Aiken County Courthouse Plans Win Approval After Long Debate
The Aiken County Council approved the courthouse renovation and new construction project after a decade long discussion. The Wells Law group compared site options and the plan favors the current Richland Avenue site with a citizens committee shaping preliminary designs. Funding and a contract with the architects were authorized with work expected to start within six months and take about two years to complete.
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Aiken
Richland and
Vaucluse
Wells Law Architectural Group
Citizens Committee
Council
Carrol Warner
North Augusta
Mim Woodring
Aiken County
Aiken Community Hospital
GOP
Stop Shoplifting in Troubled Economic Times
Retail losses due to shoplifting reach 26 billion dollars last year up from 24 billion in 1980. Employees and customers steal to cover necessities as holiday demand rises and 45 percent of thefts occur in the last quarter. Stores offer rewards up to 1000 dollars for information leading to recovered goods.
Did Reds Try To Kill The Pope
Washington suggests extensive evidence links the Bulgarian state security service and the Soviet KGB to the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II. Investigators note Agca’s Bulgaria stay in 1980, money transfers, and two accomplices, with Sergei Antonov charged in Rome. The piece argues a Kremlin-directed plot, reflecting long-standing distrust of lone-actor explanations for major political assassinations.
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Washington
Mehmet Ali Agca
Agca
Kremlin
Bulgaria
Claire Sterling
Brian Freemantle
American Sentinel
Helsinki Commission
Rome
Sergei Antonov
KGB
State Security Service
Moscow
Solidarity
Poland
Agea
John F. Kennedy
Sen
Robert Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy
Soviet Union
Mexico
Oswald
Havana
U.S
Is America Neglecting Its Self-interest?
The piece weighs US Europe and Soviet gas pipe ambitions across Siberia and Alaska. It argues Europe’s energy dependence and Moscow’s pipeline plan raise risks of Soviet leverage and military buildup, while US overseas defense spending circulates domestically but may neglect American interests.
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America
Soviet Union
Moscow
Western
Europe
Western Europe
Japan
Russia
United States
Seattle
Fort Worth
Pascagoula
Los Angeles
God and the Pope a politer punch line in a wry column
Ashley Cooper teases many groups with a wry witticism while a Virginia Duke basketball game introduces a new 30 second shot clock. The writer then reviews TV commercials of 1982, praising a few and skewering a sanitary napkin ad with blunt humor.
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Virginia-Duke
ACC
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Rodney Dangerfield
Mickey Spillane
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