For All Nails: Chronological Listing of Events

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This is a timeline of events in For All Nails, a collaborative extension to the timeline of Robert Sobel's alternate history For Want of a Nail. Each entry also contains a link to an archived version of the posting where it occurs or is specified. The point of divergence is the victory of Burgoyne at Saratoga in 1777. North America is subsequently divided between the Confederation of North America and the United States of Mexico. A timeline of events specified in Sobel's book (compiled by Ian Montgomerie) is here.

The convention for these postings is that they be short vignettes, usually from a single first-person or limited-omniscient point of view. Sometimes two or more related vignettes are combined into a single post. Some "facts" from Sobel have been asserted here to be errors, generally after discussion. The "canon" for the For All Nails timeline consists of Sobel's book and these posts, including their footnotes. Canonical facts may be revised later if a consensus exists to do so.

Again, the list below has postings in internal chronological order. This other list, by posting number, is roughly in order of posting.

Authors so far: Matt Alderman, Chester A. Arthur, David Mix Barrington, Sir Francis Burdette, Jonathan Edelstein, Bernard Guerrero, Joe Horan, Mike Keating, Henrik Kiertzner, Noel Maurer, Dan McDonald, Randy McDonald, Johnny Pez, Walter R. Strapps, Carlos Yu. Contributions by new people are welcome -- they may be posted directly to soc.history.what-if or mailed for comment to any of the current authors.

• 1777-1900

• 20 Aug 1846: USM President Pedro Hermion and his advisors determine the role General Santa Anna will play in the Rocky Mountain War (#176).

• 21 Mar 1848: CNA Minister of War Henry Gilpin sends General David Homer on a bold mission that could change the course of the Rocky Mountain War (#134).

• 16 Apr 1850: Gilpin sends General FitzJohn Smithers on a bold mission in relief of Homer (#171).

• 2 Nov 1850: Smithers considers his next move after his undisciplined army has destroyed the town of Bald Eagle, California (#173).

• 22 Feb 1898: In Alaska, Russian officer Ivan Federov worries about increasing tensions with the USM (#177).

• 23 Feb 1898: Federov and his aide Antonio Gomez lead a detachment of troops near the USM border (#177).

• 2 Mar 1898: Federov is reprimanded by General Kornilov for inadvertently crossing the border (#178).

• 17 May 1898: Federov is able to avoid the escalation of a border incident between his troops and the Mexicans (#190).

• 6 Aug 1898: Federov is killed in the final defeat of Russian forces in Alaska by the Mexicans (#196).

• 1901-1956

• 1 Jun 1949: In Baja California, Sheriff Walker Bush discovers a dead swimmer (#138a).

• 2 Jun 1949: After an autopsy confirms a shark attack, Bush fails to convince the mayor to close the beaches (#138b).

• 3 Jun 1949: As Bush and deputy sheriff Daniel Ortega discusses veterans' issues, a second shark attack occurs (#138c). That night Bush, troubled by war memories, hears a news report about racial violence in the Yucatan (#138d).

• 4 Jun 1949: As Bush recruits expert seaman Juan Cobb Escobar to deal with the shark, the United Mexican Party building is destroyed by an explosion (#138d). Bush and Ortega deal with the casualties and investigation (#138e).

• 5 Jun 1949: Two of Escobar's crew are killed by an unknown gunman (#138e).

• 6 Jun 1949: As martial law is declared, Bush begins working with Army Major Miguel Rodriguiz to combat the town's now-evident terrorist problem (#138f). That night, Bush and Escobar sail after the shark, turning law enforcement on the island over to Ortega (#138g).

• 7 Jun 1949: As the shark hunt continues, Escobar scouts out Bush as a potential recruit to his pro-Silva secret society (#138g).

• 8 Jun 1949: In the early morning, Bush and Escobar encounter the shark (#138g).

• 9 Jun 1949: As the island celebrates the death of the shark, Bush tells Ortega of his plan to further investigate Escobar by accompanying him to the Federal District (#138h).

• 10 Jun 1949: On a plane over Durango, Bush befriends a Negro USM enlisted woman (#138h).

• 1957-1969

• ?? Jul 1957: Oilman Robert Contreras learns how business works in Mercator's USM (#1).

• 30 Apr 1962: In Sierra Leone, Mexican-immigrant student Amalia Gutierrez clashes with her history professor (#161).

• 22 Nov 1962: Horace, Lord Gilmore, a retired general with shadowy intelligence connections, is murdered in Connecticut. His 12-year-old daughter Evie is traumatized (#41).

• 9 Mar 1963: The white-dominated, Jeffersonist government of Hayti reacts to a jailbreak carried out by black rebels (#96).

• 19 Jun 1964: The Statist reports on the CNA Grand Council's procedural defeat of the Jay Amendment, which would have established direct popular election of the Governor-General (#213).

• 13 Oct 1966: Walt MacAnuff leads his University of Virginia football team to a memorable victory over Georgia (mentioned in #92).

• 14 Apr 1967: At his school in the CNA, 15-year-old Ferdinand Hohenzollern learns that his parents and brothers have died in a revolution, making him King of Spain (#80).

• ?? Jun 1967: Kramer Associates learns of the defection of eight computer scientists, apparently to the private sector of the CNA (#4).

• 16 Aug 1967: The Kramer defectors begin working with amateur radio enthusiasts near Burlington (#17).

• 13 Sep 1967: The Kramer defectors are applying transistors to fast switching circuits (#17).

• 13 Jul 1968: A mystery man (later identified as USM Colonel Martin Falcone) subverts the Spanish opposition to the Jeffersonista revolution in Puerto Rico (#39b).

• 15 Sep 1968: CNA deputy science minister Josh Abramowitz and professor Gerard Belanger establish a computer research lab in Burlington, NY. Bobby Contreras is Belanger's student (#3).

• 18 Dec 1968: The Kramer defectors are recruiting employees for their new company, General Computing (#17).

• 14 Apr 1969: A fanciful editorial imagines a CNA without women's suffrage (#6).

• 15 Apr 1969: A clarification of the above editorial notes same-sex domestic partnerships in Brooklyn (#6a).

• 20 Jul 1969: The Michigan City Spy Ring Incident. The CNA learns of the defection of physicist Stephen Urquell, head of their tritium bomb project, to the USM (#10). Sobel reports that this leads to a border closure and guerrilla warfare along the border.

• 5 Aug 1969: CNA intelligence chief Timothy Liddy plans the disruption of cross-border trade with the USM. (This may be Sobel's "closure".) He is still looking for Urquell (#13).

