Friday, February 6, 2015

Nigerian Elections result for the presidential elections are already out and printed, long before voters go to polls.


Veteran network correspondent Sam Jaffe, who was forced to spend the final years of his life denying that he was a Soviet spy, is dead of cancer. Jaffe was 55 when he died Friday at his home in Bethesda, Md., a suburb of Washington. Jaffe had been a correspondent for Life magazine and CBS before joining ABC television in 1960. A year later he opened ABC's first Moscow bureau, but four years later he was thrown out of the country in apparent retaliation for a colleague's report that there was a major power struggle under way in the Kremlin. FEB 12, 1985


The New Frontier's Coming-Out Party A look back at the 1960 Democratic Convention--when teams were still at the Sports Arena, microwave ovens and videotape were experimental, and mushroom clouds danced in our heads.


One Russian-American spy scandal killed Eugene Posa. Forty-one years later, his family fears another one could keep his body hidden. Posa was a 38-year-old Air Force captain from Santa Monica in 1960 when he was tapped for a team to replace captured American U2 spy Francis Gary Powers for secret aerial surveillance over the Soviet Union. But a Soviet MIG fighter shot down Posa's Boeing RB-47 on its first flight. Posa seemed to disappear with the plane into the Barents Sea. It wasn't until 1992, at the end of the Cold War, that the U.S. admitted that the plane Posa was aboard was spying, not making the weather reconnaissance flight Washington officials had claimed. That's when Russia disclosed that Posa's body had been found by fishermen and buried.


Viewers watch horror movies because they love a good fright. But who's watching the watchers of horror movies? Scientists and researchers, that's who, and they're doing so because horror movies are a ripe field for those who want to learn more about the physiological and psychological responses to fear. Or maybe they just want to rewatch Jigsaw get a saw in his throat, because that never gets old.


Last year was really interesting. For me it was a year of service to our great nation, Nigeria. I will not bore you with the stories that surrounded that year but I will discuss something that was common amongst us who served at that time. Guess what it was… it was about expectations and confidence. But, confidence in what or put it another way, what was the basis or foundation for this confidence?