What To Do In An Air Raid From Our Early Files
Highlights from the December 28 1941 Monahans News feature advise keeping cool staying home putting out lights lying down and avoiding windows while offering civilian help. A county draft notice bars further public induction calls and about 100 local women join Red Cross Motor Corps across Monahans units. Major Earl Earp outlines civilian roles to prevent sabotage and aid the war effort.
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Enduring Turmoil of 1971 Dominates Year in Review
The year featured the Attica prison uprising with 420 inmates killed and 39 hostages shot, the Laos invasion and Vietnam War evolutions, intense busing fights over school integration, California earthquake devastation in the San Fernando Valley, and the Senate's rejection then restoration of foreign aid funding amid partisan clashes. The period also saw Nixon’s policies and shifting political dynamics shaping global and domestic events.
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Top Ten Stories Highlight Cold War Era Events
Major news round up covers Red China joining the U.N. and Nixon planned visits, wage-price controls, the Pentagon Papers, Calley conviction, Apollo moon landings, Attica violence, Vietnam withdrawals and Thieu, school busing, California earthquake fatalities, and Senate rejection of foreign aid bill.
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