Science could help police in gun crime case
The Washington area shootings highlight the need for a national ballistic information network. The system would match bullets or shell casings to guns via electronic signatures stored in a cross country database. Supporters urge law changes to require manufacturers to record test-fire signatures and firearm serial numbers.
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Washington, D.C
National Integrated
Ballistics Information Network
Washington
National Rifle Association
Congress
NRA
Roswell RHS Booster Club Thanks Supporters and Partners
The Roswell High School Booster Club thanks Roswell businesses and Eastern New Mexico Medical Center for funding a Player of the Week. Donations support RHS activities and booster clubs. Community parents are praised for help with fund-raisers and the Youth Challenge Program. Meetings are Mondays at 6 p.m. at the RHS field house.
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Roswell
New Mexico
Don’t Mess With the Constitution Says Voters Should Be Informed
The note urges voters to seek full information and a second opinion before amending the Constitution. It criticizes brief ballot descriptions and points to online sources from the Secretary of State and the League of Women Voters for analysis.
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Roswell Daily Record
Secretary of State
Web
State.am.us
League of Women Voters
Lnvabe.org
Roswell Leaders Appoint Warner to Common Cause Chair
Roswell's Fred Warner was named chairman of Common Cause. Dr. Emmit Jennings from the Cooperative Extension Service led a diabetes talk in Roswell. Frank Donaldson of the Salvation Army spoke on charitable giving to local service clubs.
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Roswell
Fred Warner
Common Cause
Emmit Jennings
Cooperative Extension Service
Frank Donaldson
Salvation Army
One district up for grabs in New Mexico race
Washington watchers focus on New Mexico’s 2nd congressional district as the closest race. Republican Steve Pearce and Democrat John Arthur Smith battle for a seat with wide party interest and a volatile undecided share.
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Santa FE
Washington
New Mexico
Congress
George W. Bush
Supreme Court
Tom Udall
Pete Domenici
Gloria Tristani
Toney Anaya
Tristani
Domenici
St. Pete
Heather Wilson
Richard Romero
Senate
Romero
Albuquerque
Manny Aragon
Wilson
John Sanchez
Steve Pearce
John Arthur Smith
Joe Sheen
Pearce
Smith
State Senate
Bush
Cheney
Charlie Stenholm
Texas
Blue Dog Coalition
Igno minious Appeasement Award Proposed
The piece argues Alfred Nobel erred by creating a peace prize and condemns appeasement of tyrants. It cites Yasser Arafat Henry Kissinger and Jimmy Carter and criticizes the 1994 North Korea nuclear deal brokered by Carter as evidence that appeasement fails and evil must be opposed.
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Alfred Nobel
Nobel
Yasser Arafat
Henry Kissinger
Jimmy Carter
America
North Korea
West Point graduates shaped America from war to nation building
Smithsonian exhibit “West Point in the Making of America 1802 1918” traces graduates’ roles from Gettysburg to world war and beyond. It highlights Pickett Grant Lee Meade Pershing Warren Casey Whistler and Armstrong Custer among others in mapping roads building monuments and advancing U.S. power through history.
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West Point
America
Smithsonian
Mies
Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Appomattox Court House
John J. Pershing
Chaumont
France
U.S
Washington Monument
Marc Pachter
Museum
Thomas Lincoln Casey
Panama Canal
Capitol Dome
Gouverneur Kemble Warren
United States
Mississippi
Warren
James McNeil Whistler
Whistler
George Washington Whistler
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Russia
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Jay
Germany
Japan
Soviet Union
Cal
Thomas
George Armstrong Custer
Great Plains
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