) A jury acquitted former Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti of the 1979 killing of a journalist.

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