UN report card on Arab development urges reforms and rights
The United Nations issues its first regional development report on the Arab world. It highlights deficits in freedom, women’s empowerment, and education, urging free elections, a freer press, independent judiciary, and broader knowledge access to spur progress.
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Maghreb
Persian Gulf
Rima Khalaf Hunaidi
U.N. Development Program
Mark Malloch Brown
UNDF
Hunaidi
Mamoun
Spain
U.N
Morocco
Bahrain
San Diego Union Tribune
Thanks to Volunteers and Staff for UFO Festival Success
Rita Burnett thanks volunteers and staff for the 55th Anniversary UFO Festival success. She lists volunteers Eileen Vetzer Debby Balthaser Lana Boswell Margaret Austin Lea Ann Hoogestraat Brandy Bell Katie Espinosa Eveleen Soroko Ashley Knudsen and staff Mary Graham Kay Stewart Sandy James Bruce Rhodes Beverly Morgan Delores Blair Jim Faggett Courtland Rossi and security guards for their hard work.
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Eileen Vetzer
Debby Balthaser
Lana Boswell
Margaret Austin
Lea Ann Hoogestraat
Brandy Bell
Katie Espinosa
Eveleen Soroko
Ashley Knudsen
Mary Graham
Kay Stewart
Sandy James
Bruce Rhodes
Beverly Morgan
Delores Blair
Jim Faggett
Courtland Rossi
Rita Burnett
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July 16 in history highlights from 1945 to 1951
On this date in history events include the first atomic bomb test at Alamogordo in 1945, Admiral Farragut becoming the U.S. Navy's first rear admiral in 1862, the execution of Nicholas II and family in 1918, and the 1951 publication of The Catcher in the Rye with the District of Columbia established in 1790.
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United States
Alamogordo
N.M
U.S
David G. Farragut
Russia
Nicholas II
J.D. Salinger
Columbia
Lished
Record Swim Stuns Artesia as Lewis Breaks State Mark
Swimmer Carlette Lewis, 12, of the Artesia Waterdogs, sets a new New Mexico state 200 meter breaststroke record at 125.6 seconds, beating the old mark set five years earlier by a Roswell girl. Monroe Tharp of Denver begins a month long Bible class and Sunday sermon series at Country Club Road Church of Christ.
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Carlette Lewis
Artesia
Planned Growth Strategy outlined to fund Albuquerque expansion
In Albuquerque and other New Mexico cities growth strains finances. The Planned Growth Strategy proposes an impact fee framework, restricted use of capital bonds, and growth within approved projections to fund streets, police, water and facilities. It aims to curb sprawl and stabilize city finances while inviting orderly development.
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Albuquerque
Santa Fe
Las Cruces
New Mexico
Bush pushes church state line in voucher ruling critique
A letter argues that Bush’s push to fund private and religious schools and faith based charities erodes the constitutional separation of church and state. It cites a recent Supreme Court voucher ruling and compares current policy to Brown v Board while condemning the White House religious office.
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Bush
House
Senate
White House
High Court
Brown v. Board of Education
Yale History
Glenda Gilmore
Brown
Plessy
Critics of Bush critique reform reach and confidence
Critics question what reforms Bush proposed would ban his 1990 corporate maneuvers and say he did not go far enough. The piece weighs the president's market impact, credibility, and the limits of executive power in shaping a volatile economy.
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Congress
al Hunt
The
Wall Street Journal
Augustine
St. Paul
George W. Bush
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