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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1983
Page
8
This week old Lori the lemur at Skansen Aquarium Stockholm struggles to feed. Kept in an incubator the infant is fed with a breast-m milk substitute and crickets to gain weight. Lori will soon be reunited with mother Hulda and a toy panda acts as a stand in.
In Vatican City a two day Western prelate meeting opens to refine a 25000 word Catholic bishops draft disarmament letter condemning nuclear warfare and detente limits. Archbishop Roach says Vatican input seeks Western European and papal insights before Chicago May session. Archbishop Bernardin notes meeting not for global church policy.
A domestic Thai Air Ways flight with 11 aboard was hijacked by three knife and explosive armed men. After landing in Chiang Mai the crew escaped, ten Thai passengers were held, ransom demanded at about 13 000 dollars, plus parachutes for a drop over the Golden Triangle near Burma and Laos.
London AP reports British television aired three hours of Chaplin out-takes and rushes kept hidden in a vault for decades. Kevin Brownlow, one of two restorers, culled the program from 300000 feet of film, calling the find like discovering Rembrandt sketch books.
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