Category Foreign Policy

Missiles in March

March 19, 1985 – World Full Of Missiles – Pockets Full Of Empty –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”20254″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 19, 1985 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] March 19th 1985 was about nuclear weapons, MX Missiles, Geneva Arms talks. East-West relations, saber-rattling and words. On this day the…

March 18, 1949 – Dean Acheson And The North Atlantic Pact – NATO

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”13247″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 18, 1949 – Dean Acheson – NATO – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] This day in 1949 had much to with the ongoing squabble between the the West and the Soviet Union. As the…

Honduras

March 17, 1988 – Invading Honduras: Is This Trip Necessary?

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”13233″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 17, 1988 – Hourly News – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] This St. Patrick’s Day in 1988 was greeted with news of another military incursion in Central America – this time…

Aschluss - 1938

March 12, 1938 – Anschluss Realized – Doubts Pondered – History In Question.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”20148″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 12, 1938 – Radio Prague News – MBS John Steele – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] As the news regarding the annexation of Austria by Germany continued to unfold, doubts began to arise as…

The Middle-East Peace process

March 11, 1979 – Searching For The World’s Oldest Dream – A Middle-East Peace Settlement.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”13130″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 11, 1979- The World This Week – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this week in 1979 had much to do with fits and starts of a Middle East Peace…

Congressional Hearings

March 11, 1950 – The Never-Ending Show; Congressional Investigation – Riots In Berlin – War Games And Diplomacy

With the Cold War in full-bloom, the war of nerves and the hysteria was reaching fever-pitch. From Capitol Hill came a contentious set of Congressional hearings over purported Communist influence in the State Department. In the witness chair was Senator…

Jan Masaryk

March 10, 1948 – The Death Of Masaryk – Britain’s Economic Downturn – Butter Vs. Margarine.

News for this March 10th in 1948 had much to do with a flood of reports from Prague saying that non-Communist Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk had been found dead from an apparent suicide hours earlier. But even while reports were…

Sadeh Ghotbzadeh and student militant

March 9, 1980 – The Hostages And The Squabble In Tehran – Dropouts In Campaign ’80.

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March 5, 1997 – Another Day Underwater – The Ohio River Floods Of 1997 – Legislating Bad Behavior.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7259″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 5, 1997 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Characterized as the worst flooding since the infamous Ohio River Valley floods of 1937, the Ohio River Valley Floods of 1997…