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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1986
Page
2
Thousands march under police protection through Howard Beach as Black and white clergy urge calm after a Black man was killed a week earlier by white teens. A 20 minute standoff ends peacefully with chants and racial slurs echoing across Cross Bay Boulevard.
Iraqi forces fortify positions east of Basra after a deadly clash on Umm al Bassas Island in the Shatt al Arab waterway. Reporters saw Iranian bodies and discarded arms as Iraq says tens of thousands of Iranians died. Supplies are brought by a 200 yard water ramp to the island.
A captured black guerrilla broke from guards, seized a gun, and killed two police officers before escaping. The group of five ANC guerrillas crossed into South Africa on Christmas Eve with land mine plans. four were killed in later operations, the fifth captured with mines.
Philippine President Corazon Aquino is Time magazine's Woman of the Year for 1986. She credits the Filipino people for restoring belief in government and notes unity remains a work in progress ahead of the constitutional plebiscite. Marcos fled after a 20 year rule ended February 1986.
In Manila the National Cease-fire Committee found Communist rebels violated the truce by arming for a march to a peaceful rally. It forgave the act, noting it was the first confirmed violation. The panel also reported 29 other complaints against the military and counterclaims by the left.
The notice lists subscription and advertising phone numbers for the Aiken Standard and provides customer service hours and office address at 124 Rutland Drive. It also notes the mailing address Box 456, Aiken, SC 29802 and Sunday morning hours.
A gas pipeline fault at the Riessersee Hotel in Garmisch Partenkirchen caused a blast and fire that left at least six dead and more than 20 injured. The explosion hit the recreation wing during Christmas ski vacations affecting a fully booked lodge of about 300 guests.
A Fiji Sunflower Airlines four engine Heron crashed on approach to Nadi International Airport killing 11. Six Americans and one Australian were among the dead. four others were injured including the pilot and co pilot. The crash occurred about 200 yards from the runway on a 150 mile flight from Vanua Levu to Viti Levu.
More than 10,000 Afghans protest in Islamabad on the seventh anniversary of the Soviet invasion. They chant death to Gorbachev and kill the Russians, burn an effigy of the Soviet leader, and urge governments and the UN to cut ties with Kabul. No violence reported as police shield the Soviet Embassy.
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