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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1990
Page
2
On the day in 1778, Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington warning American colonists that the British were coming.
National Briefs describe officials from several cities seeking more federal support for the 1990 census to ensure an accurate headcount and funding, with calls for extended districts and a public campaign. President Bush urged to participate. The Indian item reports rising AIDS in Bombay with sex workers, blood donors, and eunuchs affected, signaling a looming epidemic risk in urban slums and major cities.
Massachusetts Supreme Court overruled a lower order and opened jury selection for the Christian Science couple charged with manslaughter for not seeking medical care for their son Robyn Twitchell. Prosecutors say conventional treatment could have saved him. defense argues they sought the only real cure dictated by faith. The case, dating to 1986, centers on the boy’s bowel obstruction and the couple David and Ginger Twitchell amid public scrutiny.
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Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, ally of Martin Luther King Jr. and former leader of the SCLC, died at Crawford Long Hospital at 64 while awaiting a lung scan. He had suffered strokes in 1983 and 1986 and faced prior criticism over a memoir. Coretta Scott King and others mourned him as a strategist and faithful servant of liberty.
Charleston story notes dashboard computers installed for state patrol. Col. J H Lanier calls it an experiment to speed data checks on motorists. Patrolman Kyle Welch says the system cuts a 10 minute dispatcher task to seconds and aids verification of violations, licenses, registrations, warrants and chemicals.
The state Senate approved a plan within a broader judicial retirement package to let retired judges practice in courtrooms and to raise retirement pay from 71.3 percent to 90 percent of former salaries. The measure, tied to a House version, awaits compromise before going to Gov. Carroll Campbell. Critics warn it could undermine judicial impartiality while supporters say it safeguards judge earnings and expertise.
A congressional OTA survey shows experts divided on whether the government overfunds AIDS research. It notes AIDS studies contributed to biomedical advances and that HIV funding contrasts with higher death tolls from heart disease and cancer. In the current year NIH AIDS spending reaches about $743.5 million of a $2.9 billion treatment and prevention budget.
Atlanta. A Ku Klux Klan member faces a Thursday state court hearing over wearing a hood in public and the constitutionality of Georgia’s 1951 anti mask law. The case draws civil rights leaders and the ACLU into the First Amendment debate on anonymous speech.
In Oakland California judge awarded custody of a 10 month old boy orphaned by the October earthquake to his cousin Arthur Lewis and Tonia Lewis. The boy will live on their 50 acre hog and cattle ranch near Chowchilla about 120 miles from San Francisco. The court had earlier given temporary custody to the Lewises and removed the money issue from the estate amid family disputes.
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