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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1990
Page
2
Afghan President Napipouian returned to Kabul hours after rockets hit the capital, killing nine and wounding 16. A Kabul radio blamed rebel fighters based in Pakistan. the report was monitored in Islamabad.
Seton Portage near Lillooet saw a 165 foot rail bridge charred when Indian demonstrators dismantled the line and police clashed with protesters. Firefighters extinguished the blaze with no injuries reported. Police, armed with clubs, stormed 150 Indians blocking the main road about five hours earlier amid arrests at the blockade.
Police in NAKACHL say they detained 60 supporters of ousted Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and raided her party suburban offices. Bhutto denounces the moves as moves to rig the general elections on October 24 amid violence that has killed at least 500 since May. The arrests relate to a Karachi shooting spree that left 30 dead and many wounded, affecting refugee movement of Indian immigrants who arrived after 1947 independence.
ABIDJAN Ivory Coast A multinational African force sent to Liberia landed in Monrovia with no resistance from government or rebels. The 3000 troops aboard six ships were in contact with Nigeria's naval headquarters. Gunfire earlier in Monrovia delayed the landing and warned of rising civilian casualties.
Washington report on NEA grants denial to four avant garde performers Holly Hughes Tim Miller Karen Finley and John Fleck. Party noted Frohnmayer rejected appeals citing political grounds. Center for Constitutional Rights to file federal suit alleging censorship and First Amendment violation.
ATLANTA The Rev. Daniel Vestal, a failed moderate candidate for SBC president, was elected chairman of the interim steering committee to craft a plan for a new denomination, The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The 2,500 moderates meeting in Atlanta also authorized adding 10 members, seek an alternative funding plan to withhold funds from SBC institutions, and set a spring vote on permanent committee creation amid ongoing conservatives gains in the 14.9 million member Southern Baptist Convention.
Elite army troops joined police in Vosloorus and other townships near Johannesburg to confiscate weapons as part of a government crackdown on factional fighting between Inkatha supporters and ANC loyalists. The death toll rose to 514 with 18,000 homeless. unrest areas were declared and demonstrations occurred in Cape Town and Soweto, including a Women’s League march and a Soweto work stay away.
Syracuse jurors convict 23 year old Erwin Williams of the 1986 rape and attempted murder of a suburban woman. The case followed the Central Park jogger trial but drew little national protest or racial debate in Syracuse. Ronald Jock pleaded guilty to attempted murder and testified against Williams.
An escaped convict suspected of four killings in ten days was shot in the neck as he fled from deputies at the Boulder City Limits bar. The suspect, Michael G. Bell, 36, remained in serious condition. A friend, Theodore Oliver, 22, was charged with murder and robbery over two of the slayings after allegedly aiding Bell. Police say Bell had impersonated a park ranger to trap five men at a mountainside target range before the shootings.
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla After weeks of fuel leak fixes NASA plans to launch Columbia with the Astro observatory for a nine to ten day mission to study high energy ultraviolet light and X rays from stars galaxies quasars and a comet The flight marks the first shuttle science mission in five years and the first since the Challenger disaster in 1986 with seven astronauts aboard and new hydrogen lines installed
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