News-June-21-1978.mp3
By all accounts, June 21, 1978 was a normal newsday. Nothing from Earth-shattering, unless you were living in Salonika.
An earthquake struck Salonika Tuesday night (June 20) "with a great noise like the coming of hell," sending thousands of residents fleeing the city where St. Paul once preached the gospel where Kemal Ataturk was born, and which now is the modern capital of Macedonia. The government said at least 20 persons were killed, 11 of them in one collapsed building and more than 150 injured in the quake which measured 6.5 on the open-ended Richter scale. The government declared a state of emergency Wednesday throughout Northern Gretoe and called in 'army troops to keep' order.
Meanwhile, the United States staged the first public firing of its sophisticated cruise missile with Secretary of Defense Harold Brown on hand for the test. Jim Lovelady, spokesman for the White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico said a Navy A-6 Intruder fighter bomber would launch the Tomahawk missile from under its wing today after an hour-long news conference by Brown. Brown and military officials invited more than 30 reporters to watch. The missile returned five more times at different altitudes and distances from the press corp during the two hour test. The missile was tested electronically against various defense systems, but the defense mechanisms were not actually fired. The missile was too quick for many photographers and some eyes. During the tests, the missile was sometimes so far away people began seeing dots before their eyes and thinking they saw the missile. Just as the Tomahawk was scheduled to appear in the sky during one test, a raven flew by and was mistaken by many for the missile.
And finally, the Carter administration decided to seek a formal proposal from Egypt on the disposition of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip as a way of reviving the stalled Middle East peace talks, administration officials said. The officials said Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance had told members of Congress that because Israel had shown no flexibility in its latest responses to the United States on the West Bank and Gaza problems, the best possibility for resuming talks would be for President Anwar Sadat of Egypt to offer a plan to counter the proposal of Prime Minister Menachem Begin that Israel has adhered to since last December.
And along with continuing reports of aftershocks in Salonika, that's a small slice of what happened, this June 21, 1978 as reported by The World Tonight from CBS Radio.
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