Ailing Congress reflects on budget gridlock and 1985 shortfalls
The piece critiques the budget reconciliation fight between the Republican Senate and Democratic House over about 70 billion dollars in three year cuts. It notes tax conflicts, a Jan 21 adjournment, and persistent Congress failures from missing the Oct 1 budget deadline to Gramm Rudman Hollings.
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Capitol Hill
Tip O’neill
Senate
Democratic House
House
Congress
Gramm-Rudman- Hollings
Gramm- Rudman-Hollings
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
99Th Congress
Pentagon
Pistol Packin Mama and the Bonnie and Clyde Echoes
Ashley Cooper catalogs a spree of South Carolina crimes and a loud critique of Hall of Fame biases. He lauds Roger Maris for breaking Babe Ruth’s season home run record and argues for his baseball immortality despite veteran opposition.
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Perry Correctional Institution
Pelzer
Jesse Smith
Greenville County
Johnny Mack Brown
South Carolina
Hanahan
Babe Ruth
Ruth
Hall
Who Carries The Moral Authority
A meditation on global leaders who wield moral authority across politics religion and media. The piece cites Washington Lincoln Tolstoy Gandhi Camus Holmes Brandeis Murrow Maritain Buber Niebuhr King and John Paul II as enduring moral voices while noting no current figure matches their influence.
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New York City
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelts
Dwight Eisenhower
Jimmy Carter
America
West
England
Samuel Johnson
Thomas Carlyle
Matthew Arnold
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy
Mahatma Gandhi
Albert Camus
Iterac
Supreme Court
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Louis D. Brandeis
Grand Panjandrum
Walter Lippmann
Edward Murrow
Jacques Maritain
France
Martin Buber
Israel
Reinhold Niebuhr
Martin Luther King
John Paul II
Aiken's Rock of Ages and Voices on Cigarrettes and Freedom
Readers comment on 1886 Charleston earthquake impact in Aiken and call for a centennial Quakin observance. A letter on tobacco ads argues for personal choice amid government and AMA clashes. The page ends praising Solzhenitsyn Sakharov courage against power.
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Aiken
Kenneth E. Peters
Bakin
Kevin R. Landry
Lancaster St
Opposes Adoption Procedure Recommendations in 1985 report
Mildred Szakacsi of Columbia objects to the Governor's Special Committee on Adoption 1985 report. She lists groups including TRIAD and COAC and argues against expanding private sector roles, warns against abolishing or merging the Children's Bureau, and urges public input and preservation of established protections.
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Adoptees Adult Liberation Movement
TRIAD
COAC
Council On
South Carolina
Family Court
Children’s Bureau of
State Department of Social Services
South Carolina Children’s Bureau
Mildred Szakacsi
Columbia
Roach Appeals Delay as Executions For Teen Killings Loom
The article discusses appeals seeking a delay of James Terry Roach’s January 10 execution. It cites Roach being 17 at the crimes and 25 now, and notes the brutality of the case including the murder of 17-year-old Thomas Taylor and the rape and execution of 14-year-old Carlotta Hartness. References the State v Shaw et al decision and mentions Shaw’s 1985 execution and Mahaffey's life sentence.
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James Terry Roach
Roach
S.C
Shaw
Mahaffey
Thomas Taylor
Carlotta Hartness
Credits Miss Teague With Influencing Life
Mary L Newman recalls Miss Teague as her English teacher at Aiken Institute and librarian at Aiken High School who influenced two students. Her mother Bessie T Nichols, a 1925 graduate, later taught elementary grades in Redd's Branch area.
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Bessie T. Nichols
Aiken
Old Aiken Institute
Miss Teague
Aiken High School
Redd
Teague
Mary L. Newman
Jacksonville
Fla
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