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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1990
Page
2
Rebels move reinforcements and heavy artillery toward Monrovia amid reports that President Samuel Doe may resign under safety guarantees. 800 insurgents attacked Monrovia with several thousand more en route, as U.S. Marines and ships stand offshore for possible evacuation.
Notimex reports a prison riot in Chihuahua state began when drug traffickers tried to free jailed confederates. About 60 inmates escaped as authorities, including army and police, pursued them by helicopter and roadblocks. Four died and 15 seriously injured in the chaos.
London reports a rare meeting between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. Thatcher, once labeling the ANC a terrorist organization, hosts Mandela as she advocates relaxing EC sanctions to reward reform in South Africa. Mandela says ANC alone should lift sanctions and notes the armed struggle may end by year’s end.
Aiken Standard lists phone lines for subscription, classified and display advertising and news ideas. It also provides customer service numbers and weekend delivery hours. Rates show home delivery and mail options with 3, 6, and 12 month prices.
Hundreds of Albanians flee to foreign embassies in Tirana amid riots against the hard line regime. Police fire, embassy walls breached, and at least 200 people seek asylum while a Cuban embassy bombing is reported with no injuries.
President Bush, on vacation in Kennebunkport, leaves for London tonight for a six day NATO summit. He plans proposals to revamp alliance structure and nuclear strategy, arguing for nuclear use only as a last resort amid Soviet troop withdrawals.
In 1966 President Lyndon B Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act, with the measure taking effect the next year.
Former model Rasheeda Moore testified in Barry cocaine and perjury trial that the mayor offered to renew her city contract to teach self esteem to teen girls in exchange for oral sex. She said the request followed their two year affair and that officials had not signed the contract.
In Moscow delegates at the 28th Soviet Communist Party Congress express guarded support for Mikhail Gorbachev, despite broad attacks. Reformers and hard-liners alike see him as the only leader capable of keeping the party intact, with backers from Kiev and Mariupol stressing no clear alternative.
The pilgrimage to Mecca, the hajj, draws hundreds of thousands yearly. It has seen deadly events, including the 1979 Grand Mosque seizure and mass killings, the 1987 Mecca clashes with Saudi security killing 402, and Iran's 275 nationals among the dead, leading to later pilgrim restrictions.
The article notes Saudi Arabia broke ties with Iran after incidents allegedly fueled by Iranian efforts to politicize the hajj and spur Muslims to seize shrines. Iran denied involvement in September 1989 bomb blasts in Mecca, while Tehran-backed plots vowed revenge for Saudi Arabia's execution of 16 Shiite Muslims.
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