• ?? Aug 1969: Manitoba liberal Mark Stapleton is upset that his daughter is joining the Royal CNA Air Force Academy (#1).

• 9 Sep 1969: Vincent Mercator, USM Secretary of War and de facto ruler, meets with Urquell in California (#16).

• 18 Sep 1969: USM field medic Carmen Valenzuela witnesses a potential war crime involving a captured guerilla on the CNA border (#5).

• 18 Sep 1969: Two CNA spies observe a Mexican rocket test in Alaska. An atomic bomb test has recently failed (#5).

• 1970

• ?? ??? 1970: A CNA guide to naval vessels describes the development, Global War use, and subsequent fate of the USM's submersible transport vessels (#154).

• ?? ??? 1970: Excerpts from a reference book outline four episodes of the popular Australian vitavision series Space Saga (#238).

• 22 Feb 1970: In Barbados, USM spy Phil Jackson suspects that the CNA is starting a rocket program (#12).

• 20 Jun 1970: Physicist Carlos Sparling, leader of the Kramer bomb project (just defected to the CNA as "Charles Sterling"), meets his new assistant in Nova Scotia (#15).

• 17 Jul 1970: Rioting in Paris threatens the German garrison (#2).

• 19 Jul 1970: Anti-German rioting spreads to Nancy in Lorraine (#23).

• 21 Jul 1970: The German cabinet discusses the recent unrest (#28).

• 21 Jul 1970: German Chancellor Markstein orders Ambassador Gellmann to preserve the stability of France at all costs (#36).

• 22 Jul 1970: Gellmann proposes to nationalist politician Yvette Fanchon, descendent of the former dictator, that she form a French government (#38).

• ?? Aug 1970: Various magazine articles illustrate the development of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll in the USM (#27).

• 27 Oct 1970: We meet cadets Alex Stapleton and Ev Gilmore at the Royal CNA Air Force Academy (#21a).

• 6 Nov 1970: Mark Stapleton attends a dinner at the RCNAAF Academy with tragic consequences (#21b).

• 6 Dec 1970: Commandant Earl St. Laurent writes to Abramowicz about the role of women in his RCNAAF Academy and in the planned space program (#53c).

• 1971

• 26 Jan 1971: General Computing co-founders Geoffrey Bild and Charlie Lee learn of a breakthrough in the manufacture of miniaturized electronic components (#77).

• ?? Feb 1971: (before 17 Feb) USM devalues the dolar (date revised from #8). Soon after, President Raphael Dominguez announces that he will not run for reelection (#20 note).

• 17 Feb 1971: In New Granada, Colonel Alexander Elbittar is disgusted with the corruption and incompetence of the government of hereditary President Augusto Hermion (#71).

• 11 Mar 1971: Ex-King Ferdinand of Spain reaffirms his abdication and confirms his plans to work with his uncle, the Grand Duke of Minorca (#80).

• ?? Jun 1971: Robert Contreras addresses a business group (#11).

• 9 Jul 1971: In Quebec City, police captain Lucien Reynard reflects on "L'Affaire Stapleton" (#53a).

• 11 Jul 1971: In Copenhagen, a state funeral is held for the late King Frederik Gustav of Scandinavia. His successor is Christian Gustav II (#14, first posted as #8).

• ?? Aug 1971: Immanuel Moctezuma is chosen as Progressive Party candidate (and only serious candidate) for the USM Presidency (#20 note).

• 5 Aug 1971: The Kingdom of Scandinavia launches a new submersible (#14b).

• 22 Aug 1971: The King of Poland narrowly escapes assassination in Warsaw (#7).

• 12 Sep 1971: Robert Contreras has a bad day at the office (#20).

• 19 Sep 1971: Moctezuma is forced to improvise at a campaign rally in Guadalajara (#37).

• 21 Sep 1971: Robert Contreras meets with Moctezuma in Chapultapec (#64).

• 1 Nov 1971: Historian Robert Sobel finishes work on his dual history For Want of a Nail, adding a note that the USM has no atomic bomb.

• ?? Nov 1971: Immanuel Moctezuma is elected USM president (#19 note). (Date revised from #8).

• 4 Dec 1971: Two Serbs plot against German-backed Croatia (#18).

• 1972

• 22 Feb 1972: RCNAAF Cadet Alex Stapleton serves one of many punishment details (#53b).

• 22 Feb 1972: An article in the Statist assesses the possible results of financial reforms in the CNA (#140).

• 29 Feb 1972: Conflict erupts in rural New Granada between Jeffersonista peasants and rightist militias (#71).

• 4 Mar 1972: Moctezuma takes office as USM president, Mercator is still Secretary of War (#19 note).

• 13 Mar 1972: The Beaverhead Incident: Five USM army personnel, including Carmen Valenzuela, are captured in Northern Vandalia (#19).

• 16 Mar 1972: Law student Anna DiMaggio meets Bobby Contreras at a family dinner in California (#22).

• 5 Apr 1972: An Englishman in Brooklyn is introduced to American cricket (#24).

• 25 May 1972: Moctezuma and Senator Maria del Rey reach a compromise on elements of Moctezuma's legistative program (#68).

• 2 Jun 1972: Ev Gilmore graduates third in her class from the RCNAAF Academy. Colonel Henry Anson recruits her into the space program (#54a).

• 8 Jul 1972: The Empire of Siam negotiates entry into the Kramer-led Canton Pact (#88).

• 9 Jul 1972: USM spy Harold Pickett is dispatched on a mission to contact and aid dissidents in the CNA (#113a).

• 13 Jul 1972: USM historian Frank Dana finishes his critique of Sobel's For Want of a Nail.

• 20 Jul 1972: Pickett meets with a dissident in Black Rock and makes him a large cash gift (#113b).

• 25 Aug 1972: German agents in Copenhagen, apparently including at least one Mexican, are arrested by Scandinavian Royal Security forces (#30, first posted as #26).

• 27 Aug 1972: Scandinavia denies any knowledge of the missing Germans (#32).

• 28 Aug 1972: A unit of French expatriates in Scandinavian service is assembled for new duties (#32).

• 31 Aug 1972: Quebecois journalist Andre-Philippe Maeterlinck files a dispatch from Lithuania (#44a).

• 12 Sep 1972: Mysterious Scandinavians land on the Baltic shore for a mysterious purpose (#33).

• 13 Sep 1972: The Scandinavian government approves a program of covert action against Germany (#33).

• 17 Sep 1972: A CNA vitavision news program examines the status of Kramer Associates, interviewing Sobel among others (#46).

