05 Apr 1991
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1991
Page
1
Instructors from Kenneth Cooper's Aerobics Center in Dallas review the latest home workout video tapes as warm weather nears. Travel features Ellis Marsalis previewing New Orleans venues ahead of the Jazz and Heritage Festival from April 26 to May 5.
New York scientists report a newly discovered gene family enabling the nose to detect rose fragrance. They identify about 18 genes that latch onto fragrant oils and distinguish them from other smells. Charles Wysocki of Monell calls the finding a bombshell and notes it was unexpected. The discovery appears in Cell.
Obituary brief lists deaths of Adrian Brumbaugh of Pa, Jones of North Augusta, Donar Jordon of Aiken, and Betty Mullin of Augusta with page note indicating more on page 6A.
President Bush, speaking in Newport Beach, says the coalition will not use force to remove Saddam Hussein and vows not to be sucked into a civil war in Iraq. He also discusses talks with Japanese PM Kaifu, trade issues, and aid for Kurdish refugees amid ongoing regional tensions.
Moscow Russian Congress of People’s Deputies votes 607 to 228 with 100 abstentions to empower Boris Yeltsin amid the standoff with Mikhail Gorbachev. The final draft lets him issue directives in the Soviet Union’s republic, shifting many powers to Russia’s Supreme Soviet until a new president is elected.
Wolfgang Repp, a 17 year old German POW captured after Luftwaffe training, returned with his wife to Aiken South Carolina to visit the former POW camp near Mattie C. Hall Health Care Center now the high school practice field. Michael Waters guided the tour recalling Repp’s 18 months at the camp and 1945 to 1946 farm labor at Charlie Holmes farm near Johnston where he picked peaches and lint cotton. The couple, Roman Catholics, stayed connected to St. Mary Help of Christians through memories of a priest who aided POWs after repatriation.
Atlantis roared into space from Cape Canaveral with five astronauts and a giant gamma-ray observatory. The 9:23 a.m. EST liftoff marked the first shuttle launch of 1991, despite lingering rain and cloudy skies.
Washington reports 1.6 million jobless in recent months as analysts warn high unemployment will damp the economy. The Labor Department expected March figures to show unemployment rising to about 6.7 percent, with payrolls possibly down 200,000.
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