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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1987
Page
2
About 1500 Kroger meat handlers in Tennessee and two other states said they are prepared for a prolonged walkout after contract talks ended. The union's three year pact expired January 31 and negotiators could not agree on pay raises, scale issues, and part time hiring levels. Talks were not scheduled again.
In a black neighborhood of Tampa after two nights of gunfire rocks and bottles, police arrested 18 youths aged 13 to early 20s and several fires were set. Velma Brown, mother of Melvin Hair, urged calm as statewide agencies stood by and Drizzly weather helped keep crowds away. Hair, 23, died Wednesday after a white officer restrained him with a choke hold during custody after reports he threatened others with a knife.
Linda Rooney reports 75 teenagers vandalized her Braintree home on February 13 as they held a wild party in the 12 room house. She and her husband plan psychiatric help after $6000 in damages including broken furniture torn telephone and beer-soaked walls.
Ignacio Granados 25 was booked on kidnapping and child endangerment after driving 10 pupils from Martin Elementary to a secluded area of Santa Ana park, detaining them about an hour and threatening to blow them up before returning them home unharmed. None injured.
Mount Pleasant Iowa AP Reverend T N Taylor reports to jail for 30 days after educating daughter without state approval. He urged supporters at the Henry County courthouse that religious rights protect education and warned state control. About 350 mourners sang Amazing Grace as he walked with family to jail with signs about parental rights and the First Amendment.
The Navy aims to grow its SEAL special warfare unit by about 1000 personnel by 1990. Affects training and construction from Antigua and Puerto Rico to San Clemente Island California and Pearl Harbor. The plan includes new training facilities and some operational projects plus updated equipment such as fast strike boats and underwater swimmer delivery vehicles with torpedoes.
Bishop Trevor Huddleston of Britain's Anti-Apartheid Movement condemns Britain and the United States for vetoing U.N. sanctions against South Africa. He says Thatcher and Reagan defy world will and public opinion in their nations.
The Nicaraguan Democratic Force reports 277 Sandinista soldiers killed and 355 wounded in 67 battles during the first 15 days of February. Most clashes occurred in Zelaya with 34 encounters, followed by Jinotega and other provinces.
About 4 000 Syrian troops set up near Beirut and scouts reported in Khaldeh signaling possible intervention to quell weeklong fighting in west Beirut. Officials estimate tanks armored personnel carriers and logistics units deployed along the Masnaa highway.
About 65 Ku Klux Klan members and supporters gathered on the Winder courthouse steps to protest the stabbing death of Bethlehem Elementary School Principal Murray Kennedy by 13 year old Kelvin Jones. Police estimated 300 spectators watched peacefully as speakers denounced police restrictions and planned a cross burning near Barrow County.
President Corazon Aquino met with villagers under a mango tree in Namulandaya to hear claims that soldiers killed civilians in a battle after a cease fire collapsed. Spokesman described the meetings as intimate and emotionally charged as residents and the army give conflicting accounts of the Feb. 10 incident.
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