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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1989
Page
2
In GDANSA Poland Solidarity leaders met to craft an official reply to the ruling party offer to legalize the union. About 30 participants including Walesa's executive committee discussed terms and timing with a statement expected Sunday. The party proposed legal status if Solidarity respects law and aids economic reform.
Henry Leon Harris Jr. testified that Noah Robinson ordered a hit on Leroy Barber while Harris sought money and leniency for cooperation. Harris, brother-in-law of gang leader Jeff Fort, faces murder charges in the 1986 Barber slaying as El Rukn activities including narcotics, extortion, and violence are described in court.
President Gorbachev rejected demands for more imports to solve shortages, arguing it would not teach the USSR to make its own goods. He blasted speculators hoarding laundry soap, caviar, clothes, and other items, warning against relying on external purchases.
FIGUERAS Spain AP Doctors treating Salvador Dali for a heart ailment and pneumonia said Saturday the famed surrealist artist appeared to be close to death. Chief physician Dr Carlos Ponsati said Dali has a great will to live but is not responding to heart treatment. He needs an oxygen mask to breathe at Figueras Hospital where he was returning after deterioration. Dr Juan Garcia San Miguel noted Dali has only a one in a thousand chance to survive this crisis, cautioning he could face similar episodes again.
A Minatare High School basketball team bus overturned on a steep canyon road 70 miles south of Melbeta injuring 21 people. One student, 16 year old Gerald Doremus, remained in serious condition with a head injury after the team lost to Potter-Dix 66-52 in the Minuteman Activities Conference tournament.
In Overtown and Liberty City, anger lingers as leaders push to fulfill Mayor Suarez promises after last week’s violence. Frustration centers on repeated failed efforts to address poverty, unemployment, crime, and drug issues amid a city with large diverse communities and displacement concerns.
In Kabul, disheveled Afghan troops guard Salang Highway with a semicircle of tanks as the Red Army withdraws after nine years. Guerrillas ring the capital from mountain bases while the city endures hunger, visa lines, and war’s daily hardship. Troops board Tlyushin 76 transports bound for Moscow, flights average six daily, and road convoys carry ammunition, food, and fuel toward the capital.
In Miami, Blacks mourn Allen Blanchard, a motorcycle passenger shot by a Hispanic officer, with his funeral at St. Mary’s Cathedral as tensions run high. Police plan to detain many riot suspects until after the Super Bowl amid ongoing unrest sparked by earlier fatal shooting.
Washington refuses to unseal a 25 year archive of 1962 Kennedy Khrushchev letters about the Cuban missile crisis. Scholars say Moscow leaders would welcome release but officials deem the correspondence extremely sensitive for national security.
Around 2,000 police and National Guard surrounded the Capitol area as about 1,000 counterdemonstrators gathered near Woodruff Park. The white supremacist march proceeded under heavy guard amid bricks bottles and rocks thrown by some counterdemonstrators. no injuries were reported. Rally organizer Richard Barrett touted support despite fewer attendees than planned.
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