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May 3, 1987 – And Now, The Contras.

May 3, 1987 – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 3, 1987 – Just ahead of the hearings over U.S. involvement in clandestine support for the Nicagarua Contras, who were in the midst of fighting the leftist government of Daniel Ortega. President Reagan

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Stock Market - Europre- 1968

March 1968 – Europe’s New Gold Rush

  March 1968 – The Gold Rush – What it means to you – NBC Radio – March 15, 1968 – March 1968 – as if the year wasn’t destined for more upheaval, word from Europe came that a Gold Rush of sorts was on; a Gold Rush aimed at

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Love Canal

August 2, 1978 – A Canal Called Love.

August 2, 1978 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 2, 1978 and an obscure piece of news drifted into this broadcast of The World Tonight, and wound up being one of the biggest and most scandalous stories of the 70’s. The contamination

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Hurricane Bertha

July 12, 1996 – In Blew Bertha

July 12, 1996 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Twenty years ago today, on July 12, 1996, we were wondering about just where Hurricane Bertha was going to land. Bertha, blowing at speeds upwards from 90 miles an hour, was poised somewhere off the Carolina

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About AWACS and Home Plate – October 29, 1981

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – October 29, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection October 29, 1981 – a day where Baseball and Politics had more than a few things in common. After much 11th hour arm-twisting, President Reagan managed to get

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Insidious Inflationary Pressures – May 9, 1997

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – May 9, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this My 9th in 1997 was pretty much status quo for the 90s. The Economy and Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. The endless seesaw of inflation and

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