Milestones

Ten years ago: Cuba began withdrawing its troops from Angola, more than 13 years after its first contingents arrived.

Five years ago: On the first day of a two-day NATO summit in Belgium, leaders signed a document inviting nations of the former Warsaw Pact to join in a “partnership for peace.” Talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed in Taba, Egypt. In Manassas, Va., Lorena Bobbitt went on trial, charged with malicious wounding of her husband, John. (She was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.)

One year ago: In his weekly radio address, President Clinton denounced Chicago physicist Richard Seed’s expressed desire to clone humans, calling it “morally unacceptable.”