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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1985
Page
2
In Tumahole near Parys Desmond Tutu spoke to about 1000 mourners denouncing apartheid and calling for burial rights. Police had already banned outdoor wakes and ordered separate funerals for each victim amid ongoing violence at funerals.
Washington AP The House votes to abolish the Synthetic Fuels Corp effectively ending a multibillion dollar five year crash program to produce syn fuels from shale and coal as energy prices fall and oil gluts grow. The agency had been authorized in 1980 to distribute 15 billion dollars in subsidies for early commercial synfuels plants.
A group of leading conservatives including former ambassadors begins a campaign to remove Secretary of State George P. Shultz, accusing him of betraying Reagan's anti communism policy. Shultz vows to fight to stay in office, declaring I love combat and I am a Marine.
In Helsinki the United States and the Soviet Union show deep splits on nuclear weapons and human rights yet make headway on the November Reagan Gorbachev summit agenda. A senior U S official says agreements may expand air travel and cultural exchanges before the Geneva meeting.
Relatives of seven American hostages in Lebanon urge the White House to issue a public appeal to the kidnappers to start talks for release after 500 days of diplomatic efforts. Peggy Say notes the need for pressure as her brother Terry Anderson remains missing since March.
The opposition New Korea Democratic Party opened its convention in Seoul and pledged to fight for the political freedom of dissident leader Kim Dae-jung, who is under house arrest on the eve of the conference. Lee Min-woo was re-elected as party president 471 to 354 over Kim Jae kwang.
Congress rushes to finalize billions in funding and sanctions before August recess. The House and Senate push a South Africa sanctions package including bans on gold coin sales and uranium technology exports while permitting new U S investments, with budget compromises ongoing and possible filibusters noted.
Senate and House budget negotiators labored into the early hours in Washington seeking a deficit reduction package to save more than 50 billion dollars next year. Domenici and Gray cautioned no final agreement yet as military Medicare and housing disputes linger amid procedural hurdles and White House resistance.
Astronauts Karl Heinze and Loren Acton conducted sun and corona studies aboard the Challenger in Cape Canaveral. They flew the PDP satellite, gathering ionosphere data while testing the craft’s pointing systems and observing a large solar explosion on the sun.
Boston AP reports a now restricted painkiller phenacetin once common in aspirin compounds is linked to rare bladder cancers in young women who abused the medicine. The drug was banned for nonprescription use two years ago due to kidney damage risks and was phased out in the 1960s with brands like Anacin Excedrin Empirin and Bromo Seltzer often replacing it with acetaminophen.
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