Hope for peace through a life saving kidney donation
An article discusses the Israeli Palestinian conflict and religious barriers to peace. It highlights Jonathan Jesner a Glasgow student killed in a Palestinian bombing and his kidney saving a seven year old Palestinian girl at Schneider Hospital. It argues for compassion and coexistence as a path to lasting peace.
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Israel
Palestine
Jerusalem
Muhammed
Glasgow
Scotland
Jonathan Jesner
Yasmin Abu Ramila
Schneider Children's Hospital
Ramila
Jesner
Roswell Letter Urges End to Local Option Tax
A Roswell resident Emily Peterson asks the editor whether the Local Option Gross Receipts Tax should be repealed after noting it has been lost. She mentions a six figure pension and spending and investing in Roswell.
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Roswell
On This Day September 26 Historical Milestones
A roundup of events on September 26 across history. Highlights include Nixon and Kennedy’s first televised debate in 1960, Philadelphia occupation in 1777, Jefferson becoming first secretary of state in 1789, Gershwin’s birth in 1898, FTC creation in 1914, Seoul recapture in 1950, Santayana’s death in 1952, Beverly Hillbillies premiere in 1962, Carnival of Souls film debut, Rehnquist sworn in in 1986, Scalia joining the Supreme Court, and Biosphere II occupants’ two-year stay beginning in 1991.
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Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Chicago
Philadelphia
Thomas Jefferson
America
George Gershwin
Brooklyn
N.Y
Federal Trade Commission
United Nations
South
Seoul
George Santayana
Rome
CBS
Lawrence
Kan
William H. Rehnquist
United States
Antonin Scalia
Supreme Court
Oracle
Ariz
Ferris wheel leads carnival at ENM State Fair
Twenty five years ago on September 26 1977 Eastern New Mexico State Fair offered 30 rides including a large enclosed Ferris wheel. Goddard High School elected a new student government with Terry Arrington president Rose Villareal vice president Nadine Brito secretary and Bret Galassani treasurer.
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New Mexico
Goddard High School
Terry Arrington
Rose Villareal
Nadine Brito
Bret Galassani
Two Women Contend For New Mexico Lt Governor Post
Diane Denish seeks the Democratic nomination and would be the first woman to hold the lieutenant governor’s office in state history if elected. Kath leen Sanchez runs for the Green Party, with Rod Adair the Republican candidate. Denish emphasizes education and small business advocacy and campaigns with Bill Richardson, focusing on Lea and Chaves counties.
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Santa FE
New Mexico
Diane Denish
Democratic Party
Kathleen Sanchez
Green Party
Rod Adair
Denish
Patricia Madrid
Capitol
House
Senate
Santa
Target Group
Albuquerque
Bill Richardson
Richardson
Alice King
Bruce King
Bill
Lea County
Hobbs
Chaves County
Roswell
Tom Day
Green
War Torn authors relive Vietnam miseries through women correspondents
Nine women correspondents recount civilians and soldiers in Vietnam from capture to battlefields. Kate Webb recalls a brutal 1971 captivity in Cambodia while Jurate Kazickas carries shrapnel from Khe Sanh. Denby Fawcett details a frail prisoner led past jeering troops as war lingers.
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Washington
Bush
Eliot Cohen
Supreme Command
Lyndon B. Johnson
Kate Webb
United Press International
Cambodia
Jurate Kazickas
Associated Press
Khe Sanh
Vietnam
Kazickas
Denby Fawcett
Honolulu
Fox hunting protests and welfare states in Europe described
John Mortimer notes large protests in London over proposed laws banning fox hunting while contrasting Britain’s welfare state with Sweden’s Keynesian approach. The piece critiques generic economic permissiveness and questions the cost of illness benefits and sick leave amid debates on democracy and minority rights.
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Europe
London
John Mortimer
Mortimer
John Stuart Mill
Bush
Tony Blair
Blair
Sweden
Irving Kristol
Confederation of Swedish Enterprise
Great Britain
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