THE PAST 100 YEARS

From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

March 11, 1924: No waterworks bonds will be submitted at the city election on April 1.

“Monday, March 10, was the last day on which it would have been possible to give the legal notice by publication of intention to submit any waterworks bonds,” said City Attorney J.J. Kenney, “and no such notice having appeared in yesterday’s New Mexican the matter may be considered as closed until the city election of April, 1926.

March 11, 1949: With raging solons shouting at one another, sometimes incoherently, the state at noon today was engaged in a pitched word-to-word row, the hottest of this legislature, over reapportionment.

March 11, 1974: ESTANCIA — Deputy Dist. Atty. Bruce Kaufman said today that the defense in the trial of the Santa Fe 7 has attempted to put the police on trial for the Sept. 3 shootout at a Chicano school near Santa Fe.

Kaufman, delivering his final argument to the jury, said, “it has become a popular thing in the last decade ... if you don’t have a defense ... you try everybody else in the court room. In this case, it was the police.

“Do not be dissuaded from the real charge,” he said.

March 9, 1999: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Energy Department fired a computer scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory Monday in connection with an investigation about alleged disclosure of sensitive nuclear information.

The Chinese-American scientist was dismissed for “failing to properly safeguard classified material” and having contact with people “from a sensitive country,” A department statement said.

DOE did not disclose his name, but The Associated Press learned he is Wen Ho Lee, a native of Taiwan.