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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1996
Page
2
The Williamstown Theatre Festival opened a cabaret as the theater where Christopher Reeve and Dana Reeve first met nine years ago was dedicated to the couple. Reeve, left paralyzed by a riding accident a year earlier, attended the ceremony and heard the dedication announced.
A powerful bomb destroyed a bus in Nalchik in the Caucasus, killing five people and wounding 18. The bus had arrived from Mineralnye Vody, a site of prior attacks. A Federal Security Service spokesman blamed a bomb triggering a fire. no immediate claim of responsibility and motive unknown.
Authorities recovered 14 old master paintings stolen from Prague museums in 1990 and 1992. Police arrested the suspected leader of an international art theft ring and a 36-year-old woman in Würzburg, Germany, after a two year investigation. The works include Canaletto, Reni, and pieces from Duerer, Cranach, and Tintoretto.
Rates for HOME DELIVERY COUNTY MAIL and OTHER MAIL with monthly and annual options. Advance payments may be made to Aiken Standard PBM Subscription. The Aiken Standard ISSN 0893 2557, established 1867, is published by Aiken Communications Inc. P.O. Box 456 Aiken S C 29802. Postmaster: Send address changes to the same address.
At the seven power summit in Lyon France President Clinton faced prompts from allies over U S policy penalizing regimes like Cuba and Libya The host French president Jacques Chirac condemned economic retaliation saying taking an entire population hostage is not elegant as he unveiled a diplomatic communique amid U S legislation debate
Leaders from the Group of Seven clash with the United States over possible sanctions on firms doing business with designated terrorist regimes. The dispute follows Clinton’s push for tougher measures, drawing criticism from several heads of state and White House aide Daniel Tarullo. The seven powers issued a largely upbeat joint economic statement despite the tension.
FBI recovered a blackened crank shaft Friday, the first known clue in the truck bombing that killed 19 Americans in Saudi Arabia. Troops faced a fresh bomb scare, a memorial service honored the dead, and officials said no solid leads yet on who planned the attack, with suspicion on Muslim militants aiming to push U.S. troops from the kingdom. A white late model Chevrolet Caprice Classic linked to the bomber fled the scene moments before Tuesday’s blast, complicating traces without license plate details.
Washington temporary White House worker Anthony Marceca invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee amid a file gathering controversy. Republicans called him a scapegoat as the White House blamed a bureaucratic mistake for collecting hundreds of FBI files. Separately, Secret Service agent Arnold Cole testified that former White House security chief Craig Livingstone admitted the White House relied on an outdated list, saying using the old list was our fault. Marceca previously testified for nine hours in the House investigation, signaling the probe was advancing, according to Sen. Orrin Hatch.
The Supreme Court struck down key parts of a federal law restricting indecent cable programming citing free speech. It upheld the option for operators to refuse indecent programs but barred segregation on leased channels and opt outs from public access channels. Reactions split among First Amendment advocates and public access supporters.
The Supreme Court, by a unanimous vote, upholds a portion of Congress’ plan to curb inmate appeals in federal courts. The ruling, likely to speed executions, rejects a Georgia inmate’s claim that the law unfairly limits federal review for death-row and other state prisoners seeking court help.
The court produced six separate opinions and three distinct votes with shifting majorities. It split 7-2 against the law's first provision, 6-3 to strike down the leased-channels provision, and 5-4 to strike down the public-access channels provision.
Washington The government reveals indictments charging Theodore Kaczynski with three more Unabomber attacks from the 1980s in Utah Tennessee and Michigan. The blasts wounded four people including a Salt Lake City computer store case that produced the famed artist sketch. The charges tie him to a pipe bomb mailed to Vanderbilt Universitys Patrick Fischer in 1982 and to Dr James McConnell in 1985, plus a Salt Lake City CAAMS Inc bombing in 1987. The case hinges on other charges that could carry the death penalty and his fate may await those outcomes.
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