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February 4, 1980 – ABSCAM: New Word In The Dictionary.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6822″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 4, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] On this February 4th in 1980, a new Acronym entered our Dictionary –ABSCAM, which stood for Abdul Enterprises Scam or Arab…

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February 4, 2021

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February 2, 1989 – The Trail Points East – Search For Suspects In PanAm Bombing.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”19417″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 2, 1989 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this second day of February in 1989 had much to do with suspicions in the terrorist bombing of PanAm…

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February 2, 2021

German Reunification Demonstrations - 1990

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February 1, 1990 – Endorsing Reunification – Moving Toward A De-Militarized Europe – DeKlerk Meets With Mandela

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”54571″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 1, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] February 1, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 1, 1990 – Calls for reunification…

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February 1, 2021

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January 26, 1943 – The Casablanca Conference

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”54480″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 26, 1943 – Report on Casablanca Conference – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] January 26, 1943 – Re-cap report on Casablanca Conference – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 26, 1943…

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January 26, 2021

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January 25, 1979 – Postcards From Tehran

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6669″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 25, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] With no end in sight and protests continuing and becoming more violent, the situation in Iran on this day in 1979…

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January 25, 2021
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January 20, 1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt – 3rd Inauguration

Another inauguration – this one 80 years ago. President Franklin Roosevelt was sworn in for a third term. Joining him was a new vice-President, Henry Wallace. President Roosevelt:” Democracy is not dying. We know it because we have seen it…

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January 20, 2021

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January 19, 1981 – Last Full Day Of The Carter White House – Pins And Needles From Tehran

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”31586″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 19, 1981 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] January 19, 1981 – The last full day in the White House for Jimmy Carter. And it was spent on pins…

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January 19, 2021

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January 18, 1956 – Looking At The Rose Through World Colored Glasses – John Foster Dulles.

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January 18, 2021

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January 15, 1984 – Bringing Central America To The Boil – And The Word Is Sandinista.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”19096″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 15, 1984 – World News This Week – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Thirty-seven years ago this week, the simmering stew of politics and saber-rattling hit the boiling point in Central…

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January 15, 2021

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Jimmy Carter Press Conference -Starting The Political Year – January 12, 1978

This day in 1978 saw President Jimmy Carter give his first Press Conference of 1978. And by the looks and sounds of it, the political year would have enough drama to go around. Taking center stage was the crisis in…

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January 12, 2021

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