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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1989
Page
2
The Navy will stop keeping gunpowder on unventilated barges after the USS Iowa blast. Additional magazines at Yorktown Naval Weapons Station will remove barges on the York River, affecting Wisconsin’s upcoming overhaul.
A Japanese Buddhist monk freed after 14 years in Vietnam claims to have shared a room with U.S. prisoners of war. An American official met him in Sapporo and says notes will be sent to Washington for analysis. The monk, 65, has mental disorders and a speech impediment.
In Oakland California hundreds of bikers in winged skull jackets escorted the body of Hells Angels leader Michael Irish O Farrell to a cemetery. O Farrell tied to be second in the club after Sonny Barger Jnr died in a bloody bar brawl. Both faced federal explosives charges with O Farrell to have turned 40 days earlier.
The Aiken Standard established in 1867 is published weekday afternoons and Sunday morning by Aiken Communications Inc. Postage rates shown include $5.40 for mail, $16.20 for 3 months, $32.40 for 6 months, and $64.80 for 12 months. Postmaster: changes of address to P.O. Box 456 Aiken S C 29802.
President Bush's proposed savings and loan bailout moves to the House floor amid partisan criticism from Republicans and Democrats over reform provisions. The Senate weighs natural gas price decontrol while Democrats seek to rebuild leadership after ethics scandals, with Foley, Gephardt, and Jenkins contending for posts.
A hot air balloon plunged 1100 to 1500 feet into guy wires near a television tower killing three aboard. Pilot Dan D. Johnson 45 of Raleigh and couple Joseph James Tanahey 32 and Margaret Angel Tanahey of Cary died at the scene. Orlando Haley 25 of Smithfield witnessed the crash with his brother Dennis.
Mental health experts call the death sentence for James W. Wilson, who killed two Greenwood elementary students and wounded seven others and two teachers in 1988, inhumane and misaligned with mental illness, while prosecutors defend the decision as just. Wilson has been on death row in Columbia since May after a 14 day psychiatric evaluation.
Actress Theresa Saldana helped keep Arthur Richard Jackson jailed after a parole plan drew public ire. The piece notes notorious offenders like Lawrence Singleton Ted Streleski and Dan White released, symbolizing California penal code issues. Jackson faced eight felony counts for threats to kill Saldana. he faced deportation after seven years served.
Labor organizers report rising union membership among doctors across the United States. Dr. Sanford A. Marcus of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists says 50,000 members are linked through offshoots as they push for physician and patient rights. Analysts note HMOs expanded since the 1980s, with prepaid plans tying doctors to specific hospitals and reducing costs, while traditional insurance links higher testing to higher physician earnings.
In Vinh Phu province northwest of Hanoi scientists lead trials to regrow forests and persuade farmers to blend cash crops with trees that stabilize soil. The plan aims to raise Vietnam’s tree cover from 20 to 50 percent in coming decades, a goal conservationist Vo Quy calls ambitious but essential.
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