One Year After 9 11 United States Still Fighting Terror
A retrospective notes the September 11 attacks, the crashes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and the uninhabited Pennsylvania crash. It credits U S unity and Bush administration actions, with many nations joining the fight and Osama bin Laden’s network damaged but not destroyed.
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WTC
Pennsylvania
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Afghanistan
Taliban
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Letters Criticize Tax Comparisons and City Leadership
A reader denounces the Blue Ribbon Committee for unfair tax comparisons citing population and military bases. The letter urges lower taxes to attract business, recalls Walker Air Force Base loss, questions water contamination handling, and urges a No vote on Sept 17 while appealing to residents to hold city officials accountable.
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Blue Ribbon Committee
LOGAT
Walker Air Force
Don Rostad
Roswell
McGaffey
South Main
Albertsons
City Council
Local Graduates Highlight 25 Years Ago in 1977 Roswell News
Seaman George Laurick Jr. finished recruit training at Naval Training Center and was a 1977 NMMI junior college graduate. Rhea Jean Taylor joins eight Roswell area honorees in Outstanding Young Women of America 1977 edition. Old-Timers' Day at Masonic Temple features a 10 a.m. picnic and noon barbecue.
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George Laurick Jr
Naval Training Center
Laurick
NMMI
Rhea Jean Taylor
Roswell
Old- Timers’ Association
Masonic Temple
Turney presses to stay as New Mexico state water chief
State Engineer Tom Turney asks the next governor to keep him in his post, arguing the office is traditionally insulated from political turnover. He notes only one prior political replacement in 40 years and outlines plans to push conservation, empower his office, close loopholes, and meter irrigators. He also questions pursuing desalination and warns against overhauling water policy.
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Santa FE
Tom Turney
Turney
Phil Archibeck
Gary Johnson
Martinez
Archibeck
Johnson
Garvey Carruthers
Steve Reynolds
Reynolds
White House
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Estancia
Pecos River
Texas
Today in History highlights and anniversaries
On September 8 2002 the AP notes key events from history including the 1921 Miss America crown for Margaret Gorman in Atlantic City New Jersey the 1664 Dutch transfer of New Amsterdam to Britain becoming New York the 1900 Galveston hurricane the 1935 Huey Long shooting the 1951 San Francisco Japan peace treaty the 1952 publication of The Old Man and the Sea and the 1971 opening of the Kennedy Center with Leonard Bernstein Mass in Washington D C.
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Washington, D.C
Atlantic City
N.J
Ernest Hemingway
John F. Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts
Leonard Bernstein
Disappointed Welsh View On Church Attendance And Williams
The piece criticizes UK church attendance and Dr Rowan Williams from Trinity Church New York who, in Cheltenham, said the Sept 11 attacks were not an act of war and suggested provocation for murder. It labels his stance liberal and unsettling, arguing moral guilt rests with the victim.
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Rowan Williams
Trinity Church
New York City
Williams
Greenbelt
Cheltenham
Lincoln County War and New Mexico’s early statehood debate
The article recalls the Lincoln County War and its shadow over New Mexico statehood politics, noting ambivalence toward key figures while tracing eastern New Mexico settlement after 1850. It covers the era’s clash with Apache, Mescalero, Jicarilla, and Navajo groups, the Santa Fe Trail’s Cimarrón Cut-off, Fort Union’s 1851 founding, and peopled camps along the Pecos.
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Fort Union
Organ
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