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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1998
Page
2
A Pakistan air force plane crashed into a crowded Karachi area, burning three houses and trapping residents. At least six people were killed, including three children, and about 25 injured, many with severe burns. The fire spread through one story dwellings as responders recovered victims.
Prosecutors reportedly hold a stained dress from Monica Lewinsky as potential corroboration of her claim of an 18 month affair with President Clinton. Clinton agreed to videotaped testimony August 17 from the White House, with aides present, while Lewinsky’s new lawyers offered the garment in immunity talks.
Keizo Obuchi won the lower house battle 268 of 497 ballots to become prime minister as Naoto Kan secured 164 votes in the upper house. Kan had stronger polling but Obuchi prevailed due to lower house supremacy amid Japan’s deep recession. Obuchi, 61, succeeds Ryutaro Hashimoto. Koizumi urged support for the new government.
New Jersey federal court heard that Trenton police officer Christopher Kerins pleaded guilty to seven bank robberies from 1995 to 1996. He described the spree as the camouflage bandit, admitting the jacket mask gloves and pistol tied him to the crimes and that photographs and evidence supported the confession.
A Continental Airlines jet ready for departure at Newark International Airport suffered a fuel leak that filled the cabin with smoke, prompting an evacuation and about 15 injuries. Moments later another Continental plane blew an engine after takeoff and returned to land. No foul play expected. Kontae Villalon, a Continental spokeswoman in Houston, said today.
President Clinton signed the Homeowners Protection Act of 1998, automatically canceling private mortgage insurance when home equity reaches 22 percent of either the original price or closing appraisal value. The move aims to stop homeowners from paying PMI after sufficient equity is built. In other items, a coyote attack in Sandwich, Massachusetts left a 3-year-old boy scratched but in good condition, and a former student body president in Portland, Oregon led to an arrest after plans to surrender following bank robberies.
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