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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1998
Page
2
President Emile Lahoud appoints Salim Hoss as Lebanon's next prime minister after parliamentary support. Hoss, a Beirut legislator turning 69, is a four time former PM who survived a 1987 ambush. Current PM Hariri remains caretaker.
The piece reports a warm spell from the Rockies to the Northeast with record highs, cool fronts from Canada later in the week, and comments from Toledo fruit sellers and Minnesotan resort owners. It notes 66 at Minneapolis airport, 60s in Vermont, and ski areas hoping for cold nights to keep artificial snow intact.
Silver Spring reports FDA advisers unanimously back prescription Celebrex from G D Searle as a first in a new class of painkillers, cox2 inhibitors, seen to ease arthritis symptoms with fewer stomach issues. Analysts expect broad market use for these drugs.
Nellie Ruth Shirley, 39, of Honey Path, South Carolina, was placed on probation for a year after a Sept. arrest in David Letterman’s driveway. She must avoid Letterman, undergo a psychiatric evaluation, and could have faced a year in jail and a $1000 fine if probation failed.
Exxon agreed to acquire Mobil for 73.7 billion dollars in a deal that will form Exxon Mobil Corp and is expected to cut about 9000 jobs worldwide. The combined company may face antitrust divestitures and a global oil overproduction environment keeps pump prices low. Mobil chairman Lucio Noto and Exxon chairman Lee Raymond commented on the reshaped industry.
Senate Republicans choose Strom Thurmond as president pro tempore for a term through 2001. The 95 year old South Carolina senator retains a key line of succession role as vice president Al Gore is absent. Thurmond is the fifth South Carolinian to hold the post in the office's 209 year history.
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