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February 18, 1987 – Dissidents, Shakeups And Smokers

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7035″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 18, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] No end to drama, this February 18th in 1987. Street fighting in Beirut, brokered truces falling apart, fighting over a strategically placed office building in Beirut, which just happened to be

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February 17, 1996 – A Collision Of Ideologies – A Collision Of Trains – A $19 Million Settlement

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12698″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 17, 1996 – NPR – All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this February 17th in 1996 started off with a grim report of a collision between trains had taken place just outside of Washington D.C., killing at least 11

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February 16, 1979

February 16, 1979 – Flight From Tehran

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”25785″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 16, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] February 16, 1979 – a day of evacuation, confusion and purges in Tehran, and a day of logger-heads in Mexico City. In Iran, the escape was on, and hundreds of American

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