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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1992
Page
5
Aiken area eateries offer distinctive burgers from Greek themed patties at The Acropolis to oversized fare at The Variety. Sno-Cap Drive-In in North Augusta remains a retro staple with pizza and chili burgers and a root beer highlight. The Dairy Bar on Bar Bath promises fresh meat and to-go service with plans for a dining room expansion.
The city outlines tentative focus areas for an Overall Strategic Plan including safety, family values, a global nuclear brain trust, improved city entrances, airport access, a regional airport, north side development, and downtown revitalization. Mayor Cavanaugh notes enthusiastic local support and plans to expand the planning committee from a core group to 200 300 residents to shape Aiken's future.
Curtis Sliwa Guardian Angels founder says he was ambushed in a cab Friday. He was shot in the leg and body but survived by leaping from the vehicle and calling for help. A five hour surgery at Bellevue Hospital left officials optimistic about recovery.
Conservative Marc Bazin assumed leadership of Haiti vowing economic fixes and offering to meet rival exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. In Port-au-Prince a boycotted ceremony at the National Palace saw Bazin sworn in as prime minister and acting president, with many Haitian leaders attending while foreign diplomats stayed away. The U.S. embassy in Moscow will cost 240 million dollars to build with security clearances, next to a drafty, unused prior chancery.
A free open-air rap concert in City Hall Plaza ended in a melee with 16 injured and 18 arrested. Police say most of the 18,600 crowd were teenagers. about 150 to 200 teens joined in bottle-throwing, fights, and fireworks leading to the shutdown by Police Superintendent William Bratton and Police Commissioner Francis M Roache.
A new storm system lashed the Plains with high winds and large hail in Kansas while a canal serving much of Indianapolis collapsed, prompting widespread water use advisories. Across the Midwest crews toiled on cleanup as six tornadoes were reported, with federal FEMA teams opening a field office in Minnesota. The weather service logged multiple tornadoes across the Plains to the Ohio Valley over three days, marking the peak since 1984. Six fatalities occurred in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, with a seventh in Ohio.
The ruling supports regional compacts for low level nuclear waste disposal, with Barnwell’s Chem Nuclear landfill cited alongside sites in Nevada and Washington. Gov Campbell and Atty Gen Medlock champion the decision as ending national waste control by others and enabling states to govern disposal decisions.
Governors and public interest groups split on the decision governing liability for disposal of low level radioactive waste. Governor Mario Cuomo hailed it as a victory for states, while US PIRG criticized it as overturning a core part of the law. Industry voices noted federal principles remain intact, with justices White Stevens and Blackmun dissenting to warn the ruling hinders a national solution.
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