Earthquakes Pose Broad Threat Across Eastern States
Charleston AP reports at the National Conference on Earthquake Engineering that quakes threaten all states east of the Rockies. About 500 engineers attend as Charleston marks the 1886 quake centennial. USGS estimates a similar event could cause thousands of deaths and billions in damages in the Carolinas and Georgia.
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Charleston
U.S
Christopher Rojahn
Applied Technology Council
Rockies
Carolinas
Georgia
U.S. Geological Survey
Wisconsin
Work Begins On USC Center In Columbia
Demolition starts on the abandoned University Inn to clear the site for a 15 million University of South Carolina performing arts center. Center director Tom Stepp hails the milestone as bulldozers and cranes reduce the former motel dormitory to rubble.
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Columbia
University Inn
University of South Carolina
Greene, Assembly, Park
College Streets
USC
Richland
University
Tom Stepp
Stepp
GOP Chairman Slams Daniel Over Campaign Nitpicking
Spartanburg AP report notes George Graham the state GOP chair criticized Lt. Gov. Mike Daniel for an attack on Carroll Campbell’s fundraising. He urged focus on substantive issues, questioning if textile workers attended Daniel’s Greenville and Hilton Head fundraisers where tickets were $1,000. In Columbia Taiwan officials plan to visit next month to buy soybeans and tobacco leaves totaling $10 million as part of trade balance talks.
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Spartanburg
Republican Party
Mike Daniel
U.S
Carroll Campbell
Reagan
Campbell
Graham
Daniel
Greenville
Hilton Head Island
Columbia
Les Tindal
South Carolina
United States
Taiwan
Tindal
Milwaukee Fights for Lutheran Church Center Amid Merger
Milwaukee battles for a national center as three midwestern Lutheran bodies plan to merge into a 5.3 million member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The decision to locate offices in Milwaukee provoked uproar and headlines comparing Milwaukee to Pearl Harbor as Chicago and other cities lay claim to the prestige. The largest merging body, the Lutheran Church in America with 2.9 million members, holds its annual convention in Milwaukee this week.
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Milwaukee
Chicago
New Evangelical Lutheran Church In America
Lake Michigan
Minneapolis
Philadelphia
Robert Duen
Pearl
William H. Truby
Lazereth
Lutheran Church In America
Governors Warn of Impending Global Energy Crisis
Environmental expert Lester Brown told the National Governors Association that a new energy crisis is likely in the early 1990s with OPEC tightening control. Ted Turner urged reordering global priorities to reduce military focus while renewing efforts to address dwindling resources and environmental issues.
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Hilton Head Island
National Governors Association
Lester Brown
World Watch
Brown
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Ted Turner
Better World Society
United States
Soviet Union
Turner
Mikhail Gorbachev
Moscow
Poll shows Americans ready to pay more for better education
Two national polls for the Carnegie Forum find 77 percent of Americans willing to pay higher taxes for improved public education and 64 percent of business leaders open to higher corporate taxes if funds boost education. The surveys support Carnegie Forum reforms including teacher input, better pay, and local control, noting broad approval of these changes and a positive view of teachers' influence and salaries.
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Hilton Head Island
National Governors’ Association
Louis Harris and Associates
Harris
Carnegie Forum On Education and the Economy
Carnegie Forum
House Speaker Pro Tem Sterling Anderson Suspends Self
Spartanburg AP reports Sterling Anderson, indicted on federal fraud charges, has suspended himself from the General Assembly but will not resign his D C House seat.
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Spartanburg
Sterling Anderson
General Assembly
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Oklahoma
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Cable News Network
The
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Aiken
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