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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1989
Page
2
Seabrook New Hampshire AP report notes 627 arrests in a peaceful Sunday protest against the Seabrook nuclear power plant. It marks the second largest action in 13 years, with 1,414 arrests in May 1977 as the peak. Roy Morrison vowed ongoing resistance as plant licensing continues.
U S Rep Claude Pepper lies in state at Florida Old Capitol rotunda on the eve of his funeral. Shoppers and seniors crowd the scene, praising Pepper as the defender of Social Security and Medicare. Pepper, 88, died Tuesday in Washington from stomach cancer.
A Chicago metropolitan study based on 1907 Census projections ranks Kenilworth as the wealthiest suburb with a per capita income of 61 950 dollars and Ford Heights as the poorest at 4943 dollars. The Los Angeles St Louis and New York areas top wealth and poverty lists respectively.
The Washington Post reports Fawn Hall told a DEA agent she used cocaine on weekends from 1985 to 1987 while working at the National Security Council and the Pentagon. She also named some alleged drug dealers during the Georgetown nightclub investigation.
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In the Urals, a gas leak ignited a blast that felled two trains and left up to 800 dead among more than 1,200 aboard. Officials and editors cited hundreds injured or missing as flames burned a one mile corridor and officials warned of possible further losses.
Early unofficial results in Poland's first postwar elections show Solidarity defeating Communist backed candidates for Senate control. Lech Walesa votes with family in Gdansk as voters praise meaningful choice after decades of single party pre approvals. Runoffs set for June 18 where no majority.
The House ethics committee plans to start examining a Democratic complaint against GOP Whip Newt Gingrich over outside income and gifts tied to a co authored book. The case adds to an ethics cloud as other probes and resignations unfold, with committee actions possible within days.
A survey asks who should be notified if a blood test shows AIDS infection. Options include spouse or partner, employer, insurer, local state public health department, and federal government with varied percentages.
A Media General AP poll finds three quarters support AIDS patients remaining at work and in regular classes, while seven in ten support notifying spouses of a positive test and similar numbers favor officials being told. Respondents largely back education and condoms as prevention, with one in five knowing someone affected.
Dr. Jonathan M. Mann warned at the Fifth International AIDS Conference in Montreal that global AIDS cases could exceed 1 million by 1991 and rise to nearly 6 million by the late 1990s. He noted 500,000 infections and 5 to 10 million HIV carriers, with the pandemic not yet peaking. Demonstrators demanded more government action. AZT researchers reported potential to at least double two year survival for AIDS patients.
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