Langley Pond purchase praised as coastal county plans future water sports
An editorial lauds Aiken County for buying a 10 acre Langley Pond tract with nearly 200000 state funds for recreation. It notes the 350 acre impoundment supports rowing training for many nations, jet ski racing, water skiing and swimming and envisions a bathhouse office and storage facility to attract national and international championships.
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Langley Pond
Nature
Bill Shepherd
Brian Sanders
National security at risk as GAO probes expose lax oversight
Investigators posing as federal agents accessed secure airport and agency areas in 1990s era lapses. They carried briefcases and used fake IDs from Internet sources. Officials say carelessness and policy failure underlie the breaches across two airports and 19 federal agencies.
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Clinton
Los Alamos
CIA
State Department
White House
General Accounting Office
Indianapolis Star
Reno era recalls a constitutional meltdown in Renodome
A House committee report of 60 documents and a 1 000 page set portrays Janet Reno and Lee Radek in a chaotic Renodome. The release recounts a 1995 White House meeting with Al Gore and Leon Panetta, alleging restraint from prosecution due to iced tea and questionable handling of investigations.
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Washington
United States Department of Justice
House Government Reform Committee
Renodome
Ms. Reno
Janet of Arc
FBI
Louis B. Freeh
Reno
Lee Radek
William Esposito
Janet Reno
Department of Injustice
White House
al Gore
Robert Strauss
Leon Panetta
Strauss
Panetta
Gore
Radek
Freeh
Congress
Charles LaBella
Dan Burton
House
Harold Ickes
Ronnie Young for Aiken County chairman re elected
Letter endorses Ronnie Young as Aiken County Council chairman on Tuesday June 13. Voters recall past economic struggles and credit Young with creating thousands of jobs, modernizing facilities, and improving services through fiscal responsibility.
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Young
Aiken County
SRS
Ronnie Young
John L. Cannon
Aiken
Ronnie
Letters to the Editor at the Aiken Standard
Brief letters requested for publication must include the writer's signature mailing address and daytime and home phone numbers for verification. Letters should be addressed to Letters to the Editor Aiken Standard PO Box 456 Aiken SC 29802 or sent by email to editorial south.net or faxed to 803 648 6052 and are subject to editing.
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Aiken
Clinton Putin meet over weekend in Moscow on arms control
The talk focused on US missile defense and the 1972 ABM Treaty with Russia. Analysts say the summit offered little progress, reflecting deep disagreements over deploying interceptors and radar in Alaska by 2005. The piece compares anti missile hopes to France's Maginot Line and notes past costly failures.
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United States
Vladimir Putin
Russia
Moscow
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U.S
Putin
North Korea
Libya
Iran
Strobe Talbott
Clinton
Alaska
France
Switzerland
Belgium
Germany
Maginat
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