Christmas Holidays Signal Busy Phone Use Across Nation
US Sprint notes residential calls surge on Christmas week while business calls drop. AT&T forecasts 34.5 million calls on Dec 29 with 2.8 million overseas as fiber optics expand network to reduce jams. MCI projects 5 million calls, up from 3.5 million, highlighting holiday testing of the expansion.
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Washington
Sydney E. Courson
US Sprint
At&t
MCI
MCI Marketing
Roy Gamse
Aiken Standard Closing On Christmas
The Aiken Standard offices will close on Christmas Day but a newspaper will still publish. Classified ads are due tomorrow at 10 a.m. for Friday. Display ads must be in by Christmas Eve noon for Sunday. Front office hours run 5 30 p.m. Christmas Eve and day after. Regular schedule resumes Friday.
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Aiken Standard
Christmas dry forecast with showers not expected
Forecasters predict a dry Christmas with no snow. Tonight earns a 100 percent rain chance? tomorrow 80 percent rain with highs around 50 and lows near 40. Christmas Day remains cloudy with temps in the 40s to 50s.
Deaths of notable figures listed in local obituaries
Obituary notices list deaths including Rev. Henry Clark Jr of Aiken Cecil A. Corbett of Gloverville Angell G. Crim of Johnston Ruby Lee Gantt of Aiken Guy M. Grandy of Jackson Marion Harley of Houston Lonnie H. Harrison Jr. of Orangeburg F.M. Roundtree of Aiken.
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Henry Clark Jr
Aiken
Cecil A. Corbett
Gloverville
Angell G. Crim
Johnston
Ruby Lee Gantt
Guy M. Grandy
Jackson
Marion Harley
Houston
Lonnie H. Harrison Jr
Orangeburg
F.M. Roundtree
Voyager Trip Ends Thumbs Up
Edwards Air Force Base California AP Voyager completed a historic nine day non-stop unrefueled circumnavigation landing safely as storms engine trouble and fuel fears battered the trip. Pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager walked away bruised but upbeat after a dramatic desert landing watched by thousands.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Dick Rutan
Jeana Yeager
Voyager
Indian
Atlantic
Africa
Rutan
Secord Testifies as Khashoggi Denies Canadian Financing
Adnan Khashoggi denies Canadian investors funded the U S Iran arms sales and cites a Cayman Islands bank. Secord appears before Congress and invokes the Fifth Amendment amid Iran Contra probes. Senate and House panels plan further closed hearings as Brookings questions motives behind Iran initiative.
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Washington
Adnan Khashoggi
U.S
Iran
Cayman Islands
Khashoggi
Nbc-Tv
House Intelligence Committee
Richard V. Secord
Secord
House
Senate
Nicaragua
Senate Intelligence Committee
Brookings Institution
Joshua M. Epstein
Brookings Research
Sakharov Returns to Moscow After Exile Critique of Afghan War
Andrei Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner arrived in Moscow from eight years in Gorky exile amid reporters. He condemned Soviet Afghanistan policy, urged freedom for dissidents, and discussed hopes for space work. Bonner was pardoned and remains in frail health.
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Moscow
Andrei Sakharov
Aghanistan
Soviet Union
Sakharov
Yelena Bonner
Yaroslavsky
Stow
Gorky
Bonner
Afghanistan
Mikhail S$. Gorbachev
Gorbachev
Anatoly Marchenko
Marchenko
D C Not To See A White Christmas
In Columbia AP reports meteorologists expect no white Christmas in South Carolina this year with storm systems bringing precipitation rather than snow. Purvis and Clemson forecasters say a green Christmas is likely across the region despite cold spells in parts of Upstate South Carolina.
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Columbia
South Carolina
National Weather Service
John C. Purvis
Clemson University Agricultural
David Smith
Mississippi
Smith
Sam Perry
Weather Service
Greenville
Bing Crosby
Spartanburg
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