Milestones

Fri., March 24, 2000

Ten years ago: Soviet military vehicles rumbled through the heart of the Vilnius, the capital of the breakaway Baltic republic of Lithuania.

Five years ago: The House of Representatives passed, 234-to-199, a welfare reform package calling for the most profound changes in social programs since the New Deal.

One year ago: NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country.

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