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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1997
Page
3
Amnesty International reports 1990s China executed or sentenced over 6,100 people last year and at least 4,367 executions. It notes the large population weighs on crime, but cites alarming cases of capital punishment for minor crimes and rapid executions, criticizing China’s justice as haphazard and unjust.
A letter praises House Speaker Raymond Sanchez and House Appropriations Chair Max Coll for backing the New Mexico Rehabilitation Center, a 40 year old former military hospital in need of capital outlay funds. The writer criticizes legislative inaction, warns politics may delay care, and recalls past election promises about regional infrastructure.
The speaker argues Earl Spencer unfairly targets paparazzi for Princess Diana's death while ignoring a French case of a driver with blood alcohol well above limit at high speed near a canal. The text criticizes lenient treatment of drunk driving and speeding locally, suggesting a broader societal bias against culpability.
Ed Osborne thanks Roswell residents for fair booth fund raising support at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair. Carl Cox will give the keynote at the Animal Agricultural Field Day in Artesia. Mrs. Mary Moore of Raton was elected treasurer of the Country Woman's Council of the USA at the Williamsburg meeting.
Parade magazine profiles Richardson as a former New Mexico congressman turned U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. It notes two missions to Zaire and one to the former Yugoslavia, praising diplomatic victories in Croatia and Zaire, his media constraints, wealth scrutiny, and a 16 room penthouse at the Waldorf Towers as his official residence.
In a heated exchange over a proposed national testing program, Chester Finn of the Hudson Institute cites broad opposition from conservatives who dislike any plan with “national” in the title. Supporters argue such tests would reveal progress and guide teaching, especially for at risk inner city students. Critics warn of stigmatizing labels and a lack of remedies beyond measurement.
A new Yale Press book recounts the CIA and British signals tapping into East Berlin cables via a tunnel built in 1952. Key figures include David Murphy Sergei Kondrashev and George Blake with London meetings and a pivotal 1954 double decker bus handover. The narrative covers morale, espionage and the tunnel’s discovery by the Soviets.
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