• 20 Sep 1972: Maeterlinck files a dispatch from Antwerp in German Austrasia (#44b).

• 22 Sep 1972: French-born Scandinavian commando Martineau lands in Normandy and (on 23 Sep) assassinates a German officer (#34).

• 22 Sep 1972: The Scandinavian and Kramer/Taiwan submersible services are cooperating in the Atlantic (#34).

• 23 Sep 1972: Fanchon (now French premier) consults with Gellmann as to how to respond to the assassination in Normandy (#42).

• 27 Sep 1972: Maeterlinck files a dispatch from Britanny, where he was briefly detained for questioning in the Norman assassination case (#44c). (First posted with incorrect date of 20 Sept 1972.)

• ?? Oct 1972: Writing in the New Historian, Joan Kahn criticizes the Gilpinist agenda of Sobel's For Want of a Nail (#231).

• 4 Oct 1972: Markstein and the German cabinet plan to show their resolve against Scandinavia by placing missiles in Puerto Rico (#49).

• 14 Nov 1972: Brooklyn mayor Miriam Levine plots strategy for the upcoming CNA election with a consultant who uses GC calculating machines (#25).

• 30 Nov 1972: Georgia governor Lennart Skinner accepts the Liberal nomination for CNA Governor-General (#26).

• 14 Dec 1972: Maeterlinck reviews the new French edition of Sobel's For Want of a Nail (#29).

• 19 Dec 1972: A British astronomer reports his observations of "artificial planetoids" in a letter to The Times (#31).

• 28 Dec 1972: Jackson develops a new source, and vice versa, in the Virgin Islands. He has just reported to the USM the presence of German missiles in Puerto Rico (#39).

• 1973

• 2 Jan 1973: The USM military command learns of the missiles and plans no immediate action (#39d).

• 4 Jan 1973: Elbittar meets with Falcone and is assured of support for his coup plans from the USM military (#71).

• 5 Jan 1973: Elbittar meets with a CNA representative and is promised support from that quarter as well (#71).

• 8 Jan 1973: A coup d'etat in New Granada replaces the Hermion hereditary presidency with a military government under Elbittar. The CNA recognizes the new government -- the USM does not but covert USM military aid continues (#71).

• 12 Jan 1973: Scandinavian Lutheran pastor Karl Meyer-Gustavsen delivers covert aid to the Victorian resistance source (#192).

• 14 Jan 1973: The Scandinavian command discusses how to warn the CNA of the missiles without compromising its new intelligence source (#35).

• 14 Jan 1973: An Australian special operations infantry unit is detached for new duties in India (#65).

• 15 Jan 1973: Errors in Sobel's population and apportionment figures are corrected. A political discussion on vitavision touches on the state of computing in the CNA -- Governor-General Carter Monaghan has a solid lead with a month to go (#40).

• 21 Jan 1973: As reported by a British officer, the CNA attacks the missile positions in Boricua with disastrous results. There are thousands each of killed, wounded, and prisoners (#45).

• 22 Jan 1973: Monaghan must revise his vitavision speech after the failure of the Boricuan intervention (#47).

• 26 Jan 1973: In Brooklyn, radical CNA historian Joan Kahn plans a trip to New Granada to investigate her theory that the CNA plotted the coup there (#74).

• 4 Feb 1973: Monaghan and his political advisors discuss a demilitarization of the space program (#60).

• 5 Feb 1973: Col. Henry Anson attends a press conference introducing the female CNA space pilots he has recruited and selected from the Air Force (#58).

• 7 Feb 1973: The General Computing board votes to accept major investment from Kramer Associates, driving Bild and Lee to leave the company (#77).

• 8 Feb 1973: Monaghan defends his record in the vitavised election debate (#48).

• 14 Feb 1973: In Nairobi, black lawyer Victoria Madoka is arraigned on a charge of sedition (#51a).

• 15 Feb 1973: In the CNA national election, Monaghan's People's Coalition remains the largest party in the Grand Council but loses its majority (#48).

• 15 Feb 1973: Victorian prime minister Richard Patten worries that the Madoka case might hurt his rightist coalition in upcoming national elections (#51b).

• 16 Feb 1973: Magistrate Ian Douglas discusses the Madoka case (before him) with an associate (#51b).

• 18 Feb 1973: Victoria Madoka has tea with a white liberal supporter (#51b).

• 24 Feb 1973: The first ballot for CNA Governor-General is deadlocked (#48).

• 25 Feb 1973: Monaghan is reelected Governor-General on the second ballot with support from a faction of the Peace and Justice Party led by Levine (#48).

• 26 Feb 1973: Immigrant Antonio Marques resents his poor job prospects in Victoria (#51c).

• 1 Mar 1973: The National Renewal government of Britain announces a program of military training for the CNA in conjunction with Australia (#75).

• 3 Mar 1973: VNC activists plan a demonstration in Nairobi (#51c).

• 4 Mar 1973: Victoria Madoka's mother suggests she abandon her cause (#51c).

• 5 Mar 1973: Kahn promotes her Kronmiller book on Walt MacAnuff's CNA vitavision variety program (#86). In a segment later suppressed by CNA authorities, she questions whether the new CBI chief will have access to all of Liddy's records (#86a).

• 15 Mar 1973: Guests on Walt McAnuff's program include VNC activist Christian Mwai and Mexican musician Juan Bailleres (#72).

• 16 Mar 1973: An Irish serjeant writes to his wife about the CNA soldiers he has been assigned to train (#75).

• 19 Mar 1973: The CNA, USM, and German foreign ministers meet in Boricua with Jeffersonista officials to discuss release of CNA prisoners from the intervention (#66a).

• 19 Mar 1973: Patten discusses the Madoka case in Parliament (#51d).

• 20 Mar 1973: Patten calls a general election for 17 May 1973 (#51d).

• 23 Mar 1973: Two British officers share their irritation with the CNA army, particularly its aristocratic officer corps (#75).

• 4 Apr 1973: An anti-government demonstration in Victoria leads to massive rioting, looting, and at least 200 deaths (#51e).

• 5 Apr 1973: The CNA ambassador to Victoria makes a muted response to the violence (#51f).

• 6 Apr 1973: The Victorian leadership considers its response to the violence (#51f).

• 6 Apr 1973: Moctezuma's personal intervention with Boricua secures the release of 1000 CNA prisoners (#66b).

• 9 Apr 1973: In Massachusetts, Bild and Lee open their new company, Leebild Electronics (#77).

