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July 8, 1979 – Yours Truly, OPEC – America’s Little Gas Crisis – Here Comes Skylab.

News for week ending July 8, 1979 – CBS The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for the week ending on this July 8th in 1979 had a lot to do with the Middle East (surprise).…

February 25, 1979 – The Sino-Vietnam War – For A Change, Not In The Frying Pan – But Iran . . .

February 25, 1979 – CBS Radio – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With grossly inflated casualty and capture claims coming from both sides, the war between China and Vietnam was heating up, this week in…

January 25,1976 – Gloomy, Gloomier, Supersonic

– The World This Week – CBS Radio – January 25, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 25, 1976 – and the end of another week of wild contrasts. The week began with a gloomy assessment of the…

December 29, 1979 – Afghanistan: New Boss Minus Old Boss = Same Boss – Message From Kabul

– CBS World News Roundup – December 29, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Coming to the frustrating end of a baffling month in a perplexing decade, this December 29th in 1979 was winding up nowhere near hopeful and…

September 9, 1979 – Begin-Sadat: Grasping At The Eel Of Peace – Cuba Redux

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Keith Moon of The Who

The Day Keith Moon Left – September 7, 1978

News for September 7, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even though it hardly made the mainstream news, more than an afterthought and a footnote to a gossip broadcast, the world did in fact lose one of the truly…

April 2, 1980 – Carter; Sweep – Anderson; Nil – Primary Season In Full Swing.

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The Middle-East Peace process

March 11, 1979 – Searching For The World’s Oldest Dream – A Middle-East Peace Settlement.

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

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Tehran protests

January 25, 1979 – Postcards From Tehran

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