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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1991
Page
2
Queensland towns Rockhampton and Mackay face flood tolls as Fitzroy River swells after 11 days of rain from Cyclone Joy. isolation, evacuations, food runs, and disaster declarations accompany urgent air drops for livestock losses and widespread damage estimated at millions.
Mother Teresa appealed to President Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to avert war in the Persian Gulf. The 80 year old Nobel laureate urged them to use their power to prevent destruction and to spare the suffering of the innocent, saying she prayed on bended knee for peace.
The radical right group in South Africa says it will pursue negotiations on a white homeland and demands release of imprisoned leaders. It urges followers to return weapons seized in last year’s air force base robbery as police report the leader Piet Rudolph was arrested on Sept. 7 after a five month manhunt.
A sniper wounded a second girl and killed 14 year old Robyn Dabrowski on a New Bedford High School basketball team bus near Bourne Massachusetts. Genesue Arruda was grazed by a bullet and treated at the scene as police searched woods and a highway rest stop for a gunman.
United States and Italy evacuated hundreds of foreigners from Mogadishu as fighting raged in Somalia. Rebels claimed 1500 killed in a week, while Italy halted operations after clashes resumed. two evacuation planes failed to reach Mogadishu and returned to Mombasa.
In the West Bank, Israeli troops shot and killed 12-year-old Wahel Shubaki during a clash with stone throwers near Nablus. Medics reported 21 others wounded by live rounds or rubber pellets in Gaza and West Bank incidents, with separate fighting at Jabaliya refugee camp.
Investigators in Gainesville seek blood from at least 17 men charged in other cases as part of probing the slayings of five college students. Public defenders say consent and court orders vary, with two samples already obtained from white defendants in their 30s.
Freezing rain sleet and snow moved across the Midwest as a tropical storm drenched California and pushed eastward. Indiana flood crests were forecast as 11 percent above flood stage, with emergency crews seeking volunteers to sandbag the White River levee. six counties were declared disaster areas.
A 7.2 magnitude quake struck central Burma near Mandalay, at 9:27 p.m. local time. Officials from the National Earthquake Information Center in Colorado and the USGS in California confirmed the strong tremor lasting about three minutes with no major damage reported in Rangoon's city center.
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