Category: Middle East
May 17, 1975 – The Mayaguez Postmortem – Anwar Sadat Goes Opinion Sampling -The Shah Pays A Visit
May 17, 1975 – CBS Radio The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 17, 1975 – End of a busy week. With the Mayguez incident resolved, with President Ford announcing the two-day crisis was over, it was now time to look at the incident itself and
April 17, 2001 – The White House Goes Green – Leaking Pipes – How Much Would You Pay To See Timothy McVeigh’s Hot-Shot?
April 17, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 17, 2001 – Busy news day – The Bush White House suddenly turned Green, letting stand a Clinton-era rule on Lead. The White House announcement drew criticism from the industrial sector, who were now obligated
April 16, 1979 – Jackson Mississippi: “Chance Of Showers, Deluge Likely”
April 16, 1979 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 16, 1979 – if you lived in Jackson Mississippi this day, you’d be either under water or about to be. The worst had not happened yet as flood waters were still rising, up
April 3, 1976 – Barcelona Demonstrations – Cairo Snubs Moscow – Beirut Ignores Ceasefire – Dissident Teamsters.
April 3, 1976 – NBC News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 3, 1976 – A busy news day everywhere – Beginning with news that Egypt’s Anwar Sadat was in Paris to meeting with French President d’Estaing in search of military support and hardware in Europe.
March 27, 1978 – The Coal Miners Strike – A Ceasefire In Lebanon – Storming The Narita Airport
March 27, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 27, 1978 – The 16-week old Coal Miners strike was looking to be at an end – for the most part. Most of the Soft Coal Miners went back to work, their nationwide walkout at
March 22, 1979 – Selling Universal Health Care – Selling Middle-East Peace – Weathering Denunciations.
March 22, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 22, 1979 – On this day, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano would be making a speech later in New York and was expected to unveil President Carter’s long awaited position on National Health Insurance. According to
March 21, 2006 – A Bush Press Conference – Three Years And Counting. . . And Counting . . .And Counting.
March 21, 2006 – President Bush Press Conference – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 21, 2006 – Three years into the war in Iraq, the White House was trying to sell the mission to an increasingly pessimistic public: PRESIDENT BUSH: “Yesterday I delivered the second in a series of
March 7, 1979 – Carter’s Momentous Journey – ” A Splendid Victory Over China” – North And South Korea Negotiations: Going Nowhere –
March 7, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 7, 1979 – A momentous day in the Middle-East peace process. President Carter, determined to renew the Middle-East peace efforts was flying to Egypt to meet one-on-one with Sadat in Cairo, before heading off the