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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1986
Page
2
In Chicago a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher notes rats fed beer as their only fluid with a cancer-causing substance developed 50 percent fewer digestive tract tumors than rats given water. Diet and brewing methods may influence results, and people should not assume beer prevents cancer.
A one bedroom wood frame house in El Campo Texas caught fire at 1227 am. Fire officials say seven children aged two months to eight years died after apparently being left alone. Fire Department spokesman Elmer Cavender said authorities were seeking the parents.
Anatoly Shcharansky says his 77 year old mother Ida Milgrom will receive an exit visa as part of his release deal and hopes she arrives within a month. U.S. officials say others related may emigrate too.
Mutulu Shakur, 35, the alleged ringleader on the FBI Ten Most Wanted List since 1982, was arrested on a street corner in Los Angeles after a three year nationwide manhunt. Authorities say a Brink's guard and two police officers died in the scheme. One suspect remains at large.
Witnesses say police clashed with Kim Young-sam supporters outside his Seoul office, protesters dispersed and he was escorted home. Opposition backers push to collect up to 10 million signatures for constitutional electoral changes opposed by President Chun Doo-hwan. In Washington, indictments against as many as 50 Eastern Airlines baggage handlers for alleged cocaine smuggling highlight airline security concerns.
Tokyo reports Mi chio Watanabe says the export ceiling to the United States will stay at 2.3 million cars for the new fiscal year starting April 1 to avoid torrential shipments that could trigger protectionist actions in the United States.
Pope John Paul II in his Lenten message calls Roman Catholics to be good Samaritans and aid the poor sick and persecuted. Lent lasts 45 days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday and is observed by fasting and penance in many churches.
A suspicious tire fire persisted for a second day in Spencer Massachusetts sending putrid smoke across the town toward the Rhode Island border about 20 miles away. Authorities treated the blaze as potentially deliberate as hundreds of thousands of tires burned creating a heavy pall over the area.
Libyan aircraft, including MiG fighters and Mirage jets, sent toward U.S. carriers Coral Sea and Saratoga in international air space. Planes retreated before contact as U.S. F-14s and FA-18s redirected, with no hostile engagement reported. The operation served as training during ongoing exercises near Libya, with no evidence of a large-scale Khadafy-led drill or Israeli airline intercepts.
The Philippines National Assembly tallies votes with Marcos at about 54.3 percent from over 3.9 million counted. Corazon Aquino attends a Mass and rally for slain campaign official Evelio Javier, as Aquino aides report a 19th campaign worker killed this week.
Iran said its troops pushed to the northern gulf near Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on the third day of the Iraqi offensive, claiming capture of the Faw port while Iraq denies fall. Iraq and Iran traded claims as U N Security Council ministers consider urgent action amid heavy fighting and mounting casualties.
Washington AP reports Lee Iacocca was fired as chair of the Statue of Liberty restoration commission for refusing to resign his fund raising role. Secretary Hodel said the action ends his dual leadership of the foundation and the commission. Iacocca denies conflict and questions the secretary’s charter.
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