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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1996
Page
2
Vienna AP Grace Jones, disco diva and famed entertainer, arrived at Vienna's Opera ball wearing an elegant mask. She stuck out her tongue for photographers and told Austria's state TV she would like to go to an opera box and make love to a friend, translated as hold hands with her man.
In WHAYTaNOOGA Tennessee Gary Dockery's family watched at his bedside as surgeons report he remains alert but not speaking one day after removing infectious fluid from his lungs and as his physician Dr James Folkening notes the lung isn't improved as hoped but remains hopeful after the life saving operation following his shooting in 1988.
A special advisory council weighs three plans allowing workers to invest about 40 percent of their Social Security payroll tax in private accounts. The rest would stay in the current system. This echoes Steve Forbes privatization ideas.
Aiken Standard offers HOME DELIVERY and MAIL options with varying monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual rates. Payment address is Aiken Standard PEM Subscription, P O Box 456, 124 Rutland Drive, Aiken SC 29802.
In New Hampshire campaigns four days before the primary, Bob Dole and Pat Buchanan trade barbs over taxes and trade. Buchanan attacks Dole with a new ad citing five tax increases, while Dole counters by stressing welfare and training controls and accusing Buchanan of protectionist views.
An Amtrak Capital Limited express and a MARC commuter train collided near Silver Spring Maryland during a heavy snowstorm. Six people were killed and about three dozen injured. One locomotive burned as trains derailed and others were left on the tracks.
The IRAs decision to end its ceasefire shatters peace hopes in Northern Ireland. Belfast rally draws 3000 plus Sinn Fein members while a peace program devolves into a shouting match. Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring urges wearing white ribbons to show desire for peace.
President Clinton pressed to soften earlier critique of Federal Reserve growth policies while urging a debate on how fast the economy can expand without triggering inflation. He named Felix Rohatyn to boost the Fed clash but Rohatyn withdrew, prompting a switch to Greenspan’s reappointment and a White House meeting with top advisers.
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