First Heart Transplant Couple Wed In Mount Vernon
Susan Steffy and Gary Welp tied the knot Saturday in what AP reports as the first marriage for two people alive after heart transplants in the United States. The bride, 36, of Mount Vernon, called it a perfect day as Elaine’s heart donor, Shirley Fisher’s daughter, Elaine, enabled a second chance at life.
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Mount Vernon
Susan Steffy
Gary Welp
Ms. Steffy
Shirley Fisher
Gas City
Ind
Elaine
Susan
Mrs. Fisher
Inquiry Promised Into Peru Prison Massacre
Peru's vice president pledged government punishment for any military excesses in riots that killed at least 250 inmates across three prisons last week. Opposition labeled it a massacre and urged a congressional probe. Most victims were thought to be Shining Path members.
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Lima
Peru
Shining Path
Luis Alberto Sanchez
Policy Stresses Harm Caused By Crime
Greenville AP Judge William W. Wilkins Jr. head of the U S Sentencing Guidelines Commission says new federal guidelines will stress harm caused by crime over the offense itself. He spoke at the Southeastern Victims Assistance Conference and noted the rules aim to reduce disparity among judges and will be published in the Federal Register for comment in September with a six month congressional review.
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Greenville
USS. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
William W. Wilkins Jr
Southeastern Victims Assistance Conference
Federal Register For
Wilkins
U.S
Sentencing Guidelines Commission
Congress
Federal Judge Allows Marcos to Be Questioned in Seattle Killings
U S District Judge Harold M. Fong affirmed Magistrate Daral Conklin's order denying a motion to quash a subpoena seeking questions for Ferdinand Marcos in the 1961 murders of two Seattle political opponents. Marcos may claim only limited privileges against self incrimination or Philippines national security.
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Honolulu
Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos
Seattle
USS
Harold M. Fong
Daral Conklin
Fong
Marcos
Richard Hibey
Youth Killed By Train After Helping Girl
A 16 year old, Stephen DeMeyer of Barnhart, died after stopping to assist his girlfriend Dana Berger, 17, when she fell on a railroad trestle over Glaize Creek near Imperial Missouri. They attempted to outrun an approaching train and were in a secluded area at midnight.
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Imperial
Stephen DeMeyer
Barnhart
Glaize Creek
St. Louis
Jefferson County
DeMeyer
Dana Berger
Pratfalls For Lucy You Bet Your Bippy
Lucille Ball, 74, plans a return to television this fall as family comedies trend up. She answered reporters questions in a 45 minute session, standing the whole time to show vigor.
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Los Angeles
Lucille Ball
Miss Ball
CBS
Dutch doctors abort three of five embryos in quintuplet pregnancy
In Leiden University Hospital doctors aborted three of five embryos to reduce the risk of quintuplets. The 10 week fetus abortions were performed to ease distress for the mother and her husband. A British specialist noted selective abortions have occurred in other countries.
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London
Netherlands
The
Lancet
University Hospital
Leiden
Women shed shirts in protest at topless ban
Six women were arrested in Rochester after stripping to the waist in a city park to protest a state law banning topless women in public. Nikki Craft of Oshkosh said the act educates and challenges discrimination while Ramona Santorelli of Rochester described the scene as a circus as police estimated about 300 onlookers.
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Rochester
N.Y
Nikki Craft
Oshkosh
Wis
Donald Maclean
Ramona Santorelli
Ms. Santorelli
Anti-Apartheid Activist Groups Gagged Restricts Cape Town
Police eased a reporting ban on black townships while enforcing a gag on 118 anti apartheid organizations in six Cape Town districts. The move targets major groups including United Democratic Front and COSATU amid a nationwide emergency and Soweto anniversary unrest. Bishop Desmond Tutu said peace talks occurred at a secret Crossroads venue as factions clashed.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Cape Town
Johannes Coetzee
Coetzee
Soweto
Desmond Tutu
Crossroads
Caps on Shelves After Excedrin Recall Appeals
Health officials urged mer chants to pull Extra- Strength Excedrin capsules from shelves after 15 of about 200 stores visited still displayed the product. Cyanide tainted capsules were linked to two Auburn residents, and officials noted some retailers had not been reached by recall notices.
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Auburn, Wash
Auburn-area
Chuck Kleeberg
Environmental Health Division
Seattle- King County Health Department
Kleeberg
Excedrin capsule recall tied to cyanide deaths in King County
Bristol-Myers urged customers to return Excedrin capsules for tablets or cash refunds via P O Box 1000 Baltimore Maryland 21268. Two deaths Sue Snow aged 40 and Bruce Nickell 52 linked to tainted capsules in northern King County. FBI lab tests pending will not be released during investigation.
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Bristol-Myers
P.O. Box
Baltimore
King County
Auburn
Sue Snow
Bruce Nickell
Nickell
Ms. Snow
Kent
FBI
Washington
D.C
Joe Smith
Seattle
FDA
Ellen Miller
Genoa Police Guard Against Trial Threats and Delays
Genoa police checked foreigners at the airport port and city districts amid threats tied to the Achille Lauro hijacking trial. A bomb threat delayed a chartered Alitalia jet carrying Luciano Pavarotti and the Genoa Opera Company to China. no explosives were found. 53 people were detained for lacking valid documents. One defendant, Petros Floros, faces charges as an accomplice in the hijacking.
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Genoa
Italy
Achille Lauro
North Africa
Alitalia
Luciano Pavarotti
Genoa Opera Company
China
ANSA
Christopher Columbus
Tunis
Luigi Carli
Carli
Gennaro de Feo
Justice
Beirut
Athens
Petros Floros
Rentina
Greece
South Carolina challenges ruling on municipal bonds supremacy
South Carolina argues the 1982 Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act pressimes states’ right to issue tax exempt bonds without federal buyer name disclosure. The case, joined by several states and the National Governors Association, will go to the Supreme Court on original jurisdiction.
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Charleston
Congress
South Carolina
Huger Sinkler
National Governors Association
U.S. Supreme Court
Sinkler
Pennsylvania
Samuel J. Roberts
Karen Henderson
Supreme Court
U.S
Aiken Standard Contact and Office Hours Details
Subscriptions and classified ads are handled by the Aiken Standard with phone lines 649-5316 649-1555 and 648-2311. Customer service hours are 5:30 to 7 p.m. weekdays and 8 to 10 30 a.m. Sunday. Office at 124 Rutland Drive open 8 30 a.m. to 5 30 p.m. weekdays. Mailing address is Box 456 Aiken SC 29802.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
Aiken, S.C
Abused Persons Coalition
North Augusta Aiken
Aiken Police
Emerg
S.C. Highway Patrol
HCA
Aiken Regional Salley Fire
Salley Police
Sheriff's Department
Jackson Police
New Ellenton
New Holland
Volunt
North Augusta
Wagener
Wagener Police
Aiken Communications Inc
P.O
Fuiland Drive
Aiken
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Peter Dantjie
Metal and Allied Workers Union
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National Union of Textile Workers
Seattle-King County
Todd W. Yerkes
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