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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1996
Page
2
Prince plans a 64,000 square foot Paisley Park complex overhaul with a corporate touch. The studios will close for renovations and reopen in mid June, publicist Kirsten Poe said.
A phosphorous factory released arsenic into Hongfeng Lake in Guizhou province, killing one woman and sickening 406 others. The chemical discharge surpassed government limits by 850 times and polluted downstream rivers to 40 times safe levels. The timing of the incident was not specified.
Riverside County deputy Tracy Watson sues the county alleging his civil rights were violated during the department’s investigation of a beating captured on video. Watson and deputy Kurt Franklin were shown clubbing two illegal immigrants after a high speed chase on April 1. The suit seeks unspecified damages.
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Secretary of State Warren Christopher meets Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen in The Hague seeking Beijing’s approval and involvement in a new U S plan for Korean peace talks. He hopes to resolve a dispute over China’s nuclear tech sales to Pakistan while pressing for broader China policy delivery.
United States and North Korea set talks to begin in Berlin focusing on missile exports and production. Washington seeks a freeze, while Pyongyang pushes a broader agenda, amid alleged sales to Iran and Syria and ongoing scheduling tensions with China discussions in the Netherlands.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin hosts an eight nation nuclear summit in Moscow aimed at security and safety, ten years after Chernobyl. The gathering seeks Western support amid his June re election bid as leaders of Clinton Major Chirac Kohl and Dini arrive to meet Yeltsin and rivals. Clinton starts in St. Petersburg touring museums and a World War II cemetery.
Rescuers from across the nation gathered in Oklahoma City on the eve of the one year anniversary of the Alfred P. Murrah building bombing to observe 168 seconds of silence and honor the victims. More than 500 rescuers and families attended a memorial at the Myriad Convention Center with leaders and a Clinton videotaped message. Survivors shared grief and fear as psychologists noted anniversary anxieties.
Israel moves tanks and troops to the Lebanon border after a shelling blitz near Qana that killed at least 75 refugees at a U N base in south Lebanon. The strike raises the toll to about 134 dead and 300 wounded, mostly Lebanese civilians, as Israel vows to press its offensive against Hezbollah.
Cairo police hunted gunmen after 18 Greek pilgrims were slain in a Cairo attack near the pyramids. Planes carried survivors to Greece as authorities considered Islamist militants mistaking Greeks for Israelis. The Europa Hotel, linked to Israelis, hosted an Israeli Arab group at the time.
Victims were taken to multiple hospitals and many killed were blown to pieces. More than 100 people were wounded, including four Fijian soldiers with the U N peacekeeping force, according to U N spokesman Timur Goksel.
The House passed the anti terrorism bill 299 188 and the Senate approved 91 8 as President Clinton eyed signing next week The measure tightens federal appeals for death row inmates enables deportation of alien terrorists without public evidence and adds tracing labels for plastics The plan aims to curb domestic terrorism but critics fear many wrongful or unfair executions and loss of review.
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