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President George Bush and President Mikhail Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) to reduce arsenals of long-range nuclear weapons by one-third.
8 Aug.
The British journalist John McCarthy is released after 1,943 days of captivity in Lebanon.
19 Aug.
Gennady Yanayev leads Communist hardliners in a coup against President Gorbachev, who is placed under house arrest in the Crimea. Military rule is imposed in many U.S.S.R. cities.
20 Aug.
Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union, followed by Latvia the next day.
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