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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1989
Page
2
In Beirut, nine hours of artillery pounded the city leaving apartments burned and streets rubble strewn. Police report six dead and 52 wounded as power lines were severed plunging areas into darkness while shelling lit the sky.
An earthquake of magnitude 6 on the Mercalli scale struck the Azores island near Lake Fogo about 15 miles from Ponta Delgada at 5 am on Saturday. No injuries or serious damage were reported, though the tremor was the strongest in a week and linked to local volcanic activity.
About 200000 Palestinian children returned to West Bank classrooms after the army lifted a closure order tied to the uprising. Israel's Histadrut labor federation urged a two hour nationwide strike Sunday to protest government economic policy, with unions affiliated to Histadrut covering about 85 percent of Israel's 2.5 million workers.
Massachusetts rort authority ordered to pay World Airways 62.9 million for the Logan Airport crash liability. Judge Keeton also allowed a 1.6 million recovery from the federal government. Earlier trials blamed the authority and FAA for the January 1982 crash that killed two. The DC-10 slid on an icy runway and passengers swam to safety after the nose separated.
A fragmented OCR note from the Aiken Standard lists subscription options and postal changes. It mentions postmasters and act changes, referencing a Bowase address and a SC 20802 area, with unclear terms and numbers.
Report from the Donetsk Coal Basin says miners rejected a government offer to end a weeklong strike. About 500,000 of the USSR's one million coal workers remained off the job as other plants faced fuel shortages. Karaganda in Kazakhstan saw some return to work. Gorbachev and Ryzhkov urged a resumption of work to avert economic harm.
Extremists in the Abkhazia region ambushed a police patrol killing two cadets and seized over 1 500 weapons as clashes between Abkhazians and Georgians intensify. Sukhumi remains tense with a citywide state of emergency and recent dismissals of regional leaders.
A CSX freight train derailed near Freeland Michigan, igniting fire in several chemical tank cars and sparking the evacuation of about a dozen nearby houses. Fourteen of 37 cars derailed, seven empty, seven chemical. five cars carried acrylonitrile and styrene. Police reported no injuries, crews struggle to control the blaze as toxic chemicals burn. A Dow Corning joint venture operates nearby with a planned gas-fired generator project on the Midland Co generation site, part of a long-running Unit train route between Freeport Texas and Midland.
Guerrillas fired eight rockets into Kabul on Saturday killing at least 43 people and wounding more than 100 in the city’s deadliest attack in 11 years of civil war. Government officials, hospital sources, and a Foreign Ministry spokesman provided varying tallies and urged restraint amid the crisis.
Five people died when a tractor-trailer crashed into a line of stalled vehicles on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension between Norristown and Lansdale. Two men were injured in a prior crash. Gregory C. D'Amario, 37, of Bayville New Jersey, drove the car that went out of control.
Costa Mesa California reports 11 year old Tony Altengena finished a 19000 mile trip in seven weeks becoming the youngest pilot to circle the globe He landed at John Wayne Airport ending a journey that included refueling stops from Seattle to Reno and seven countries He plans to meet President Bush and pursue orthopedic surgery as a future career
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