• 11 Apr 1973: In Nairobi, shopkeeper Max Klein wonders whether the Victorian government has gone too far. Meanwhile, Victoria Madoka's friend Letitia Ntimana is arrested on charges of membership in the VNC (#51f).

• 16 Apr 1973: Victoria Madoka attempts to free a detainee from the 4 April disturbences and makes private inquiries as to Letitia Ntimana's whereabouts (#51g).

• 19 Apr 1973: Antonio Marques is recruited by the racist Conservative Party of Victoria (#51g).

• 22 Apr 1973: Victoria Madoka rebukes Letitia's employer, who allowed her to be captured without protest (#51g).

• 27 Apr 1973: Victorian journalist Anand Rajaram returns from coverage of unrest in Mombasa to cover Victoria Madoka's trial (#51g).

• 30 Apr 1973: Victoria Madoka's sedition trial begins (#51h).

• 1 May 1973: Victoria Madoka offers Rajaram exclusive access to her story in return for help finding Letitia. It has taken two days to select a jury in her trial, which includes Max Klein and Mrs. Antonio Marques (#51i).

• 2 May 1973: Opening statements are made in the Madoka trial (#51h). Later, magistrate Ian Douglas discusses the case with a colleague (#51i).

• 3 May 1973: The British and CNA ambassadors to Victoria discuss whether that country might return to the British sphere of influence from the German. Meanwhile, Rajaram arranges for Victoria Madoka to visit Letitia in prison, where she learns a secret (#51i).

• 4 May 1973: Victoria Madoka gives Rajaram film of the horrible conditions in Letitia's prison. As her trial continues, she is questioned by the jury about her goals for Victoria, and those of the VNC (#51j).

• 5 May 1973: Antonio Marques urges his wife to ensure Victoria Madoka's conviction (#51j).

• 6 May 1973: Under cross-examination by Conservative prosecutor Harry Keller, Victoria Madoka reveals her secret to Keller's great embarassment (#51k).

• 8 May 1973: Victoria United Party leaders discuss the political implications of Keller's scandal. Jury deliberation begins in the trial (#51l).

• 9 May 1973: In a compromise, the jury finds Victoria Madoka guilty but recommends no punishment. Douglas must sentence her on 16 May, the day before the election (#51l).

• 10 May 1973: In a speech to a pro-British group, Patten announces the planned admission of Victoria at an associate member of the United Empire (#51m).

• 12 May 1973: Antonio and Maria Marques attend Anglican services in Nairobi (#51m).

• 14 May 1973: Victoria Madoka appears at a court hearing on Letitia Ntimana's detention (#51m).

• 15 May 1973: In northern Manitoba, the CNA recovers film dropped to earth from a spy satellite (#52).

• 16 May 1973: Following the jury's recommendation, Douglas sentences Victoria Madoka to time served plus a small fine (#51n).

• 17 May 1973: The Victorian national election leaves the Parliament deadlocked between liberal and conservative blocs, with an elderly independent holding the balance of power (#51n).

• 17 May 1973: The CNA publicly launches a suborbital rocket containing an ape. The Sterling family observe the launch; spies Phil and Astrid Jackson attempt to observe the capsule recovery (#52).

• 24 May 1973: Patten decides to form a minority government, nominally supporting the racialist Conservative party social program but knowing it lacks the votes to succeed (#172a).

• 1 Jun 1973: Alex Stapleton graduates last in her class from the RCNAAF Academy. She is assigned to a low-status signals unit, attracting the attention of USM spy Martin Falcone (#54a).

• 7 Jun 1973: Anna Dimaggio and Bobby Contreras celebrate Anna's bar exams in San Francisco. Anna reflects on her beta-testing of a small computer built by Bobby's student Steve Cupertino (#50).

• 15 Jun 1973: Robert Contreras contemplates growing evidence of a vendetta against him on the part of pro-Mercator government officials (#67).

• 16 Jun 1973: CNA ambassador Sir John Gilmore attends the ceremony at which Victoria officially rejoins the United Empire (#172a).

• 17 Jun 1973: CNA space pilot Christine Lillehammer becomes the first person to orbit the earth (#52, date not given on Google).

• 19 Jun 1973: In Trieste, a Slovenian writer works on a political article (#55).

• 19 Jul 1973: In Nairobi, Antonio Marques is recruited into a new Conservative paramilitary organization, the Order Guards (#172a).

• 26 Aug 1973: In Victoria, paramedic Hans Stoller ponders his status as a mixed-race illegitimate son of a German soldier (#172a).

• 9 Sep 1973: In Puerto Hancock, Anna files suit to block the seizure of Robert's California subsidiary by the Customs Service. Pomona Calculators is shipping many kit-built computers within the USM (#70).

• 19 Sep 1973: In the Victorian parliament, Patten addresses criticism from his conservative coalition partners (#172a).

• 23 Sep 1973: In Montreal, medical student Carmen Valenzuela attends confession and drinks coffee (#62).

• 25 Sep 1973: A New Orleans newspaper profiles philanthropist and UNO student Ferdinand Hohenzollern (#80).

• 8 Oct 1973: In Victoria, journalist Anand Rajaram successfully repels a street attack by Order Guards (#172a).

• 14 Oct 1973: Elbittar visits Ferdinand in New Orleans to offer him the restored throne of New Granada (#80).

• 13 Nov 1973: USM historian Frank Dana writes to a colleague for help with a citation (#73).

• 16 Nov 1973: Victorian hostess Caroline Boyle meets Marques, now a rising star in the Order Guards and the Conservatives (#172a).

• 25 Nov 1973: CNA historian John Dickinson Pez responds to Dana's query (#73).

• ?? Dec 1973: Kramer Associates president Carl Salazar worries about the future of his company (#43).

• 13 Dec 1973: Dana submits his critique of CNA historian Russell Walters' analysis of the roots of Mexican militarism (#73).

• 24 Dec 1973: In Victoria, Victoria Madoka and Ian Douglas discuss her foster children and her possible political future (#172a).

• 1974

• ?? ??? 1974: Walters' The British Roots of Mexican Bellicosity is published in the CNA (#59).

• ?? ??? 1974: Franklin Genovese's The Real Mexico describes Mexican driving conditions from the perspective of a North American (#85).

• ?? Jan 1974: The latest edition of Trent's Fighting Airmobiles describes the state of the world's military aircraft (#107, #182).

• ?? Jan 1974: A history of the Bloody Eighties describes the short-lived Second Polish Republic (#188).

• 15 Jan 1974: Kahn discovers evidence of a connection between the new government of New Granada and Mexican atomic research (#78).

