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Milestones

Ten years ago: President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev held a one-day summit in Helsinki, Finland, after which they joined in condemning Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Liberian President Samuel K. Doe was killed after being captured by rebels.

Five years ago: Bosnian Serbs blamed U.N. forces for a shell that killed ten people at a Bosnian Serb hospital the day before. Amtrak’s “Broadway Limited” service between New York and Chicago made its final run.

One year ago: Former Republican Senator John Danforth opened an independent inquiry into the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. A massive explosion tore apart a Moscow apartment building, killing about a hundred people.