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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1988
Page
4
Readers urge a city wide campaign to curb litter in 1988. They call for a task force from County Council City Council Chamber of Commerce and schools to combine education and enforcement, enlist fast food businesses and mobilize citizens to pick up litter.
A columnist criticizes a hidden $8 million appropriation to build North African Jewish school facilities in France within a large 600 billion bill. The piece questions Sen. Daniel Inouye’s ethics and calls for budget restraint amid a widening federal deficit, noting private funding should cover such projects. The column frames it as a Capitol Hill spending excess that ignores domestic needs.
Ball State University biology professor Dr. Jon Hendrix teaches a senior graduate course for pre medists to confront complex ethical questions. He urges students to analyze issues from abortion to genetic engineering and to consider humane treatment of chimps used in research.
A satirical year end list imagines wild forecasts for 1988. Predictions target figures like Jesse Jackson Pat Robertson Steinbrenner Cuomo NOW Gephardt Gorbachev North Bakker Hahn and other named entities in a humorous political tone.
Long delayed entry for Canadian author Farley Mowat is now possible thanks to Senator Moynihan’s amendment to a foreign relations bill. The change nullifies past immigration bar based on political beliefs, ending decades of McCarran-Walters era fear and easing conduct of U S relations amid detente.
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