Philippine Airlines crash kills 50 with Americans among the dead
A Philippine Airlines HS-748 crashed into a Benguet mountainside near Baguio City killing all 50 aboard including up to nine Americans and six to nine Japanese. Rescue teams reached the site seven hours later but found no survivors. weather was likely a factor.
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Manila
Philippines
Philippine Airlines
Mary Carlin
U.S
Reuben Navarro
Baguio City
Benguet
Antonio Babires
Navarro
Baguio
Mount Agu
Rizal
Richard Aspillaga
Benguet Management Corp
Aspillaga
Leslie Espino
Rosauro Bustamante
U.S. Air Force
Clark Air Base
National Tobacco Spitting Contest Draws Thousands in Raleigh
In Raleigh Mississippi the 33rd annual National Tobacco Spitting Contest gathers men women and children from across the country at a farm outside town. About 3 000 spectators will watch 70 or more contestants compete for six gold engraved spittoons across age distance and accuracy categories in a pageant like event with a plastic runway and practical spitting techniques.
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Raleigh
Miss
Charles Dickens
America
Dana Currie
Smith County
Billy John Crumpton
Global airport security cuts hijackings to two in 1986
Improvements in airport security worldwide are credited with a drop in terrorist airplane hijackings. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III told security officers and law enforcement officials that the 1986 tally fell to two, reflecting substantial industry and enforcement efforts.
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Washington
L. Paul Bremer III
Bremer
International Association of Airline Security Officers
Ceramic engines seen as boon for fuel efficiency
Washington AP report says the Energy Department backs US Japan joint research to produce ceramic turbine engines that could achieve 60 to 75 mpg. Energy Secretary Herrington cites domestic progress while recognizing Japan's lead in manufacturing techniques.
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Washington
Energy Department
United States
Japan
Energy
John Herrington
AL. Teowanannan
Poll backs Kennedy wage bill to raise minimum to 4.65 by 1990
A union financed poll shows 71 percent support boosting the minimum wage from 3.35 to 4.65 by 1990. Democrats 80 percent and Republicans 67 percent back Kennedy's bill in a nationwide survey of 724 voters with a 5 to 6 percent margin. The poll was conducted in early June for SEIU.
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Washington
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Fingerhut Granados Opinion Research Co
Service Employees International Union
Lawsuit Seeks Policy Changes In AIDS Drug Research
A gay rights group sues the Public Health Service charging biased promotion of AIDS drugs and asks a U S district court to require NIH to set regulations for selecting AIDS drugs for research and testing and to compel the FDA to lift the hold on Ribavirin trials. The suit was filed by National Gay Advocates Inc. in San Francisco.
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Washington
Public Health Service
U.S
National Institutes of Health
National Gay Advocates Inc
Food and Drug Administration
Boston Plane Crash Kills One Destroys Three Homes
A twin engine plane struck a residential house in Boston near 1:30 a.m. killing at least one person and sparking a nine alarm fire that destroyed three homes. Three residents were hospitalized with burns as about 20 others evacuated safely. officials searched debris for additional victims.
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Boston
John White
White
Cash Airlines
Lawrence
Nancy Sterling Gleason
Raymond L. Flynn
New York
Logan International
Glenn Austin
Robert Anderson Sentenced For Tax Evasion And Bank Fraud
Former U S Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson received one month in prison and five months of house arrest plus five years probation after pleading guilty to operating an uninsured offshore bank and evading taxes on 127000 in 1984. Investors lost 4.4 million when the Anguilla bank failed following an oil swindle.
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Columbia
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism
Robert Anderson
U.S. Treasury
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S. District Court
New York
U.S
Edmund Palmieri
Anderson
Commercial Exchange Bank and Trust Co
Anguilla
British West Indies
Arthur Christy
Treasury
Oral Roberts Claims He Raised People From the Dead
Tulsa AP report states evangelist Oral Roberts told 5 000 attendees at a Charismatic Bible Ministries conference that he has raised people from the dead. He emphasized medicine and doctors, said illness will still occur, and spoke of a future return with Jesus to reign on earth.
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Oral Roberts
Tulsa
Okla
Roberts
Jesus
God
Earth
Aiken Standard Classifieds and Contact Details
Classifieds advertising contacts and subscription information for Aiken Standard. Provides phone numbers for subscriptions and ads, office hours, street address at 124 Rutland Drive, mailing address P O Box 456, and service hours.
Aiken Standard Emergency Numbers and Postage Info
Emergency numbers provided by the Aiken Standard include 642 0800 648 6983 648 6811 652 2222 and 652 7770. The paper has been published by Aiken Communications Inc since 1867 with mailing address P O Box 456 124 Rutland Drive Aiken South Carolina 29802.
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Aiken
Poblenes
Aiken Communications Inc
P.O
Rutland Drive
S.C
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Lompoc
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Massachusetts
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Aiken Standard
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