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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1982
Page
7
Police say a man set a fire at his niece's apartment in a rage, triggering a deadly blaze that killed six and left 12 to 20 missing. More than 120 people were homeless as two downtown buildings burned. Officers on patrol aided evacuations, likely preventing many more deaths.
Space Center Houston reports astronauts Thomas Mattingly II and Henry Hartsfield Jr. will answer questions this week on their seven day Columbia mission. Engineers examine booster performance after orbiting lower and slower than planned while Edwards AFB evaluates a minor oxidizer leak.
Economy Minister Jose Dagnino Pastore said the junta government will devalue the peso, cut interest rates, and restrict imports to halt a state of decay amid 11 percent unemployment, more than $35 billion in foreign debt, and rising bankruptcies. He spoke on a national broadcast after taking office in the Reynaldo Bignone regime.
Argentina appoints a retired army general as president replacing Leopoldo Galtieri after the Falklands defeat. The new leader pledges civilian rule by March 1984 and a shift to stronger exports via peso devaluation to curb the economy. The South Atlantic war remains unresolved as sovereignty talks continue.
London rail strike continues as commuters endure trains halted. Road and bus services crowd the streets while many adapt to the disruption. Train engineers show growing resistance but no end to the walkout is in sight.
Ruth Schrock, wife of missing University of Colorado economics professor Nicholas Schrock, said the man who confessed to the slaying has recanted. She visited the desolate foothills near Mazatlan where authorities found the professor’s truck and doubted he will be found safe.
Nearly 7,000 NEA delegates plan a one mile march ending at the Convention Center to protest cuts in aid to public schools and tax credits for private education. The union will join with the American Federation of Teachers in New York to condemn tuition tax credits. Reagan visits California but the march avoids his hotel.
Thousands of fired air traffic controllers face appeals six months or more behind schedule as budget and staff cuts slow processing. The Merit Systems Protection Board, with about 310 employees, operates reduced hours amid a partisan budget fight between President Reagan and Congress.
Rep Robert Dornan says allowing his Washington office to be used for an undercover narcotics investigation would have been the height of hypocrisy CBS reported that the probe led to April arrests of former page Douglas Marshal and two others Robert Finkel and Troy Todd Dornan sits on the House Narcotics Committee he says he was asked to aid investigators in March 1981 by police and a newspaper columnist.
In Memphis a farmer unearthed metal from a bulldozer field that researchers believe could belong to the steamer Sultana lost in the 1865 Mississippi River disaster. Officials from the private National Underwater and Marine Agency have not decided on recovering the sunken Civil War vessel or the $18,000 reportedly aboard.
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