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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1976
Page
2
Redd Foxx and fiancée Yun Chi Chung appeared at the Las Vegas license bureau to obtain a marriage license. Foxx joked about funds and champagne while awaiting ceremony plans, noting he is due to wed soon.
A group of over 90 former antiwar activists led by Joan Baez urged the Vietnamese government to stop human rights abuses. They submitted a petition to Vietnam’s U N observer at the United Nations after private efforts failed, naming figures like Paul O Dwyer Malcolm Boyd Allen Ginsberg Carroll Dozier Arnold Wolf and others. Some signers asked that their names be withheld to avoid jeopardizing efforts to improve conditions in Vietnam.
The Aiken Standard announces publication details established in 1867 including daily afternoons except weekends, contact box 456, 124 Rutland Drive Aiken South Carolina 29801. It notes second class postage, AP dispatches rights, republication rights for other content, and no liability for ad omissions with corrections in the next issue.
In Haysville Kansas undersheriff said a lone death was chosen to save eight hostages. Larry Leer 30 was killed by two chest shots after seizing Bonnie Horinek and her seven relatives with guns in their Wichita suburb home. He demanded to see his former girlfriend Lonnie Beam and later blamed officers for death warrants as negotiations failed.
A six day walkout by hotel workers spreads to the Sheraton Four Ambassadors and Dupont Plaza in downtown Miami as picket lines reappear. Workers at six other hotels—Deauville Eden Roc Coral Beach Coral County Club Carillon and Shelborne—continue striking. Federal mediator Leland Dean notes talks ended Wednesday with no side willing to move. There are no immediate plans to resume negotiations.
A Marine corporal, E F Henry, was demoted to private and ordered three months hard labor after pleading guilty to conspiracy and assault in a bar attack by black Marines on white sailors. He faced further demotion pay deductions, and the court heard the group believed they faced KKK members.
A detailed report from the Philip Morris European Cup in The Hague examines an elegant four hearts contract by Hans Lind. It highlights a takeout double by West, the spade and diamond play, and the winning line that avoided two trump tricks by declarer South. The piece promotes Charles Goren’s Opening Leads and a mail order offer for the book.
The United States reports a fourth Soviet antisatellite test this year appears to be a failure. Cosmos 886 launched from Tyuratam on December 27 attempted to intercept Cosmos 880, which disintegrated on its third orbit after never approaching closer than a mile.
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