• 1 Feb 1974: The Statist reports on a diplomatic spat provoked in Mexico by the CNA's eccentric Poet Laureate (#220).

• 2 Feb 1974: Salazar plays golf with a Taiwanese leader (#43).

• 8 Feb 1974: Salazar proposes that Kramer give up its military capability (#43).

• 12 Mar 1974: Former CNA intelligence chief Timothy Liddy plans to investigate Mercator's activities in New Granada (#76).

• 16 Mar 1974: In Grenada, Felipe and Astrid Jackson discuss their recent visit to New Granada and their divided loyalties (#76).

• 25 Mar 1974: Alex Stapleton learns that her new lover, "Martin Hawke", claims to be a spy working for Jeffersonist dissidents in the USM (#91b).

• 5 Apr 1974: The Statist describes reforms likely to lead to wider public participation in the CNA's equity and commodity markets (#141).

• 9 Apr 1974: British King Henry X and his prime minister, Geoffrey Gold, discuss the restoration of monarchy in New Granada and a potential dynastic marriage (#79).

• 12 Apr 1974: Lucien Reynard attends Good Friday services in Montreal, where he reflects on his daughters' stories of her college friends in New Orleans (#91a).

• ?? May 1974: Sobel's fictional history For All Time is reviewed, both in the New York Herald (#9, #170) and by Professor Pez in the Philadelphia Examiner (#93).

• 10 May 1974: Paul Markey advises Mayor Levine as to Monaghan's prospects in a hypothetical midterm election (#83b).

• 8 Jun 1974: Anna DiMaggio and Bobby Contreras are married in New Orleans. Wedding conversation includes a potential calculator deal between Pomona and Leebild (#82).

• 15 Jun 1974: Ferdinand is crowned King of New Granada. At and around the ceremony and reception, he meets Princess Sophia of Great Britain (#81a), the King of Poland mingles (#81b), and Merkel talks to a Korean servant (#81c). Also, space pilot Ev Gilmore renews her acquaintance with Ferdinand (#81d), meets the Princess (#81e), and worries Elbittar (#81f).

• 20 Jun 1974: CNA vitajournalist Kenny McCormick is killed in Nairobi (#57a).

• 22 Jun 1974: Monaghan calls for economic sanctions against Victoria (#83c).

• 24 Jun 1974: Serb revolutionary Gavrilo Ducevic severs his ties with Scandinavian intelligence and resolves on direct action against Germany (#57a).

• 25 Jun 1974: The King of Poland discusses his upcoming meeting with Markstein, in conversation with the Emperor (#63).

• 26 Jun 1974: After the defeat of Monaghan's sanctions proposal, the CNA Grand Council debates a no-confidence motion by PJP floor leader Dean. Monaghan cuts the debate short by calling elections on his own prerogative (#83c).

• 27 Jun 1974: Fanchon proposes that France take over internal police functions from the German Empire (#61).

• 28 Jun 1974: In the Chancellery in Berlin, the King of Poland meets the President of Angola as they wait for their respective meetings with Chancellor Markstein (#69). Ducevic fires a shot from a nearby building, aimed at the Chancellor's private washroom (#57b). While fleeing, he is struck and killed by the Emperor's locomobile (#57c). Markstein is killed and Gellmann wounded (#84a). The King and President give Gellmann first aid (#84b). As the Cabinet learns of the outbreak of fighting in Trinidad and in Russia (where a Scandinavian-backed faction is revolting), Angela Bitterlich is named acting Chancellor pending elections (#84c).

• 28 Jun 1974: In Paris, Premier Fanchon prevents an anti-German uprising plotted by her predecessor (#95).

• 1 Jul 1974: Ev Gilmore arrives at a California air base for a goodwill and information-gathering visit (#91a).

• 1 Jul 1974: The Empire of Siam tests an atomic bomb in remote Hua Phan province (#88).

• 2 Jul 1974: "Yank" youths inspired by the North American Rebellion rob a vulcazine dispensary in Quebec (#89).

• 2 Jul 1974: Over the Rocky Mountains, Lt. Alex Stapleton has management problems with the crew of her signal-intelligence airmobile (#91a).

• 3 Jul 1974: Astrid Jackson offers the stranded honeymooning Contreras couple a ride away from Aruba. Meanwhile, in Bogota, the New Granadan Privy Council discuss territorial expansion in Trinidad and elsewhere (#87).

• 4 Jul 1974: Mexican test pilot Lt. Emilio Lacroix y Costilla reflects on his growing admiration for his guest, Ev Gilmore (#91a).

• 4 Jul 1974: The German cabinet discusses the not-yet-successful plan to isolate and eliminate Scandinavia's atomic deterrant (#97).

• 5 Jul 1974: King Christian Gustav of Scandinavia makes several surprising political and military announcements in a vitavised speech (#98). These include a bid to resolve the Russian civil war, good wishes for Britain and New Granada, naval integration with Taiwan, and a new land-based atomic deterrent. Watching in Berlin, the German cabinet considers a countermove that could embroil the King in a major scandal (#99).

• 5 Jul 1974: CBI agent Clarissa Forster launches an investigation of a "Yank" crime wave in Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Maine (#89).

• 8 Jul 1974: King Ferdinand welcomes the prospect of a dynastic marriage to Princess Sophia of Great Britain (#103).

• 9 Jul 1974: Princess Sophia also welcomes the proposed marriage, to the dismay of her father King Henry (#103).

• 12 Jul 1974: King Ferdinand discusses football and international relations with Walt MacAnuff on "Closing Time", while comedians lampoon the ongoing CNA campaign (#92).

• 13 Jul 1974: Tourist Martha Stewart and arms dealer Larry Gordon meet in Ciudad Camacho, New Granada (#104a). Later, "Martha" (Joan Kahn) recognizes "Larry" as Timothy Liddy (#104b). They agree to work together to investigate the secret USM/RNG base (#104c).

• 13 Jul 1974: The German Empire accedes to the Scandinavian plan to partition the Free Russian Republic, but launches economic countermeasures (#102).

• 13 Jul 1974: Ev's evening of Mexican vitavision (#91b,#91c). is interrupted by news of Alex Stapleton's defection, with her spy airmobile, to the USM (#91d). Aboard that airmobile, artistically inclined technician Terry Henning helps destroy sensitive equipment (#124).

• 15 Jul 1974: Liberal GG candidate Lennart Skinner and his staff discuss their reaction to the upcoming (17 July) announcement of an alliance and dynastic marriage between New Granada and the United Empire (#94).

