New Year Resolutions From Roswell Area Leaders
Roswell and Chaves County officials and residents plan a 2003 push for coordinated growth and responsible governance. Leaders including Gov-elect Bill Richardson and local chambers aim to streamline government, foster development, and keep parades and events running smoothly.
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Bush
Saddam Hussein
U.S
Bill Frist
R-Tenn
Senate
Trent Lott
R-Miss
al Gore
John Kerry
D-Mass
Vermont
Howard Dean
Gore
Steve Pearce
R-N.m
Joe Sheen
New Mexico
N.M
Bill Richardson
Richardson
Chaves County
Pecos River
Chaves County Development Foundation
Roswell
Bob Becker
New Mexico Military Institute
NMMI
Corps of Cadets
Judy Armstrong
Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell
ENMUR
Blaine Hess
Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents
Steve Gamble
ENMU
Armstrong’s
Chapel on former Walker AFB could serve Roswell
A letter urges Roswell to repurpose and restore the vacant chapel at the former Walker Air Force Base now RIAC. The writer notes city ownership, existing tenants, and local demand from a base with homes, a college, Job Corps, school, academy, and staff.
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Walker Air Force Base
RIAC
Roswell
International Law Enforcement Academy
Environmental Protection Agency
End of Year Reflections from Santa Fe Writer
A Santa Fe writer recalls childhood memories from Lordsburg Las Cruces and Deming. He highlights family homes water works V-2 rocket tests White House visit and a love of baseball and public life. The piece closes with contact details for letters to the author.
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Santa FE
C. Banks Austin
Helen
Lordsburg
Melendres and
Hadley
Las Cruces
Rio Grande
Miller
Organ Mountains
Dakotas
White House
Clinton Anderson
Roosevelt
Fala
Bloomington
Ind
Methodist Church
Deming
Walter Donaldson
Bataan
Japan
Harry Truman
Harry
Casey
Silver City
Herb Toy
Herb
Jay Miller
la Tusa
N.M
Hotmail
Portrait of Historic Dates Noted in Daily Highlights
The piece lists notable events on December 29 across history. It recalls the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890 in South Dakota, the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170, Andrew Johnson’s 1808 birth in Raleigh, Buffalo burning in 1813, Texas statehood in 1845, the 1851 founding of the YMCA in Boston, Japan’s 1934 treaty renouncements, WWII London bombings in 1940, the 1957 marriage of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, and the 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing.
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Associated Press
Wounded Knee
South Dakota
U.S
Thomas Becket
Canterbury
England
United States
Andrew Johnson
Raleigh
N.C
Buffalo
N.Y
Texas
Young Men's Christian Association
Boston
Japan
Bush road map warned as flawed peace plan
An advisory cites a flawed Bush administration Middle East road map and Haaretz reports that the third draft was given to the Palestinian Authority for response. The plan envisions a Palestinian state with transitional borders by 2003 and final borders by 2005, contingent on parties' compliance amid prior Oslo failures and ongoing violence.
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Yahoo Map
Bush Administration
Middle East
Haaretz
United States
Palestinian Authority
Russia
United Nations
European Union
Israel
Old Spanish Trail Declared National Historic Trail
President Bush signed legislation naming the Old Spanish Trail a national historic trail. The route, traced from Abiquiu New Mexico to California, links early trade paths of Fray Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Antonio Armijo with later Forty Niners. Monuments and signs will mark preserved sections and trail ruts.
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Mexico City
New Mexico
California
Grand Canyon
Abiquiu
Abiquit
John C. Frémont
President Bush
Chama River Canyon
Coyote
Gallina
Lindrith
Aztec
Colorado
Arizona
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Spain
Rio Grande Valley
Pacific Coast
Nueva Espasia del Norte
New Spain
Fray Silvestre Vélez de Escalante
Abiquid
Antonio Armijo
Escalante
Taos
Ceran St. Vrain
Foo
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