Nuclear brinkmanship of 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
Graham High School teacher Larry Hypes recalls the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis when U S Navy ships blockaded Cuba and missiles faced removal after tense weeks. Kennedy urged resolve as Soviet missiles were pledged back to the USSR, ending a near nuclear showdown and letting families sleep again.
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Homer Hickam, Jr
America
New York
Kenneth B. Keating
United States
U.S. Navy
Kennedy
U.S.S.R
San Cristobal
Cuba
Larry Hypes
Graham
Local Newspaper Staff and Motto Line
The Baily Telegraph lists Gary Adkisson as Publisher and News Editor with Tammie Toler Samantha Perry Barbara Hawkins and Thomas A Colley as executive editors state editor sports editor and business editor. The page includes a Bible proverb from Proverbs 22 6 AV.
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Tammie Toler
Samantha Perry
Barbara Hawkins
Bluefield City Reports Black Finances and New Mission Plan
City officials announce a black financial statement and a funded rainy day reserve. City Manager Crabtree praises staff for cutting costs and improving revenue collection as the board advances a new mission statement and strategic plan for Bluefield's future. Mayor Perkinson endorses the vision and fiscal discipline.
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Wye
Bluefield
Hasan Baig
Ron Crabtree
Crabtree
City Board of Directors
R.E
Bob” Perkinson
Perkinson
Singing Trainmen concert opens CART 2001 2002 series
The Singing Trainmen performance toured the United States on Thursday September 13 as CART thanks sponsors Town of Tazewell and Tazewell County Board of Supervisors and credits Debbie Davis Dr Evan Sweetser and Tazewell Middle School staff for support in launching the season.
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United States
America
Britain
Town of
Tazewell
Tazewell County
Ginger H. Branton
Cart Richlands
Clinton adviser warns US vulnerable to mass terror
Former national security adviser Anthony Lake recalls a 1996 White House meeting on biological and chemical threats. He notes the government was unprepared then and remains so, citing limited briefing tools, postures, and past exercises amid a rising era of high tech terror.
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U.S
National Security Council
John F. Kennedy
National Security Affairs
McGeorge Bundy
House
Senate
Kennedy
United States
World Trade Center
Afghanistan
Osama Ben Laden
Pentagon
Ashington
John Ashcroft
National Security
Anthony Lake
White House
Lake
America
Little, Brown & Co
Clinton
Washington
MCI
Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
United Nations
Iraq
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Fidel Castro
Batista
Castro
Soviet Union
Nikita Krushchev
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Florida Keys
Pearl Harbor
Baily Telegraph
Gary Adkisson
Thomas A. Colley
Virginia
Our
Union
Princeton
IAFF
Iaff Local 466
CART
Pakistan
Marousies
Jack Anderson and
Douglas Cohn
Jack Anderson
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