• 15 Jul 1974: Awaiting repatriation to the CNA, Terry Henning meets Ev Gilmore, who does not like his cartoon (#124).

• 16 Jul 1974: Back in the CNA, Henning discusses his future plans with his commanding officer, Lt. Bruce (#127).

• 17 Jul 1974: Queen Alexandra of the Cape Kingdom pursues both trade and personal links with the leader of neighboring Botswana (#101).

• 20 Jul 1974: New Granada invades, and announces an anschluss with, the neighboring nation of Quito (#87).

• 20 Jul 1974: The West North City Courier reports Terry Henning's return as a hero to Northern Vandalia (#127).

• 22 Jul 1974: The wheelchair-bound Gellmann returns to Paris with a promise to Fanchon that German police will be withdrawn from France (#108).

• 26 Jul 1974: Clarissa continues her undercover investigation in Nova Scotia, as a Yank-leaning secretary named "Abigail Bartlet" (#105).

• 27 Jul 1974: The Merkel and Voth factions of the Germany Party reluctantly agree on Bitterlich as their leader in the upcoming elections (#112).

• 31 Jul 1974: Moctezuma confronts Winston over the War Department's covert aid to North American dissidents (#120).

• 2 Aug 1974: Kahn successfully penetrates the Ciudad Camacho base with Liddy's help and retrieves evidence of the nuclear program (#104d).

• 4 Aug 1974: At a medical clinic along the Amazon, Carmen Valenzuela witnesses the New Granadan invasion of the nation of Grao Para (#100).

• 8 Aug 1974: The candidates for CNA Governor-General debate (#106).

• 12 Aug 1974: The Times of London reports that many Mexican vita viewers mistook coverage of Stapleton's defection for a comedy sketch (#119).

• 14 Aug 1974: Robert Contreras contacts Mexican lawyer Joseph Osterman and sets up a meeting between Osterman and Kahn in Mexico City (#111a). He is unaware that his phone has been tapped by an employee of Astrid Jackson (#117). Before meeting Osterman, Kahn accidently meets Alex Stapleton and helps her identify Hawke (who led her to defect) as Martin Falcone (#119).

• 14 Aug 1974: Mexican academic and Army reservist Sebastian Quezadas makes a new friend at a strip club in Chiapas (#111b).

• 15 Aug 1974: Lennart Skinner wins an absolute majority of the Grand Council and becomes the new CNA Governor-General (#106).

• 16 Aug 1974: Some of Moctezuma's aides confer as to how to investigate the shocking allegations in Kahn's evidence (#111c).

• 18 Aug 1974: Clarissa Forster is finally admitted to the secret Maine lair of the mysterious Yank crime boss, "the General" (#109).

• 19 Aug 1974: The German elections leave the Germany Party still the largest but in need of new coalition partners to form a majority (#112).

• 19 Aug 1974: Quezadas and his friend Lucia visit the former's impoverished home town in Chiapas (#111b).

• 20 Aug 1974: New Granadan general Guillermo Tintoreo discovers graphic evidence of atrocities committed by the late Regent of Grao Para (#115).

• 21 Aug 1974: Astrid and Felipe, who have discovered that Kahn has obtained some secret information, ask Astrid's Kramer colleagues to look for it in New York City (#117).

• 26 Aug 1974: Markey and Agnello discuss the aftermath of the CNA election, and the status of the Confederation Senate, on Agnello's vitavision program (#110a).

• 26 Aug 1974: William Knight, host of a CNA vitavision science show, is recruited by Skinner for a position in his government (#110b).

• 27 Aug 1974: Knight, the new CNA Science Minister, has his first meeting with his Deputy Minister, Josh Abramowitz (#110b).

• 6 Sep 1974: Princess Sophia and her new New Granadan entourage prepare for her upcoming wedding to King Fernando (#129, #132).

• 12 Sep 1974: Angolan President Joao Pedro Vieira visits his friend King Frederick in Warsaw, where they walk in a garden (#116).

• 14 Sep 1974: Moctezuma confronts Mercator with proof of the latter's secret atomic program and demands his resignation. Mercator refuses and Moctezuma fires him, setting up a constitutional crisis (#111d).

• 18 Sep 1974: A wire service report details the controversy over rival contestants for the title of Miss Mexico (#130).

• 19 Sep 1974: Joe Osterman visits West North City to negotiate reprint rights for Terry Henning's pro-Moctezuma cartoon (#127).

• 21 Sep 1974: In New York City, Kramer spymaster Michael Scott-Adams hires local contractor Paddy O'Roark to burgle the offices of Justice Press (#122).

• 21 Sep 1974: Quezadas and his reserve unit prepare for a potential deployment in Cuba (#118).

• 22 Sep 1974: O'Roark and his accomplice "Fingers" Cianci steal Kahn's information from the Justice Press office but also kill publisher Steve Taylor and burn down the building (#122).

• 23 Sep 1974: Kahn identifies Taylor's body and vows revenge against Mercator (#122).

• 23 Sep 1974: Henrytown journalist Ernesto Nuche receives leaked information about Moctezuma's ancestry from the War Department (#118).

• 25 Sep 1974: Moctezuma's political advisors determine that he must publicly address the revelation that he is part Negro (#118).

• 26 Sep 1974: The New York Herald identifies Taylor as the victim in the Justice Press murder (#123).

• 26 Sep 1974: Nuche receives another leak, this one from Moctezuma's operatives (#118).

• 28 Sep 1974: Mercator is one of the judges at the Miss Mexico pageant in Tampico (#130, (#129 note ).

• 30 Sep 1974: The New York Herald reports the arrest of seven organized criminals in the murder of O'Roark and Cianci (#123).

• 30 Sep 1974: Mercator and his closest advisors cryptically discuss their plans for the Christmas holiday (#118).

• 4 Oct 1974: The New York Herald reports the death of Scott-Adams in an "accident" (#123).

• 9 Oct 1974: In a library in Miami, Astrid and Felipe catch up on the news about the events in New York (#123).

• 10 Oct 1974: Marianne, a doctor in the Central African nation of Ouadai, wonders who will carry on her practice after her (#185).

• 13 Oct 1974: Moctezuma makes a wildly successful speech about racial brotherhood, before a bullfight crowd in Chihuahua City (#121).

• 20 Oct 1974: Sebastian Quezadas is wounded, and many others are killed, when his USM reserve unit exchanges fire with USM regulars at an airfield in Cuba (#121).

• 21 Oct 1974: Moctezuma and Chewy Enciso take steps to fight Mercator's control of the USM's armed forces (#121).

