Category: Day in history

Pakistan: Warning To The West – November 23, 1961

– ABC Radio – Pakistan: A Warning To The West – November 23, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this day in 1961, Pakistan was making the news. Not that a crisis had broken out. In fact Pakistani President General Ayub Kahn visited Washington earlier in the year

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A Hostages Story – November 20, 1991

– CBS World News Roundup – November 20, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1991 had a lot to do with Thomas Sutherland, a professor at the American University in Beirut who had been held hostage somewhere in Beirut since 1985 was finally freed

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An Otherwise SNAFU Day – November 16, 1995

– NPR – Morning Edition News – November 16, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – An otherwise normal day, this November 16, 1995 – politics as usual – warring factions as usual – life going on as usual. Starting with the infamous Government shutdown and the war between Congress

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