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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1996
Page
2
Evangelist Billy Graham returns with a new TV special titled Starting Over that opens with a dramatic clip of a man in a sports car and a reference to Kurt Cobain, aiming to reach skeptical young viewers. The program uses music driven segments and interviews in a video style reminiscent of MTV.
Moscow AP reports Mikhail Gorbachev qualified Saturday to be listed on Russia s June presidential election ballot. The former Soviet president is the fourth candidate certified by the Central Electoral Commission after collecting the required one million voter signatures. Gorbachev, 65, faces slim chances amid unpopularity over the Soviet collapse and reform course.
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Beirut reports Israeli gunboats blockaded the port and helicopter gunships bombarded south Lebanon on Saturday as part of a widening campaign against Shiite guerrillas. An ambulance strike killed six civilians, including three girls ages 3, 6, and 7, and wounded eight others. The attack targeted an ambulance evacuating people from Mansouri, amid protests from Lebanon, the UN, and the Arab League.
Nearly 1,500 foreigners and many Liberians fled Monrovia amid eight days of urban warfare and looting. The U.S. military evacuated 1,448 people, including 458 Americans, while a U.N. boat headed to Sierra Leone with 149 workers and foreigners. Rebels and government troops retreated as peacekeeping tanks moved into Mamba Point, where embassies and U.N. offices are located.
Police say the assault left seven wounded and a bystander dead as a white supremacist sprayed a largely Black neighborhood shopping center with gunfire. The gunman died in a restaurant fire after hours of standoff, leaving notes that suggested racial hatred. Authorities recovered multiple firearms and shells amid the scene.
On a Miami campus a University of Miami reserve football player Marlin Barnes and a woman were killed in a campus apartment attack. Police said Barnes sustained trauma, the woman died later at Ryder Trauma Center. A student found the scene at 7:30 a.m. with a man trying the door.
U N war crimes specialists finished a two week probe at sites across Bosnia including fields where Muslim men from Srebrenica were buried. They found human remains, blindfolds and photos supporting survivors’ accounts of executions. Investigators will report to The Hague tribunal.
Dozens of nations and organizations pledged 1.23 billion dollars to rebuild Bosnia but funds for the Bosnian Serbs are contingent on handing over war crimes suspects Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic to the international tribunal. U S deputy treasury secretary Lawrence Summers said no Serb-area aid was earmarked yet the World Bank noted continued aid planning for the Serb region to show a peace dividend if leadership is removed. An adviser to Karadzic criticized the conference as isolating the Serbs.
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