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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1997
Page
2
A massacre in Acheal Chiapas left 45 dead, blamed on supporters of the ruling PRI amid local power struggles with Zapatista sympathizers. The violence underscores fragile regional tensions impacting President Zedillo’s government.
Denver jurors find Terry Nichols guilty of involuntary manslaughter and conspiring with Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing. The conspiracy conviction carries the death penalty, while McVeigh faces murder charges. Sentencing set for Monday amid pleas for harsher justice from victims and relatives. Nichols, 42, also acquitted on several counts, including use of a weapon of mass destruction. US District Judge Richard Matsch to rule on defense motions seeking to throw out parts of the verdict.
President Clinton will unveil a stay the course budget in February with targeted tax breaks for child care and pollution control while avoiding a comprehensive tax overhaul. The plan for the fiscal year starting Oct 1 funds education, medical research, and the environment, but adheres to the balanced budget agreement.
Washington doctors and CDC scientists work late in a high security lab to identify a new flu strain that jumped from chickens to humans in Hong Kong. CDC mails diagnostic kits to more than 150 laboratories worldwide to assess spread and explore a vaccine while long days test the pathogen. Hong Kong reports nine confirmed cases and four deaths, with uncertainty about a wider outbreak.
A hearing today seeks to block the verdict against Terry Nichols amid defense claims of jury conflict. The federal sentencing phase for Nichols and Timothy McVeigh starts Monday, with state trials in Oklahoma pending and $160 state murder charges targeted by Oklahoma County DA Bob Macy. McVeigh’s federal appeal deadlines remain January 14 as a grand jury probes possible government knowledge of the plot.
Sacramento based hearing heard Theodore Kaczynski may invoke mental illness as a defense in the bomb case. Gary Sewards said neurological tests show an organic brain disorder causing paranoid schizophrenia and delusions. The 55 year old former professor allegedly placed or mailed four bombs that killed two men and maimed two others.
A Michigan lawmaker demands her aide resign after adopting an infant, citing conscience over homemaker ideology. a Wisconsin comedian’s friends attend Chris Farley’s funeral in Madison. Woody Allen secretly marries Soon-Yi Previn in Venice. In Newark, a pastor denounces a Miller beer ad as blasphemous, petitioning city officials to pull it.
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