Milestones

Ten years ago: Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, meeting in Geneva, resolved nearly all remaining questions on an intermediate-range missile treaty.

Five years ago: President Clinton proposed putting all money raised from new taxes and spending cuts into a trust fund dedicated solely to reducing the nation’s huge budget deficit.

One year ago: At the Oklahoma City bombing trial of Timothy McVeigh, witness Michael Fortier testified that McVeigh had been bent on triggering a “general uprising in America.”