Milestones

Ten years ago: Voters in the Soviet Union filled 1,500 of more than 2,000 seats in the new Congress of People’s Deputies, beginning embarrassing defeats for the Communist Party.

Five years ago: U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina destroyed a Serb bunker following a seven-hour exchange of fire. The Senate passed President Clinton’s education reform measure, the “Goals 2000” bill, 63-22.

One year ago: President Clinton stood with President Nelson Mandela in a racially integrated South African parliament to salute a country that was “truly free and democratic at last.”