Isolated Violent Storm Drenches Aiken
Aiken endured heavy rains and lightning with winds that toppled trees on Palm and Sundee drives. Two homes suffered damage, traffic was blocked on Two Notch Road, and power outages touched some Aiken Electric Cooperative customers. Nearby Augusta and Martinez saw only a trace of moisture as NWS predicted a widely scattered summer storm pattern.
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U.N. Team Leaves Iraq Amid Surveillance Push
A U.N. inspection team departed Baghdad after a month of talks to allow monitoring cameras at two former missile test sites. The move heightens tensions with Iraq as the Security Council warned of serious consequences for rejecting the cameras.
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Heart disease risk linked to blood vessels in blacks
In Athens Georgia Dr Randall Tackett of the University of Georgia conducts a study on living human tissue to find cellular or vascular differences that could explain why heart disease hits Black men and women harder than Whites. Stanford’s Dr Richard Pratt notes the rarity and importance of exploring physical causes at the vascular level.
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Randall Tackett
University of Georgia
Tackett
Richard Pratt
Stanford University
Pratt
Local readers urged to call with news tips
Citizens are invited to call 648-2311 to share story ideas. Names listed include Annie B Black Denmark Paul Dishman New Ellenton Willie Fuller Greenwood Henry W James Wagener David Thomas Aiken Dorothy Thomas North Augusta and Lawretia Warren New York peerage 9a for aetans.
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Denmark
Paul Dishman
New Ellenton
Willie Fuller
Greenwood
Henry W. James
Wagener
David Thomas
Aiken
Dorothy Thomas
North Augusta
Clinton urges new questions to revive world economy
President Clinton called for a renewed push to boost global growth at the Tokyo summit, pledging that the United States will compete rather than retreat in trade. He argued for deficit reduction of 500 billion dollars and warned of a global jobs crisis as seven-nation talks loom. In Geneva, GATT head Peter Sutherland warned that no tariff package endangers the entire multilateral process since 1947. Traffic and security in Tokyo rose as the summit opened.
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America
National Education Association
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Canada
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
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World Trade Organization
Peter Sutherland
Old Squabbles Surface As New World Order Develops
TOKYO Many Japanese accuse President Clinton of calling them liars as tensions rise among seven leading nations. Italians and French argue over German energy policy and interest rates while nations clash over trade. Ahead of the summit, discord dampens expectations for major accords. Clinton's private remark to Yeltsin fuels anger in Japan.
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Clinton
Boris Yeltsin
Yeltsin
Amateur fossil hunters seek real Tyrannosaurus rex in North Dakota
Bowmen County volunteers led by Merle Clark and Dean Pearson search the Hell Creek rock formation in Bowan County North Dakota for a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. Guided by paleontologists they began after Pearson found a fossil bone and Horner of the Museum of the Rockies confirmed it as T rex. The site is kept secret with a snow fence and no admittance sign to protect the discovery.
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North Dakota
Merle Clark
Dean Pearson
Bowman County
Hell Roek
Pearson
Museum of the Rockies
Bozeman
Mont
Clark
Horner
Aiken Standard Announces Summer Vegetable Contest Prizes
The Aiken Standard sponsors a summer vegetable contest offering $100 for the heaviest tomato or yellow squash, $50 for second, and $25 for third. Entries must be locally grown and weighed at the Aiken Standard office. Deadline is July 30.
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