Hotline Deluge As Halley’s Comet Passes
LOS ANGELES AP Would be watchers flood 17 telephone hotlines seeking recorded advice on spotting Halley’s comet during its dimmest pass in 2000 years. Andrew Fraknoi of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific says never so many alive or interested, yet it is hard to see. The society hotline normally handles 150 calls weekly but received about 1400 calls this past week.
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Space shuttle Columbia set for Thursday launch after delay
Cape Canaveral reports the countdown resumes for Columbia's first flight in two years with a seven member crew including a Florida congressman and the first Hispanic American astronaut. Weather is forecast marginal with possible cloudiness threatening the 7 am liftoff.
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Orlando Coca-Cola recall over contaminated cans
Orlando Coca-Cola bottling plant manager says removal of soda cans contaminated with a non-toxic lubricant is nearly finished. The voluntary recall covers 10 products with under 20,000 cases affected and distributed only in the Orlando metro area. Cans recalled include Cherry Coke Mello Yello Lipton Iced Tea Tab Sprite diet Sprite Fanta Root Beer Welch's Grape Mr Pibb and caffeine free diet Coke.
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Orange County
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Mayhall
Pakistani crackdown frees Bengali women from slave trade
Sind province Chief Minister Ghous Ali Shah said police rescued more than 100 Bengali women and arrested 40 alleged slave traders in a crackdown on a slave racket that preys on illegal immigrants. Women are lured from India to Pakistan with fake jobs and sold as wives or domestic servants. He did not comment on reports of official involvement.
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Coast Guard to hold hearing on Mississippi Queen collision
The Coast Guard will convene a hearing on Wednesday to determine the cause of the collision between the luxury paddlewheeler Mississippi Queen and a river tug last week. The incident evacuated over 400 people, caused more than 500000 dollars in damage, and left the 4500 ton sternwheeler partially submerged near a sandbar about 50 miles upriver from New Orleans. Salvage teams continue pumping water from rear compartments.
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Lutherans minister faces disciplinary hearing over pulpit ban
In Wexford Pennsylvania Rev Daniel Solberg, an activist Lutheran minister, faces a 15 member disciplinary board after a church panel found he violated a synod order to vacate Nativity Church in Allison Park and disregarded a ban on functioning as an ordained minister. In Karachi an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale rattled the city for about 20 seconds causing many to flee their homes with no injuries reported and limited damage.
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Nativity Lutheran Church
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Karachi
Pakistan
New York Court Allows Planned Parenthood Clinics in Albany
New Yorks high court upholds state authority to grant Planned Parenthood permission to open abortion clinics in Albany rejecting a bid by the Roman Catholic diocese to block the move.
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Congress wrestles with farm price support and omnibus bill
Congress faced a slow, uncertain path to adjournment as farm price support legislation and a nine month omnibus bill remained unresolved. A stopgap measure, signed by Reagan, set a Thursday midnight deadline while a $70 billion Farm Credit rescue package and a five year agriculture program awaited action amid mounting frustration from officials and lawmakers.
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AIDS Drug Approved For Another Illness
The FDA conditionally approves ribavirin for infants with respiratory syncytial virus, a move seen as positive for AIDS patients though the aerosol form targets infants and may not aid AIDS treatment. Final approval could come soon while doctors may later prescribe it off label for AIDS, and researchers explore ribavirin with isoprinosine in combo therapy.
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Mexico
United States
Brad Stone
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Stone
Caroline Breese Hall
University of Rochester Medical Center
FDA
Stephen Caiazza
Caiazza
ICN Pharmaceuticals
Costa Mesa
Calif
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Viratek
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St. Vincent Medical Center
Los Angeles
Aiken Standard Contact and Office Details
The Aiken Standard provides contact numbers for subscriptions classifieds and news tips plus office hours and address. It lists telephone lines 649-5316 649-1555 648-2311 and 648-7000 plus mailing address P O Box 456 124 Rutland Drive Aiken South Carolina 29802. It states office hours 8:30 a m to 5:30 p m weekdays and 8 to 10 30 a m Sunday. Established 1867 published weekday afternoons by Aiken Communications Inc. Second class postage paid at Aiken S C.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
Aiken, S.C
Aiken Communications Inc
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Aiken
S.C
Shultz Criticizes Nations Aiding Terrorists During Europe Tour
Secretary of State George P. Shultz, ending a six nation European tour, blasted countries for giving terrorists a haven. At a Belgrade news conference he rejected any justification for the Acille Lauro hijacking and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, stressing that no cause justifies such acts.
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Leon Klinghoffer
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Palestine Liberation Organization
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