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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1986
Page
2
Harvard Medical School researcher Dr. Martin C. Moore-Ede notes pilots navigators often fight drowsiness on night coast to coast runs and may nap in shifts violating rules. He says slips occur even as planes run on autopilot and crews can drift past destinations.
South Africa's Foreign Minister R F Botha defended raids into Swaziland targeting alleged guerrillas. He met Swaziland Prime Minister S Dlamini in Mbabane. Reports say two killed, four abducted. two Swazis and a Swiss couple were taken, with the Swiss later released as protests mounted.
CIA Director William J. Casey remains unchanged five days after undergoing a 54 hour operation to remove a lymphoma identified tumor from his brain. Hospital spokesman Timothy Sites said his condition is stable and progress is satisfactory.
A 40 year old West Columbia South Carolina man James Ansel Harmon was sentenced to death in Florida for the 1985 murder of Charles Otis Germany 70. The killer shot the elderly man in his Ocala home as he drank coffee. The jury had recommended life in prison but the judge imposed the death penalty.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee form an ad hoc screening panel led by Sen. Patrick Leahy to hold public hearings on Reagan judicial nominees. The four member group will conduct initial investigations and refer nominees to the full committee for a vote.
Sam Nesley Hall, 49, was seized during a news conference after claiming he snuck onto two Nicaraguan bases near Punta Huete air base. Ortega accuses him of spying for possible US bombing and says Hall will be tried before a revolutionary People's Tribunal once charged.
In Bethlehem area fields near Beit Sahour three rival churches claim the shepherds field of Jesus birth. Roman Catholic Greek Orthodox and Protestant sites all mark one acre plots with Byzantine ruins. An archaeologist doubts any site can be proven from scripture and notes the gospels offer little concrete geography.
Dallas DEA chief Phil Jordan told Congress investigators the 26 inch TV, $1 200 VCR and $1 500 stereo plus curio cabinets and figurines were for recording news on drug crimes. GAO disputed the claim and urged disposal under regulations. Jordan said the items held no impropriety and were in the office briefly.
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