The past 100 years May 11

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5/11/2008 - 5/11/08

From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

May 11, 1958: Mrs. Michael Albert López of Española probably looks forward to Mother's Day with great deal more anticipation than do many others. On this special day her husband, Principal Mike López of the Española Junior High, and her children do her the honors to which she is certainly entitled, and around the López home there are plenty of hands for help. Mr. and Mrs. López have
13 children, and another expected very soon.

May 11, 1983: Gov. Toney Anaya, reacting to a judge's ruling that inmates at the Radium Springs Correctional Center for Women are living under conditions that constitute cruel and unusual punishment, has ordered the facility closed. The 25 women currently housed at the center would be transferred to the new Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility at Las Cruces, which is scheduled to open July 15.

Albuquerque — The policies of the Reagan administration have turned the federal government into the "biggest enemy" currently facing American Indians, says Mescalero Apache president Wendell Chino. He says that the rights and privileges guaranteed to Indians are being eroded by the policies of the administration and that services long provided by the federal government now are being denied in the name of budgetary restraints.