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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1988
Page
2
Washington report shows 28 states spent less on child care in 1987 than 1981 after adjusting for 24 percent inflation. Twenty two states served fewer children than in 1981. Children’s Defense Fund cites inflation and Social Security Block Grant cuts as causes. The grant’s value fell about 50 percent in a decade.
The FDA proposes tighter guidelines for drug use in food producing animals to promote growth or parasite control. Producers would develop new residue tests detecting smaller amounts, with federal inspectors checking meat, fat, livers, kidneys, milk, and eggs. About 80 percent of U S livestock and poultry receive some drug in their lives. Gerald Guest, the FDA's director of veterinary medicine, announced the plan Monday.
In Cedar Rapids and Washington AP reports Dole weighs Iowa victory as a path to the GOP lead while acknowledging a setback could still permit survival. Bush and Dole loom in a first head to head clash as Iowa’s Feb 8 caucuses approach amid national polling tightness and campaign strategy.
EPA retains warning labels on cyanazine despite studies showing negligible groundwater threat. The label warns of possible birth defects and remains due to early worker risk. Cyanazine, sold as Bladex by DuPont, is used on up to a quarter of the nation's corn crop. EPA found no cyanazine in 400 samples from 200 wells across four counties.
INS says 1,149 Cubans approved for release will be freed as space opens in halfway houses or relatives homes. About 100 had actually been freed. reviews continue and some cases may go to Justice panels. Government holds 3,752 Cubans in custody. 3,830 in state and local prisons.
In Managua opposition leaders including La Prensa editors and Cardinal Obando y Bravo tell an international commission that the Sandinistas have not met required steps of the regional peace plan. The panel tours five Central American nations, with a San Jose summit set for January 15 to decide whether to extend or abandon the accord.
Israeli soldiers killed a 25 year old Palestinian and wounded seven others during clashes with stone throwing protesters in Khan Younis. Five Israeli soldiers were injured in similar incidents in Khan Younis and Rafah. A fire bomb hit an Israeli tour bus in east Jerusalem with no injuries.
The Reagan administration failed to deliver the required budget blueprint by the January 4 deadline for the next fiscal year's spending. White House budget director James C. Miller III stated it would be impossible to assemble a responsible proposal before mid February. He cited unfinished fiscal 1988 tax and spending bills and the need to absorb those details before completing the fiscal 1989 budget. The Defense Department must redo its request due to the two year deficit control agreement. Capitol Hill was already expecting a late submission while lawmakers were home for holidays.
Abbas Ali Hamadi, on trial in Düsseldorf for kidnapping two West Germans in Beirut, denies involvement and urges the release of Rudolf Cordes. Hamadi authorized his attorney to read the statement, while Cordes remains held in Lebanon since January 17, 1987, amid claims by his captors of mistreatment by West German authorities toward Hamadi’s brother Mohammed Ali Hamadi, linked to a TWA hijacking case.
Abbas Ali Hamadi goes on trial in Duesseldorf on kidnapping charges tied to Rudolf Cordes and Alfred Schmidt. A Holy Warriors for Freedom statement claimed Mohammed Ali Hamadi is mistreated in prison in Frankfurt as Cordes remains captive since January 1987. Cordes, 54, manages for Hoechst AG in Beirut.
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