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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1990
Page
2
On this day in 1898 during the Spanish American War, Theodore Roosevelt leads the Rough Riders in a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.
The Soviet government resumed oil shipments to Lithuania on Saturday, a key step toward lifting the 10 week old economic blockade as Lithuania’s independence drive faced Kremlin pressure. An oil refinery dispatcher said they were receiving oil at subsidized prices.
Tass reported that the Soviet Union restored citizenship to three dissidents punished in the 1970s for anti-Soviet slander. The trio identified were Zhores A. Medvedev, Vladimir E. Maximov, and Alexander A. Zinoviev. President Gorbachev acted after a citizenship commission deemed the punishments injustices needing correction.
Colombia’s Medellin based cartel head Pablo Escobar is labeled a genocidal maniac by Gen. Harold Bedoya in a Saturday communique. Bedoya accuses Escobar of terrorist attacks and urges citizens to aid in his capture with a $400,000 reward for information leading to his capture dead or alive.
In Belfast on a busy Saturday a gunman shot two police officers on Castle Street near Queen Street just before midday. The IRA claimed responsibility in a call to Press Association, as witnesses heard five shots and the attacker fled through grounds of St Marys Church.
Aiken Standard details subscription rates and office hours, with contact numbers for classifieds and news ideas. The text includes delivery times, mailing address, old scanning errors, and garbled postal and publishing notes from the paper.
Moscow report on Mikhail Gorbachev as he meets the 28th Communist Party congress facing a split risk between traditionalists and reformers. The context highlights potential defections, the fate of perestroika, and the possibility of Democratic Platform delegates walking out to form a separate party.
East Germany moves toward a market economy as the West German mark becomes official currency. Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere urged bravery and hard work, while banks plan reopenings and stores stock Western goods. Unemployment fears loom as firms adjust to competition, yet experts anticipate investment with the new convertibility.
Washington reports on Bush and NATO leaders meeting in London to redefine the alliance amid Eastern Europe upheaval. Debates focus on transforming NATO after the Warsaw Pact collapse, Soviet economic aid to Gorbachev, and East Germany’s future in a united Germany within NATO.
Nelson Mandela arrives in Oakland to a rousing welcome but shortens his California schedule due to fatigue. He and Winnie address a sold out Coliseum crowd of 58 000 and plan to depart for Ireland to meet Prime Minister Haughey.
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