• 22 Oct 1974: Steiner defuses an attempt by Voth to lead a military/police coup against the new Democratic-led German government, in which Merkel is a minister (#133).

• 26 Oct 1974: Astrid and Felipe search for clues in Martinica, where Sabado Gigante is being produced en vivo (#128).

• 27 Oct 1974: Astrid and Felipe conclude that Sabado Gigante was guest hosted by an imposter, and that Mercator is in New Granada (#128).

• 30 Oct 1974: The New York Herald analyzes the Mexican election campaigns of temporary allies Moctezuma and Del Rey (#121).

• ?? Nov 1974: The book Total War - The History and Battles of the Global War, 1939-1948 is published. It contains discussions of casualty figures (#155), the use of rockets as both piloted vehicles and troop transports (#156), the role of guerrilla warfare (#157), and Germany's logistical problems (#158).

• 2 Nov 1974: In Henrytown, Moctezuma confronts Nuche, who has written a story embarassing his daughter (#131).

• 3 Nov 1974: Moctezuma's aides savor his expected victory in the midterm elections but are troubled that he does not plan to run for re-election in 1977 (#131).

• 4 Nov 1974: General Tintoreo, profoundly affected by what he witnessed in Grao Para, prepares to enter a religious order (#115).

• 10 Nov 1974: Secretary of State Maria del Rey reviews her gains in the election and plots her 1977 presidential candidacy (#131).

• 15 Nov 1974: The New York Herald comments on the Mexican election results and the confused situation of disputed command of the War Department (#131).

• 28 Nov 1974: Pickett, his formal assignment in the CNA at an end, attends a skaters match in Black Rock with his contact Hanson (#126).

• 29 Nov 1974: The CBI apprehend Pickett as he leaves the CNA, but releases him due to a fortuitous confusion of identities (#135).

• 30 Nov 1974: Abby/Clarissa, now working part-time for The General, sings at a pub in Maine (#137).

• 30 Nov 1974: In the Cape Kingdom, Dutch exile Marinus Zaaijer receives permission to return home (#163).

• 2 Dec 1974: Back in Mexico, Pickett watches vitavision and finds a pleasant surprise in his accumulated mail (#136).

• 11 Dec 1974: A commentary in a Tripolis newspaper argues that the Jewish majority in Numidia should welcome rather than fear the demographic growth of their Arab compatriots (#175).

• 16 Dec 1974: A Kramer Associates force is dispatched up the Orinoco River to deal with the facility at Ciudad Camacho (#193).

• 17 Dec 1974: The Kramer expeditionaries encounter another boat on the river (#193).

• 18 Dec 1974: The Kramerites reach Ciudad Camacho but are unsuccessful in their mission (#193).

• ?? Dec 1974: While his truck is parked outside a brothel somewhere on Bali, a Mexican thinks back on his Pacific War service and participation in political unrest (#237).

• 25 Dec 1974: As a thermonuclear explosion (henceforth called an "M-bomb") destroys a high-level Kramer meeting and much else on Bali, Mercator claims responsibility and threatens more M-bombs unless the nations of the world liquidate Kramer Associates (#143). Two minutes later, we are updated on the whereabouts and activities of many of our characters (#144).

• 26 Dec 1974: In Bogota, Elbittar confesses New Granada's involvement in Mercator's scheme to King Fernando and Queen Sophia (#145). Fernando and Elbittar fly to Ciudad Camacho, where they find the weapons production facility abandoned, Urquell dead, and the promised New Granadan M-bombs inoperable (#146).

• 29 Dec 1974: As Skinner watches, Monaghan and two other CNA leaders on a vitavision chat show discuss the import of the Bali explosion (#147).

• 1975

• ?? ??? 1975: Mercator's estranged wife Imelda Faye del Valle publishes her feminist manifesto Mi Lucha (#206).

• 1 Jan 1975: On the Scandinavian island of Bornholm, the major Eastern Hemisphere powers sign an agreement pledging joint action against New Granada (#148).

• 2 Jan 1975: As the CNA prepares to test its own M-bomb, Skinner outlines his plans through a colorful rural anecdote (#149). In Bogota, the British ambassador presents the Bornholm powers' demands to the King and to Elbittar (#150). In Mexico City, the German ambassador presents similar demands to President Moctezuma (#151). Later, Skinner and his new special envoy Monaghan confer with Moctezuma over their dedicated telephone link (#152). Elsewhere in Burgoyne, the British military attache conveys a message to the CNA via the Army Chief of Staff (#167)

• 3 Jan 1975: Moctezuma and Admiral Daniel Bain discuss a missing atomic-powered Mexican submersible (#153).

• 3 Jan 1975: In London, Gold receives the CNA's rebuff of his overtures and responds to the accompanying threat of economic pressure (#168).

• 8 Jan 1975: Elbittar and Ferdinand plan for the impending conflict with Britain, mulling a preemptive attack on Brazil (#179).

• 9 Jan 1975: Skinner and his advisors formulate a last-ditch plan to deter the British from war against New Granada (#169). Meanwhile, in Berlin, Chancellor Grauer and Interior Minister Merkel accept Ferdinand's request that they urge Brazil to remain neutral in the coming conflict (#179).

• 11 Jan 1975: King Christian Gustav's innovative plan to resolve the New Granada crisis meets opposition from his Scandinavian general staff (#180).

• 11 Jan 1975: Various newspapers review the new entertainment offerings from the CNA's vitavision networks (#199).

• 13 Jan 1975: Barbados and other Caribbean member states of the United Empire decline to participate in war against New Granada, and place themselves under a CNA defense umbrella (#169). In London, Gold and his advisor George Loring decide that the CNA will not further oppose their plans for war (#181).

• 14 Jan 1975: In a conference via satellite link, representatives of the Bornholm powers resolve to accept Mexican explanations for the Christmas Bomb but to take military action against New Granada (#189). Immediately afterward, Australian Governor-General Myron Loy and his ministers plan to deploy forces to the Caribbean (#207).

• 16 Jan 1975: In California, Dr. Thomas Hunter drives to an academic speaking engagement (#174).

• 16 Jan 1975: UNO student Hugh Schreck writes home about the ferment on campus over the coming conflict between Britain and New Granada (#187).

• 21 Jan 1975: British and New Granadan airmobiles engage over the Caribbean Sea (#182).

• 21 Jan 1975: CNA businessman Lionel Stackpole receives an intriguing business proposal from Africa (#198).

