The world in 1988, when Suu Kyi last in Europe

Published November 20, 2014

The world was a different place the last time Aung San Suu Kyi was in Europe in 1988. The Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union still existed.

Elsewhere that year:

— The Morris worm became, if not the first computer virus, the first to get widespread attention. It crippled about 6,000 computer systems, which at the time was about one-tenth of the Internet.

— Panama leader Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega was indicted in the United States on drug smuggling charges.

— Prozac was introduced to the U.S. market and quickly became a leading treatment for depression.

— Ben Johnson won the 100m gold at the Seoul Summer Olympics and was later disqualified for taking a steroid.

— The Oscar for best picture went to "The Last Emperor," directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

— George Michael's song "Faith" was the No. 1 song on Billboard's year-end chart.

— President Ronald Reagan was ending a second term and George H.W. Bush was elected to the White House.

— The Iran-Iraq War — also known as the First Persian Gulf War — ended after eight years.

— The first trans-Atlantic fiber optic cable was laid with capacity to carry 40,000 telephone calls simultaneously.

— A Libyan terrorist attack on Pan Am Flight 103 killed 270 people over Lockerbie, Scotland.

— There were about 2 million cellphone subscribers in the U.S. Last year there were more than 330 million — more cellphones than people.

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