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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1987
Page
2
In the Huallaga Valley 297 people were arrested and a quarter ton of cocaine paste seized in a U S funded operation. The Interior Ministry says the largest such crackdown in Peru aims to restore long term state control after guerrilla activity and traffickers.
President Reagan appoints Dr Frank Lilly a New York geneticist and gay rights activist to the AIDS panel. Lilly previously served on Gay Men's Health Crisis board as advocates press for homosexual representation on the expanded 13 member panel.
The Army has begun producing a new TOW II anti-tank missile after four years of classified work. Maj. Phil Soucy said production started last month and officials released details amid NATO and U S concerns. Experts note Soviet reactive armor may reduce effectiveness of some missiles but the new system aims to counter such defenses.
A federal judge ruled WWII merchant seamen may qualify as veterans. U S District Judge Louis Oberdorfer denounced Pentagon review rules as not even handed in a 34 page July 16 decision. The ruling stops short of ordering blanket status but challenges current criteria. Pentagon comments were not provided.
Mayo Clinic spokesman says Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun faces an excellent recovery chance after prostate cancer surgery in November 1977. He has a small localized recurrence and undergoes short term treatment not incapacitating. Blackmun, 78, is staying near the clinic in Rochester Minnesota while doctors monitor the condition.
More than 150 items from Orson Welles were auctioned in Boston and other cities. The sale included a black beaver fedora and a wooden cigar box with a self portrait, part of a four city sale organized by Matsel Galleries after acquiring Welles’s Hollywood Hills contents.
Denny Daughters, a 12 year old blind boy, owns Denny's Please Touch boutique in Castro Valley since 1984. He buys Braille scales, talking clocks, Braille Monopoly and Scrabble, beep footballs and volleyballs, offering customers a chance to touch merchandise. His stepfather Dan Richardson says the store lets blind children learn by touch.
In Geneva the sixth round of U S Soviet talks failed to agree on an agenda but Washington will study a Soviet proposal for joint verification experiments at both nations test sites. No date was set for the next round as talks centered on verification and limits for underground tests.
A prank group calling themselves environmental sculptors blacked out the H on the Hollywood sign reading OL LYWOOD to mock Oliver North. City crews restored the sign hours later and officials urged security. The group defended the act as reflecting public sentiment and claimed prior alterations to HOLYWOOD and HOLLYWEED.
Former NSC adviser John Poindexter tells Congress Reagan aides secretly decided to sell weapons to Iran beginning in 1985 without Joint Chiefs consultation. He says shipments were adjusted to avoid decisively tilting Iran-Iraq war and notes Reagan consulted Weinberger before proceeding.
Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, both key figures in U S monetary policy, appear before congressional committees on similar themes. Greenspan, Reagan's nominee for Fed chair, is expected to pledge inflation vigilance while Volcker delivers the Fed's policy views. Analysts see little chance of major policy shifts under the new leadership.
Contact details for the Aiken Standard list phone numbers for subscriptions and ads and provide office hours and mailing address. The offices at 124 Rutland Drive operate 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays with Sunday hours 8 to 10:30 a.m. and subscription payments go to Aiken Standard PBM.
The Aiken Standard provides emergency numbers as a service. It is published by Aiken Communications Inc. weekdays afternoons and Sundays from 124 Rutland Drive, Aiken SC, with mailing address P.O. Box 456.
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