Milestones
Ten years ago: The United States and its European allies forged agreement with the Soviet Union and East Germany on a two-stage formula to reunite Germany.
Five years ago: A tribunal in the Netherlands indicted 21 Serbs for atrocities against Croats and Muslims interned in a Bosnian prison camp. House Speaker Newt Gingrich ruled out running for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination.
One year ago: President Clinton said as many as 4,000 American troops would go to Kosovo as part of a NATO peacekeeping force if Serbs and ethnic Albanians settled. A federal judge held American Airlines’ pilots union in contempt and promised sizable fines, saying the union didn’t do enough to encourage pilots to return to work after a court order.