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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1986
Page
2
Thieves took a 1982 Ford NASA van near Louis Marshall's home and burned it. They carried off lunar dust samples, a small computer, and a laser activated recorder, destroying a 1971 NASA space suit worth 125 000 dollars. Police call moon dust irreplaceable.
Authorities remove all mailboxes on a six mile route used by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to his farmhouse. Officials cite threat from terrorism and potential for bombs hidden as mail packets. Sonia Gandhi and two children accompany him on weekend trips.
AP reports two veteran Georgetown County educators were arrested for sex related charges involving teenage boys. Jesse J. Rudolph a math teacher at Georgetown High School and George V. McDaniel a seventh grade science teacher at Pleasant Hill Middle School were taken into custody Wednesday night.
Joseph M. Swindler, originally given one month then one year by the same judge for two counts of reckless homicide, was released after 19 days in the Central Correctional Institution under the Prison Overcrowding Act.
President Reagan voluntarily underwent a drug test Saturday to exclude interference from medication given during a urological cystoscopy. White House noted Lidocaine used in the procedure could affect results, and tests would be completed within about 10 days for substances including marijuana heroin PCP amphetamines and barbiturates.
A 32 week old boy named Michael Boggs, son of Mark and Joann Boggs of Osage Wyoming, underwent a liver transplant at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh. The surgery began about 4 p.m. and was expected to continue until midnight. Hospital officials said he appears to be the youngest liver transplant patient to date.
USC President James B. Holderman urged Clemson University graduates to unite with the Medical University of South Carolina and USC to meet South Carolina industry needs. He called for collaboration beyond sports rivalries, stressing shared obligations to the state's people and future.
Pop singer Boy George 25 seeks escape from heroin habit by traveling to Montserrat to record with American songwriter Lamont Dozier at Air Recording Studios. He said he feels miserable and will stay as long as possible to begin new work.
Labor officials and civil libertarians say they want to see the fine print behind President Reagan's universal workplace drug testing proposal. They caution voluntary programs must protect rights and due process before endorsing wide scale testing.
The Senate worked through more than a dozen amendments in a Saturday session to finish a large defense bill. The measure funds Reagan's defense plan at 295 billion, omitting much of his Star Wars request, and allows continued weapons spending while renewing some SALT II considerations.
Margaret Collbran died at 75 leaving 20 million to St. John's Episcopal Cathedral Denver and Bennett College Newell, plus Metropolitan Opera Guild New York and Denver Dumb Friends League. Bennett College went bankrupt in 1977. she had attended there as a child.
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