• 22 Jan 1975: Clarissa Forster orchestrates a CBI takedown of the General's Maine compound, and learns that an unidentifiable body resembling Mercator has washed up on a California beach (#203).

• 24 Jan 1975: Joan Kahn and Professor Pez meet by chance in California, near where the Mercator-like body was found (#204). Afterward, Kahn confronts Liddy with her theory that Mercator was a CBI operative when he took control of the USM in 1950 (#208).

• 25 Jan 1975: Forster learns of the capture of a Mercator double in the Argentine, and wonders whether it was Mercator that she captured and released herself (#203).

• 31 Jan 1975: Carmen Valenzuela describes her medical relief work on Bali in a letter to her friend, New Granadan soldier Pedro Rahim (#191).

• 16 Feb 1975: In a dream, King Frederick meets a man from a timeline in which Poland is part of a European Union (#197).

• 19 Feb 1975: Stackpole arrives in Angola to pursue the money-laundering project (#200).

• 25 Feb 1975: Pedro Rahim answers Carmen's letter, describing the opening of the ground campaign. Meanwhile, a British officer named Nigel writes home from Trinidad, where his forces have established a successful occupation (#191).

• 6 Mar 1975: The infiltration of the Samuel Adams Brotherhood by CBI agent Wyman Richards-Keith is terminated abruptly near Black Rock (#160).

• 7 Mar 1975: CBI agent Kevin Fleming examines the ruins of an abandoned and burned Brotherhood compound and regrets his complete lack of further leads (#162).

• 10 Mar 1975: In Massachusetts, the Brotherhood leader formerly known as John Hanson plots a new stroke against the CNA (#162).

• 13 Mar 1975: In Boston, high-school student David Barrington, an admirer of the CNA's space pilots, attends choir practice (#186).

• 15 Mar 1975: Nigel's wife Jo replies to his letter from an England that so far seems to be solidly behind the war (#191).

• 28 Mar 1975: The Statist reports on efforts in Mercator's home city of Guadalajara to profit from his notoreity (#216).

• 31 Mar 1975: British forces temporarily sieze control of Ciudad Camacho but find that the atomic facilities have been relocated elsewhere (#219).

• ?? Apr 1975: A syndicated column in Azul and elsewhere describes the emergence of a CNA animated superhero as a cult figure in Mexico (#235).

• 2 Apr 1975: Pickett is among Brotherhood members examining a large CNA government building in Endicott, New York (#165).

• 10 Apr 1975: The German leadership discuss withdrawal from the Bornholm Pact in response to Britain's expansion of its war aims with respect to New Granada (#221).

• 13 Apr 1975: Loy considers whether his Australian government should respond to popular demand for a second front in the American War (#222).

• 18 Apr 1975: On the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Rebellion, the Brotherhood destroy the building in Endicott, taking care to inflict no casualties (#165). That night, as the vitavision news reports on the investigation, a Brotherhood operative anonymously mails a claim of responsibility (#166).

• 30 Apr 1975: Skinner and an aide discuss political complications raised by a bill in Council that would ban oral contraceptives for the unmarried (#217).

• 4 May 1975: The vitavision newsmagazine Insight reports on the controversy over the contraception bill (#232).

• 5 May 1975: Gold must restrain his Home Secretary from suppressing an anti-NRP novel in order to maintain popular support for the American War (#209).

• 5 May 1975: Fanchon and Gellman attend ceremonies marking the withdrawal of the German Sleeveforce from northern France (#223).

• 8 May 1975: The contraception debate impacts a judicial election in Black Rock, New York (#233).

• 13 Jun 1975: An article in the Statist describes plans to build the world's tallest building in Michigan City (#142).

• 27 Jul 1975: A British bombing raid on Bogota injures Queen Sophia and kills a member of her staff (#224).

• 28 Jul 1975: In hospital, Sophia meets a wounded North American pilot (apparently Alex Stapleton) volunteering for New Granada (#234).

• 10 Aug 1975: The Lokes, a popular CNA singing group, perform in Manitoba (#164).

• 12 Aug 1975: The CBI investigation of the Endicott Army Brotherhood bombing takes a seriously wrong turn (#202).

• 14 Oct 1975: Donaldson recruits Pickett for an Army Brotherhood mission in Virginia (#210).

• 17 Oct 1975: In a Virginia town where anti-CNA feeling seems rampant, Donaldson and Pickett find volunteers to travel to Boston for an anti-British demonstration (#218).

• 31 Oct 1975: An article in the Statist describes the debate in New Zealand over whether to renounce the sovereignty of King Henry X and declare a republic (#212).

• 11 Nov 1975: Gold receives the New Granadan rejection of his capitulation terms (#225).

• 12 Nov 1975: British officials in New Granada invite an imprisoned Venezuelan nationalist to form a provisional Venezuelan government (#225).

• 16 Nov 1975: In Burgoyne, the CNA cabinet accepts a Mexican proposal that they begin massive covert aid to New Granada (#226).

• 20 Nov 1975: Violence erupts at an anti-British demonstration in Boston planned by the Army Brotherhood (#226).

• 2 Dec 1975: Gellmann and Fanchon discuss the repercussions of the upcoming final withdrawal of German security forces from France (#227).

• 26 Dec 1975: Novidessa businessman Vince Mercator is profiled on the first anniversary of the explosion his father caused in Bali (#215).

• 1976

• 12 Jan 1976: An article in the Statist details piracy of CNA intellectual property in the USM, and its potential effect on ongoing trade negotiations (#159).

• 10 Apr 1976: UNO student and Army Cadet Hugh Schreck, and his friend Marie-Claire Reynard, attend a bullfight in East Jefferson (#205).

• 28 May 1976: An article in the Statist describes how Orange Order gangsters in the New York City area appear to be diversifying their activities into securities fraud (#184).

• 18 Jun 1976: An article in the Statist describes the controversy in the Cape Kingdom over Lucas Jorge's new fantascience film. Bobby Contreras is quoted on the use of Pomona-Leebild calculators for some of Jorge's special effects (#211).

• 9 Jul 1976: An article in the Statist discusses the violent competition between CNA motowheel gangs for the drug smuggling business. A major leader has just been convicted of murder with assistance from USM law enforcement (#183).

• 23 Jul 1976: In Botswana, Prime Minister Seretse Nkate proposes marriage to his longtime paramour Queen Alexandra of the Cape Kingdom, a move likely to be controversial in both nations (#214).

• 1977-??

• 16 Dec 1979: Historian Stanley Tulin comments on the tenth anniversary of the General Computing corporation (#4 note).

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