Guard blocks road at Hormel plant amid meat tampering probe
Austin Minnesota Police and National Guard blocked the road to Hormel flagship plant as workers arrived. Officials planned statewide inspections of Hormel meat products after razor blades were found in Frank 'N Stuff chili hot dogs. Two West St Paul residents reported the blades prompting the probe into tampering.
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Hormel Frank
CIA findings dispute Contras slit throat charges
A newly declassified CIA report challenges allegations of Contra atrocities in Nicaragua. It argues captives could not have been killed with bayonets or combat knives, citing seven hours of interviews with FDN field officers. Officials say the document was prepared last spring in response to a detailed abuse report.
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CIA
FDN
Administration
Arias Wins Costa Rica Presidency in Clear Victory
Oscar Arias, a pro American moderate, defeats Rafael Calderon Jr. in Costa Rica's election. Early counts show 611,856 votes, 53.3 percent, to Calderon's 514,309, 44.8 percent, as voters favored the London trained economist leading the National Liberation Party.
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Costa Rica
Oscar Arias
Central America
Arias
National Liberation Party
Rafael A. Calderon Jr
Supreme Elections Tribunal
Calderon
Aquino Says She Needs Near Two Thirds Vote to Beat Marcos
Corazon Aquino told the AP she would require about 65 to 70 percent of the vote to overcome alleged cheating by Marcos supporters. She spoke amid growing confidence in defeating the 20 year incumbent in Friday’s presidential election and noted advisers’ figures during a Manila interview at her suburb home.
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Philippines
Corazon Aquino
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Marcos
Khyber Pass again at center of regional struggle
Pakistani officials moved troops and armored units into the Khyber Pass as dissident tribal chiefs refuse to surrender. Rebels smuggle weapons from Afghanistan amid a broader conflict with the Afghan Communist government seeking uprisings in the area.
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Pakistan
Khyber Pass
Afghanistan
Khyber
Beatrice buyout clears board path to April stockholder vote
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts wins approval for a 6.1 billion dollar bid to buy Beatrice Cos. Inc. The offer values each Beatrice share at 40 dollars in cash plus 10 dollars in preferred stock, surpassing Macy’s 3.58 billion dollar deal. In England, a street sweeper overloaded with mud sprayed homes as a truck failed to stop, drawing councilors’ astonishment and apologies.
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Beatrice Cos. Inc
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co
Beatrice
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R.H. Macy & Co. Inc
Macy
Newent
England
Alan Newman
High Street
London
Newman
Bill Blackman
Dave Blick
Woman elected to Liechtenstein parliament in first voting
Emma Eigenmann-Schaedler of the Progressive Citizens' Party won a seat in Liechtenstein’s parliament in the first parliamentary balloting since women gained the vote two years ago. Of 10 women in the campaign she was the sole winner as 41 candidates vied for 15 seats. the two party coalition retained all 15 seats with unchanged distribution.
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Liechtenstein
Emma Eigenmann-Schaedler
Progressive Citizens’ Party
Soviets May Build Fast-Burn Rocket by 1993 Says Globe
The Boston Globe cites a classified Pentagon intelligence memo saying the Soviet Union could develop a fast-burn intercontinental ballistic missile by 1993 that would evade the initial phase of Reagan's SDI defense. The report notes a booster burn of about 50 seconds could defeat boost-phase tracking.
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Reagan
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States face $9.7 billion hit from Gramm Rudman cuts
A private study by Fiscal Planning Services warns state and local governments would lose $9.7 billion in federal aid for transportation health education and other programs if $50 billion in Gramm Rudman spending cuts trigger next fall California and New York would be the largest losers with $928.1 million and $857.9 million respectively Other states face multi hundred million losses and the report notes entitlement programs would raise state costs further.
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Reagan
Ronald Pollack
Pope Meets Mother Teresa At Her Calcutta Home
Pope John Paul II met Mother Teresa in Calcutta at her Nirma Hindrey home and prayed for caregivers of the dying. The visit occurred during his ten day Indian tour after a Mass in Ranchi denouncing worker exploitation. Mother Teresa, 75, leads the Missionaries of Charity aiding orphans and the poorest.
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Mother Teresa
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Nirma Hindrey
Immaculate Heart
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Ajit Kumar Mukherjee
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Jyoti Basu
West Bengal
Vatican
Unrest in Haiti as Duvalier regime faces protests and curfews
Security forces fired in Port-au-Prince as 2000 protesters against President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier gathered in Cap Haitien. At least 11 killed last week. over 100 injured in riots and clashes. a 30 day state of siege was declared.
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Haiti
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Duvalier
Cap Haitien
Gregoire Eugene
Social Christian Party
Eugene
Francois ‘‘Papa Doc
Maryland
Port au-Prince
Volunteers For National Service
General Hospital
Aiken Standard Contact and Office Details
Aiken Standard provides phone lines for subscriptions and classifieds and announces display advertising contacts. Offices at 124 Rutland Drive are open weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with customer service hours 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Mailing address listed as Box 456 Aiken SC 29802.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
Aiken, S.C
Emergency Numbers Provided by The Aiken Standard
The Aiken Standard offers emergency numbers as a public service. Published by Aiken Communications Inc. the paper dates to 1867 and is distributed weekdays in the Aiken area with mailing and postal details provided.
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