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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1998
Page
2
A string of airliner crashes and in flight scares in Taiwan pushes passengers toward rail travel. Domestic flight ticket sales drop while railroad tickets rise as concerns over civil aviation grow and critics cite poor management and undisciplined pilots.
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams seeks to win IRA sympathizers in Carrickmore for the Friday peace bargain. He says negotiators could not have achieved more as Tony Blair pressed hard for Ulster Unionist concessions amid doubts the split decades of violence will end.
Washington reports show teen gang presence at schools nearly doubles since 1989 with more students reporting violent crime where gangs exist. Overall school crime victimization stays under 15 percent. youth violence rises from 3.4 to 4.2 percent, about 1 million youths. Clinton calls for anti gang and violence measures.
President Clinton will lead a major push for tough anti smoking legislation in Congress this year. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and White House adviser Rahm Emanuel stress the president’s central role and political risk in confronting a powerful tobacco industry that criticized the measure in the Senate.
Florida authorities captured Jay Junior Sigler and accomplice Christopher Michelson after a high speed escape from a maximum security prison. They fled along the coast in a black Saturn, rammed another vehicle in a alley, killing 55 year old Dennis Palmer. A sawed off shotgun and shells were found in their car.
A national roundup reports that Baby Boomer parents misjudge marijuana access and risks for their children, with poll findings showing underestimation of availability and peers’ use amid generational gap on drug reality.
Reader reports confusion over delivery times including 9 p.m. weekdays and 7 a.m. weekends. Advises calling circulation customer service at 8405818 for resolution and notes service hours as 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on weekdays and 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. on weekends.
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