Category: Politics

Not With Candy And Flowers – April 8, 2004

Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC – The World Today – April 8, 2004 – BBC World Service Ten years ago today, the stark reality that our involvement in Iraq wasn’t going to be met with open arms had many wondering just how long this odyssey

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Endemic To Apartheid – March 21, 1985

Click on the link here for Audio Player- CBS World News Roundup – March 21, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1985 began with an Angry commemoration – March 21st 1985 marked the 25th anniversary of the massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa where 69 Blacks

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Making Peace Look Real – March 18, 1994

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 18, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection There were glimmers of hope, this March 18th in 1994. In a historic first-step, warring factions which had been tearing apart Bosnia-Herzegovina finally signed an accord, ending the

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Gotti Walks – Paris Waits – March 14, 1987

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 14, 1987 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A contrasting sort of day, this March 14th in 1987. From New York came word that reputed Underworld kingpin John Gotti was set free, with the Jury returning

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Bargaining Chips – March 6, 1990

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 6, 1990 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this March 6th in 1990 had much to do with the atmosphere of change and what was rapidly becoming the new face of Europe. Still, there

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People Like Dolly – March 4, 1997

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 4, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A Brave-New-World kind of day, this Tuesday March 4th in 1997. From the White House came word of the banning of Federal funds for research in the area

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