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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1986
Page
2
One year after Japan Airlines Flight 123 disaster Boeing makes major tail section modifications to the 747 and Japan Airlines implements stricter maintenance. Investigations focus on in flight rupture of a cabin pressure bulkhead that precipitated the August 1985 crash killing 520 people.
Former White House aide Michael K. Deaver says he will spend another week on safari in Kenya before returning to Washington. An investigation into his lobbying activity now reportedly includes his business dealings in Asia. He made the remark at Nairobi's Wilson Airport while en route to Tanzania.
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Boeing 707 diverted to Moscow after engine trouble on a flight from Prague to New Delhi. He had been in Mexico City for a six-leader disarmament meeting and stopped in Prague. The aircraft landed at 1 15 a.m. authorities said.
North Little Rock AP A female officer Second Lt Naomi Haye 29 is due for a court martial this Thursday on criminal adultery and fraternization charges She allegedly had an extramarital affair with married enlisted man T Sgt Thomas A Bush while assigned as a crew chief in the Titan II missile program at Little Rock Air Force Base The officer married to T Sgt Patrick W Haye 31 has filed sexual discrimination complaints with base officials and SAC headquarters claiming abuse of authority in the charges The affair allegedly occurred from January 20 to February 7
A People Express Boeing 727 en route from Houston to Newark was misread as hijacked when controllers heard a radios confusion. The jet near Washington changed frequencies triggering a hijack alert test by Washington controllers.
Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, was admitted unconscious to Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles about 3 p.m. Sunday. The 43 year old, who is paraplegic from a 1978 assassination attempt, was initially listed in critical condition, then upgraded to serious and stable as doctors declined to reveal the illness.
Robert Whitmire 49 an associate professor at University of South Carolina Lancaster was indicted by a federal grand jury in Columbia on two counts of mailing lewd magazines depicting minors from Germany to South Carolina in August 1985. He held a Fulbright fellowship to teach English in the Congo and was abroad at the time of indictment.
A charter carrier’s sole DC-10 was consumed by a blaze at O'Hare Airport less than an hour after 300 passengers deplaned from a Hawaii trip. Firefighters used foam to extinguish the fire in about an hour with no serious injuries reported. ATA officials said the jet is a total loss.
The Associated Press reports forty thousand telephone workers strike a second day as settlements narrow, with 287,000 already settled. Most action centers on Nynex and New York Telephone, plus Western state CWA members and Ameritech subsidiaries.
A violent general strike paralyzes Pune to protest the assassination of retired Gen Arun S. Vaidya who led the army and was killed in the city. Police enforce red alert as mobs destroy buses and shut down services, while Vaidya’s cremation with full honors is announced.
American arms control negotiators led by Paul Nitze arrived in Moscow for talks as Soviet Izvestia correspondent Alexander Bovin called the team powerful but cautioned that a Reagan Gorbachev summit remains an open question. No date for a summit has been set.
A Durban court ruled two sections of the state of emergency invalid, potentially freeing hundreds of detainees. The ruling, issued by the Natal Province Supreme Court, challenges detentions under apartheid era powers exercised since June 12. The government said it would appeal.
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Vice President George Bush will undergo a drug test today as part of the White House drive for a drug free workplace. President Reagan already had his test and 78 senior White House employees are expected to be tested this week. Results are due in 10 to 12 days.
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