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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1986
Page
2
Mikhail Gorbachev, turning 55 Sunday, received birthday greetings from about 5,000 delegates at the 27th Communist Party Congress as Soviet TV aired cheers. The congress, opened Tuesday, has focused on socialist policy and ideology while Gorbachev has led since Chernenko’s death last March.
A cleaning woman found a baby girl in a plastic bag in a dormitory bathroom at St Marys College in South Bend. Police and coroner say the infant, a 64 pound boy, was born about six hours earlier. Autopsy results were inconclusive and further tests were planned.
At Anheuser-Busch 11 breweries the tap went dry for more than 9,000 hourly workers as the company ended the long standing tradition of letting employees drink free beer on their breaks. Spokesman Jim Morice said times have changed and the practice is no longer appropriate in 1986.
The Philadelphia mayoral commission faulting leaders in the MOVE confrontation is expected to urge a grand jury inquiry. Reportedly the draft says Mayor Goode abdicated responsibility during the May 13 siege that killed 11, destroyed 61 homes, and involved a police bomb to breach the roof for tear gas.
Over 1,000 Catholics publish a broadside defending abortion dissent and criticizing Vatican reprisals. The full page ad in the New York Times lists signatures from at least five priests and 40 nuns, with organizers led by Frances Kissling of Catholics for a Free Choice. The statement aims to deter Vatican intimidation and encourage more public commentary from Catholics.
United News of India reports wolves killed at least 18 children and injured 14 in central Madhya Pradesh's Ashta and India war areas last year. Chief Minister Moti Lal Vora said experts were invited to track and kill the wolves, with forest officials taking action. Government figures indicate wolves killed more than 90 people in Bihar state that year.
Four Roebuck families sue ABCO Industries GSX of South Carolina and Thermal Oxidation Corp in Spartanburg County seeking 100000 each. They allege a mid 1970s hazardous waste facility at the Roebuck plant burned wastes from 1978 onward and that hazardous residues remain in open lagoons on site.
Hundreds of blacks marched through downtown Spartanburg on Saturday calling for better minority hiring and promotion in area governments and businesses. They joined hands in We Shall Overcome and headed to City Hall for a rally as NAACP leaders predicted negotiations would follow. The Spartanburg NAACP chapter president Rev Charles Roman said he was ready to negotiate.
A presidential panel faulted NASA's launch decision process as flawed after the Challenger tragedy while noting the system's past success. Testimony showed eight managers at Thiokol and NASA bypassed engineers' concerns, strictly following rules, delaying no launch despite freezing Florida temperatures.
In Charlotte, AP reports Larry Gene Bell's murder trial yielded details tied to the San dee Cornett disappearance. Bell, sentenced to death for Shari Faye Smith's murder, described to police how Cornett’s body would be found and other behind the scenes details from interviews with investigators.
In Brooklyn federal court the bombing trial of six political radicals has drawn jurors who persistently request pizza bagels and Chinese meals. The eight men and four women jury, nicknamed the jury that ate Brooklyn, has been recessed since February 13 with meals supplied by the government, including lunch daily and dinner if needed.
The Aiken Standard lists contact numbers for subscriptions and advertising and provides office hours, address, mailing info, and subscription rates. It includes emergency and public safety numbers and notes the paper’s history and publishing details.
Jordanian King Hussein and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat have ended a year long alliance aimed at peace talks with Israel. Hussein criticized PLO leaders for failing to honor UN 242 and urged Palestinians to choose new leadership. The interview quotes the king saying there is no room to cooperate with a leadership lacking credibility.
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