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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1990
Page
10
Tonight clear to partly cloudy with mid 30s lows and a cold start. Tuesday sunny with highs around 70. Wednesday through Friday turn partly to mostly cloudy with showers possible. Northwest cooler. east and coast reach 60s to 70s with light winds.
Veteran Sen. Strom Thurmond leads an all day kickoff tour with wife Nan cy and aides from his NinetySix hometown. Stops planned at Greenville-Spartanburg Rock Hill Columbia Florence and Charleston as he seeks a new term. The 87 year old, in a blue suit with red white and blue tie, says he expects opposition and will not campaign on senior ity. Mrs Thurmond recovering from a broken ankle: I put these on to keep up with Strom.
Reporters gathered outside Desmond Tutu's residence as Mandela urged lifting the state of emergency and the release of political prisoners. He planned to address a mass rally in Soweto and spoke of peace within ANC decisions. Police reported about 30 deaths nationwide amid unrest and a Cape Town stadium blast damaged a ticket office as a cricket tour neared.
Readings from across the United States show broad jubilation over Nelson Mandela's release. Figures from civil rights groups and political leaders praised nonviolent progress toward a multiracial democracy, with rallies in Austin, Harlem, Brooklyn, and other cities and comments by Martin Luther King III, Colin Powell, and NYC and Boston attendees.
NASA reports Galileo's Venus imaging continues after a glitch. Stored data on the tag recorder will be transmitted to Earth in October when the craft's small antenna is used for communications.
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