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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1989
Page
2
Passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 51 bound for Detroit cancel or shift bookings after threats to bomb the Paris departure. In Paris the office reported 30 midmorning cancellations with many others rebooking on different flights or days.
A gas explosion at Consolidated Edison Hellgate Station in the Bronx sparks a massive fire and black smoke over the East River. At least four injured and 128000 customers lose power, disrupting New York City's transit as crews shut a gas main valve by 2:15 pm.
A French citizen killed when a relief plane was shot down in southern Sudan exploded in Khartoum before its return to Paris. Medical staff doubted natural gas buildup and feared a booby trap. Unclear if sabotage aimed to occur on the UNICEF flight to Paris or during the Sudan to Khartoum leg. Identity of the deceased not confirmed.
Washington announces new rules increasing how much disabled Social Security and SSI recipients can earn before benefits stop. Under the programs not blind beneficiaries may earn more starting Jan 1, first rise in a decade, per Health and Human Services. Louis Sullivan says the change will encourage work and improve families' lives.
Subscriptions and mail rates announced by Aiken Standard show options for 3 months 6 months and 12 months with prices of 5.90 17.70 35.40 and 70.80 dollars. The notice outlines cost tiers and payment terms for readers choosing print delivery and associated mail service.
In Prague 53 year old writer and dissident Vaclav Havel took the oath as president aboard the castle balcony amid cannons and band music. Parliament elected him in a 323 vote, signaling a move toward free elections next year and a drastic shift from Communist rule.
South Carolina will replace the Palmetto tree on license plates with a Carolina Wren perched on yellow jasmine. The black on white plates cost the same as before with vanity options at extra charge, and 2.4 million vehicles will receive the new plates by year end 1990.
Police used tear gas and night sticks to disperse a Friday peace march in Jerusalem as 3000 plus Israeli, Palestinian, and European women gathered from West to East Jerusalem. Sixteen were detained as violence erupted after an outlawed Palestinian flag was raised, with reports of women dragged by hair and kicked. The event aims to culminate Saturday in a human chain around the Old City, linking hands with Europeans to support a negotiated Middle East peace. In Gaza, the army said two 12-year-old Palestinian boys were accidentally shot during a dawn assault on masked Arabs, both in good condition. One Palestinian suspect in Khan Yunis was hacked to death by masked Arabs amid ongoing Gaza violence. the death toll among Palestinians attributed to Arab attackers rose to 164.
Thousands of Nicolae Ceausescu loyalists are in custody as Romania's National Salvation Committee governs. The interim regime pledges free elections in April and says secret police are on trial. Military tribunals proceed, with some generals among detainees as the army claims full control.
Florida migrant workers from Mexico Guatemala and El Salvador face a record Christmas freeze that killed up to 90 percent of South Florida winter vegetables and damaged Central Florida citrus. At the Everglades labor camp in Florida City, about 2,000 adults and many children petition for government aid as food stamps begin distribution while crops blacken and fields wither.
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