January 13, 1993 -
January 13, 1993 -
January 13, 1993 -
January 14, 1993 - MPR’s John Biewen reports that Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (Corporation) has pulled MECC software program “Freedom!” video game after criticism from students and schools, finding it racially inappropriate. The program simulates the attempt by African slaves to escape from an 1830s southern plantation via the Underground Railroad.
January 14, 1993 -
January 14, 1993 -
January 15, 1993 - From Rooster Crows at Light from the Bombing: Echoes from the Gulf War, published by Inroads Press (Minneapolis, MN), November 1992.If we return to psychological thought for a moment, we notice that something we can't see in our own shadow prevents us from grasping Saddam’s motives and thought. Bush, relying on contemporary up-to-date Beltline models, assured us that Saddam, sufficiently threatened, would withdraw. "I feel it in my gut." Four hundred thousand troops would do it; wrong. Security Council backing would do it; wrong. A deadline would do it; wrong. Congressional backing would do it; wrong. Who has ever, as a war leader, been so wrong?
January 15, 1993 -
January 15, 1993 -
January 15, 1993 - Gale Shore, spokesperson for the American Women’s Expedition to Antartica, meets with MPR’s Bob Potter to discuss the four women team who arrived in Antartica. This team is led by Ann Bancroft and the arrival in the South Pole marks the beginning of this team’s trek across Antartica.